A busy few weeks.....

It has certainly been a busy few weeks here.  After having all my children and their respective partners here to stay for my husband's birthday celebrations it was a quick tidy up and change of beds ready for the next set of visitors.  My brother-in-law and his wife stayed here overnight on their way to our nephew's wedding. We also attended the wedding which was held this past weekend.  It has meant that there hasn't been a lot of stitching time here but, the wedding was lovely and it was nice to see some other extended family too which is the most important thing!

In the brief snatches of time that I have had, I have started work on decorating my Sue Spargo inspired 'circles' wool project.  I have managed to add some stitches to one set of circles and I am really pleased with it. Most of the stitches I have used are covered in Sue's Craftsy class.

The light purple stitches on the far outside edge are 'Pekinese stitch' and I used a 'coton a broder' thread to work the stitches.  Moving in, the individual light pink stitches are a fly stitch variation called 'Tete de Boeuf' and again I used a 'coton a broder' thread to work these stitches.

Next, I couched a piece of green chenille thread around the outside edge of the green circle using 'bullion knots' to hold the chenille in place.  The bullion knots were worked using two-stranded purple wool thread.  I also added some 'colonial knots' in blue 'coton a broder' on the green wool circle.

Finally, I outlined the middle circle (which is cotton fabric) with another fly stitch variation called 'Italian knotted border stitch' again these stitches were worked in 'coton a broder' thread, this time in green. The centre will probably be further embellished but, I have not decided how yet, so for the moment that set of circles is complete and, I am looking forward now to starting the next circle set.