Crossed one more WIP off my list

I finished another WIP!!!! I'm so excited! For awhile I thought I had turned into a serial starter. Always starting projects but never finishing them. In the last month or two I've finished 2. My goal is to finish a couple more before the end of October since they're Christmas gifts. After that I think all the projects I'll be working on are for myself (with the exception of Twilight Balloon Flight for my mother; I want to finish that one by next summer at least). And since a couple of those are HAEDs so with fewer WIPs to do I'll have more time to work on those big projects.

Here's my latest finish. I think it turned out really well . . . especially with all the mistakes and ripping stitches out that I had to do on it.

Canadian Thing progress

I had a nice chance this last weekend to do nothing but stitch (almost nothing, anyway). It was wonderful. I felt like I got a lot done and I'm so close of crossing off a work in progress. I've got too many of those I need to finish. I worked on "It's a Canadian Thing" and I was able to stitch the whole head, teeth and all the wording on Sunday. I've just got backstitching to do before I can call it done. Here's the update. I think he's kind of cute.

Canadian Thing progress

So I'm back to working on my Canadian Thing project. I've redone the legs, shirt and arms. I think my stitching was neater the first time but that might be because this time the holes were bigger and there were some snagged fabric threads that I was trying to secure. Oh well. At least I fixed the error and I'm back to making progress.

Backtracking

So I've been working on a project for a friend. Unfortunately I found a mistake in what I had done. I could have redone the rest of the pattern to compensate for my mistake or rip out half of what I had already done and do everything right. I'm a perfectionist at heart so any mistake left uncorrected would bother me so I ripped everything out. Here's the before and after pictures of what I had to undo. Believe me when I say I wasn't a happy stitcher.

The project went from this:





To this:

A new start

This is my next project I started. Can you guess what it is?