Recent pieces of bobbin lace

On the left is a piece of Bedfordshire lace I made last year and on the right the present piece on my pillow (well, ONE of my pillows!) an easy Torchon circular design, only a few repeats to go. I am determined to finish this and sew it to the fabric before I start anything else, as I always have a hard time doing the finishing (in my stitching too!!).

Dimensions Sorceress

Another Dimensions Charts and Charms project. She is rather lovely, and I havent added and of the blended filament threads in gold and silver yet. She really will sparkle. First project on black for a long time, so I'm only doing it in daylight.

UFO sampler

This is a sampler kit of a historic sampler that I bought in the US when I worked there in 1980!!! It languished for many years as I put off starting it. One of my needlework groups (2muchXS) has a yearly Jan 1st challenge, we only have to say what we will start and begin it on this day. No pressure to finish it that year! So I started it a couple of years ago. The bottom half is a great picture of animals, flowers, trees etc in satin stitch. I did do some more on it this week. Hope to work on this UFO every Monday! This sampler is stamped on linen, and in the time since 1980 I have changed my tastes a lot and no longer like stamped pieces, but I never give up on things, so one day it will be finished!! I wonder how old I'll be then!

Sew Cozy

Here is my photo of Sew Cozy (a Dimensions Charts and Charms chart) from February 2009!!

Unfortunately no more progress till last week