February 2024 rotations

I can't believe that I haven't posted here since June 2022! Where has the time gone??

I have kept promising my friends in the Friendly Stitchers that I will show some pictures of what I have been making, so here goes:

The first is a scan of Liz Turner Diehl's Irish garden. This was my first rotation this year and I completed four of the garden beds between the outside hedges and the central part. Only four more of these garden beds to fill in, I was tempted to just keep going, but decided to stick to my rotation and save the last beds for later, after all, I started this one many years ago so not a rush to finish, right? 😉

If you look closely can you see the four cats in the central area?!

The second scan is my second rotation piece this year: Teresa Wentzler's Autumn sampler. I decided to only use floss in my stash, so far I have found that I have only had to substitute one colour, gosh I must have too many threads! There will be drawn thread work between the leaves at the top and the side panels and beads, but these will be added at the end. I'm enjoying the specialty stitches in this sampler. Interestingly the colours are much nicer than the photograph for the charts.

My next rotation will be Yvette Stanton's Karen doily which I started some years ago. 

I'm currently also trying to catch up on this year's Peppermint Purple blackwork SAL. I am using the same colours for the 2024 SAL as for 2023 as I love the blue-green jewel tones.

Next job will be to provide pictures of the last few years PP SAL.