February is for FFO!

Remember back in January when I said my goal was to post a couple times a month? Haha, that didn't last long, did it? Well, I am going to try to get back on track for a moment at least. I have three finished stitching projects to share today - two of them are really old and one is really new! 

Let's start with the old ones - I stitched these in my early days living in Indianapolis once I found the cross stitch shop in Zionsville, a suburb about 10 minutes from my first apartment. I had never done any counted canvas/needlepoint so signed up for a few classes - these may have been a few months apart or a year apart, I don't recall anymore. I stitched both of these pieces - if I didn't finish them in class, they were done shortly thereafter and then promptly put in the very bottom of my very small container that had all my cross-stitch supplies (oh, that was a few years ago when everything fit in one small container!). Well, recently that same shop has gotten a new finisher and she needed a few small needlepoint pieces to practice on and I had the perfect solution! So I turned in my pieces and she did her magic with them - I am so happy with these two ornaments! I have no idea the patterns, fabric, threads that were used - I got nothing! 

Mystery needlepoint project #1

Mystery needlepoint project #2

My third stitching FFO for the month was of my own hands. I stitched this gorgeous Ink Circles piece as a shop model for that same shop - Persnickety Stitchers. The pattern is Blue Velvet and it is stitched on 32 ct. Silvery Moon Lugana with Caron Wildflowers in the colorway Twilight. This project was honestly a bit of a slog for me until I got over the halfway point when I could see the mirror image. It was so easy to stitch on it after that and I finished it up in mid-January. I wandered around several stores looking for the right finishing piece - I wanted a clean finish that really showed off the stitching and I found this piece at Hobby Lobby in the beach decor (or maybe the family decor). I am so happy with the finish and now can't wait to work on my next Ink Circles piece! 

Well, that's all for the stitching FFOs this month - I'll be back (hopefully tomorrow) to share a couple additional finishes for the month and a very exciting quilt finish - along with the February accounting.