I always have a little stitching project in my bag, ready for opportune moments, I find for me that small cross-stitch projects work best. I’ve stitched this one in the coffee room at work, in a cafe in Skipton and at home whilst having my morning coffee. It’s an easy design to just pick up and do a few stitches.

Having finished the Christmas rose humbug I decided to do another little pattern I’ve had for a while. It’s from a series called Sew Together by Jeanette Douglas, I’ve got two of the set on a facebook destash site, I think there’s eight altogether but I’m hoping to put them with some sheep cross-stitches in a book.

I’ve changed a few colours as the designer used three or four different makes of thread, I only had the DMC threads listed so I looked at the picture and substituted the others for DMC. It’s quite a simple design so I’ve made fairly quick progress…

I’ve got three motifs to stitch in the top right corner, there’s meant to be a border round too but it’s turned out a little bigger than I anticipated, probably because I’m trying to use some of my linen stash up and it’s 28 thread count, rather than the 32 or 36 I’m used to. It’s meant to have a border round too but I’ll miss that off so it doesn’t get any bigger. The linen is a pretty grey/green.

I think it’s rather cute.