Happy dance and a half

I had originally planned to finish the Twilight book covers before starting January's Snowdrop but after several frog attacks I had to switch before I started throwing things.

I managed to stitch January's Snowdrop surprisingly quickly considering my limited stitching time.  I wasn't a big fan of doing the letters in two different colors but I better get used to it since it looks like the rest in the series will be the same.  Maybe I'll start using multiple needles instead of rethreading the same one constantly.  At least the border was fun.  Now I'm on the look out for some kind of chipboard album or journal to put these in.

 

After that I was determined to finish Twilight.  After searching my entire stash to find the perfect shade of gray I needed for the chess board and shadows I was finally on the home stretch.  And then I ran out of that perfect shade of gray.  I was SO CLOSE to finally finishing and now I have to wait til I can go buy more floss this weekend.

Still to do

Well the only thing I got done on that to-do list was to join the My Garden Journal SAL.  I lost my crafty mojo for a little while ut it's finally coming back.  Don't you hate it when that happens? 

Anyway, I got the cover chart for My Garden Journal done.  I used some floss I had that looked the closest to what it was supposed to be. 

I'll be starting the January chart soon and plan to put them together something like this as I get each month done.

But first I'm trying to finish something I started almost 3 years ago.  The Twilight book covers.  It's not that big or difficult but between two moves, a baby and many other projects it has been set aside and buried more often than stitched on.  I'm not a huge Twilight fan but I really liked the charts and thought they'd make a great gift.