Eating worms and watering friendships...

In May, I had set myself a challenge within my UFO challenge year. I know my handwork achievements will slow down drastically now that we are getting the keys to our new house in two weeks. I decided to try and accomplish 6 UFOs from mid May to mid September with a surprise giveaway win going along with each finish. It has been fun to watch old projects finally getting finished and also spreading some thankfulness for you, my blog readers, through my fobs and needlebooks.


Now I had a list of some UFOs that I really wanted done and all but one of them is now finished as of today. I am just thrilled about having met my goals with some to spare. No I did not finish that last one on my list but I did finish many other extras that were not on my list. I sat down and went through what I did finish and...well...can you see me smile??? More about the details in a moment.

Way back long ago...yep that is a long time. *wink* Annemarie had finished stitching a fabulous Moira Blackburn chart and decided to set up the Lovelorn Sisters. I had to sign up immediately because this was created from a child's song that I always sing to make my mother laugh. Later,

Annemarie laughed when she found out it was a child's song while she thought it was just a verse on a sampler.

Nope! We Lovelorn children do really go sing about eating worms in the garden. *grins*

Now don't ask me why this became a UFO! I adore this design and have no idea. I just left it sit. I had every intention on finish it right away thus the date is wrong. So mine is the starting date. *wink*

I knew when I got the chart in the mail from Annemarie that I would use this to make a tray doily. I sewed strips of fabric to make the doily fit just right inside the tray. Now I can eat something other than worms in the garden since I have something to carry out cups of tea and cookies.

This project needed a summer fob. This fob has a tiny dragonfly and rose on it which you can see if you enlarge the photo. I went back to the previous post since it was fun to read your comments about ironing. I used the random number generator and the winner is...

Deborah at CranberrySamplings

Congratulations Deborah! Please email me with your address.

Last December, when I decided to challenge myself in 2010 to finish as many UFOs as I can, Saskia and Joke said they wanted to do it too and have a set challenge. We each set a personal goal. Whoever won got treated to a High Tea by the other two.

I set a goal for six UFOs but ended up finishing 12. I have also started and finished 10 projects so far this year.

Off we went for our High Tea a couple of weeks ago. I just love spending time with Saskia and Joke (who are mother and daughter) which is always filled with much laughter.

And well...the food was pretty good too. *grins*

I also sent a gift to a blogging friend. Marsha is such a warm and giving person and I really wanted to do something back for her. She sends me DMC thread simply because she says she knows how expensive it is here. When I talked once about never having had an advent calender, she went out searching for one even though the holidays were over and sent me one. I am still anxiously awaiting this coming December when I can use the advent calender.

She won one of my surprise giveaway fobs so I decided to take advantage of it to send her gift. I got her a pair of scissor and made a wool felt holder for them. I sent her some of Nina's hand dyed threads and a LHN/CC kit. Then I made her a project bag to hold one of her stitching projects. After all, we stitcher's need to be organized, right?

So am I stopping with my UFOs? No way! I still hope to finish another 2 or 3 before the year is over even with our pending move. Can you keep your fingers crossed for me? It makes for difficult stitching if I cross them myself.