Blasted dragon!

On my last day off from work, I got all of the backstitching done throughout the sampler so now all the names of the zodiac, etc. are in place :) Now I have a small motif in the lower left corner to stitch and to finish the crazy dragon beside that!!

I won't even talk about the border! I started it in the upper right block....it's going to take a couple of eons to finish it around the whole sampler!!

What will I start after finishing this sampler?

I was thinking about this one....



Autumn Acorns #PAD27 by Patricia Ann Designs. One of my stitching resolutions for the New Year's was learning more specialty stitches. This design features one of my favorite themes the Fall season and includes specialty stitches such as the smyrna cross, square rhodes, alternating scotch stitch, and modified kloster block.

It is small design measuring approx. 5" x 5" so it shouldn't take too long and it will nice to learn a new stitch every night that I plan to work on this sampler!

Patricia Ann Designs also has a lovely one called Winter Holly, which would be another nice sampler to stitch up and display during the season.

I found Autumn Acorns at Hobby Lobby in their clearance section about a year ago, unfortunately they haven't had a good cross-stitch clearance section since that time :**(

In other news, I received a comment about the toile I found at Wal-mart. I found a nice store online that sells toile! Wow!! Gorgeous examples of toile, but so expensive! I can see why someone could spend $200 for a couple of yards of toile, especially when a yard is $60 on this website O_o" But I figure that if the fabric is well used then it is definitely worth it ;)

Speaking of toile, please go and check out Fashion is My Muse! The lady who writes this delightful blog makes some gorgeous mixed media artworks with toile :)

Happy Stitching everyone ^___^