A SAL finish--yay!

I am very happy to say that Histoires de Moutons en Hiver is done!

More importantly, the rest of that last alphabet finally showed up in the final part--phew!! I really had so much fun with this design, but it also feels good to have it finished and to move on after having it on the go for two months. As soon as it was done last Wednesday, I took it off the Qsnaps and loaded up the fabric for Chatelaine's Rose Lights; here's my small start at the end of the first day:

And my progress as of last night:

After stitching all that black and off-white (two shades of it) in the border, it felt good to move on to some colors yesterday. I'm really happy with the fabric color so far, as I think it looks good both with the off-white and the black, and I'm looking forward to seeing how the rest of the colors look on it.

I did get a bit more done on You Were Hatched before I started Rose Lights:

I do want to continue to make progress on this, but right now I'm in the grips of "new start-itis" on Rose Lights and it's hard for me to switch my focus away from that. But if I need a break from that I can work on this one, or maybe I'll make myself take one day each week to work on it--I still have plenty of time to decide (for now!).

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!