My homework is done

Last week I finished up the last two designs for Cathy Habermann's finishing class, The Holidays Take Shape, so I am ready when September rolls around:

The individual pieces are Sweets for Santa:

A Vintage Rocker:

Plaid Tidings:

Light the Way:

The kit came with raw Belfast, which I used for the first three designs, but I stitched the candle on raw/gold Belfast, as I thought the shimmering metallic thread made it look like the candle was being seen through a frosty window. I am very excited to see how these will be finished, and hopeful that my skills are up to the task.

With those completed, my stitching time is once again open to whatever I feel like working on--yay! I was finally able to make a start on Nora Corbett's Geranium, on Polstitches Carnival Queen opal Lugana (which I thought was a perfect name for a SAL for the Queen City Retreat):

I had to scroll back through my blog to see when I last worked on a Nora Corbett/Mirabilia design, and found that it was back in January. The flow of colors in her designs is such a pleasure for me to stitch and I'm hoping no new models come in for a few weeks so I can work on this as much as I want.

My last post was a bit long, so I ended up not adding some progress photos of the Chatelaine mandala. Since I started from the outside edge, I thought it would be fun to document the progress on one corner as the layers started to grow:

Someday I would still like to go back and finish Mystery X (Secret Victorian Garden). I started it when it was a mystery SAL back around 2007, and then stitched on it again for a day or two in 2017, so maybe 2027 will be the year I pull it out again! 

I could have sworn I was further along than this... 😅

Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!