Finishitis. I've got it.

This is the first needlepoint I ever did. I finished it a couple years ago, but hadn't gotten around to making it up into a pillow. It is done with embroidery floss, not yarn. I wasn't sure how it would turn out with the extra border around it, but I'm pleased with the results. :-) I like that it was a relatively small project, and made me feel successful in a shortish time. I had gotten the canvas from Michael's, but they don't carry those anymore, more's the pity.




This is the first rug hooking project I ever did. I had seen the kit to make it at the Manchester Millyard Museum gift shop (I love museum gift shops!) several years ago, a kit designed for children, and told my husband it would be a good Christmas gift idea. It didn't take me too long to make, really, but then it sat in a box for a year or two, also waiting to be made up. I made it up as a little pillow, but I wasn't sure what to do with it. I kind of like how it looks against the old books, though.



This is the needlepoint I just finished. I bought the kit (also done with embroidery thread) online, after obsessing over exactly what I wanted, to bring with me to England. Four years ago. I had visions of me spending the hours on the plane working on this. Yeah, not so much. I worked on it off and on after that, and got finishitis a couple of weeks ago. I'm pretty pleased at how it came out, though I wish I had had fabric that better matched it for the back of the pillow. I thought DH didn't pay too much attention to what I made, but the day after I finished it he said, "Did you put your name or initials on that anywhere? Don't you think you should?!" Very gratifying.



Last year sometime I bought another needlepoint kit, this one with yarn, at a second hand/antique store in Dover. It was super cheap, as these kinds of things go, and I did a bit of work on it in the next week or so. Then I put it away, feeling that I should work on the one I already had going before I started that. So now that I finished with the piece above, I can really dig into the next one.

Soon I'll make a real foray into the abyss of my craft stuff downstairs and see what else I have that is unfinished. Plus, my aunt just told me she had found a needlepoint project my grandmother had started at some point and never finished, so she's going to send that my way. That'll be cool.