Enter if you Dare, Finished.  I hope it looks a brigher orange on your monitor, I really love this, it was so much fun.  The fabric, was R&R 30ct Carrot and it was a wonderful fabric    

Also Finished my Fall Hangup - I made my goal deadline and I do not even have to stay up all night stitching.  It is a good day.

 

I am thinking I can now finish another very old WIP, My Santa Stocking - Benevolent Gent from Leisure Arts.  This is another guy I have had around for a very long time.  I spent a lot of time this past week organizing my projects for last year.  I did join the Facebook Group for the Crazy Crossstitch Challenge - Thank You SoCal Debbie, am trying to figure out my new starts.  I am really picking charts I have wanted to do for a very long time - years - and regardless if they are smalls, or BAPs, I will be stitching totally for me in 2013.  I just can't seem to make my mind up.  So many, many charts I want to stitch.  

 

This has been a great fall weekend, with apple picking with the family, and volunteering at the Hunters Hope Walk, too bad the Yankees lost twice, SU lost too, but so happy my Cleveland Browns finally put up a Win.  Tomorrow I am taking a much needed vacation day.  Life is good.

 

Small Enter if You Dare Update

Had to post my progress on this project -- this is 30ct fabric, I have never worked on before, but it is going very fast.  I am so new to linen, but this has been easy HOWEVER, starting in the center, not so smart - I did not start in the total center I started in center of page 2, but page 1 has way more stitches than page 2.  so was afraid I would run out of room at the top, but I measured and counted and measured and counted and I will make it - I may have to figure out a different way to finish, but I just was too afraid to ruin the fabric by the frogging and the threads too.  Now this looks too orange, and the purple is not a true color, I think I need better lightening when I take the picture.  But here it is  Enter if you Dare_1.

Special Thanks to Dani BlackBelt Stitching Wizard to count the fabric threads and not the holes, makes it so much easier

Finished and More

 Here it is.  Witches is finished.  I know the picture looks bumpy (uneven surface) but it is ready to be finished and hung - Way before Halloween.  I have worked steady on it for about two weeks, so that goes to show you, I really enjoyed this piece.  Have no idea what I am going to do with it next, I will let you know for sure.

 

 Here is an update on my Fall Hangup.  This has so much backstitching, well maybe it doesn't have that much, but more than what I am use to - so I do hope this doesn't put me off course, but if it is not the backstitching, it will be for sure a new start for me.

 I really do have a thing for Witches - and when I saw this on a visit to  Stitchers Garden
 (much loved LNS), I could not stop thinking of it.  Even left without purchasing, but did end up going back last Saturday and HAD TO HAVE.  The ladies at the shop were kind enough to help me do somethings to make it just mine - First we switched the fabric - I am such an Orange person so the fabric is 30 ct Carrot - my goodness - Hand dyed I am pretty sure, but that small detail has left the brain - I was so intrigued by the color.  So the threads were Gloriana and we did a switch - so I have Cresent Colors Rainy Day - this is the purple, and there is a tiny bit of a purple in the band of the hat, I am going to grab part of the lighter color of Rainy day - does that make sense - and the Green is Weeks Dye Works and I am so sorry I forget the shade - but it just looks Halloweeny Witchy to me.  So here we go.  Am going to try to get a good start bit of this done over the weekend.  this is the first time ever I have just gone and done something different than the original chart says - and its a WOW for me.  Thanks to the lovely ladies at Stitchers Garden for helping - and to all of you whose blog I read, because you have inspired me.