For My October IHSW...

I continued to work on "Africa" I wanted to finish the top left section before I went on to anything else.  I got everything in that section done with exception to the border and of course you know the back stitch and beads go on last.  You know, I just noticed from my picture I have a lot of stitches missing, so I guess I didn't finish this section, oh well, what can I say.  Part seven of AW80S from Papillon Creations came in. I had been eagerly awaiting it's arrival as always this was to be my project for the IHSW  and it was late again but I immediately read through what the stitches were to be and dove right in. A little advise to all stitchers pay close attention to what you are doing or the frogs will get you.  On the simplest part of this chart I was attacked! It took me three tries to get the outline of this section stitched. The first time I had went all the way around the petal shapes and the ends didn't match up, I had to pick out the whole thing for a miscount on very first petal.  I started restitching and was about halfway through the second petal when I noticed that I had not picked back far enough to correct the first error, so I picked again.  On third try I checked for errors every couple of inches just to make sure everything was going in correctly. I finally finished the outline and started the actual design stitches but after doing only the Lazy Daisy stitches and the new to me  "Turkish three sided triangular stitch" I couldn't see straight and had to quit for the night.  There is no cutting in this months installment so it should go pretty quick.  I also have some shots of my last Halloween ornies and a new book I ordered. Well thanks for all of the wonderful comments I've been receiving and welcome to all my new followers.  I really do appreciate each and every one of you. Now it's time to make some more wonderful little xxs. But not before I show you some pictures:-)

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Looks what's inside Joan Elliot!