Happy Hallowe’en everybody!! 🎃👻💀👹 Sadly time wasn’t on my side this October 😔 I didn’t get all the Hallowe’en extravaganza ready in time – but I’m determined to work my needles off this week! 😀 What I can show you is the main designs in Trick-or-Treat Costume Party Club by The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery, I…… Continue reading Trick-or-Treat Party
In the spirit of keeping track with my progress and finishes month by month, I’m starting this post as a draft at the beginning of May and updating it with every relevant piece of news until the early days of June, this way you’ll have an account of what happened as it happened. 😉 I felt like doing…… Continue reading KABOOM! (3rd rundown post – May)
Just a quick recap of some of this year’s finishes to say goodbye to 2015 😊 See you in 2016! 😀 Lots of love and happy xxx, Chiara
hello! hello! I’ve been busy in the past days working feverishly on the games for this year’s enigma and I’m more than happy to announce that I made it! YEAH! 😀 it took me WAY more than I expected, and I won’t do anything this elaborate for probably 5 years or so but hey! I hope…… Continue reading monthly goals, TUSAL & SMALLS updates and Maynia!!
that’s how it works, right? you finish something, you tell yourself you’re allowed to start something new rather than picking up an old WIP, and BANG! colour issues arrive! 😤 – – – let’s start with the finish 😉 in 5 days or so I stitched the lovely Little House Needleworks freebie that I received…… Continue reading one finish, one start, one drama
in the attempt to do things right and on time I’m checking what happened to February’s goals and setting new ones for March, hoping that I won’t get sick again or get run down by another stress tank, this week was enough, thank you very much. 😖 February stitching goals: finish L*K’s ’13 mystery Holly & Hearts…… Continue reading new month new goals, Watson
sorry I’m posting this one a day later, but yesterday was a pretty crappy day and by the looks of it today is promising to top that. 😤 because the mini stitch enigma is still going on, I cannot show you the finish I got last Tuesday – but I can tell you that: it would fit…… Continue reading SMALL SAL, clues and a mysterious finish
so I did get the chance to hermit & stitch a lot during the weekend, but because the threads I’m using keep on knotting (I swear in the past week I had all the knots I usually get in a year!) I had to deal with a lot of sudden cuts, half lengths, otherwise unnecessary…… Continue reading hermitting, knots and a new clue
ciao everybody! no posts (not stitching) these days, ARGH! 😦 while I try to get back on track, enjoy these pictures on my latest endeavour, before I switched from mostly stitching to mostly studying, anyways. it’s Joyeux Noël, the bonus chart for this years’ SAL by Les grilles de Maryse. you can download this little design for…… Continue reading finishing friday – Joyeux Noël
previously on The grey tail: I spent some of the hermitting weekend accomplishing my very first handmade scissor fob with the finished travelling pattern that is now finished-finished. win win. – – – while rummaging through my pile of stash looking for the right fabrics for the Travelling Bunny, I found a couple of things I never…… Continue reading Chapter nineteen – The boxes
The Grey Tail 