Happy Dance - siggie blocks

I've mentioned in past posts that I am participating in a siggie block exchange at the Lady of Steeles Hand Embroidery group. The number of participants seems to have settled down (some dropped out) and we have to make 24 blocks. I finished up stitching all the celtic knots this week and now just have to add in my signature.
Each knot is approx. 5"x31/2" and took about 2 hours each to stitch. I made the blocks larger than required so I would have something to hold while I sewed and I will leave it up to each of the recipients to trim to whatever new size they want.
Now I am getting ready to make Christmas presents/exchanges and have picked out a few patterns from my collection of Christmas cross-stitch books. Most of the items will be small tree ornaments but I also found a few small samplers that I want to try.
Cirque Des Carreaux, poor thing, is languishing, pining away in my projects drawer. I will start back to it this week. Maybe I should set myself a deadline?

Project up date - signature blocks for Lady of Steeles

This is the project I took on vacation with me. The intent was to get all 26 done. I have 15 of the celtic knots finished and the rest are on hold till we get our new numbers sent to us. We have some people dropping out and the possibility of new ones being added.

I'll put my signature in the knots and then put the project to one side for a few weeks.

I'm in a mood to return to Cirque des Carreaux for the next week. Time to drag out the colors and see what matches my bedspread :)

We are back from our vacation

We had a fabulous time in Britain. "Babette" got in on some of the pictures and hopefully they have turned out okay. I'll post them later.

We visited a couple of stately homes featured in "Pride and Prejudice" and saw the exhibit of costumes for "The Duchess". I should have an overview of week 3 of our visit posted to our family blog sometime today or tomorrow. http://jocarhansenfamily.blogspot.com/

I was able to get some hand embroidery done. I took the blocks for the Lady of Steeles signature block exchange and got about 12 done.