Milestone for Middy!

You may remember that one of my New Year's Goals (sounds much better than Resolutions, don't you think?) was to get down to doing my cross-stitch A Midsummer NIght's Fairy that had been on a back-burner for a while.

Well, I've been updating the photo down my menu bar fairly regularly, but felt that the latest photograph deserved a post, as she has reached a milestone. She has a face!!!

On her face and arms, I recharted them and have been stitching over one (so the stitches are a quarter the size of the stitches on the rest of the piece) to give a smoother, more detailed finish. It is my first time trying this out, as well as being my first time stitching on evenweave fabric, and I am seriously pleased with the results. (If you click on the photo, you will see all progress pics in my Flickr account).

I am really pleased at the progress I am making on her. However, she does rather look like Britney Spears at the moment, so I will need to get some hair on her as soon as possible!

In typical Libran style and after uhmming and ahhing, I have changed tomorrow's day off to next Monday and Tuesday. I was right, it's half term and I can't face a batallion of teenagers again at the skating rink!