A Blackwork Christmas - December

Welcome to the final edition of A Blackwork Christmas SAL! I've had a lot of fun over the last twelve months making these, and I am glad I succeeded at finishing them all! It hasn't always been easy to keep up what with one thing and another, but I always managed to catch up in the end.

A Blackwork Christmas - November

Welcome to the eleventh edition of A Blackwork Christmas SAL! Today I'm running late again - It's been quite the day what with one thing and another and I was rather distracted from my stitching as a result. I did manage to finish the stocking though as I'd planned - with the amount of work planned there just isn't space left to not finish something before the post.

A Blackwork Christmas - October

Welcome to the tenth edition of A Blackwork Christmas SAL! This month I have stitched up a storm and not only did I finish this month's stocking but I also fully finished September AND stitched and finished August! I'll start with the oldest first with the pictures below and end with the October one. Just two stockings left! Can you guess what colour they will be?

A Blackwork Christmas - September

Welcome to the ninth edition of A Blackwork Christmas SAL! I've been doing a bit better lately health wise but still have issues holding my embroidery for longer sessions so while I was able to complete the stitching of today's pattern I didn't get the backstitched outlines or the finishing done. However it's progress which is good.

A Blackwork Christmas - August

Welcome to the eighth edition of A Blackwork Christmas SAL! I've not been too well the last couple of days and have only managed to do the morning Mini Magical Mystery SAL stitching but not much else. As such I have no stitching to show for today so I made a computer generated one instead.

A Blackwork Christmas - July

Welcome to the seventh edition of A Blackwork Christmas SAL! I'm running late today as I was happily chatting with my fiancé on Skype doing the finishing and I didn't realise the time - sorry to keep you waiting! On the plus side this month's stocking is fully finished!

A Blackwork Christmas - June

Welcome to the sixth edition of A Blackwork Christmas SAL! Since I have done most of a rainbow so far with my colours I decided to go with purple this month. As mentioned in this morning's Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 post I'm having a bit of a flare up with my rheumatism so sitting and stitching isn't really comfortable as a result. I did get *some* stitching done but it's nowhere near finished.

A Blackwork Christmas - May

Welcome to the fifth edition of A Blackwork Christmas SAL! This month I decided to go for the hottest colour available: red. This rounds off the yellow-> orange -> red series of hot colours I've been doing these last few months. They look so bright and cheerful hanging on my lamp!

Blackwork SAL - December

Welcome to the twelfth part of the Blackwork SAL! This month is the last part of the 2019 Blackwork SAL - I hope you have enjoyed this SAL! For those who want to continue next year I have another Blackwork SAL on the way! You can read more about it here. But that's not the only blackwork I'm doing next year! I'm also doing blackwork style stockings - as I'm designing many of the patterns from scratch they might not be true blackwork, but they do look very pretty! You can read more about it here.

Blackwork SAL - November

Welcome to the eleventh part of the Blackwork SAL! Thank you all for the birthday wishes, I had a great day and was spoilt rotten! For those wondering why my fb birthday shows as another date - I had stalker issues in the past and setting a different birthday from the real one is one of the ways to avoid issues. On to what you came for... this is the second to last post for the SAL bringing you the second to last part - this month it's a LOT of stitches!

Blackwork SAL - October

Welcome to the tenth part of the Blackwork SAL! This month has been going amazingly well! Not only have I caught up with the September part that I was behind on but I also stitched this month's pattern! I have no idea how I am managing to stitch so much as I have been doing a good 1500 stitches every weekend this month as well.

Blackwork SAL - September

Welcome to the ninth part of the Blackwork SAL! This month things did not go to plan for the stitching, between not being well, unexpected appointments, and getting told today that my new fridge is getting delivered tomorrow. It was supposed to be 15 calendar days but apparently they really meant five working days. I'm happy! The old fridge has just about had it, so getting it sooner rather than later is good but I just haven't had the time to complete the stitching.

Blackwork SAL - August

Welcome to the eighth part of the Blackwork SAL! Things have gone a bit better lately, my finger is completely healed and I'm just about caught up with the backlog of cleaning. My fiancé was here for almost a week so I didn't do as much online as usual but I'll soon get back into the rhythm of things - I still have a few blog posts to catch up on - they will be done before the end of the month. One thing I need to catch up on personally is the stitching of the last two months and the months to come - I'm not sure how long it will take but at least I can stitch again!

Blackwork SAL - July

Welcome to the seventh part of the Blackwork SAL! Things have not been going to plan the last few days as you will have noticed - but although this is a little late it's not as late as some of my recent posts, sorry about that. I'll get the 25 x 25 post up shortly - but I thought it was more important to get this post up more or less on schedule.

Blackwork SAL - June

Welcome to the sixth part of the Blackwork SAL! I had to go get new glasses sorted out today and the optician said she didn't know how I could see at all without glasses... yikes! The new ones will be ready in the middle of July - along with a separate pair of reading glasses as bi-focal's aren't possible with my eyes. Always fun to discover that you can do the impossible!

Blackwork SAL - May

Welcome to the fifth part of the Blackwork SAL! I'm sorry it's late yet again - I took my fiancé to the airport and was busy getting stuff tidied up again and looked at the clock - eeek! Fortunately the pattern etc. was ready so all I had to do was write this post and put the pattern on the server.

Blackwork SAL - April

Welcome to the fourth part of the Blackwork SAL! I'm sorry it's late, I managed to forget it was Tuesday - again! *blush* This month you get to add a new colour! I'm sure you are very excited to see what is in store for you so I'll get on to it now.

Blackwork SAL - March

Welcome to the third part of the Blackwork SAL! I'm sorry it's late, I was busy stitching and forgot it was Tuesday. This month we will add the last two points to the star itself - from next month onwards you will get more each month. Like with the Mamluk SAL earlier this month I got a bit too carried away with pre-stitching and forgot to take a photo of what it looks like.

Blackwork SAL - February

Welcome to the second part of the Blackwork SAL! This month we will add a little more to the central part of the star - just two triangles but you will get two more patterns added to your sampler. Together they are 10 x 10 stitches so not much to be done this month!

Blackwork SAL - January

Welcome to the first part of the smallest SAL I'm hosting! Yes, the smallest - even the 25 x 25 SAL, if all parts are stitched on the same fabric, will use more space than this SAL. This month you get one of the smaller sections: the central square. It's just 10 x 10 stitches square and won't take long at all to stitch! If you missed the overview post you can find it here.