The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Final post

Welcome to the very final post of the Spring Mystery SAL! Often I'll combine this with the post with the optional back but this time I wanted to show you what yours could look like on the same day as the back was given. I hope you all had fun with this SAL - even if you were not able to keep up with the frequency of the posts. It's been fun seeing the pictures of your progress and I hope to see many more in the days to come!

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - The Back

Welcome to the back of the Spring Mystery SAL! It always feels weird to say that but that's what you are getting this time - the optional back that I make for those of you that want to make a two sided biscornu, ornament, pincushion, or perhaps something else I haven't thought of.

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 18

Welcome to part eighteen of the Spring Mystery SAL! This part is larger than the previous parts this weekend because it's the last part and I didn't want to give the game away with giving some of the pattern as you'd have been able to guess the rest.

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 17

Welcome to part seventeen of the Spring Mystery SAL!  It's the penultimate part of this SAL (other than the optional back pattern) and things are starting to really fill out! I hope that things have remained unpredictable - it's something I aim for while designing these SALs but it doesn't always work out that way.

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 16

Welcome to part sixteen of the Spring Mystery SAL!  Things are really filling up in your embroidery, Soon you won't have any space left! Well ok, it's not full coverage so you will have space left... but where? Time will tell - and there isn't all that much of that let either!

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 15

Welcome to part fifteen of the Spring Mystery SAL! I hope you were able to find all the stitches in the previous part - there was a lot of twisting and turning! Did things go the way you thought they would? Or were you pointed in a completely different direction?

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 14

Welcome to part fourteen of the Spring Mystery SAL! Just four more parts after this one and you will have completed this mystery! Can you guess where all of the remaining 544 stitches will go? (That includes this part's stitches - 456 without). I'm going to be mean and not give any clues other than each part as it arrives!

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 13

Welcome to part thirteen of the Spring Mystery SAL! Hopefully you are all enjoying your day! It's lovely out but also a great day to stitch! I have seen a few more lovely progress pictures since the last time I mentioned them - they are very different from each other but looking fabulous already!

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 12

Welcome to part twelve of the Spring Mystery SAL! After lunch I was able to get some time to myself without distractions and I not only finished part ten but I got part eleven stitched too! With this SAL a bit of extra time is all you need to get a *lot* more done than you might expect!

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 11

Welcome to part eleven of the Spring Mystery SAL! Having gone to bed with part nine incomplete and a bunch of morning stuff to do before I could sit down to stitch, I'm still not all caught up with stitching - but that's how these high speed SALs go, so don't be too hard on yourself if you aren't 100% up to date - I'm not either!

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 10

Welcome to part ten of the Spring Mystery SAL! As you can imagine doing two mysteries at the same time can be confusing, especially when you are writing them! I was just cheerfully writing the name of the Mini Magical Mystery SAL 2 in the description box of the post. Good thing I'm off to bed in a moment as I think I either need sleep or very, very strong coffee hehehe.

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 9

Welcome to part nine of the Spring Mystery SAL! This is the halfway point of the SAL in posts as there are 18 in total. I have started seeing more people posting their projects and the colours are fantastic! Don't be shy about posting yours - you could be the inspiration someone else needs to get started!

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 8

Welcome to part eight of the Spring Mystery SAL! After the single colour of stitching in the previous part you now get all four colours in this part - please take care to make sure you got them all - the numbers are below, the pointers are in the pattern.

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 7

Welcome to part seven of the Spring Mystery SAL! The sun is starting to set here and everyone seems to try and distract me from doing stuff - isn't it always the way? I hope you are not getting too many distractions while you stitch! Don't forget to post your progress to the Facebook group (linked below) its good fun to see what everyone is stitching!

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 6

Welcome to part six of the Spring Mystery SAL! I hope you are all enjoying the mystery! I had fun myself with it as I'm stitching along with you due to life getting in the way at the time I had planned to get the stitching done. This means I now have to stitch to keep up with the posts. Even then things got busy after the last post so I couldn't sit down to stitch till two hours after part five was posted! This time I made it in time with stitching, I might not be so lucky later.

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Part 5

Welcome to the first part of the Spring Mystery SAL proper! To make things easier for later finding of things we are going to continue with the numbering started with the pre-stitch patterns so this is the fifth pattern for this embroidery so it's part five. It's bright and sunny today - a lovely spring day!

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Pre-stitch Part 4

Welcome to the last pre-stitch of the Spring Mystery SAL! This post is a little late because I got side tracked going down the path of things that will help with baking sour dough bread. As many of you have noticed things are getting a bit more difficult to get and I made two sour dough starters - one with spelt flour, one with plain flour - that are getting close to their first week of life. I enjoy baking my own bread so perhaps I'll be baking bread more often now.  Next time I post for this mystery things will be starting for the main mystery! I hope you are excited for this is I am! Since I designed this back in January I have managed to forget what it looks like so I'm as much in the dark as you are (though I could cheat and peek I'm not going to!).

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Pre-stitch Part 3

Welcome to the third pre-stitch of the Spring Mystery SAL! I hope you are enjoying the SAL so far!  I still haven't had time to catch up with all of you - even though I decided to postpone the ripping of the backstitched outlines (for the making of a biscornu afterwards) in order to start afresh on another bit of the same fabric. As a result I won't be showing any pictures of my progress today but instead a computer generated image showing it up to part two.

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Pre-stitch Part 2

Welcome to the second pre-stitch of the Spring Mystery SAL! At this point I would normally be showing my part one but having marked out today as my stitching day for part one and having sat down to do it I discovered I was completely unable to count and have had to rip out almost as  much as I have stitched today. I'm sure you have all been there before (and have worn the T-shirts out too) so I'm pretty certain you can understand when I only show the (miscounted) start of my stitching.

The Spring Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Pre-stitch Part 1

Welcome to the first pre-stitch of the Spring Mystery SAL! Although spring is still far off, and for those who are just going into autumn it's even further off, it's always nice to look ahead to when things warm up again after winter. The nice things about this year's Spring Mystery SAL is that you can make it to fit any season just with your colour choices! Go for darker greens and bright autumn colours for an autumn feel, light greens and pastels for spring, and medium greens and happy colours for summer!