Itty Bitty mouse (2)

Little Christmas mouse number two. The second mouse from the 3-in-1 Margaret Sherry  kit that came with The World of Cross Stitch. 

I pretty much said all I wanted to say about this kit in the last post so I’ll be light on words here.

Each design is about 6x6cm and takes around 3-4hours to complete.  Definitely no more than 4hours. In this design I mixed a strand of purple metallic Madeira #4012 with the darkest purple on the bauble. It was a free sample that came with another magazine a while back. I think I should probably have added a strand to the light purple too in hindsight.  But it's too late now so I'll stick with being happy with what I've done.

I do know how I'm going to turn them into ornaments.  I'll save it till they're all done though.  Fingers cross it works (I like it when my ideas work out).

Completed project:

 

Work in progress shots:

Itty Bitty Mouse (1)

Some actual cross stitching! Gasp. I won't have to change the name of my blog after all..maybe. 

Yay to free magazine gifts, though considering the cost of the magazine and that the 'freebies' are more than half the reason I pick up a copy not really free-free I guess. Regardless yays anyways.

This little guy is from the 3 in 1 kit that came with issue 220 of The World of Cross Stitching.  I probably don't even need to mention the designer (Margaret Sherry of course) as the design/s are very distinctive. 

I complained about the design of the fathers day card I did a while back not being really workable at the size it was. This kit on the other hand is perfect and clearly they have been designed to be stitched tiny and cute. All the definition comes from the backstitching but the cross stitch colours are exceptionally harmonious. All in all what you can expect from a Margaret Sherry design.

Also the completed design pictures in the magazine were lovely.  Whoever stitch them deserves significant kudos.

This guy was really quick to get done. A little stitching after work and here you go. One cute little mouse waiting to be turned into (I think) a Christmas ornament. 

I made a shmozzel of his tail. I couldn't really work out where I was meant to be putting my stitchs based on the chart. In hindsight I can see how I should have worked it but at the time it was a mystery.  I really just made it up, sort-a kinda. It's also a stitch longer than it should be since I accidentally added an extra cross. Being my only real mistake it doesn't really bother me too much. Still looks cute.

The only thing I though after completing the white on his hat was I should of added some metallic thread and/or blending filament to make it sparkle a bit. Woulda been pretty. Oh well too late now and it's still much cute as is.