Rather a cross-stitching themed day today: well, besides important things to do on Sunday like trying a new sushi restaurant and buying books (only a Diana Wynne Jones on sale and also a book about how to write haiku (by Jane Reinhold) and drinking milkshakes. We wandered into a needleshop and my friend
readman_yomiko bought a Dimensions kit with a Japanese maiden - she started doing it already and I'm watching, since I never tried a Dimensions pattern and I have a couple of them in mind.
And at home I photographed my own works.
A present for a friend who wanted irises:
Andf a progress report on
this (pity I haven't written down the exact date when I started. Then again, I was still working on another thing then, Mackintosh roses pattern which will be a cushion):
I am a slow stitcher...