BFF SAL 25 - a night with the Dogs

It's International Dog Day this week apparently.

Purely by coincidence, our next choice for a SAL is this keyring.

This features the "Nearly" tartan, in that I nearly managed to follow the pattern. Stitched on the opposite side and mixed up 2 of the colours, but by then my brain was done so they were not getting shifted.

My BFF had a different journey with the back, as I started the backstitch later, I didn't follow the same ideas. His nice bit of red felt kindly donated by my BFF, covers the stitches and does its job.  I remember finding that same stage difficult on the thread organiser.

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BFF SAL 24 - the mouse is ready!

Yippee we completed our latest SAL.  We have a plan for whatever is next.

Not sure what plans the Mouse will get for framing, I do rather like my BFF's latest magnetic solution.

I have some exciting plans upcoming for a garden office, this might give me a few more walls to display the stitching on.

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BFF SAL 24 - coming into focus

Made a start on the backstitch this week. I started with the pea pods and then got annoyed at the large counts required. So I moved over to the flowers, and here's where things really sharpen up!  I'm using a completely wrong thread, 3781 instead of the darker 3799 recommended.  But as my BFF had an adventure of her own with that colour, and anyway I'd started so I'll finish, I'm rolling with it happily.

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BFF SAL 24 - all crossed

Finally got the last of the cross stitch finished. In a few days time we get to do the backstitch.

Scuse the fluffy slippers who wanted in on the action!

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BFF SAL 24 - filling the gaps

Got all the other bits done besides the mouse, I have dispensation to finish the remaining cross stitch off camera.

Check out my BFF's update here, we spent a pleasant evening anticipating the next day for my BFF as she planned for her last day at work.  As I'm younger by a small period, we'd always have been retiring at different times, but I'm excited to watch as she takes these next steps.

BFF SAL 24 - mousey

All mouse related stitches this week, although we didn't stitch as long because we played nice looking at new patterns, my BFF's blog here will tell you more about that though.

Scuse the Tootsies. Bizarrely the foot makes the pattern look much bigger.

BFF SAL 24 - a slow night

Hubby made me a coffee part way through tonight, and my BFF and I talked about our future retirement plans.  So there was a little bit of pink added but nothing else this week. 3 out of the 5 flowers are done so it feels like some progress at least.

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