It's Sunday, the last day off for the long holiday weekend for me. That's okay, because it's not long till Christmas now. Yikes!

I've already (thankfully) started my Christmas projects, but I've also managed to finish my last angel before Christmas. Here she is. The pattern is from the December issue of the Cross Stitcher magazine.

No new projects now for a month or so, though I hope to work in some cross stitch here and there (helps keep me sane!). I plan to work some on my snowman sweatshirt I've been working on during the Christmas season the last three or four years. Here is last year's progress, though I do have a little more than this done.

Time for a cross stitch update. I finished my latest angel on Monday, so thought I'd share. Here she is:


I had said this would be my last angel while I take time to work on Christmas stitching, but I found another pattern in the December issue of the Cross Stitcher that I had to do, so I've been working on that.

I haven't, however, done much work on Day without Stitching. I've been working on the words, and they're coming along slowly. Here is today's progress:

I will probably put it away soon and work on my regular wintertime snowman sweatershirt that I've been working on for like five years now... The way it goes when I only work on it about three months of the year...

Time flies... whether you're having fun or not... That's true for me right now. It's school conference season and time for other outdoor activities before the weather changes. Winter - that's when I do my best cross stitch, or at least my most prolific. Right now, not so much.

I have been working on what will be my last angel, because I'm needing to do some actual stitching for Christmas. It's another design from the 2003 BHG leaflet Treasury of Christmas Cross-Stitch Designs, small wreath. Here is today's progress:

I haven't been doing much stitching on my other work in progress, A Day without Stitching. Here is my current progress, not much different from my last progress, which was three weeks ago: