moving right along...

Top pic is Kaleidoscope Flower where I've finished the outer border and the lighter green border.  I ran out of the darker variegated outer border thread (wouldn't you know it) so tried another variegated color  to finish the interior--but if you look at pic #2 going from left to right that third dark color

doesn't work as well as I hoped. So I'll ripe that out while I wait for the correct color (ordered from Nordic Needle) to arrive.  AND it was a good excuse to pick up the TW 12 days of Christmas.  I've finished all of the "On the _ day and will begin to put in all the "of Christmas" along the right sides until all the words are done around the outside of each box.  THEN I'll tackle the pictures inside.  These are the projects I chose to finish this year for the 'finish what you've started' challenge.  I almost quit a couple of times, but am now finding it very gratifying to quietly and purposefully stitch away at these UFO's with growing anticipation of crossing the finish line sooner rather than later!

may your fingers be flying...Peg

The design of the green WIP (seen in post below)

I've had requests for the name of the "all things green" pattern (below)---Peggy I couldn't find your email address---sorry.   It's from Sampler Cove and is called Kaleidoscope Flower. They stitched it in overdyed gold tones on black--so if you look for it, keep that in mind.   I'm doing 28ct over 2, using Crescent colors "Balsam Fir"...speaking of which. Since our local cstitch store closed its doors at the end of this year I had the novel experience today of realizing I didn't have enough of this color, so had to go online to order it!   That of course meant I could't riffel through the colors and pick out exactly the right skein that has more of the lighter green rather than very dark.  And the other shocker was that the postage cost more than the thread ...so  I can now sympathize with all of you who haven't been fortunate enough to have a good store close to you.