Late night crafting

Today I feel very drained and tired. It's my own fault and can all be blamed on late night crafting. I had started a crossstitch baby sampler as a gift for a friends daughter. I knew they were having a Naming ceremony for her so had started working on it a good while ago although I thought probably not early enough so in my head i had planned to just give her it whenever I got round to finishing it off.



The design is a DMC disney baby kit. I think I picked it up at the craft fair in Glasgow last March at a reduced price. By the beginning of last week I had done quite a bit of the stitching and was also planning on missing out a few bits and jiggling things about a bit just so I could fit it in a standard picture frame. The naming ceremony was yesterday and when Thursday came around I was at that point of weighing up if it was going to be feasible to finish it in time.



On friday I think I stitched for maybe about 6 hours with only short breaks for more tea and on Saturday I decided I was close enough to finishing that I was just gonna go for it. By midnight on Saturday this is what I had



Almost done, all the important information was on but the sand across the bottom was still missing. Dilema! Missing it out just wasn't going to work. I could just admit defeat and post it out next week when it was finished or I could just pull a late night and get it done. So thats what I did. Almost 3 hours of yellow half cross stitches but it was worth it to just get it done and delivered yesterday



Feel like I've got a bit of a crafting hangover today but the sun is shining so off to the park for some fresh air. Hope you all had a lovely weekend x


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