February Smalls

Running a couple of days late, but here are my smalls for this month. Yep, smalls. I finished two.

The first is a bookmark from Pelin Tezer's Turkish Sampler (details here)

Turkish Sampler
25 ct White Lugana
My biscornu for the month is Aurelle's Biscornu #9:
This is what it looks unassembled. I didn't want to stitch the top again so I just picked out the corner motifs and stitched them in one strand.
I wasn't sure whether the red would work on that particular fabric but I like how it turned out.
I decided to bead in every stitch because I felt reckless. It was reckless because I'm very bad at guessing if I have enough beads and I always worry. This time I threw my hands up in the air and went for it anyway. I did worry at the end but as always it was pointless. I have plenty of beads left over.

Title	Biscornu #9
Designer	Aurelle
Start date	February 25, 2014
Finish date	February 27, 2014
Total time	7.25 hours
Fabric	32 ct Waterlily Linen
Floss	Crescent Colours Ruby Slipper
Beads	Mill Hill 3049

Palette Cleanser

I was cheerfully working on Egyptian Sampler when I ran out of 950. No problem, just grab another. It isn't the same as the other! Cue panic and checking my other 950s. All the new ones are different from the old one. I used the old one on the two central figures (I guess I could frog them) and in the over-one (I can't frog over one). Panic and hope for a solution to mysteriously appear from the ether.

I stitched this while waiting for divine intervention. It's Pelin Tezer's Turkish Sampler. I'm not sure what's going on but her website is now shilling weird drink cozies. I think she might be on Facebook? But some of her freebies are on Cyberstitchers.

Modeled here in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather:

Turkish Sampler
25 ct White Lugana

Title	Turkish Sampler
Designer	Peliz Tezer
Start date	February 16, 2014
Finish date	February 19, 2014
Total time	10.5 hours
Fabric	25 ct White Lugana

*I've decided to frog just the last figure so that it will have the same 950. The other two and the over-one can stay and be a bit different. No one will care (because they won't be able to tell) and no one will know (except you guys, but you're on my side so it's all good).