Winnie the Pooh picture

Since it's nearly the end of 2019, everyone is posting pictures of themselves ten years ago and now to compare.
Well here's a different kind of ten year challenge - I got this cross stitch kit ten years ago with a magazine, and I just made it this week after being in a box for a decade!

I did need to look up how to do French knots as I had forgotten how to do them, but I found this useful tutorial.
I always try to make the back neat as well as the front, but the back stitch makes this a bit tricky.

Toddler apron again

I've been making a toddler sized apron for one of my daughters friends, like the one I made in March (tutorial here), but this time instead of getting applique letters I decided to cross stitch the name onto some aida band. I haven't done cross stitch for ages and had to unpick a few times due to not counting correctly, but now it's sewn on I like it.

And I even had some ribbon to use as a label!

I hope she enjoys wearing it.

Baby bauble Christmas gift

I got this idea from someone else on the Internet, but it's cute so I'm going to share it anyway.

It's super easy:

• One clear plastic hollow bauble (can get them at craft shops) 
• One piece of ribbon the length of the baby (as I was making for a friend, I gave them a piece of ribbon a metre long and they can cut it to the right length) 
• Small piece of ribbon to hang it from
• Label