Link-up For Fully Finished Gallery SAL - June 2025

Hello all!

Here we are again! It's the 10th of the month so time for the Fully Finished Gallery SAL. This is the place to show your cross stitched FFOing achievements since your last link-up.

The link-up for this SAL opens on the 10th of each month and stays open for 10 days so you can join in whenever you're ready.

This month I finished off one of my Nordic Advent pieces. I finished three last year, but when preparing to finish this fourth one I decided I didn't like the way they'd been finished so tried something different. I used the same fabric for the back but for the front I added tinsel wool around the outside, frayed the fabric and added some wadding behind. I prefer this so, at some point, will be re-doing the others to match:

Now it's your turn.

Please link-up using the URL of your FFG SAL post and not the home page of your blog, adding a thumbnail of a finish and either your name or your blog name as the caption. The link-up will remain open for 10 days, closing at 6am UK time on 20th June.

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See you again next month!

Take care,
Rachel x

Smalls SAL link-up - May 2025

Hi all!

It's the last Friday of the month so welcome to the Smalls SAL!

Entries can be anything Small you have cross stitched during the month, be it an individual piece, part of a set, a portion of a big design, or even an unfinished Small if you haven't been able to complete it. All Smalls, or part(s) thereof, are welcome!

It seems that I'm on a roll of stitching just one small Nordic Advent piece each month, and this month is no exception. For May I chose the Mitten which, as usual has been altered slightly to omit the number:

Nordic Advent day 10 - Mitten by Zindagi Designs (etsy)

Stitched on 16ct White aida with pearl/iridescent flecks

Started - 1st May 2025

Finished - 20th May 2025

Total Stitching Time - 5 hours 40 minutes

Now it's your turn.

Please link up using the URL of your Smalls SAL post, with a title (usually your name) and a thumbnail. The link will stay open until 9th June.

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I look forward to seeing your contributions!

See you again next month.

Take care,

Rachel x

Link-up For Fully Finished Gallery SAL - May 2025

Hello all!

Here we are again! It's the 10th of the month so time for the Fully Finished Gallery SAL. This is the place to show your cross stitched FFOing achievements since your last link-up.

The link-up for this SAL opens on the 10th of each month and stays open for 10 days so you can join in whenever you're ready.

I admit that I was not at all organised this month, finishing this little piece late last night! I'd been thinking about it for the last fortnight, so knew what I wanted to do, only to change my mind - not a good thing to happen just before a deadline! Happily, I'm pleased with the outcome; nice and simple, using mottled red and blue card to focus in (a bit like looking through a multi-rimmed telescope, or even a porthole) rather than detract from this lovely landscape which is, of course, Mount Fuji.

Now it's your turn.

Please link-up using the URL of your FFG SAL post and not the home page of your blog, adding a thumbnail of a finish and either your name or your blog name as the caption. The link-up will remain open for 10 days, closing at 6am UK time on 20th May.

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See you again next month!

Take care,
Rachel x

Smalls SAL link-up - April 2025

Hi all!

It's the last Friday of the month so welcome to the Smalls SAL!

Entries can be anything Small you have cross stitched during the month, be it an individual piece, part of a set, a portion of a big design, or even an unfinished Small if you haven't been able to complete it. All Smalls, or part(s) thereof, are welcome!

Just one Small again for me this month, another of the Nordic Advent Calendar pieces. I like the simplicity of this one:

Nordic Advent day 25 - Tree by Zindagi Designs (etsy)

Stitched on 16ct White aida with pearl/iridescent flecks

Started - 1st April 2025

Finished - 15th April 2025

Total Stitching Time - 4 hours 15 minutes

Now it's your turn.

Please link up using the URL of your Smalls SAL post, with a title (usually your name) and a thumbnail. The link will stay open until 5th May.

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I look forward to seeing your contributions!

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Take care,

Rachel x

Link-up For Fully Finished Gallery SAL - April 2025

Hello all!

It's the 10th of the month so therefore time for the Fully Finished Gallery SAL. This is the place to show your cross stitched FFOing achievements since your last link-up.

The link-up for this SAL opens on the 10th of each month and stays open for 10 days so you can join in whenever you're ready.

This month I have just two very small and very quick finishes. These are the Mouseloft kits I completed earlier this year after they had sat in my WIP pile for far too long. It was literally a case of cutting them to size and popping them into the little frames; a task which took no more than ten minutes!

Now it's your turn.

Please link-up using the URL of your FFG SAL post and not the home page of your blog, adding a thumbnail of a finish and either your name or your blog name as the caption. The link-up will remain open for 10 days, closing at 6am UK time on 20th April.

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See you again next month!

Take care,
Rachel x

Smalls SAL link-up - March 2025

Hi all!

It's the last Friday of the month so welcome to the Smalls SAL!

Entries can be anything Small you have cross stitched during the month, be it an individual piece, part of a set, a portion of a big design, or even an unfinished Small if you haven't been able to complete it. All Smalls, or part(s) thereof, are welcome!

This month I am back to having just the one Small; the Nordic Advent Calendar piece. And, as usual, the design has been adjusted to account for the omitted number, and the colours adjusted more to my liking!

Nordic Advent day 3 - Hope by Zindagi Designs (etsy)

Stitched on 16ct White aida with pearl/iridescent flecks

Started - 1st March 2025

Finished - 7th March 2025

Total Stitching Time - 5 hours

There are a couple of Smalls I am close to finishing, but I'll save the reveal for another post.

Now it's your turn.

Please link up using the URL of your Smalls SAL post, with a title (usually your name) and a thumbnail. The link will stay open until 10th March.

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I look forward to seeing your contributions!

See you again next month.

Take care,

Rachel x

Link-up For Fully Finished Gallery SAL - March 2025

Hello all!

It's the 10th of the month so therefore time for the Fully Finished Gallery SAL. This is the place to show your cross stitched FFOing achievements since your last link-up.

The link-up for this SAL opens on the 10th of each month and stays open for 10 days so you can join in whenever you're ready.

Following on from how pleased I was with last month's finish of the trio of dolphins, I decided to FFO my trio of parrots the same way... well, almost the same. They are the same size and shape but, as you can see, I used three different colours of card, ribbon and washi tape instead of one, and cut square apertures instead of round. You can't see it from the pictures, but there's also a bit of wadding behind each one to give it a bit of a 'puffy' look:

Now it's your turn.

Please link-up using the URL of your FFG SAL post and not the home page of your blog, adding a thumbnail of a finish and either your name or your blog name as the caption. The link-up will remain open for 10 days, closing at 6am UK time on 20th March.

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See you again next month!

Take care,
Rachel x