Psalm 104

The birthday present has been received and inspected and approved of, so now I can share pictures of it with you.

Just the stitching:

This is actually my second try at this. The first time I was simply working the full pattern over one, but it really wasn't turning out well, and there was no way I'd be finishing it this side of the next millennium, so I changed plans and came up with this version, which works much better.

And now finished into a bible cover:

My original thought was that I would also use the brown fabric to make little triangles on the corners, but I was having trouble figuring out how to secure them neatly, especially as I wanted to make the cover as versatile as possible in case I'd got the measurements wrong. So I ended up leaving them off, but I'm sure they could be added later if wanted.

Birthday present

Well I've almost finished the birthday present. It wasn't in time for my MIL to take it home with her, but it's still before her birthday. Which is pretty good going for me considering the last present I started for her (O Jerusalem) will be 10 years late this birthday.

I'm not going to put a picture up (yet) as I think she should see it first, but I think I've finished the stitching portion (I'm just getting some second opinions on it) and then I've just got to do the finishing portion.

My MIL when she was here made up the shorts for me too, so that's another item off my list as well.

I am really tempted to finish An Open Heart next, but I know I should do Twas the Night. I do want to do Twas the Night, it's just that An Open Heart is so close to finished. Guess I'll see which way it goes when I next sit down to stitch.