Recently completed

OK, I can poke fun at my eleven year old niece for her current gecko fixation, but it's not as though I haven't been there already. I saw this wee fellow in a magazine years ago and had an impulse one weekend to stitch him. The only problem was, knowing that I had the design, actually finding it! So many magazines to hunt through.  Quite a nice, Aztec style design and easy to do, I've stitched it on a natural Aida fabric and then attached to a lightweight jute bag. I don't often finish my stitched pieces as things other than pictures and cushions, so this is a nice change for me. And something that I should make a habit of doing more.

This snakes and ladders board was done following a complaint from my niece that all the games we had were grown up ones. Yes, I know the easy thing to do would be go and buy a cheap board game. I remembered seeing this in an issues of New Stitches and liking it at the time. I haven't yet decided how to finish it off. I'm thinking I'll back it with fabric and do it so it rolls up so it is easily portable. I'm pretty sure there was a ludo board as well so might look that out to do too.

Like many of the things I do, this was stitched simply because I wanted to do it. I guess there are a couple of young boys that I could give it to, but I don't know whether I want to part with it. There are some really nice bits of detail. The chef in the middle threatening a pair of mice that have pinched some cheese for example. But my favourite is the crocodile waiting with his knife and fork for the knight to fall into the water.