What next?

148 hours and 30 minutes over 51 sessions and about 51 months (that’s shameful) but here it is. I finally finished the red kite tonight. I’ll take it to be framed in two weeks time and then it can be displayed proudly in our flat at last…

Unfortunately, this does mean that we do not have any dinner tonight – oops!

This is what 133 hours of cross-stitching looks like…

With rather a lot of the project still to go, this is what 133 hours of stitching on my red kite project looks like. I did six and a half hours today, which is the longest stint I have so far done in one day. What a great way to spend the last Sunday of the summer holidays, especially considering I haven’t actually picked this up since April 2012!

 

It’s only the landscape left to do. Here’s a closer look at the area I’m working on at the moment…