To be Fully Finished (FFOd)

I had a stack of project bags on a table in the corner of my dining room for the longest time. Recently I decided to sort through them. One pile became WIPs/UFOs and the other pile was items I'd finished stitching and tossed them on the FFO pile. This way, I could remove the threads and incorporate them back into my thread stash, throw the patterns and working copies in a pile to be filed later, and completely empty 8 project bags. 

I'm not sure how many of these items I'll ever fully finish. The Christmassy ones can be made into ornaments. I still need to add some snowflakes and bling to this one.

This was the second Mary Corbet 'Christmas Wreath Ornament' I stitched. It was a very quick stitch. If you've never done surface embroidery, I highly recommend trying this pattern. I used 46ct oat linen, DMC threads, and HotFix 'jewels' instead of beads. The other one I made, I gave away in our Christmas ornament exchange with the Trillium Embroidery Guild.

This, too, was a pretty quick stitch. It's from a Just Cross Stitch magaine.

I bought this chart from the Tiny Modernist booth at the Peel Stitch-In last fall. It was fun to stitch but I see I still need to add some bling.

I currently don't have plans for the others. Here they are in no particular order.

This is part of a Strawberry Thief chart. 

A punch needle piece.

I loved stitching this. I also did it on the yoke of a denim shirt. That Sticky Fabri-Solvy makes stitching embroidered designs so easy. 

I used it on this project, too. I really enjoyed all the special stitches and different plies of thread.

I stitched two of these. One I FFOd in a hoop and this one.

This is a Terri Bay whitework design using #8 and #12 Perle cotton. It stitched up pretty quickly. It would make a nice lid of a box.

I have many, many more items that are waiting to be FFOd. Bottom line, I love stitching them but often don't have a plan for how I'll finish them. That is why I enjoyed doing model stitching - once the stitching was done, I just sent it back to the designer to be framed or finished in some way.

I hosted the Monday morning stitching group today. We had a wee toast to the memory of Sharon, our friend who died last week after living many years with lymphoma. She will be missed.