Fred and a little fun :)

Top row finished!

So, I’ve mostly been working on Frederick this past week, in between having fun and shopping since I’m down in Plymouth. And meeting up with some friends 🙂 And now the top row is completely finished! Well, the cross stitching is completely finished :). If you ignore the missing shelf which goes above it 🙂 Which I am doing. As you can see, I’ve now started the bottom left. There are 7 books here, including the two I’ve started. Hopefully they won’t take too long to do. And then the back stitch… I know it’s going to look pretty damn awesome when it’s all done, but it is really rather boring, so Fred may get put away for a while before I start it. Or maybe intersperse the back stitching with more interesting stuff…after all, it is (hopefully) going to be a Christmas present to my wonderful ex-next-door neighbors (they recently moved into a smaller place).

I’ve also had a bit of a play around with variegated threads 🙂 And come to the conclusion that something a tad bigger would show off the changes a bit better. But all in all, I really like it :). Now I just need to master my mum’s sewing machine and sew these together 🙂 Which will happen when I get back to Salisbury. Hopefully I won’t mess things up too badly…

Playing with variegated threads