August Smalls SAL post

My August small for the Smalls SAL, run by Heather of Stitching Lotus.

I stitched up "Rats!" from the Just Cross Stitch 2016 Halloween issue, pattern by The Stitcherhood. It's on a hand-dyed 14 count Aida, dyer unknown. I received the fabric in a stitchy exchange run by Under the Sea Fabrics, though it doesn't seem to be a UtS fabric. :D

I plan to do a few little Halloween silhouette patterns on this fabric, and then finish them all as ornaments. I've already started a second Stitcherhood pattern, from the JCS 2015 Halloween issue, "Black Crow."

On the theme of Halloween, I've made progress on "Happy Halloween":

In fact, I've made even more progress since I took this photo. I fixed the right-side gray border of the box with the pink vertical stripes and finished a small box next to it; I finished the green box below the lower case 'a', and started the 'H' at the beginning of the word 'Halloween.'

I've made so much progress on this because I've given up trying to keep up at all with the Joyful World SAL. :(  I want to finish "Happy Halloween" before Halloween this year more than I want to stress about finishing a Joyful World pattern each month. I still love the designs, and I do plan to finish it, but...later.

So that's me in stitching right now.