Butterflies on nine-patches

I finally made it! The Butterflies on Nine-Patches from Dimension Gold Collection petits is finished. Stitching the crosses and half-crosses went quite smooth and fast, but than it came down to stitching just BS, Lazy Daisies and French knots. Not my favorites at all.
I'm glad that it is all stitched up now.

Nine Butterflies

Here is a little update on my Butterfly stitching. Over the last couple of days I made a few stitches here and a few stitches there and this is how far I got today. Half of the full and half crosses are done and I am planning on finishing this one by the beginning of next month latest.
I don't think I can make it earlier, due to preparing a piece of fabric for a Round Robin starting 1st February, but you'll never know. I'll just keep on stitching.

New Project !

One of my big goals for the year 2009 is to stitch up and finish all, or at least most of my work in progress projects. That includes not to start to many new projects, otherwise my WIP baskets gets filled up right away. And believe me, my "Want-to-do-list" is amazingly long. But after just stitching up 3 big projects in a role, I though I can tread myself with a medium sized new project.
I chose a design from Dimensions Gold Collection petites called Butterflies on nine-patches. I bought this kit more than 4 years ago in America while I was living there, but never had the time or encouragement to start stitching it. That all changed a couple of days ago and I'm glad it did. It is so much fun stitching. It has so many bright colors. It makes me literally forget about cold and dark Finnish winters.

Here are the results after day 1 and day 2 of stitching: