Toby Fox

At the beginning of 2011 (although it feels much longer ago) my local fabric and haberdashery shop was announced to be closing after 40 or so years. There, as there always is, was a closing down sale, which I inevitably went to several times to try to catch me a bargain. While looking through the various leftover items at one of the later stages of the sale, I found a fair number of Woodland Folk cross-stitch kits. I immediately thought they were super cute and decided that the four smaller kits I'd seen would be mine. 

I started one pretty much at once, but then with packing-up and moving a couple of times since, the cross-stitch I'd started was packaged in a box in our storage facility along with the majority of my wife and I's belongings.

Feeling a little more settled over the summer, since returning home from France, I recovered that started cross-stitch, knowing that it was smaller and therefore more portable than the 'Sampler des 4 Saisons' I'd started in France this year. 

So, out came Toby Fox. Over the course of a couple of weeks, stealing time in the evenings after my youngest sister had gone to bed, or weekends when everyone else was out, I made progress with Toby. Finishing all the cross stitches, but not all the backstitching, I decided that Toby and the other cross-stitch kits would be useful to bring to Spain as standalone projects to keep me occupied here. I figured four weeks without any kind of crafty hobby to do might be a bit hard to maintain!?

And, here he is, in his finished state, just waiting to go back to England and for a frame to be found for him.