Fully Finished Gallery - July

It's time to check in with Rachel, the Ten Hour Stitcher for July's Fully Finished Gallery! At the beginning of the year I promised her to have at least two finishes to show each one, but I didn't finish anything extra (besides the monthly bookmark) since the last checkin. So I needed to dig into the box of finished stitches, or rather, I picked up one that I started finishing a while back - it was The Halloween Town SAL by the Frosted Pumpkin stitchery that I finished a couple years ago and started finish-finishing into a wall hanging. Now I've been putting this off for ages - my usual excuses were 'I don't have time to sit down and sew' and 'I need to fix up my sewing corner first, it's a mess', but this week I finally got down, shoved stuff aside (because let's try this the other way around, maybe using my sewing corner will make me want to tidy it up? in any case, I can still used it) and sat down and took me just about one and a half hours to get it done!

I might play around with the actual hanging a bit. I think I'd like to not have a string attached but have the ends of the stick 'sit' on a nail or something on both sides. But I also want to put it on my apartment door in autumn...so maybe a fancy cord? Not sure yet, but I still consider this done now - finally!

My second finish is much less exciting as you've already seen it - the June bookmark, stitched on 8ct aida and finished with an identically sized back piece and a simple edge stitch: