Challenged Challenge

This post has been delayed for all sorts of reasons, but I'm blaming the camera. That technology is so 2000. 

Last April, I announced another stitching challenge. 

Unlike in past years, I totally forgot to remind you about it. Then I forgot about it all together. About two and a half months ago, I got a photo in the mail from Monica, the Hoopless Stitcher…(which I always misread as the Hopeless Stitcher, but really she's not!) She stitched Paulette’s pattern and finished it as a threadkeep. I sent her a little return message to let her know it came though, and then I thought I should perhaps look up the deadline for this thing. (Which I just did now.) 

Then I got another one in the mail from Jo at Serendipitous Stitcher as a birthday present! With a card and everything. So that was like a month ago now. I’m blaming the silent auction coupled with the new job for preventing me from sharing this fabulousness with you. Thanks, Jo, it is ghetto-fabulous! (Actually it's just fabulous.) I love how she undermined the original by adding the tattoo. 

Backing fabric and little charmer.

You know who else stitched this? Riona over at Oubliette. 

I feel so badly about dropping this ball from such a great height, I feel moved to send a little surprise to everyone who actually stitched this. So Monica, Jo, and Riona, please send me your snail mail addresses.

I hope you enjoyed all the beautiful examples people made. Let's give them a round of applause.