At about this point I was beginning to wonder whether it was such a good idea to try to get this finished in December.

I had been looking forward to getting back to Mario, he is so cute.  That keyboard was a lot of work though.  It wasn’t lots of different colours but it was a lot stitches dotted here and there and needed a lot of concentration.  To break it up I did part of the keyboard and kept switching between that working a length of the grey thread.