Valentine Cow and more project bags

Hi everyone, I just love this cow! Don't you think she is the cutest thing ever?

I found the free pattern from this site here there are lots of designs to choose from and so funny too!
I can see myself making lots more of these as I love them so much.

A quick stitch for the one you love!

Hi everyone, I have designed this small set of quick stitches for the one you love, enjoy!

Freebie Friday - New Mini Cat Patterns for January and February and then every month of the year!

Hi everyone, Happy New Year!

Santa's Village progress and new Valentine mini cat pattern.

Hi everyone, here is my latest progress on Santa's Village, I am hoping to get this cottage finished by the weekend. 

Winner of afternoon tea giveaway and Valentine gift arrived.

My Valentine Love pillow giveaway has arrived at Kathy's house, I made a couple of extra gifts to

include in the package.

Glad you liked it Kathy!

It is now time to announce the winner of my Afternoon Tea giveaway in the previous post.................. 

Gem from Gem's Country Life Dream

Gem please email me so that I can send your gift.

Thankyou for all of your lovely comments and welcome to all of my new followers!

Happy stitching.

Cross stitch pillow winner!

Hi everyone, just a quick post to announce the winner of my Valentine cross stitch pillow giveaway,

the winner is .........................

Kathy A from Kathy's Sit and Stitch blog here

Congratulations Kathy, please email me in my profile with your contact details and I will post the gift to you within the next 7 days. 

Thankyou so much for all of your kind comments and welcome to all of my new followers. I will be having another giveaway over the next few months to celebrate that I have over 2000 followers on my blog! Yay!   I can't promise when the giveaway will be, but rest assured there will be another before my big annual giveaway in July when I will celebrate 4 years of blogging!

Thanks everyone for your visits to my little piece of blogland!

Happy stitching. 



Cross stitch work in progress, Valentine giveaway and stash bought in Paris!

Hi everyone, we returned from the Paris stitching show, L'aiguille en fete, on Saturday evening, it was -8 in Paris and I was very relieved to get home to my nice warm house, we had a lovely time!

In this post I will show my recent cross stitch work in progress, my cross stitch stash from Paris and show you my latest giveaway for Valentines day and give details of how to enter.

I started  to stitch this Home Sweet Home cross stitch of mine whilst I was on the train to Paris, I just love the colours in this and it is a very easy pattern too!  I am stitching the cross stitch design on 18 count aida fabric with DMC stranded cotton threads.

Here is a close up of the design.

Next up is the stash I bought at the show, 2 patterns, a bobbin, handmade pins and little wooden extras, I am looking forward to playing around with these.   

I love these pins - yummy!!!!!

It was quite busy but we got there just half an hour after the doors opened, we got around pretty quickly before the crowds appeared!

And now for my giveaway, all you have to do to be in with a chance of winning this valentine pillow is:

Giveaway now closed

Become or already be a follower and leave a  comment on this post, thats it!

The giveaway will close at 6pm (GMT) next Sunday evening on the 19 February 2012 and then I will draw and announce the one winner either on Sunday or within  a few days of the closing date.     

Good luck!

Now closed

I appreciate all of your comments and welcome to all of my new followers......

Happy stitching!

My finishes for 2011

I thought I would show you all of my completed stitching and cross stitch designing for 2011, I had to split it into separate photograph's so that they could be seen more clearly.  

Enjoy!

Thankyou for all of your lovely comment's on my last post and welcome to all of my new followers.

Until next time, happy stitching!   

EDITED - Valentine giveaway!

THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED

Felt needlebook embroidered with red roses (my own design) including polymer clay rose pins and a hand made button - I show how to make the roses on my tutorials blog here 

Cute mouse thread holder (The pattern is a freebie designed by Liz- here , just scroll down the page) 

Felt loveheart shaped pincushion embroidered with red roses - my own design.

Polymer clay Valentine cake trimmed with a pretty red bow. 

There are more detailed photographs below

Spider web roses - I show how to make these on my tutorials blog here

I think these mice are so cute!

Polymer clay roses and a valentine cake    

Have a happy stitchy week!     

The winners of my Valentine giveaway and my friends birthday gift.

Hi everyone, 

The winners of my Valentine giveaway are: 

First prize of the heart shaped pillow and the bottle cap pincushion goes to

Stitching Fiend ( Anette B ) click

Second prize of the little square pillow goes to  

The Thread Gatherer ( Deb ) 

One of the little bottlecap pincushions go to

Quietly stitching ( Hazel ) 

Days of a Sampler Lover ( Margaret ) 

Stitching news and new patterns

I am just putting together the instructions for the heart shaped valentine pillow and I will be showing step by step instructions on my tutorial blog here .

Here is the One World One Heart set made up in pink, I decided to make this as a birthday gift.

The oblong pillow pattern will be available in my next post. 

I have posted a tutorial showing how to make this tuffett pillow

on my tutorial blog here

The bottle cap pincushions instructions are available here and

inspiration for bottle cap pin cushions can be found here

Quite a few people have asked me where I got these '' hand made with love'' 

charms. I found the ones I used from Thread Bear here in the UK.

I attached this charm using my favourite stitch - blanket stitch. 

Happy stitching!  

My little red bag

Hi everyone, I have made a copy of the Valentine giveaway for myself and decided to make this little bag to store my Valentine smalls in, the inspiration for this bag came from Martha Stewart's website here 

I did alter the design and finish but at least you can see the basic tutorial.

Happy stitching, until next time!  

My Valentine giveaway and exchange received from my friend.

Hi everyone, I have received my exchange from my friend in Spain ( photo's below)  and I am also offering another giveaway! This giveaway is now closed.

Click on photo's for close up detail

Giveaway now closed

Heart shaped felt pillow and the bottlecap pincushion embroidered with spider web roses and finished in blanket stitch.
Designed by me.

The instructions for the bottlecap pincushion can be found here, you can also find lots of inspiration from Jen Segrests webpage of little pincushions here 

The square pillow embroidered with spider web roses and hearts, also finished in blanket stitch.
Designed by me.


My exchange has arrived from Glady's

Here is the lovely exchange gift I received from Glady's in Spain. I received this in the mail on Saturday morning, it was a lovely start to the weekend! Glady's made me this lovely pillow,trimmed in this lovely edging and backed with my favourite type of fabric. Glady's also included threads, fabric, Valentine buttons and the most beautiful rose decorated thread holders. 

The design is from the Joyeaux Noel book from Blackbird Designs, stitched on 32 count linen using Crescent Colours thread - Wild Berries.

Thankyou so much Glady's for this lovely exchange, I shall place the pillow in a safe place where I can see it everyday!
You can see Glady's blog here.

Happy stitching, until next time!