Mothers day gift and redwork lady.

Hi everyone, I thought I would show you the Mother's day gift I have made.

My Mother loved the little Valentine bag here with the pin cushions so much that I decided to make it all again, but in her favourite colours of creams, coffee and gold. It is amazing how different it looks in a softer colour palette. I made the little bag just a bit larger than the last one, I embroidered the design free hand onto the front and made the little pillows and the bottlecap pincushion to go inside.

I have also finished my first attempt at redwork, this pattern was a freebie from here ( Needlecrafter website ) there are so many lovely emroidery designs to down load and trace for redwork or any embroidery project. I am unsure how I am going to finish this, I may make it into a quilted wall hanging but I need to buy some red fabric to complement the design.

I used a special disappearing ink pen  to trace the design but it disappeared to quick for my liking, so the next design I traced using a fine pencil.

All the blue marks have completely disappeared now.  

REBECCA'S GIVEAWAY

Rebecca at Gather Ye Roses Blog is having a lovely giveaway until the 20th March, if you have never visited Rebecca's blog then do so now as she makes some gorgeous creations, you won't be disappointed! 

Rebecca's blog here

I would like to welcome all of my new followers to my blog!

Happy stitching everyone!

Free pattern to stitch my One World One Heart giveaway design.

Hi everyone, here is the pattern for the oblong mini pillow I designed for my

One World One Heart giveaway here 

Do not forget to stitch the spider web roses and leaves on the front.

You can see how to make the spider web roses from  my tutorial blog here 

Tutorial for the oblong pillow can be found here on my tutorial blog .

Materials used:

25 count pale blue dublin lugana linen

 DMC 824 for the roses and the cross stitch

Pale green for the leaves

The pillow measures about 4cm x 10cm

Here it is in blue and pink.

 

Happy stitching everyone!

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!  

The winner of the One World One Heart giveaway is?????

Hi everyone,  the time has come to announce my One World One Heart giveaway winner, I would like to thank everyone who visited my blog and left a comment , I appreciated every single one of them.

Now for the moment you have all been waiting for, drumroll please! !!!!!!!!!!!  

I chose the winner at random and the winner is:

Golden Angel Works ( click here for blog )

Congratulations, you have won all of the items in the photo!

Questions asked?

I did receive a couple of questions about my stitching, one lady wanted to know what I filled my little pillows with.  I use polyester filling in all of my pillows. 

Another lady asked me where I got the ''made with love'' metal tags, they were purchased from Threadbear here

Pattern for the oblong pillow

The pattern for the oblong pillow in the photo above is now available here , the instructions will be available later.
The link for the instructions for the bottle cap pincushion can be found here   

Stitching instructions for the round tuffett pillow
These instructions can be found on my tutorial blog at http://lynnscrossstitchtutorials.blogspot.com/ (just click the link)

Thankyou for all of your lovely comments, it was a pleasure meeting new friends and catching up with some of my old friends too! 

Happy stitching, until next time!