A gift from Angela, my stash of fabrics and a work in progress........

Hi everyone, I hope you are having a lovely stitchy week.

A few months ago I decided to treat myself to a stash of gorgeous fabric from Shabby Fabrics, if you have never seen their website go check it out here. They supply over the internet from America, they arrived only about 10 days later in England  and they were worth waiting for, they are absolutely gorgeous, all of the colours blend together beautifully and every single one of the designs are really pretty. 

I have bought some other colours but I will save them for another time.   

  

Next up is the beautiful gift that I receved for my birthday from Angela, the gorgeous ribbons, a lovely Cypress bread roll and a notepad from the Victoria and Albert Museum, Angela knows I am into the Victorian era so this was perfect. I love taking tea in the garden so it will be lovely to wrap up some warm bread and eat it in the sunshine alongside a nice cup of english tea!  

Thankyou Angela for the lovely gift, I love it all.   

I have also been stitching a cross stitch that I started last year, it is a free pattern from the internet,

stitched 1 over 1 in red satin DMC thread.   

I love the flowers and the butterflies on this.

I hope I can keep stitching things that are of interest to you all, thanks for your visit, until next time...... 

Happy Stitching! 

Exchange from Yana and gift for a friend.

Hello everyone, I have a number of pictures to show you, the first is the lovely exchange that Yana sent me from Russia. I received this a couple of weeks ago but I did not post a picture because I thought I could post pictures of the exchange I sent to Yana at the same time.

I have also made another blue box similar to the one I made for Gladys in a recent exchange, although this one has a slightly different design, it is a birthday gift for a friend. It is very similar to what I have stitched before, but my friend likes blue and I did not have any other blue fabric.      

Here is a close up of the gorgeous biscornu that Yana made, it is just beautiful!

        

The stitching is perfect!

Including the beautiful needlebook and the scissor fob.

The reverse side 

I just love these little dolls that fit inside each other!

Thankyou Yana for a lovely exchange, you are so talented! 

I hope you get your exchange soon. 

Happy Birthday Diane, I hope you have a good one!

Welcome to all of my new followers, I really appreciate all of your visits and comments.

Happy Stitching!  

Stitching news and gifts.

Hi everyone, it has been quite a while since my last post as I  have been quite busy over the last few weeks!

Here is my work in progress on Country Cottage Needleworks. I have actually worked on this since I took this picture and it is now nearly finished!    

More pictures below

I have a couple of private exchanges arranged over the next few months which should be fun, I have just received one from my friend Yana in Russia, although I am going to wait until my next post to show the pictures, just wait until you see them, as the gifts Yana sent are  gorgeous!  I sent Yana's exchange three weeks ago and she has not received it yet, but Yana has assured me that sometimes parcels can take 4 weeks from England, fingers crossed that it arrives safely.   

I had a lovely 50th birthday, I received a beautiful gift from Jill at Purple Peacock blog here, Jill is so generous, I was totally amazed at the beautiful goodies Jill sent me, thankyou so much Jill!

Enclosed were some gorgeous silk threads, pins and needles and some tatting thread.

Here are the threads close up, they are lovely colours!

Here is a picture of the beautiful card my friend Diane sent to me, isn't it lovely!

And this is the lovely bouquet of flowers my son sent to me.

My husband bought me a beautiful watch.

Here is a lovely biscornu made by Connie using one of my patterns, it actually is a pattern for a little pillow but Connie had a good idea to make it into a biscornu - it has turned out beautiful don't you think?  

 

This is the back of the biscornu, this part was designed by Connie.

You can find Connies blog here

Until next time, have a lovely stitchy week!

 

Stitching news

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well, it has been a while since my last post as I have been quite busy lately.

Stitching News

Jane sent me this lovely mail art gift to me, it was a total surprise!  

It was full of these lovely threads and a threadwinder, thankyou Jane I shall treasure this!   

I have started stitching this Country Cottage Needlework design that my son bought 

me for Mothers Day. 

Here are some close up pictures.

I have just one more photo to show of a biscornu that my friend Connie has made, but I will show that in my next post.

I am going away for a couple of days to celebrate our 26th wedding anniversary and my 50th birthday, I am quite looking forward to the celebrations, we are going to one of  my favourite parts of the country - Bath.

We are having lunch at the Pump Rooms in Bath where Jane Austen used to visit quite regularly, I will update you on my return, and hopefully I will have some nice photographs to show you all.  

Happy stitching everyone!

   

Little House Needleworks

Hi everyone, I thought it was time I showed a cross stitch finish after all the felt projects I have been making lately. 

I started this Holly Berries design from Little House Needleworks before Christmas but I have only just got around to finishing it. 

I decided to make it into a mattress pin cushion following some really helpful instructions over at Andreas blog - The Craft Room here.  

Thanks Andrea, your instructions are really easy to follow!

This is the reverse side

Stitching news

I have received a beautiful surprise gift in the mail from Jane, a lady whom I sent a random act of kindness to at the beginning of the year. Jane has sent me a lovely mail art with some delicious threads to match. I am unable to post a photo yet as I am trying to edit the personal address details off the photograph and I am unsure how to do it.

Thankyou Jane for this wonderful surprise!

I have also received a photograph from Connie who has made a lovely biscornu from one of my patterns, I shall show that in my next post. 

Talking of surprises ( well, not a total surprise because I gave him the list of choices) I received this Country Cottage Needleworks Pattern from my son for Mother's Day today, I cannot wait to start stitching this! 

    

Thankyou for visiting and leaving such wonderful encouraging comments, I really appreciate them all.

Happy Stitching!