Happiness Is Cross Stitching

More exchanges!

Hi everyone, I have been doing quite a few exchanges lately, here is the one I sent to Hazel from the

Quietly Stitching blog this week. (The exchange I received from Hazel is shown below) I made the box and covered it with this beautiful fabric from Shabby Fabrics in America, I also made the pinkeeps and little pillow using free patterns from:

Gazette 94 for the rose pattern, please see previous post for the link to this pattern.

Amitie pattern is from DesFilles et une Aiguille here

I made the polymer clay roses and the buttons from polymer clay.

Hazel sent me the most gorgeous stitching set below, I am thrilled with it. Hazel made the gorgeous bag and filled it with the lovely matching needlebook and little scissor pillow.

Thanyou Hazel, I shall treasure them always.

Thankyou for all of the lovely comments, I really appreciate them.

Happy stitching!

My exchange has arrived in Russia at last!

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Hi everyone, I am thrilled to say that the exchange I sent to Yana in Russia on the 29 March has finally arrived, I had actually lost all hope of it ever getting there, in fact, I had made another one and was ready to post it next week!

I made the toblerone using this tutorial here ,although it is in French the pictures are quite easy to follow, I also used some of the fabrics I bought from Shabby Fabrics in America. The cherub pattern was a free pattern from Arianne Pierre, I could not find the link to it, however a nice blogging friend sent me the pattern. For the rose detail on the toblerone I used part of a pattern from the Gazette 94 blog here, just scroll down and you will see the roses as part of this large sampler.

The polymer clay rose pins, buttons and thread holder were handmade from Fimo clay and glazed with varnish to give a shiny finish. If you wish to know how to make the roses just type in polymer clay roses on You Tube and you will see a video showing how to make them.

I used DMC floss for the cross stitch.

More pictures below.

I have just sent another exchnage to Hazel from Quietly Stitching blog here , I will show pictures in my next post.

Happy stitching everyone and thankyou for your visit.

Ice Cream Sundae finished!

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Hi everyone, I hope you are all well and doing lots of stitching!

Here is my completed Country Cottage Needlework - Ice Cream Sundae finish, it was such an easy stitch, I think I am going to be doing quite a few of these designs as I really enjoyed stitching this.

Don't you think the colours are just yummy?

I have posted quite a few pictures for you to get a good close up view and get a real feel for the design.

Gosh, I could just eat some Ice Cream!

Mmmmmm!

You can buy the pattern from Sew and So in England here

and here in America, just scroll down the pages and you will find the pattern.

Stitching news

It looks like my exchange to Yana has got lost in the post, I am sooooo disappointed. I am going to wait a couple more weeks to see if it finally arrives, if not I shall have to make another one, which is so annoying!

I have started another exchange, but this one is for a lady in England, I do not think I will be as worried when I send that, but I will be using recorded delivery!

Welcome to all of my new followers this week, I hope you enjoy your visits as much as I enjoy posting the photographs of my cross stitching.

Have a happy stitchy week, thankyou for your visit!

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

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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.

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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!