Little House Neighbourhood progress

Hi everyone, I have not much to show you apart from progress on Little House Neighbourhood which I am really enjoying at the moment, this week I am hoping to stitch some of the border on the top and along the sides and then I can progress to the second part.   

Sorry about the photo, I seem to be having problems with the focus on my pics, mmmm I will have to look at my camera and see what I am doing wrong, my photo's used to be clearer than this. I think I have accidentally clicked on a button on my camera and it has altered something?!!!! 

I have been sorting out my craft room and taking photographs for a tutorial that I will put on my finishing blog, hopefully next week. 

Have a happy stitchy week, until next time!

   



Afternoon tea and Little House Neighbourhood progress

Hi everyone, I have had a lovely week this week, I finally got the chance to use my two tiered cake stand that my sister bought me for my 50th birthday last year, it is a very pretty design with flowers and butterflies on it and I absolutely love it.  I invited my sister one day and my friend on another day but basically made the same sandwiches  for both days. We had salmon and cucumber sandwiches, ham sandwiches, scones,  fondant fancy cakes and crunchie chocolate rocks and it was absolutely delicious!  Of course we had tea which gave me the excuse to use my favourite strawberry tea set and matching plates. 

I bought some lovely white napkins and a matching table cloth for a crisp white finish as I do not think there is anything nicer than  a clean white tablecloth for afternoon tea, do you agree?

I sometimes think I may actually be brave and invite some blogging friends that live close to me - would anyone come? lol   That would be fun to have a stitching day with people I had never met before but had chatted to on line!   If I invited you what stitching piece would you bring to stitch on the day?

I just love these tiny dessert forks and the matching teaspoons.

And now for my stitching progress on Little House Needlework pattern The Little House Neighbourhood.

I just need to stitch around the door and the fence   

I just love these patterns, they seem to grow so quickly.    

 I have a number of Little House Needlework designs in my stash that I have yet to stitch, I just love them!  

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

Happy stitching until next time. 

Sorting my new craft room!

Hi everyone, I have finally managed to start sorting out my craft room, I have displayed some of my cross stitch in this little corner, there are gifts from blogging friends here and some of my stitching too.

You will also see an assortment of books, the cross stitch book was purchased last year but I forgot I had it because it was stored in a box somewhere. I have also bought some lovely Tilda books from Amazon, I think this is going to be my favourite stitching hobby over the next few months.

I have also started a Little House Needlework design, it is the popular Little House Neighbourhood pattern.

I have provided the links for the books below

Available here from Amazon UK



Available here from Amazon UK


Available from Amazon UK


Available from Amazon UK

I made this pink felt strawberry following the design in one of the books, although I did alter it slightly, I made the leaves and the flower on the top a little different.      

Here is my new start, the Little House Needleworks design, it has been in my stash since last year, I have finally got around to starting it. I usually like to have a large stitching piece on the go as well as stitching small designs.  

This is a little work in progress area, you will see that I am stitching a duplicate of the recent Valentine giveaway I sent to Elisa and I have also nearly finished the stitching on the duplicate gift I sent to Hazel.

I have also finished stitching the pale green design that I started a few months ago, I am going to finish  it into a box. The little bird singing embroidery is a freebie from the Gum Tree Designers blog here, it was a coat hanger cover but I decided to make it into a sweet hanging ornament, although I am not sure about the blue I have chosen for around the edge.

Here are some of the craft books I have collected, I need a bookcase though! 

I have recently received this order of linen and threads from Sew and So, I use 32 count Murano linen quite a lot as I love the result. The blue/grey colour is for  a Victorian Sampler pattern that my husband bought me for Christmas.    

Thankyou for your visit, I hope you call again!

Valentine giveaway winner announced and a work in progress.

Hi everyone, I promised to announce the winner of my Valentine Giveaway today and the winner is.......

Elisa from Old Ragged Threads Blog here

Congratulations Elisa,  please leave me a comment with your email address and I will arrange to send the gift to you. 

I would like to thank everyone who left a comment.

I would also like to thank all the people who are now following my blog, I have hit over a 1000 followers this week and I am thrilled, I never imagined that so many people would be interested in my cross stitch. Talking of interest, you all seemed to like the cupcakes pattern I put on as a freebie, 900 people were referred from another site in one day just to see the pattern, I was so pleased.

 Here is the link to the site where you will find other free patterns. 

 I am currently designing another cupcake pattern, in fact I could probably end up with a whole series, I just so love cup cake designs!

And now for my current work in progress, it is a freebie from the Swappons blog here just click on the link and scroll down the page and click onto the PDF red square and you can download it. There are also lots of photos of finished works from people that have used the pattern, you will find lots of inspiration for the project in lots of different colours here. I am unsure how I am going to finish this one, I may do a box finishing. 

This is stitched one over one, it was surprisingly quick to stitch once I got started.   

Have a happy stitchy week, thankyou for your visits!      

Birthday gift to a friend

Hi everyone, I thought I would show you the gift I sent to my friend Angela (no blog) I decided to make a pretty little pillow trimmed in white ribbon and swarovski crystals. Angela has let me know she has recieved my gift and I am glad to say she likes it! 

The picture above shows the wrapping paper and gift tag I made using images from The Graphic Fairy blog here The wrapping paper can be found under Wallpaper on the link provided, I then edited the paper in Picasa 3 to write the greetings.

The gift tag was made using an image also from The Graphics Fairy, not sure which section I got this one from though. All I did was print the image onto transfer paper and cut out the shape, I then sandwiched a small piece of felt in between and trimmed with dmc handmade cord. 

Here is the pillow, the cross stitch pattern is a freebie from Martines Blog  here just keep scrolling down the page and you will see it there. If you would like to see it made in pink see my previous post here.

White hand made polymer clay roses sprinkled with glitter, bow trimmed with

swarovski crystals.

I show how to make this bow on my tutorials blog here

There is still time to enter my Valentine giveaway here it is open until the 27th February 2011.
THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED

      Happy stitching everyone and thankyou for your lovely comments, they are all very much appreciated, I would also like to extend a warm welcome to new visitors and followers and of course my regular visitors too!

Have a happy stitchy week!