Christmas in June!

I have been thinking about Christmas over the last couple of weeks and decided to design a little pillow and this is how it turned out, it is quite small,  4.5cm x 4.5cm  square - green on one side and red on the other.

I stitched it using DMC threads 817 and 699 using Mill Hill gold beads for trimming, hopefully I should have the freebie cross stitch pattern on my blog sometime this week. 

Stitching News

I have been buying some cross stitch patterns again from Little House Needlework and Country Cottage Needlework, I just love these patterns so much, and also some new linen fabric, I will show them on my next  post when they arrive! 

 Welcome to all of my new followers and thankyou everyone for the lovely comments on my teabag holder, it seems you quite like the tea themed projects, I think I need to design and stitch more of the same! 

Until next time, happy stitching!   



Teabag holder finished

Don't you just love a cup of freshly brewed tea? I know I do, but sometimes I go into hotels and restaurants and they don't actually have decaf tea, so I have decided to carry my own around in my handbag just in case!   Up until now I wrapped my teabags in aluminium foil but now I have this lovely little teabag holder to put them in, I hope you like it as much as  I do! 

It is made from quilt fabric that has been interfaced with fusible interfacing and lined with a small piece of wadding and fine batiste cotton.

The cross stitch pattern is a freebie in the previous post below.  

Until next time, happy stitching!



My free pattern stitched.

Hi everyone, I have recently stitched my freebie pattern, it was a real quick stitch, I changed the colours slightly from the original pattern to match this fabric, I had this in my stash which I am probably going to use to make it into a teabag holder to pop inside my handbag, I have already made a teabag holder out of this fabric and I really liked it, some of you may have seen this exchange before, but just in case you didn't  I have posted the pictures below.  

You can get the free cross stitch pattern for my tea and cupcakes design here. 

Have a lovely weekend everyone and happy stitching! 

I have a new dressmaking blog!

Hi everyone, I am pleased to announce I have a new dressmaking blog, if you would like to see the first dress I have made in 20 years just click here and it will take you to my new blog which I have named Lynns Dressmaking. I am really pleased with the results, I think the dress looks lovely, (I hope you do too) the skirt hangs beautifully and I have bought a little navy blue shrug which matches the dress perfectly, although there is a matching bolero jacket on the pattern I have not yet found the right fabric for this. 

I was a little nervous picking up my scissors and patterns again but I need not have worried, once I got started it was like I had never been away!

I will still be doing my cross stitching but if you are missing me here you can always check out my dressmaking blog to see what I have been up to!  

Cross stitching update

I have currently made some progress on  Little House Neighbourhood, I am also going to start another small project from a Little House Needlework pattern this weekend., not sure which one yet. 

Happy stitching everyone!   

Tea and cupcakes freebie pattern.

Hi everyone, I have been neglecting my cross stitching this week in favour of dressmaking, I am currently making a dress after not dressmaking for twenty years, however, I am pleased to say I still remember how to put a pattern together! Just so that you know I am still here I have decided to finish off this little cross stitch design I started a number of weeks ago and offer it to my blogging friends as a freebie, just click on the picture and print it off. Usually I like to stitch a model of the design so that you can see what it looks like stitched and finished but I was too busy doing other things.

I do hope you like it, I would love to see this pattern stitched up by someone, if anyone does manage to stitch this I would love to see photo's.    

Happy stitching everyone, until next time!