One felt brooch giveaway!

Hi everyone, I have been playing around with felt again and I have created these pretty little brooches and a small hanging pillow. They are embroidered with spider web roses, seed beads with pretty ribbon bows and blanket stitched around the edge.

I will be making some scissor fobs in the same design too.

The small embroidered love heart brooches measure just under 4cm at the widest part.

My giveaway

I am  giving away one of the small loveheart brooches to celebrate that I have over 1300 followers. I was intending to do this in September but changed my mind, so, if you would like to win one of the small love heart shaped embroidered brooches in a choice of pink, blue or purple then please follow the rules below:

The draw will close on 31st July 2011 and the winner will be announced a few days later.

1) Please leave a comment on this post on or before the 31st July and your name will be entered into the giveaway to win one of the small embroidered loveheart brooches. Please state which colour is your preference. 

2) If you are a follower or become a follower you will be entered twice, please tell me you are a follower.

3)If you post the top photo on your blog and create a link to this post you will be entered again, but please say you have done this.

There you have it, three chances to win! 

More photos below.

My stitching news

I have received the most beautiful giveaway gift from Lee over at Notes from under the Mountain blog, I will be putting that in my next post. When you see it you will be amazed at how absolutely gorgeous Lee's gift  is, it is so beautiful that I need to dedicate a post just to Lee's gift. I am currently taking photo's and they will take your breath away!

Thankyou so much Lee for this very special gift, I shall treasure it always! 

More photo's of my little brooches and pillows.

Close up detail of spider web roses and seed beads.

Happy stitching until next time!

Little House Needleworks Rosie makes posies progress.

Hi everyone, firstly I would like to welcome my new followers and thank everyone for leaving comments on my blog, it is always appreciated. I am thrilled I have reached over 1300 followers, it is so nice to know you enjoy reading my little piece of the blog world! I considered doing a giveaway to celebrate but I am currently working on my 3rd blog anniversary giveaway for the end of  July, however, I will certainly be doing one just to celebrate my followers a little later, maybe sometime in September.

Stitching news
I have started stitching Rosie from Little House Needlework and I have posted more pictures below.
I chose the cream fabric because I did not have any darker coloured fabric in the right thread count and I particularly wanted to stitch this on 32 count. To allow for the fact that I used the cream fabric I had to backstitch the bee and the flowers to make them stand out, but I think it looks ok.

 

My work in progress on Rosie

Close up of the back stitched bee

Thankyou for your visit, I hope you have a happy stitchy week!
     

Ye Ode Chocolate Shoppe finished and I won another giveaway!

Hi everyone, I finished Chocolate Shoppe last weekend, it was nearly a disaster as I cut through the linen when I realised I had missed the coffee coloured row of  stitching at the top, thankfully I managed to cover up my mistake! I am going to get this framed when I have finished other designs in this range because thay are all going onto the same wall in my new kitchen, I also have Ice Cream Sundae still to frame, now that really is one of my favourites, it just makes me want ice cream as soon as I look at it!

I am getting ready to stitch Rosie with her posy design next.

Other stitching news.

I received some wonderful news the other day, I won Lees giveaway from Notes from Under the Mountain blog here if you have never seen Lees blog then I ask you to go over now as Lee makes some beautiful creations, her embroidery is exquisite! I was so thrilled and excited when I realised I had won the beautiful embroidered bag with another stitched item that will be a surprise made from my choice of colour.    

I first heard about Lees blog when I saw a beautiful cushion Lee had stitched for another blogger, then I saw this little bag that literally took my breath away here it is called a Pocket for Titania, I am sure you will all agree Lee is a very talented needlewoman! 

Thankyou Lee, I look forward to receiving your giveaway gift!

I have also been planning my third anniversary giveaway for July, I am already stitching another one of my tea bag holders that will be one of my gifts, you all seemed to really like that so I thought I may as well stitch another for the giveaway. I think it will be themed around cupcakes, I have lots of ideas buzzing around in my head, you never know I may change my mind a million times until I actually start the stitching process! 

Thankyou for all of your lovely comments, they are always appreciated, I would also  like to welcome  all of my new followers!     

LHN Ye Olde Chocolate Shoppe work in progress and new stash.

Mmmmm Chocolate is one of my favourite things, especially when it is designed by Little House Needleworks, Ye Olde Chocolate Shoppe! I have stitched more on this since I took the photo, so hopefully I will have this finished at the weekend. It has been such a quick stitch but I have really enjoyed stitching it, the colours are lovely. 

I have also been buying some stash, I chose some linen and another selection of Country Cottage and Little House Needleworks patterns. I particularly like the Rosie pattern below, she is just so cute, I think that will be my next project.

Le Boutique and The Flower Shop

And

The Needlework Shop and Bakery

I also needed some new linen, I bought red, black, pale blue and pink, I have some ideas for the black as I am working on a black and white stitched piece at the moment, it has been a work in progress for quite a while, the black linen is to make accessories to match. I bought the Christmas Red as I am planning to make some red pieces for Christmas this year.   

 

 Other stitching news

I have received some photos recently of the projects that some of my readers have stitched using my patterns, I am hoping to show those in my next post.

 Today I was cutting out the pattern for a new dress I am making so I didn't get much cross stitching done but I have been thinking about my third blog anniversary giveaway gift that I am planning for July, hopefully I can rustle up something that you will all like!

Welcome to all of my new followers and thankyou for all of your comments, they are really appreciated!

Until next time, happy stitching!       



Freebie christmas ornament pattern.

Here is the Christmas ornament freebie I promised in my last post, the stitches around the edge with the straight lines are Algerian eyelets, you can see how to stitch these here 

The centre stitches are rhodes stitches, you can see a tutorial for this stitch  here (thanks ladies for reminding me of the name) I could not work out on my cross stitch designer how best to show it so I have left it blank, you could always put a couple of cross stitches in there to replace it if you cannot see the stitches from the original photo below.

I also don't know why the photo is not clickable, sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't, can anyone help me with this?   

Thankyou ladies

I have bought some lovely patterns and stash and I have started another Little House Needlework design, I will be showing that tomorrow.

Happy stitching!