Just a Little Bit

I only got a little bit done on The Quiltmaker this time round. I didnt do too badly yesterday but today I had Ozzie for the day and hes much more fun than stitching so there was only about a dozen stitches went in this morning. Instead I helped to Ice Gingerbread men, and then we went into town to take some books to the charity shop and see what we could find which just happened to be a couple of water pistols for bathtime. This afternoon I got peace while he went out to the greenhouse to plant seeds with Grandpa, and what did I do - fell asleep in the chair lol.

This weekend I am hoping to get the challenge done and also a couple of other small and secret bits. Having said that we are off to York for the day tomorrow - I have heard about The Viking Loom so I plan on a visit there. If you know of any other good places do let me know.

Hope everyone has a happy weekend with lots of stitching time. Thank you once again for all your comments they mean so much to me - bless you all.

xx

Part 5 And A Smile Maker

I was not feeling too good yesterday, I think this dreadful weather is getting too me and I have been really headachey over the last few days. I did my ivy leaf first thing and then went into town but by the time I got back I really did not feel up to stitching so QM stayed in the box.

Feeling a little better last night I decided I would just have a go at Gigi (I had already made a start and done half of it a wee while ag0). The result was a finish for part 5 so that was pleasing.


There were a couple of nice things on the doormat when I got back from town however. First a little pink package - I was not expecting anything - and it was my June DD silks arriving early so that was nice and made me smile.

The biggest smile however came when I opened a small envelope from Sally to find she had RAK me with the beautiful Christmas Candle Chart from The Cat's Whiskers. I had admired this when I saw it on her blog and bless her she just knew it was my sort of thing. So BIG BIG thank you Sally, I am still smiling from ear to ear.

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Trading

I have been updating my webshots and there is now a link in my sidebar. I have also included my Wish List and My Trade album within the main webshots album now.

On the subject of trading I wonder if anyone has a couple of magazines they would like to trade. I am looking for the Family Tree chart that was included in issue 127 and 128 of the UK World Of Cross Stitching magazine.

If anyone is interested my contact is also in the sidebar.

All Behind

With the bank holiday I seem to have lost track of time this week. Today I was catching up on my Monday Sal as I got no stitching done yesterday, and I missed doing my leaf today too (oh Mr Stick please cover your ears lol). Never mind I will soon catch up and the ivy is definitely first thing on the stand in the morning.

I have still not quite finished the first motif on "I Still Do" but there is more work in these motifs than I had thought, and I am happy enough with what I have achieved. I have not heard from Dawn and I know she is finding the computer too much for her at the moment, but she was stitching so I am just hoping that she has made a start on hers too.

Tomorrow I will be back to my rota and it should be Elegance - Amelia. Last time round I finished Charlotte and Amelia was supposed to take her place but as she is a new start I am going to postpone her for a few weeks. I will therefore be moving on to The Quilt Maker tomorrow. I hope to stick with her for what is left of this week, but we will see as I have a love hate thing with this piece. I know I shall love it when it is finished and I still love the project but for some reason I dont actually enjoy stitching on her very much. I think it was all that blue on her dress that I found so tiresome. Anyway I will see how it goes and it I am not enjoying it I will just move on to Taj.

If I have not visited your blog in the last week I do apologise. I get behind for a few days and its a nightmare trying to catch up. I hate to visit and not leave a comment if possible and it just takes so long, so please bare with me.

Thanks to all those who continue to visit me and especially those lovely people who take the time to leave a comment, it means so much and makes writing this all worth while.

xx

Round The Bend

Hurray - I am now round the bend - probably in more ways than one I can hear you thinking :o) . What I mean is I am now on the corner leaf for the ivy border and have actually gone round the corner and have started on the downward trail. I am amazed how quickly I seem to have reached the corner just by doing one little leaf each day. I will soon be moving down the side and if I get fed up now I will not feel so guilty if I want to do a flower to break the monotony. The one leaf a day has been all I have managed on the stitching front for the last few days, and mostly that has been done in the evening.

We didnt move from the house yesterday as the weather was awful, but the day before we went to Carsington Waters. It was lovely and sunny but there was an icy cold wind which was really strong and rather spoilt it. I have never seen the water with waves on it before lol. Anyway here is a picture of Carsington - though not a very good one, it was not the day for standing about taking pictures.We are off to Stapley Water Gardens today and if you go to the link and click on Palms Tropical Oasis you will see what we are up to.

Happy Stitching

xx

Green & Cream

Its very hard to tell from the picture but there is an apex to the house in that gap at the top :o) .

What with this and the Ivy leaf I have been doing each morning I feel like its been months since I have seen anything apart from green and cream. The picture should be clickable so you might get a better idea with that. I can hardle belief it but the last time I had this piece out was on the 3rd of July last year and this is where I left it at that point so I am quite pleased that the outside border is now complete. Hopefully it will not be so long until this one is out again, now I have really got back into the rota. One or two people have remarked on not knowing what hardanger house was and all I can really tell you is that it is one of a set of 5 buildings I have. There are two houses, two shops (a toy shop and a florist) and a church. The church was the first on I did and I finished that at the beginning of last year. These pieces are all stitched in two layers


the top layer being the outer part of the building with the hardanger windows cut out and the bottom layer contains the view from inside. This is the church I did to give you some idea.

Hope you all have a brilliant bank holiday weekend with lots of stitching and sunshine.

Thank you once again for all your lovely comments, you make me smile everyday.

xx

A New Start and A Leaf

This is the start of my SAL with Dawn.



It is Ink Circles - I Still Do and I am stitching in on 36 ct Edinburgh Linen Flax, using Carries Creations Heart on Fire. I am quite pleased with the amount I got done because I had completely forgotton that yestersay was my post op check up at the hospital. So no stitching for me during the afternoon and no evening stitching on this one as I am using 36 count - I know thats not fine for some of you but for me it is super fine and I need good daylight and my magnifier to see it. I hope Dawn was up to stitching on hers too and I look forward to seeing a progress picture from her.



This morning I have stitched an Ivy leaf - how exciting - well my Garden Alphabet has a border of them all round it and I find them really boring to stitch so I have been naughty and not done them. Now I have quite a number to stitch across the top and down each side before I can move down to the next line of Letters and Flowers (the interesting bits). Anyway I decided that if I had a UFO day and stitched nothing but Ivy leaves I would end up with the men in white coats coming to take me away ha ha. Therefore I am going to stitch a leaf each morning - I have about 14 or 15 at least to do so that will be my first job each day for the next couple of weeks. Hopefully this way it will not seem quite the task it is looking to be at the moment.



Right I am off to find my Hardanger House, I know there is not much done on that so will see if I can add a little more.



Happy Stitching to you all