I finally finished something! WOW!

Got the Golden Meadow hardanger cushion sewn up actually into a cushion cover proper and here it is:

Just need to send it off to my friend now.=)

I think that one of the reasons that I've been so sluggish with my stitching of late is that I've had so many things on the go and nothing completed for a while that I've lost my umph. Hopefully this will help on the motivation front and I plan to get mum's bookmark sewn up next. Watch this space.....

Thread Fetish!

Here are some of my latest stash buys:



The Helen M Stevens' Pipers silk Project Palette plus the Black & White Essentials pack, (both colours in regular and very fine guage), several packs of beads and trimmings from Mill Hill and some goldwork threads which cames from Dinsdales Embroideries last week. Excellent service there and good value stuff too. I paid about 3 times as much from a shop for some Bright Check Purl stuff last time! In future, I go to Dinsdales and recommend them highly to anyone wanting goldwork threads, (which they do in gold, silver and copper shades), as well as other types of threads.

Thanks Mylene, things are OK. Life is well, umm, interesting right now!!!!! I'll be fine though and am keeping cheerful as always. Well, too cheerful!!!!!=)=(

More from the archives

I still haven't got anything new done or progressed! Dunno what's up with me of late, but it coudl have something to do with having physically over-done it so much that I've been to tired to even sit up for long over the past few days. Not too much brighter today, but I'll live.=)

So, here are some more older pieces of work, a wedding sampler:

And a couple of baptism cards:

"And here we are again for 'Show and Tell'"

Feel like Sally Brown doing this! That's Charlie Brown's lil' sister, btw!! Love 'Peanuts'.=)

So, a few more older finishes before I get stuck into finishing off all the WIPs and WTBSUs ('waiting to be sewn up's):

Here's the Victoria Sampler 'Heart to Heart' friendship sampler design I adapted a bit and made into an anniversary bellpull, (with a wonky bottom, rats!), and the largest hardanger card I ever stitched, which is about A4 sized!!

I just ordered some goldwork threads for my friend's wedding present, a 'Welcome' sign for their porch done in goldwork with a silk-shaded flower. Yup, real silk too.=)

Some stitchy photos....

... for a change! Getting back on topic now!=) Here's the current status on the Orange Blossom needlecase:



And here are the things I bought at the Stitch and Creative Crafts Show in Manchester last Friday:

Armes Mäusle!!!

That's what my husband calls me when I'm feeling low or poorly, (so I hear it a lot!!!!). It means 'poor little mouse' in his native south German dialect, (Schwabisch). I knew what he would say as soon as I showed him the half done version of the latest work of art ......!!!=) Here's the completed piece, a pastel painting of a little mouse. I'm learning to be quite pleased with him!!=)

Art attack!

No stitching showcase photos today, but one of my very beginner-ish pastel paintings instead. I did this at art class on Monday night in half an hour. The teacher had given me a photo of Venice to copy, but I just wasn't in the mood for that, so I found a textbook, (we work in a science lab!), and came across the ideal photo: Igneous rock formation, (aka volcanic eruption).


I think it portrays my feelings at the moment just about as perfectly as one could wish for! (Yes, I know, it's rubbish....)