For those of you who do not know what I am talking about......
"International Hermit and Stitch Weekend takes place every 3rd full weekend of each month, from Friday till Sunday. In our very busy and hectic lives, IHSW is a chance for us to squirrel some time away for ourselves and "Hermit and Stitch." It is a time set aside to take care of us and our love for stitching."
It is hosted by the lovely Joysze from Random Ramblings and you can see who else signed up here.
So, why was it such a great success for me?
Well, I finally finished both of the designs for the round boxes for my Swapaway Gifts! You know the ones, I was having trouble working out what to do? You can read about that here.
I am so thrilled with how they turned out:
Modified Tall Sheep
Shepherd's Bush Designs
Stitched on 28 Ct Country French Linen - Spring Meadow
Using a variety of speciality and DMC threads.
I also found time on Sunday to stitch some more on my Sunday SAL with my dear Linda, Santa's 12 Days of Christmas. Day Nine is one more Sunday away from being finished, I think!
Lastly, I have had some success in the garden, too, as my pansies have started flowering. I just love sweet, little pansies.
So, I hope that your weekend was as productive as mine.
Love to all and stitchy hugs,
32 comments:
Those sheep look marvelous! Good job. Glad your weekend was successful.
LOVE those sheep and the frames that they are in.
You did have a very successful week-end! I love the way you framed the cute sheep! I like pansies too. They have so many pretty colors. Mine survived the winter and are blooming now.
Your sheep boxes are so cute. Well done. Happy Stitching.
The sheep are adorable! Congratulations on such a cute IHSW!
Love the sheep. They look great in the boxes:)
These little sheep are adorable. And what a nice finishing idea.
Day Nine is coming along great.
Ooooo I love those little sheep and the way you finished them :-)
Great progress on your other stitching too, very productive weekend :-)
Oh fantastic! You know I love those colors. ;) I was rather successful myself this weekend also.
Love your little sheep! So cute!!
Very productive! Well done on those lovely finishes :)
Hooray for the sheep! Love how they look in the boxes. Love your Santa progress too! And the pansies -- so pretty!
Ijust love,love love the sheep finishings -so lovely colours and finishing!
Love the sheep finishes!
Love the sheep finishes!
You did a fantastic job at finishing the boxes Kaye. Day 9 looks great but you gotta let me catch up.
Linda
Beautiful stitching! I adore those sheep, they look fantastic in the round boxes. Great job! :D
Congratulations, Kaye, it looks great!
Pansies is so sweet!
Great finishes and progress, and beautiful pansies!
You found the perfect designs for these boxes. They look great.
I worked on Saturday so I took Sunday and Monday as the weekend and got lots done! As you'll see on my blog post today.
Your boxes look wonderful. Also love the colour of your pansies.
What wonderful projects you've done this weekend! I didn't do any stitching, but did get lots of gardening in, planting four new rose bushes. :D
Lovely. Absolutely lovely. Congrats! Don't you think pansies out to smell? They are so pretty I think they deserve an aroma :)
The sheep are absolutely perfect - I'm going to have to join in on that next time, you got so much done! Love your stitching, hon!
Yay, the design worked out great! :D I'm gonna take a wild guess and assume you're quite happy not to frog another design haha.
I just bought so pansies that were on sale. They're such bright and cheery little flowers but I have no idea what I'll do with them. :)
The boxes turned out beautifully!
The boxes came out so CUTE!
Doing a super blog reading catch up! You have been busy Kaye! Love the boxes....beautiful!
Oh.... the knitting .....more delicious eye candy :)
Beautiful stitching. Love the sheep
Great finishes for the boxes! They are perfect!
Wow, what gorgeous finishes! Well done you :o)
Hugs xx
Beautiful stitching and that singer is awesome
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