Great free designs from Jardin Prive ....

Hi everyone,

I found a great stash of free designs from Jardin Prive (a fabulous French designer) when I was checking out Valma's blog (please visit her to see her beautiful finish of one of the designs) - you can check them out here.

Thought you might be interested.

hugs,

P.S. Don't forget to enter in the draw to be the next person to stitch a Travelling Pattern, you can read all about it and enter on this post here.

Weekend Roundup....

This weekend I:

1. Helped my niece choose a dress for her first formal

     2.  Excercised hard at Water Aerobics (I hadn't been for a week and boy, did I miss it!)

     3. Had a nice catch up with DS2 (she made a quick and easy chicken and corn soup for our lunch - yum!)

     4.  Caught up on lots of TV shows recorded on my Foxtel IQ and on lots of stitching whilst TraderVic, DS1, DD and DS2 were at the footy on Saturday night.

     5. Started packing for my business trip to Qld

     6.  Went to a great 60th birthday party for Sunday lunch (the catering was organic and sustainable = delicious) and caught up with lots of people

     7.  Had lots of great cuddling time with Furio - natch!

     8.  Made home-made hommus - yum! yum! yum!  

     9.  .... and, of course, squeezed in as much stitching as I could!!!!!!!

How was all of your weekends?

Now, of course, here are some pics....

Cuddles with Furio:

Milo guarding some more washing!!!!!

A new start for the Halloween Ornament SAL 2013.  This is actually next month's stitch - the choice being Mummies or tombstones.  (No, I haven't finished May's stitch yet - don't ask!!!)

The design is called Halloween Alley from "Angelic Stitches by Velda".  It is another freebie from here.  The fabbie is actually quite a deep denim blue but the flash on the camera has washed it out.  ...and yes, I am using WDW Fiesta for the moon again - just loving that floss!  Altogether I am just using colours that go with the fabbie rather than the suggested floss colours.

... and lastly, still working on Day 3 of Santa's 12 Days of Christmas which is my Sunday SAL with Debbie and Linda.

Well, have a good week everyone and don't forget that during the week I will be MIA, see this post here if you want to know more.

 

hugs,

Halloween Ornament SAL update

.... I have been having so much fun stitching this free design from Barbara Ana (just scroll down the page a little) for my May Halloween Ornament for the SAL.  Actually this website - Cyberstitch.com/free_patterns -  is a virtual cornucopia of wonderful free designs by some wonderful designers - well worth checking out.

I now have almost two houses and a pussy cat (looking a bit like a scaredy cat).  The moon is about halfway done now, too.

hugs,

April Finish for the Christmas Ornament SAL 2013

Hi everyone,

Here is the post for my latest Christmas Ornament SAL 2013 finish:

Well, I didn't end up stitching the Joan Elliott Christmas tree which I thought that I had initially planned to stitch.  I got caught up in all sorts of other stitching and then I saw this sweet tree which Katie finished - see her blog post here - I downloaded the free pattern from here. Quickly chose some lovely linen from my stash and used Cottage Garden Threads "Snapdragon", some gold beads and a pretty green wooden frame  - all from my stash - and in ONE DAY( a record for me) I had my April ornie finished!

Thanks for the inspiration, Katie!

Now, to think about next month's choice - OWN choice - wow!  Where to start?

hugs, Kaye

Cross Stitch Giveaway

Hi everyone,

You might be interested in trying out for this competition, it is from a new online craft store.

"OUR FIRST GIVEAWAY!!!!!!!

Happy Independence Day to all our USA readers!

We would like to celebrate this wonderful holiday by having OUR FIRST GIVEAWAY….. Yipee!!!

We racked our brains thinking what would be our perfect first giveaway… it had to be HOT, it had to be NEW, it had to be a QUICK STITCH and if it were a LIMITED EDITION that would be great…. We thought and thought and here it is:

~~LIZZIE * KATE “LIFE’S A BEACH” LIMITED KIT ~~

Giveaway includes chart, 2 buttons, fabric & shipping

Open to all readers of this blog except for family members or employees of The Stitcher’s Market (we have no employees). No information given on this site or any of our other sites will be sold to anyone.  We value  and respect your privacy. 

Here is the link:  http://thestitchersmarket.blogspot.com

Bye for now, Kaye xoxoxo