Time for the Travelling Pattern to travel.....

Well, the Travelling Pattern is finished - amorphous stars and all!

Thanks for all the excellent advice re the stars but despite most of you advising restitching in 221, I have been contrary and stuck with Independence (hmm! I was being Independent! lol!).  Now, to decide how to finish it.....

So, this means that the Travelling Pattern is ready to move on to some other wonderful stitcher.  As well as the design,  the winner of the TP will also receive gifts which spell out FLAG.  I have collected a few things already but still working on them (and what they all are will be a surprise until I announce the winner).

So, the rules to win are:

1. Be a follower of my blog,
2. Have an active blog yourself (so you can pass on the traveling pattern!),
3. Leave a comment on this post.
4. Be willing to add gifts which spell out FLAG when you pass the Travelling Pattern along.

If you would like to play with me, please comment on this post by next Sunday, 21st September.

Previous stitchers of Land of Liberty are:

Sarah from Sarah in Stitches (who started the fun)

Penny from Larkspur Lane

Kaye from Kitten Stitching

So, who will be next?

hugs,

An honest opinion, please.....

.... on my stars for Land of Liberty.  I am not sure about them.  I thought that I would mix it up a little, so instead of using the called for DMC 221, I used Weeks Dye Works Independence, which I have been wanting to use for a while.  But, I am a bit worried that they don't quite look like stars now but a bit like amorphous blobs (I did backstitch them to give them more definition).

Anyway, I would really appreciate your thoughts on my stars.  Thanks everyone.

At the rate my train/plane stitching is going on this piece, I may even be finished by the end of the week, so watch out for a post about passing the Travelling Pattern on, you may be next!

hugs,

Do you want to hear....?

.... all about my jam-packed weekend?

Of course, you do (well, I hope so anyway!).

It started on Friday, when we spent a pleasant evening celebrating our dear friend Terry's birthday by teaching him and my dear friend, Linda, how to play 500.

We had so much fun!

Then on Saturday we (TraderVic, me, and our very dearest friends, Kim and Gino) caught a special, chartered flight with the Richmond Tigers (our footy team) to Adelaide for the first round final game: Tigers vs Port Power (to be held on the Sunday).  Needless to say, the flight was lots of fun with all of the club's famous people on board (not us, though), filming by TV crews and lots of singing of the club theme song - we were on the Tigerland Express!  Hopes were very high!  Richmond had made the finals this year!

Adelaide is a pretty city, with many of the houses made from local sandstone.  This cute beauty salon caught my eye and how cool is this painting on the side of the building?

We stayed in a hotel on North Terrace, just two doors down from where the players were staying and just across the river from the Adelaide Oval.  To say that the atmosphere in the area was electric would be an understatement.  Over 7,000 Tiger fans made the trip by hook or be crook from Melbourne to Adelaide for the game.  A short plane trip for us but an 8 or 9 hour road trip for many others.  It was the largest contingent of fans to every travel interstate for a footy game.

Unfortunately, TraderVic has come down with the flu, so he had to go straight to bed on Sat afternoon but Kim, Gino and I went for a walk along the Torrens River to the Red Ochre cafe to take a gondola ride.  Yes, I did say gondola - it was so beautiful. A calm, warm evening sipping sparkling shiraz - just magic!

As I said, magic!  Did you say the cygnets?  Only 5 or 6 days old, apparently.

Then, it was off to a lovely dinner at Vino's Ristorante, unfortunately, TraderVic was too sick to eat but the rest of us enjoyed a delicious dinner.

On Sunday, it was a relaxing massage for Kim and I in the morning then all the excitement started for the big game!

But alas, the excitement and fun was all in vain.... as the Tigers were thrashed by Port Adelaide!

Oh well, there is always next year as we kept telling each other on the very subdued flight home!

To end on a happier note, I did get some plane stitching done on Land of Liberty (sorry, no time to iron it as it is off to work for me in a minute or two).

Have a great week, everyone,

hugs,

Look what arrived in the mail.....

.... a Travelling Pattern from Penny of Larkspur Lane, which originated with Sarah from Sarah in Stitches.  I will now stitch it and then who knows where it will go next?  Maybe to you?

The TP is Land of Liberty by Bent Creek and as well as the pattern, I was sent gifts which spelt out FLAG.

So, I received:

F = Fabbie         

L = Linen          

A = Accessoriex

G = Glass Ornie

So, I have spent three nights stitching on it so far, here are my progress pics:

It is coming up really well, I think. Thank you so much Penny (and Sarah), I am thrilled to be stitching this and Penny, I love all of my gifts.

So, if you think you might like to be the next lucky stitcher, to stitch this - keep an eye out, as soon as I am finished I will post about it and you will have a chance to enter.

Have a good day, everyone,

hugs,