Showing posts with label Neverending Quest. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Neverending Quest. Show all posts

Friday, 21 September 2018

Stitching! Stitching! Stitching!

Now, I have been promising you some stitching for a few posts now and today is the day!

Here they all - in no particular order....

Here is my FFO on Joyeux Noel, I am very pleased with the bobble effect although it took me about three evenings to sew it on carefully.



During my Neverending Quest to clean out my Girl's Nest, I found these sweet, nearly finished red bird, heart-shaped scissor keeps or possibly Christmas tree ornaments with a yummy chocolate inside.  All I needed to do was do the red blanket stitch to join the front and backs together.




I have also been working on Silent Night by CCN (the fabric is a lot bluer than is shown below)



I have also been working on One Nation by Bygone Stitches, I was doing really well on this but then I realised that all of the white state names are one row wrong - I will need to frog them all!  Oh no!




.... and, of course, I have been stitching on my Antique Rose Sampler, too - this is coming along very nicely.






This one is Alphabet Stitches by Blackberry Lane Designs - this is probably the smallest (apart from the red bird hearts) piece that I have stitched on the past few months.


The Ice Skaters has been progressing at a great rate...



 .... and  a bit of progress has been made on Thirteen Colonies by LHN....


 Overall, I seem to have been fixated on fairly large pieces over these past few months - not sure why, just seems to be what has tickled my fancy.

So, off to find something to stitch from my pile of UFOs for Friday Frolics.



hugs, 

Sunday, 16 September 2018

Look what I just found!

During the Neverending Quest to clean out my Girl's Nest I found this yesterday.....


Boy, was I happy! I had been wondering where it was for quite a while now and, of course, I am looking closely at the Christmas Ornament issues for each of these years. It is so fascinating to see how the designs have changed in style since 2001 to the most recent issue last year. Also to see which designers are still designing now.

I am proposing stitching the designs from each year of the JCS Christmas Ornament Magazine from 2001 to 2010 as one of the Themes for 2019 for the Christmas Ornie SAL.

I am so enjoying looking through all of these magazines - what a treat!

.... and I promise, a stitchy update very soon.

hugs, 


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