Saturday 24 January 2009

January challenge, frogs and bracelets

Its reveal day for the Jayne's Attic January Challenge. The challenge this time was our own choice of free designs from Papillon Creations. I chose "Moonlight Serenade", and stitched it on 28ct Misty Blue fabric using House of Embroidery threads in Verdon, and finished it as an octagonal pinkeep. The other finishes are shown in the album here. Once again, some lovely stitching by everyone involved.


The frogs in the title of this post are not the stitching variety, but the amphibious kind, who have noticed that the weather has warmed up, and become very twitterpated (If you don't know that word, you haven't seen "Bambi"), as evidenced by the fact that, for reasons known only to themselves, they have decided to build a small spawn-replica of The Eden Project in the garden pond. Compare and contrast the following:-















And finally to the bracelets. I just finished making these "Bella's Bracelets" for the girls (I had to use tibetan silver wolves as I couldn't find any wooden ones), they will be the envy of every other teenage vampire groupie in Cornwall ;D

11 comments:

Daffycat said...

Beautiful pinkeep, Christine. I love the shape, so pretty!

The girls will enjoy those bracelets!

Julie said...

Lovely bracelets, and nice pinkeep, everyone did so well again this month, lots of nice finishes.
I wish i was 'twitterpated' its too cold here LOL

Lisa said...

Love the pinkeep and the bracelets!

Jacky said...

Lovely work - the pinkeep is really pretty

Mylene said...

The bracelets looks great, i am sure the girls will love it.

wow! i love how you finish the challenge. Well done!

mainely stitching said...

Wow, those frogs have been BUSY! LOL. And what a gorgeous pinkeep!

Dani - tkdchick said...

Christine beautiful pinkeep!

I'm sure your girls just loved thier "Bella Bracelets!"

Karan said...

Gorgeous pinkeep - lovely colour thread. The bracelets look amazing too - lucky girls! :0)
Wow, those froggies are going for broke! LOL

Sally said...

Your pinkeep is gorgeous Christine! Love those bracelets too.

Stitchingranny said...

Love the new finish and the bracelets Christine.

I know your frogspawn is always well ahead of ours but this must be early even for you.

Carol R said...

Great pinkeep. I like the bracelets too!