March Challenge!

It is "reveal day" for the March Monthly Challenge at Jayne's Attic. This month our design was Alphabet Tree, by Blue Ribbon Designs, (a huge Thank you to Belinda for letting us use this retired design).

I made mine into a needleroll using an orphan piece of unlabelled pale blue evenweave and Carries Creations in Irish Kiss, which is lovely mix of fresh springlike greens and looks quite at home in my primroses, don't you think?

There are huge number of finishes in this months challenge, and the album is well worth a look (link in the Group Activities section of the forum at Jayne's Attic).

Can't wait to see what we get for April!

Happy Easter!

No new stitching to show so this is my Easter table decoration.

Hope you all have a lovely Easter, even if the weather isn't supposed to be up to much! I plan to stitch and eat chocolate

Oh Mr Darcy!

I finished "Mr Darcy" a wonderful design by Tanya (The Sampler Girl) yesterday. I stitched it in WDW threads (Pecan, Chestnut, Onyx, and Lancaster Red) on Vintage Cashel.

I altered the portrait a little, stitching it over 1 to give more detail. It still doesn't look too much like the gorgeous Colin Firth, but never mind.

Here are two pictures, one of the sampler, and one of the aforementioned Mr Firth for your delectation and delight ;)

I missed my Blogiversay!

OK, I'm pretty sure thats not how you spell it, but my blog was 1yr old last Sunday and I completely missed it!

Happy Birthday Bloggy!

And Happy Mothers day too!

Also last weekend was reveal time for the monthly challenge at Jayne's Attic. The chart this month was Valentine Heart from Dragonfly Stitches. I stitched mine on 28ct pearlescent white fabric using House of Embroidery shade Fuchsia, and finished it as a "lolipop". Looking forward to finding out what the March challenge will be.

New Designs!

Here are the full photos of my new designs that I teased you with a couple of weeks ago:-

They are, from the top, French Brocade, Knot Garden, Mariner's compass and Waterlily Welcome.

How DD2 went to school this morning..................

.........it was "come as a character from the past" day at school, so this is Blackheart Naomi the fearsome pirate! I think this pirate owes a little more to Johnny Depp than to actual history though, if you look closely you can see the eyeliner and black nail varnish!

The worrying thing is that she would totally go out like that on a normal day if I gave her half a chance ;D

Much hilarity at school yesterday, when the reception class were out in the science garden looking at the frogspawn, and one little moppet asked the teacher why that frog was giving the other frog a piggyback!

This morning's other drama was Spike (bless him) depositing an extreme dead bird under the kitchen table. Ugh! Write out one hundred times:

I love my cat

I love my cat

I love my cat..............

And yet another peek................

Another Happy Dance, another finish and another sneaky peek at a forthcoming release.

All the new designs will be available from 20th February