May Challenge, a Gift, and Some Bags

Its reveal day for the May Challenge at Stitch and Stash, and this time we stitched "Tulip Time" from Primitive Betty's.
I made mine into a large pinkeep with a band of vintage braid at the bottom to hold a pair of scissors.

Check out the other finishes in the album here. As usual there are some beauties

I've heard from Sally that she has recieved the blogoversary gift I sent her, so I can show that now, a tiny sewing pocket and scissor fob. (Keep your eye out for more pictures and the charts for these as part of a new design coming soon)

And finally, both my girls are of the " you can never have too many bags or shoes" school of thought, (can't imagine where they get it from) so I tend to make a lot of bags, and since I was inspired to new baggy ideas by a beautiful cushion I saw on Su's blog this morning, Su asked if I could post a picture of some of the bags I've made in the past. I'll be sure and post a picture of the new ones when they're done.

Sun, Sea and Strawberries

Today in Port Quinn and St Endellion:-

Sea

Sunbathing

Yellow Flags

Dragonflies

and Strawberries!

Birds and Bluebells and Birthdays

Hello, poor neglected little blog! Life has been a bit hectic round here lately, so no stitching to show, though I have a "nearly finish", which is a new design I created for Eloise's birthday. The stitching is finished, I just need to get it written up and photographed so I might have something to show you by next week. In case you are wondering, she was 16 last week, which is actually pretty scary, so heres a picture of her when she was much younger...

Here are some bluebells I saw in the Valency Valley last weekend, and some lovely little birds who have the very boring name of grey wagtails. They deserve something much nicer don't you think? Sorry its a bit grainy I had to use a lot of zoom

A Regal Reveal

Today is Reveal Day for the Stitch and Stash Monthly Challenge. This month we chose Lizzie*Kate's Hello Spring. The album can be found here. I chose to finish mine as a long pincushion, mostly because I wanted an excuse to use some of this wonderful funky lime pompom trimming. Yes, this is "The Trimming that Taste Forgot", I love it, there is a very real danger that I will stitch it to anything that sits still for long enough...

And why "regal" you are wondering as you look at my decidedly un-regal pincushion, well we just found out that Naomi will be Carnival Queen for 2010/11. She is as excited as a dog with two tails! Expect LOTS of pictures (be afraid, be very afraid...)

Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

Not Naomi apparently, at least not when the wolf looks like this:-

Hmmmm. Can't blame her really...

Anyway you might remember a while ago I made her this little ornament using a complimentary pattern from Paulette's blog.



Well it was one of her friends' birthday last week, and this particular friend is another avid member of "Team Jacob" so Naomi had me make another ornament for her, and here it is: Jacob Ornament Mark II.




I put a little silver apple charm and a wolf on it


I hope her friend likes it

An exchange and some undead things

No, I haven't dropped off the face of the planet, we've just been busy, so I'm late posting this but there was an April Fool's exchange at Stitch and Stash and this is the wonderful parcel I recieved from Angie (no blog as far as I know).

Look at all these lovely threads and fabrics! It took me ages to spot the "fool". Hint: look at the DMC in the bottom right corner...

Eloise was admiring a keyring with a strange little plushie creature on it yesterday. Anyway to cut a long story short I retro-engineered it and I've come up with these little zombie kitties (because even the undead need love).

I only meant to make a couple, but they kind of got away from me. My favourite is the little vampire one, but then I've got a bit of a soft spot for vampires (the brooding sort, not the sparkly ones).

Reveal Day

Its reveal day for the Stitch and Stash Monthly Challenge. This time we chose the design "Be True" from Plum Street Samplers. Mine is stitched on 36ct cream linen and finished as a pinkeep/hanging ornament, I trimmed it with a ready pleated cream ribbon with a narrow black ribbon over, and green and purple pins. The album of finishes is here.

I've been lucky enough to recieve two blog awards in the last week or two, and I'd like to say thank you very much to the ladies who nominated me. I hope you don't mind though if I don't pass them on to named individuals, because I can never choose just a few blogs, I love so many, for so many different reasons. I'll just say if I read/comment on your blog consider yourself nominated.