SAL Finish

I managed to finish my Friday evening SAL with Michelle and loved every single stitch..

I had already bought the frame, I found it in a charity shop a while ago and I thought the colour was perfect…I need to attach a hanger on the back so I can hang it on my sampler wall…as it only has a stand.

Blackbird Designs – Ann’s Sewing Tray from A Schoolgirl’s Work Book

32 count Belfast Linen – Tea dyed by me

Recommended GAST and Crescent Colour threads

I personalised the sampler by adding my own initials and amending the year to 2012.

It is my friend’s birthday this weekend and she is having a party on Saturday evening with karaoke and disco…woohoo!! We have all clubbed together to get her a load of vouchers as a present, but I wanted to make her something small, she has just recently got into sewing and her husband has bought her a sewing machine and she treated herself to a Cath Kidston sewing box so I decided to make these for her…a felt pin pillow and needlecase (not a good photo due to the sun and shadows!)

I am finally getting rid of my cold, so feeling much better…thank goodness!

Thanks for stopping by today

Hugs & Stitches

A Quick Hello & A Winner

Wow I’m not really quite sure how I have made it through this past week, we have had a 5 day sickness bug in the house…without going into detail as one of us stopped another started with it….it has been bloody awful, I haven’t eaten since Wednesday :0(, plus to top it all I now have an awful cold….anyway…things can only get better now!

Consequently nothing has been achieved this week apart from a small amount of stitching on my Friday evening SAL with Michelle, here is my progress on this

A noisy start to Mother’s Day today, we were awoken by both smoke alarms going off at around 7am, a panicky half asleep run-around…..no smoke…no fire….so a phone call to emergency repairs…yes on a Sunday morning at 7am….didn’t they just love me….anyway after 2 hours of high pitched shrill…an electrician arrived and in precisely 5 minutes saved my sanity by replacing both of them…lol…so after all the early morning excitement we had a quiet day at home…the kids did get me this though (with a little help from Grandma)

I did my 400th post giveaway drawing last night……Martha picked a name from the basket…

and the winner is………..

well done Fiona, I will be emailing you shortly….!

Oh and finally I received my mark back from my last assignment…I received my highest mark so far…10 marks better than my last one so I was thrilled…!

Well I have ordered a takeaway…my first real food….so better go and enjoy it!

Thanks for visiting my blog today!

Hugs & Stitches

Suffolk Puffs and Other Stuff!

The weekend just flew by, with not too much achieved, I managed a little amount of study on Saturday afternoon, I’m now onto the next chapter….ancient medicine! I’m awaiting the scores back from my last assignment on Benin, they should be in any day now….finger’s crossed!

I needed a bag to carry my textbooks to my tutorials, but funds are limited at the present time so I remembered I had a free Cath Kidston Canvas Tote which came with her Make book, so I set to making some Suffolk puffs yesterday and attached them to the bag…and here is what I can proudly carry my books to classes in now…

I made quite a few surplus puffs, so I added a brooch pin to the back of this one for little miss….she thinks “its great”!

I have knitted 3 more dish/wash cloths…

only a small amount of stitching progress from my Friday SAL with Michelle…

I have been adding goodies to my 400 post mystery giveaway…if you haven’t entered yet please see here…I wonder what’s inside the box??

I have added a few chart booklets to my sale/trade page…if you wish to take a look!

Off to do some reading about Ancient Greek Medicine…wish me luck!

Hugs & Stitches

Don’t Faint…..Back Again and a Giveaway!

I know two posts in two days….scary eh…lol!

Mouse has let me know that my piece has arrived at the mouse house and Mouse’s piece to me arrived this morning also…this is what Mouse stitched for me, it’s a Lizzie*Kate design, stitched in GAST and Anchor threads, isn’t it pretty, it brightened up my day!

and here is what I stitched for Mouse..

Bent Creek – Spring House

Fabric: 28c misc. natural evenweave

Threads: WDW & DMC as charted

Michelle and I made a start on our BBD SAL yesterday evening…I still had a headache so didn’t stitch too much, but wanted to get the first few stitches in it…here’s my progress..

My parents have very kindly taken the children for the afternoon so I can get a bit of rest….yes I could make the most of the childfree time and do some studying, but I have decided to put my feet up in front of the TV instead and do some knitting!

I noticed that this is my 400th blog post so as a celebration I will have a little mystery giveaway….I haven’t decided what the prize will be yet…hence the mystery!

The giveaway is open to all my followers and regular commenters (UK & Overseas), if you would like to be entered please leave a comment on this post only with your email address too, I will make the drawing on 17th March 2012 at 7pm GMT.

THIS GIVEAWAY HAS NOW CLOSED

Well I better go and get them there feet up and the needles clacking!

Enjoy your weekend whatever you do!

Hugs & Stitches