This is a wee one that I thoroughly enjoyed stitching. It’s a Carriage House Samplings design – Mr & Mrs Abbott & Daughters. I made a few changes – a blue/grey fabric and a couple of changes to the thread…
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A Finish! Happy Dancing!
Hi Stitching Friends 🙂 2012 has been a very patchy year in terms of my stitching plans, so I am really really pleased to present a major stitching finish, Pear Orchard Farm by Carriage House Samplings. I thoroughly enjoyed stitching this…
Stitching Progress
Untitled, a photo by Crossed Yarns on Flickr. Hope you’re all enjoying a fantastic Easter Break. Weather in Perth has been great these past few days, and we spent most of yesterday cleaning out our shed for the household pick-up coming…
Tagged with: Carriage House Samplings, Pear Orchard Farm, Primitive Hare - Thank You Isabella, Samplers
Posted in Cross stitch, Finished pieces, pincushions
Posted in Cross stitch, Finished pieces, pincushions
Happy New Year!
Wishing you all a year of peace in 2012 and many contented hours of stitching and crafting. Things spun a little out of control in December. Work and tidying up the house/yard in preparation for Christmas guests took all my…
Tagged with: Birds Of A Feather, Carriage House Samplings, Drawn Thread, Goode Huswife, La-D-Da, Scissor Fobs
Posted in Cross stitch, Finished pieces, Samplers
Posted in Cross stitch, Finished pieces, Samplers
Spring Roses
We’ve been enjoying more temperate spring weather in Perth recently than in the last few years, though temperatures are expected to reach 35 deg Celcius tomorrow. My roses have enjoyed the early rain and are looking really fantastic. Thought I’d…
Happy Spring!
We’ve had a quite a bit of welcome rain to usher spring in this year, which I hope has broken the drought. It’s been a very mild winter and I’m hoping summer this year is not going to be another…
Tagged with: Carriage House Samplings
Posted in Cross stitch, Finished pieces, La-D-Da, Little House Needleworks
Posted in Cross stitch, Finished pieces, La-D-Da, Little House Needleworks
A Finish, a WIP and a New Start
I promised to show you the second of my latest finishes: The Bird Tree, Carriage House Samplings is one of the design on my list of 2011 stitching plans. I started this one sometime last year with the prescribed threads…
Framing & Finishing
I’m working part-time until the end of February, but still have a full-time workload 😦 so work is a bit of a frenzy right now. Anyone know how to manage that? On the stitching front, slow and steady is the…
New Year, New Start
In keeping with a tradition some stitchers have, I started a new design to mark the new year. I decided on a design by The Drawn Thread, one of my all time favourite designers. Morning Glory, Drawn Thread Fabric –…
Tagged with: Birds Of A Feather, Carriage House Samplings, Drawn Thread
Posted in Cross stitch, Samplers
Posted in Cross stitch, Samplers
Stashing and Stitching News
Monday 1 March! What happened to February? As my freezing friends in the northern hemisphere look forward to spring, we continue to swelter in 37-42 deg celcius over the last 10 days or so. Yesterday they announced that this is the hottest ever…
Tagged with: Carriage House Samplings, Drawn Thread, Goode Huswife, Scissor Fobs
Posted in Samplers, Wishlist
Posted in Samplers, Wishlist
A certified cross stitch addict who is mad about samplers and loves working with hand-dyed fabric, variegated threads and embellishments. Stitching keeps me sane.
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