TGIF & Giveaway @ So many quilts, so little time

I think I"m finally getting better!! At least I don't think I'd have to die to get better anymore. I hate the med.s thought. They make my diuretic act over time and I've had to go to de-cafe coffee (yuck) but I need to feel like I'm normal so pretend it's the real stuff.

Now you know I don't quilt but I do love to work with felt. So have a look at this!! It a give away over at So many quilts, so little time.

http://fatesdesigns.blogspot.com/2010/08/another-one-bites-dust-and-little.html



Isn't that the cutest thing you've seen for fall?? If I don't win it I'm going to ask for the pattern. It looks like WDW wool or close enough and I have all those zinc jar tops to use up it just might fit.

Thanks for visiting. Pleaseee leave a message !! I just love 'em.

Warm almost fall Hugs
Shay

Give Away by Lee Albrecht

Look at these beautiful kits from a new too me designer, Lee Albrecht, in Brazil. This is just the best give away I have seen in a long time.

Here is the sign up site. While you are there go look at all her lovely designs. There is a Google Translate on her blog so it is easy to understand her posts.

http://leealbrecht.blogspot.com/2010/09/sorteio-na-primavera-23-de-setembro.html

Lee is a very gifted designer. I am stitching the free design on her blog and have just received the kit for her Beautiful Bag. Hope you enjoy her as much as I do.

Warm Hugs

Shay

Amazing needle work

Jeanine over at Italian Needlework Blog http://italian-needlework.blogspot.com/ has posted the most beautiful needlework and needlelace. She has the link to "I merletti di Antonilla Cantelli" then go to the Gallerie to be amazed by the beautiful needlework.

Happy Stitching
Shay

Ann's Give Away

New Blogger Ann Noble is having a beautiful give away. Check out her blog at http://www.beadlework.com

The dead line is friday Aug 13th so hurry.
Be sure to check out her blovely scissor fobs.
Happy Stitching
Shay

Biscornu for Gillie

Gillie posted that she has received her biscornu in the Please Pass the Biscornu exchange. I is a hardanger on I designed for her with petite blanket stitch, kloster blocks, Algerian eyelets, woven bars with picots and square filets done in light and dark peach on white.

Gillie was pleased with the biscornu and unfortunately I will be dropping out of the exchange group as I have to slow down on my stitching and do some Physical Therapy for my back.

Please leave a comment. I really like hearing from my readers.

Happy Friday

Shay

Mountmellick Lilly progress

I started the blanket stitching on one of the two lilies and soon found it will take longer than the cable stitching used to pad it. Wow I don't feel like I've made much progress. Not to say I'm getting bored this is still exciting that I'm finally making a project instead of just playing around.

Of course I'm still behind but that means I can go look at the real thing to make sure I'm doing it right.

I do have another project I will have to get back to. I took Options in Hardanger last year as a Group Correspondence Course (GCC) with my chapter of the EGA (Embroiders Guild of America).
It's an online chapter "Cyberstitchers" I didn't finish the course or submit the piece but this time I'm going to combine the two pieces and submit them together. So watch for this big, humongous Hardanger piece I'm be pulling out of my UFO some time soon.

Thanks for reading my blog.
Please leave a comment. They mean a lot to me.
Shay

Happy Thursday & Mountmellick SAL

I have decided to stitch the table runner because I have the perfect place for it on a vintage library table in the living room (that we never use). The table sits in front of the picture window with some of my Precious Moments collection and a few mementos from my grandmother.

I have dabbled with Mountmellick embroidery for several years but have never had chance to make sure I was doing the stitches correctly. This is a really privilege to see them done by Yvette and follow along. She and her sister Prue authored Mountmellick Inspired by Nature..


http://vettycreations.com.au/me.html

I purchased it and a kit ….hmm I don’t remember how long ago but never started because I needed more than a book to get started. Now I’m really jazzed with a real SAL.

I received the purchased the design in PDF format, from Yvette on Tuesday, then traced the design and started the chain stitch padding for the lilies that night. I tried to take a picture for the whole project but there was too much shine off the material for it to come out.

Last night I finished the chain stitching and started the blanket stitching but no picture of it yet. Any way I realized at 5:30 am that I started the blanket stitch wrong on the second part of the leaf so I will have some fogging to do when I get home tonight. Oh well I seem to have acquired a resident frog from some where so I’m just learning to live with it.

Even if you don’t want to stitch the design sign up for the mails so you can watch the progress of this lovely project.

http://www.vettycreations.com.au/white-threads


This weekend will be very again so I’ll be indoors stitching most of the time. A little time must be spent on balancing the check book this month. It’s Stitchaholics (cross stitch) Friday night and Sit ‘n Stitch at Fiber Circle (knitting) on Sunday afternoon, good stitching friends and lots of temptation at the Fiber Circle.


Please leave a comment! I’d love to hear from you.

Have a really good Thursday

Shay