5 Mar 2024

‘With Love’ – Modern Folk Embroidery

 When Jacob from Modern Folk Embroidery released this chart I knew exactly how I wanted to stitch it.

This May would have been my mum and dad’s 78th wedding anniversary and this was the perfect design to celebrate that fact.

As mentioned in a previous post, it was also a great opportunity to use up some of the left over Roxy Floss Co threads from previous Holiday Countdowns, so I chose two lovely Purples from last year’s box and a Green from the 2022 box.

My favourite colour combination!


After just 17 day from start to finish, I have completed it.
I also had the foresight to order my frame from Picture Frames Express whilst I was still stitching it, so I was able to get it fully finished as soon as I was done.

Thank you to Caroline at Evertote for putting together this great Sal with Kerry and Jacob.

Yet another fabulous collaboration!!

 

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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With Love – A SALentine’s Celebration

(Collaboration with Evertote, Roxy Floss Co & MFE)

 

Designer -  Jacob deGraaf - Modern Folk Embroidery

Fabric – 36ct Dunes at Dusk – LFA Linens

Threads – Roxy Floss Co

29 Feb 2024

Leap Year Day!!

 As I’m sure you all know, today is a very special day for those born on the 29th February, because they get to celebrate their birthday on the actual date that they were born, an occurrence that only happens once every four years.

So if you are one of the lucky ones ( or unlucky, depending how you look at it) then I wish you a very happy birthday and hope you have had a wonderful day.

And seeing as today is a very special day, of course it deserves a very special new start and I had just the thing sitting in my sewing room, waiting for the right moment.

 ‘My Sewing Box’ , designed by Jeanette Douglas. 

As you would expect from Jeanette, this is a project full of ‘mini’ projects that are crammed packed with pretty designs, specialist stitches and all stitched in beautiful, luscious colours of silks.

I have decided to start with the band sampler.

I’ve also work on ‘Palace of the Winds’ from Jan Hicks, giving it another 6 days of stitching, and almost finishing that big semi-circle near the centre.

The only other thing to report this week is a little bit of haul.

I’ve noticed recently that a few people are stitching the Dimensions Gold Collection Petites ‘Coffee Shoppe’ and as much a love the design, after the fun and games I had stitching ‘A Kiss for Santa’ last year, I said I would never stitch another petite.

So what did I go and do………..

You’ve guessed it, I went and ordered it and ‘Toy Shoppe’ too, so I now have two to stitch, Lol!


So that’s it for February.

I worked on a total of 11 projects over the month,  had 8 new starts, 5 finishes and stitched on all 29 days, so it was a fun packed month. No FFO's though this month.


Spring is just around the corner, hopefully, I’ll see you all next month.

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Palace of the Winds

Designer - Jan Hicks Designs

Fabric – 36ct Evenweave – Light Grey

Threads – Cottage Garden Threads

 

My Sewing Box

Designer – Jeanette Douglas

Fabric – 32ct Zweigart Evenweave – Antique White

Threads – Classic Colorworks Belle Soie, NPI Silk, Gloriana Silk Floss & Rainbow Gallery Splendor

Beads – Mill Hill

 

23 Feb 2024

‘With Love’ – A SALentine’s Celebration

I'm nine days into the ‘With Love' – A SALentine’s Celebration and it's coming along nicely.


I’ve already stitched 2836 stitches (39.68%) so a daily average of aprox.315 stitches.

 

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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With Love – A SALentine’s Celebration

(Collaboration with Evertote, Roxy Floss Co, & Modern Folk Embrodery

 

Designer -  Jacob deGraaf - Modern Folk Embroidery

Fabric – 36ct Dunes at Dusk – LFA Linens

Threads – Roxy Floss Co

21 Feb 2024

‘Classic Christmas Ornament Trio’- Santa - by Sharon Pope.

My second Christmas Ornament for the 12 in 24ornamentstitchalong with Carol from the Stitching Dream Blogspot was started on 13th February

and after five days of stitching it’s done and ready for fully finishing.

Although these little rounds have some quite intense stitching in them, with lots of half stitches in (although I didn't work them because I was stitching on Aida) they are so enjoyable to stitch.  So much so, I went straight on and started the third and final one, which is the Christmas Tree,

The Reindeer, was stitched last year.

Chart - ‘Classic Christmas Ornament Trio’ – Just Cross Stitch, Christmas Ornament Special 2017

Designer - Sharon Pope.

Fabric - 16ct Aida that I tea/coffee dyed.

Threads - Called for DMC threads (where I have them) DMC and Anchor substitutes.

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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20 Feb 2024

A Gathering of Quaker Samplers – The Ackworth Collection from The Cross Stitch Guild – Part 2, 3 and 4

I love how quickly these panels stitch up, once you get into them and although I’m not necessarily stitching them in the order the pages go into the book, I’m working on the colour pairs.

With the first panel already stitched, I decided to stitch it’s ‘red’ partner, the bowl of flowers.

Next I worked on the bird

And then the ‘A Token of Love’ cartouche.

You’ll notice that there is a vertical dividing line of four-sided 

stitch , down the centre, between the panels.  This will be used to join the pages together later, when FFO’ing the book.

 My Quaker Sampler Book Kit

Designer – The Cross Stitch Guild / Ackworth Collection

Fabric – 32ct Belfast Linen – Raw

Threads – 6 stranded cotton

Silk Lining fabric

Happy Crafting!

Sue

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17 Feb 2024

Everyone Love A Stitch-A Long!

After the success of yet another Holiday Countdown, Caroline at Evertote, Kerri from Roxy Floss Co, and Jacob from Modern Folk Embrodery got together and came up with another great Stitch-a-long, ‘With Love,  A SALentine’s Celebration’.

Once again, there were kits to be had, but I decided that on this occasion I would just order the PFD and use some of the Roxy Floss Co threads that were left over from the last two Holiday Countdowns.

When it came to colours I had a pallet in mind, a combination I have loved all my life really.

I used two thread colours from the 2023 Countdown, Royalty Free & Birthstone, and Can’t Kelp It, from the 2022 flosses.

We are aiming to work 250 stitches a day more or less, and here I am two days in.


I’ve also started working on my second monthly Christmas Ornament for the 12 in 24 Ornament Stitch-a-Long , hosted by the lovely Carol from Stitching Dream Blogspot

I hope she doesn’t mind me sharing this wonderful photo.


All I can do is dream of having a beautiful tree like hers someday, but for now, it’s one cross at a time! 

This month I’ve gone back to the 2017 Christmas Ornament Special from Just Cross Stitch again and stitching my second of the  ‘Classic Christmas Ornament Trio’ by Sharon Pope.

I have started the Santa and am stitching from stash, using some of the called for DMC threads if I had them and some DMC and Anchor substitutes. The fabric is a scrap of 16ct Aida that I tea/coffee dyed.

This was the first one that I stitched last year, so just the Christmas Tree to go after this.


Happy Stitching!

Sue

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With Love – A SALentine’s Celebration

(Collaboration with Evertote, Roxy Floss Co & MFE)

Designer -  Jacob de Graaf - Modern Folk Embroidery

Fabric – 36ct Dunes at Dusk – LFA Linens

Threads – Roxy Floss Co

 


 

15 Feb 2024

‘Palace of the Winds’ Wednesdays

Deciding to stitch on Palace of the Winds by Jan Hicks every Wednesday has worked out really well for me so far and I’m getting so much done.

The last time I posted about it was just over two weeks ago, when I was here

Three more days of stitching and I’m now passed the half way mark, at 51.43%, having stitched 12810 stitches.

Just 12098 stitches to go then!

I also cast on a new pair of socks, although I’m not totally happy with the yarn I’m using.

The pattern is ‘Seeing Stripes’ pattern from West Yorkshire Spinners, but I’m not convinced that this Rico, Supeba fair isle 4 ply is actually a self-striping sock yarn.

It reminds me of the fake Fair Isle cones of yarn I used to use on my knitting machine, where the changes in colour looked like multi coloured Fair Isle using just that and a main colour.

Oh well, Ill just keep going and we shall see how they turn out!

 

Happy Crafting!

Sue

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 Palace of the Winds

Designer - Jan Hicks Designs

Fabric – 36ct Evenweave – Light Grey

Threads – Cottage Garden  Threads


Knitting Pattern - ‘Seeing Stripes’ from West Yorkshire Spinners.

Yarn - Rico, Supeba fair isle 4 ply (75% wool - 25% polyamide}