Feather Stitching

Beading, Cross Stitch, Gifts TO BE FIXED, scissor fobs, threads

HUGE mail day coming up! and a Giveaway

26 September, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

I don’t know what has been wrong with me this last year – I’ve been exceptionally terrible at fulfilling promises, and have a HUGE pile of items and gifts that need to be posted to people – I have a massive desire to get rid of the backlog, as it is cluttering my brain (not to mention my bedroom!), so I’ve been making a large effort today to get a few things parcelled up ready to go into the mail next weekend.

Along with that, I’ve realised that I will never stitch with the following threads – I apologise to the kind-hearted soul who sent me these as part of a “summer” theme exchange years ago, but I’m just not a pastels girl, and I just can’t see me using them. To that end, I have a card already filled out, and the threads are sitting in an envelope, ready to join the rest of the pile to be posted out next Saturday morning (the only chance I can usually get to the Post Office) – and I’m offering a prize draw for these to go to a more fitting home.

Soooooo, if anyone would like these threads, please leave a comment on this post only stating that you would like to go into the draw (if there is more than one comment – if only one person enters then they get the threads automatically). The closing date is this coming Thursday 1 October – that way I can draw the name out of the proverbial hat on Friday morning and it will give me chance to chase a mailing address on the Friday if I don’t already have it, so I can meet my mailing deadline.

As for the other parcels, there are a number of threads and scissor fobs heading around the world on Saturday … here is the only one I can show you so far, as I’m pretty sure Karen doesn’t read my blog. I just had to choose a dragonfly charm for her fob in honour of her old shop name of Dragonfly Dreams – I made this one this morning just in time to get in the mail today, along with the Lizzie*Kate pinkeep from a few blog posts ago 😀

This one has gone to Karen at The Stitching Post

I’ll post piccies of the others that have been posted out once I hear that they’ve been received … I don’t want to spoil the surprise in the meantime.

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Photo Hunt – Twisted

26 September, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

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This week’s theme is ”Twisted” and this rope looks pretty twisted to me! 😀

Beading, Gifts TO BE FIXED, Home & Family TO BE FIXED

First fob gift received

23 September, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

I just heard word that Dawn received the fob I recently sent her – this is the first fob to be posted on to my blogging friends, and I’m so glad she likes it 🙂

Apologies for the poor quality, but I’ve mislaid my digital camera, so it had to go on the scanner before it went into the post!

Still no stitching done here, so no stitchy updates to offer you – at the moment I’m spending all my spare time trying to set up a new computer (HP Desktop), and it’s driving me totally NUTS!!! Fun things like CD programs that no longer want to upload, including Microsoft Office 2007 (after I found the ever-elusive disks!!) … and of course then there’s the fun part of downloading other files and copying existing files from the laptop and hard drive … I think it’s going to be a long, long road … but then again, it’s a great journey and the end destination is going to be awesome!! 😀

Cross Stitch, Rotation

Rotation Alert

21 September, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

Thanks to a Yahoo group I belong to, and a great discussion thread, I’ve become very very keen to get my rotation back underway again – I tried to do this earlier in the year and continued illness kept putting things on the backburner … now I’m all fired up to start it up once again, and have worked out the following rotation for now. The first project in the list is the current project to be worked on, with the following couple of projects next in line to be stitched (subject to changing my mind on a whim…):

Focus Piece
– Boo Club by Lizzie*Kate
– Egyptian Garden Mandala by Chatelaine
– English Garden Sampler by Teresa Wentzler
Medium to Large
– Acorn Needlebook by Periwinkle Promises
– Summer Snapperland by Bent Creek
– Halloween Fairy by Mirabilia
WIPs & UFOs
– Love & Affection by JBW Designs
– Wildflowers Needleroll by The Sweetheart Tree
– Cottage Etui by CA Wells
Focus Piece – Boo Club
Small to Medium
– Boo! Scissors Keeper & Purse by The Drawn Thread
– Winter in the Square by Just Nan
– Mermaid Heart by Just Nan
Large & BAPs
– Enchanted Mermaid by Mirabilia
– Golden Garden Sweet Bag by Forget-Me-Nots in Stitches
– Bluebeard’s Princess by Mirabilia
Focus Piece – Boo Club
Christmas Ornaments & Freebies
Finishing – Trying to whittle down a pile of finished-unfinished objects … will be great to see them made into their final shapes!
Free Choice – whatever takes the urge at the time, but at this stage the following are screaming the loudest:
– Ladybug Ladybug by LHN
– Ghastly Ghostly Ghouls by Just Nan
– Dragonfly Scissor Purse by Just Nan
– Is it Too Late? by Lizzie*Kate
– Quaker Flowers emery by Anita

Rightio, now I’m off to find all the charts, threads and fabrics, and make sure I have enough scrollbars etc for them all, then they can get organised in my stitching tub ready to start that rotation! I’m just waiting until the end of this week so I can get my Quaker Round Robin out of the way (should be arriving any day now, hopefully), then it’s full steam ahead! I want to get the Quaker finished as soon as it arrives, so it can be shipped straight off home to it’s Mum without waiting for the official posting date 😀

Oh shoot, I just remembered I have a couple of pieces that I “need” to finish first … hmmm, me thinks I might just have to start my rotation with the “Free Choice” slot and add those into the mix first …! 😛

Chatelaine, Cross Stitch, Finishes, Stitching Leporello

Happy Dance

20 September, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

Yippee, I just put the final stitches into Chatelaine’s Stitching Leporello!! (Sorry, the colours are dreadful in this photo!)

I shouldn’t get too cocky yet, though, as I still have the actual “finishing” to go yet! 😉

The only thing I did change in the above piece is the style of alphabet used for my initials above – unfortunately Martina’s chosen alphabet just didn’t appeal to me, so I found something a lot simpler to use instead – and I opted not to do the initials over-one, mainly because I’m not a huge fan of over-one stitching with variegated thread … but I think it worked out OK anyway 😀

Here are all the pieces together in one place (sorry, some pieces are a bit ‘cut-off’ due to the shape):

Birds, Photo Hunt, PhotoHunt

Photo Hunt – Upside-Down

19 September, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

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This week’s theme is ”Upside-Down” and these photos are my choices for the week …

Finishing, Stitching Smalls, Wishlist

Pinkeep Finish & Eye Candy

13 September, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

I don’t think I’ve ever posted a photo of this finished pinkeep – this is one I’ve finished as a model for Karen to use at her shop, which has been sitting around for months before finally being placed in a bubble envelope today ready to be posted to her:

“Life’s a Stitch” by Lizzie*Kate

Also, I’m not sure if you’ve seen the following designs, but I personally think they’re all wonderful 🙂

My Lady’s Quaker by Jardine Prive; Amber Ocean Lights by Chatelaine

Afraid of the Dark; and Black Cats & Flying Bats by Blue Ribbon Designs

Born to Stitch by Glory Bee; Hearts & Flowers Casalguidi Needlebook by Half Moon Handwerks

Peacocks Rule by Milady’s Needle; Spirit of Vierlande by Vierlande Samplers

Cross Stitch, Finishes, Round Robins

Barbara’s Round Robin to date

12 September, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

Unfortunately I haven’t had much stitching time over the last few weeks, so my round robin has gone into the mail for this round a few days late – but here are my finished sections for this round, along with how Barbara’s piece looks so far:

Only one more final round to stitch, then they all return home to their owners again, and we have the task of putting them all together. I’ve really enjoyed seeing everyone’s choices of threads and linen, and they all look so very different – can’t wait to see them all finished! 😀

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Photo Hunt – Orange & Electric

12 September, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

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This week’s theme is ”Electric” and here are my choices for this week.

Blackpool lights – print photo scan

Arthur’s Seat, Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia

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Last week’s theme was ”Orange” … not “Curved” as I originally posted!! It appears I stuffed up last week’s Photo Hunt, as I accidentally published a post meant for December 5 instead of September 5!!! So here are some choices for last week’s theme of Orange:

Sunset at Oia, Santorini, Greece

Carp in the Chinese Friendship Gardens, Sydney, Australia

Queensland, Travel

Feathered Friends in Queensland

3 September, 200925 February, 2012 Anne S

Here are a few more shots of friends of the feathered variety that we met while on holiday:

And here are a couple of shots of the beach/ocean in and around Port Douglas:

And a couple of views of the scenery along the way:

On the left is Barron Falls at Kuranda
On the right from the top: Ant hill in the countryside; Curtain Fig Tree at Kuranda; View from Heales Lookout in the Atherton Tablelands

And finally a quick mosaic of various parts of Queensland life that we saw while on holiday:

From left to right:
Top row: Fields of sugar cane being harvested; Banana palms; Tropical plant
Middle row: Hay bales; Cairns waterfront; Mossman River at Mossman Gorge
Bottom row: Lake Eacham; Mossman River at Mossman Gorge; Lake Barrine

Sorry, too busy to write anything more … probably won’t get chance to get online again before the weekend … and no stitching to show for all the busy-ness!