Solway Stitches

 There’s quite a lot to update as I’m late posting. My son has returned from his deployment so my time has been spent with him. I have finished Shepherds Bush The Goblins and loved the speciality stitches.  My new start this week is also a finish, it was another Shepherds Bush EBay win, Sheep in a Garden. A quick and easy stitch, back stitch makes all the difference.  My lovely son bought me a fantastic gift for his homecoming, a DMC collectors box with all 500 colours. I had a lovely time sorting them all out. Here is the full set of DMC, don’t they look lush. My stash was another EBay bargain, Shepherds Bush, a Winters Tale. There are a lot of specialty stitches and I’m looking forward to starting. I have worked a little on Hannah Richards sampler, but not enough to make much of a difference. I will work on it some more this week and hopefully have some progress to show next time.  Happy Stitching :)

 The ducklings have had their first bath and looked so cute in the old tin bath. My Easter starts are nearly all finished, just 1 outstanding and they all still need FFO’d.w Shepherds Bush freebie ‘Ewe be well’ but I wrote Spring instead and sewed a JABCo bee button on. Whilst Iris Naps Spring freebie. Hands on Design Newsletter freebie, to be finished. I’m a bit concerned about how close my stitching is to the top of the fabric, it’s less than 1cm. My own fault for stitching all the designs on 1 piece of fabric then cutting after! I started Shepherds Bush The Goblins, and loved it. I had to be a picky stitcher with the thread as the two variegated in the coat had a similar purple so the harlequin effect was lost. Wasted a lot of thread but really pleased how it turned out. I had to stop as it’s speciality stitches next, which I’ve never done and I wanted to order a hoop to keep my tension right. I’ve never stitched with a hoop either, should be fun. I am looking forward to picking...

 It was the first time in years I had been off work for the full four days and I planned for it to be a very stitchy four days. As I turned out my hubby and I built a poly tunnel for all year round fresh fruit and veg and our ducklings decided to hatch!  Very cute and needed a lot of cuddles. My Easter stitching plans were to be a new start every day and then finishing off on Monday.  The only rule was the patterns had to be freebies or from my stash, and all threads and fabric were also from my stash. My Maundy Thursday was The Prairie Schooler ‘Peep’. It’s very old and I’m not sure if it’s still available.  My Good Friday start was Shepherds Bush freebie ‘Ewe Be Well’ a freebie from their website, still available. I’m going to write Spring instead.  My Easter Saturday is from Hands on Design, it was a freebie in her newsletter. I’ve changed the colours and I’m replacing the french wording with Spring. My Easter Sunday start was an Whilst Iris Naps freebie for ...