Stitching update

I have a friend's birthday coming up in September and have been making her some nice jewellery .... so decided to also stitch and make her a nice box to put it in ... got this chart from loopyloudesigns ... it is stitched on 28 count evenweave and I have used Carons waterlilies silks in  'Antique Rose'  which is not quite the colour I thought it would be  :(
A bit too dark and with greys in .... never mind it will be OK when fin ished, but it does mean I will now have to go out and buy some different cotton fabric to make the actual box up in as the pieces I had are not going to go well with this shadde of thread ..... but here it is so far ....

I have also been keeping an eye on my little garden .... I had three bags of potatoes growing nicely, but came downstairs one morning to find that big fat black slugs had stripped the leaves off all of them and were still munching away !!  Took care of them with the secateurs !!  But thought that with no leaves left the potatoes would be no good and stop growing.... luckily it was almost time to dig them up anyway, so tipped out one bag to see if I had any and found loads !!  same with other bags ...

Lovely beads

I had some of the moonstone beads left over from DD's bracelet, and also some of the abalone - so decided to use them all up ....  made a necklace for myself, plus an abalone bracelet , bracelet for DD and three pairs of ear-rings - all from two strands of beads !!  Don't think I will sell any of these - perhaps keep them for myself as they are really lovely gems ....

Lucky few days !!

Well the past few days have been very lucky for me ... not only did I win a stitching freebie from Cross Stitch Collection yesterday, but today - Saturday - I won another from same magazine !!!! First one was a collection of Zweigart fat quarters and two Zweigart books .... gave some to my sister ..... and today I received a large heavy parcel and on opening found two more Zweigart Hardanger books and lots of fabric !! Lovely white  pure linen band measuring 8" x 46"  and a huge piece of Laguna in a light milky coffee colour measuring 54" x 58"  ..... very handy for allsorts ....

Have also finished off the sampler for my best friends birthday ( in September)  and will pop a pic in later as I am going to take out one line of the verse and more it over slightly ... well here is a  'before'  pic before I move thesecond line !

and now the corrected version !

 

Have also made some more jewellery and put some on my  'folksy'  shop for sale:
 http://folksy.com/shops/LadybugJewellery  -

but have also made a nice bracelet and ear-rings for my daughter using some beautiful abalone beads and some moonstones ....

Start of sampler

My best friend is 60 this September and I wanted to stitch something special for her .... she is not a stitcher, but does appreciate the work ...  so I decided to stitch a sampler for her using words which she once put in a birthday card to me :


We all make friendships in this life
Though many fade with time ......
But once in a while its special
Like our friendship
Yours and mine ........


I love that - so will be stitching those words ... at the moment I have stitched the hardanger top of the sampler .... this design has been taken from one of Emie Bishop's lovely designs ...
Hope you all like it .....