A gift with a rescued bunny!

I can post a picture of this little rascal now that he has arrived safely in The Netherlands.  I so enjoyed stitching him but as I mentioned in a previous post when I cut the fabric to finish him off I got a bit too excited with my scissors and cut close to the edge.  I was nearly in tears as I thought I was going to have to bin him. Thankfully I was able to rescue him.

 

I had a great time making up this gift package for my dear friend Erna.  As you can see it has a bit of a Scottish theme.

Erna has been to Scotland many times and is just mad about everything Scottish. Her stitching is just beautiful and she stitches the most stunning Samplers.  She has recently mentioned to me that she is not very happy with her finishing skills so I couldn't resist putting a little challenge in her package.  I reckoned if I have to suffer with my finishing woes then so does she..lol. Along with all the items needed to make up a pillow, I enclosed this little rhyme inside the tartan fabric.

Tartan Jimmy is my name

Making me a pillow

Is your aim

Make me square or make me round

Stuff my fabric, sew me down

Add my trim, stitch my heart

Glue us together, never to part

Oh so Bonny I will be

Thank you Erna for making me

Thankfully Erna gets my scottish humour and thought it funny and has told me that she will take up the challenge.  I am also very excited as Erna is hoping to visit Scotland later this year. How amazing will it be that we will get to meet in person.

Thank you so much to everyone who left all those lovely comments on my daughter Heathers stitching and the birthday wishes for my Mum.  They were both delighted when I told them about my post.  I have asked Heather what will she be stitching next.. but as I thought she just looked at me and said Oh Mum I knew you were going to say that..lol.

I have been stitching quite a bit the past few days but I have no photos as my camera needs charged.  I finished stitching my Spring SAL piece and I have been working on my Happy Moo Cow.

Hope everyone is having a good week-end. Hugs!

Happy Birthday Mum & Daughters Stitching!

My dear Mum celebrated her 73rd Birthday today.   I wish I could say I made the cake myself but it was bought from M&S.  My Dad also made a Clootie dumpling (a traditional scottish recipe that granny would make on birthdays or special occasions ) sadly I forgot to take a photo but you can see one here along with a recipe.  http://www.scotlands-enchanting-kingdom.com/grandma-wrights-clootie-dumpling.html 

Proud Mum moment as my 17 year old daughter Heather made this lovely pillow for her Grans birthday.  Heather hasn;t quite caught the stitching bug yet , as she generally only stitches about once a year..lol.  My Mum was delighted with it and couldn;t help but laugh as she owns about 50 pairs of shoes and while out shopping today, guess what, she bought another pair.

I know I mentioned in my last post that I was itching to get started on one of my new charts but I forgot that I hadn't even started on my SAL piece for April. So, here is my start on Spring has Sprung by the Rainbow Gallery.  I should have had this finished by now as it was stitching up real quick but I have been so busy the past few days I haven;t stitched at all.  Fingers crossed my needle will be smoking tomorrow.  Catch you later. Hugs!

A Finish & New Stash!

Thanks to everyone for the get well wishes,  I still have a sore throat and a cough but I am feeling much better than the beginning of the week.  I will just have to let it run its course.  As you can see I have been stitching the past few days.  This is Spring House by the Trilogy.  I looks nothing like the original of course as I chose my own colours using my yummy new threads.

I took my daughter Heather prom dress shopping on Friday, thankfully we did find the perfect dress but don;t anyone ask me about the colour.  It is called Berry Metal but is very hard to describe.  I will try and take some photographs when we go for a fitting in May.  Not far from the dress shop there is a patchwork store which I just had to visit.  I bought these lovely fat quarters and while browsing I found a large basket of ribbons on sale,  so pretty I just had to have a few.

Thanks to Siobhan who gave me a lovely gift certificate  in exchange for a magazine I sent her I was able to get these wonderful charts from the States.  I am in such a tizzy I just can;t decide which one to start first...lol.  Hugs!

Grumpy lady/Stash clearout!

Well I am having a pity party ladies, I feel dark and moody just like one of my favourite images above.  I've had a really nasty cold and sore throat the past few days and it just won;t go away. I had such great plans for my holiday this week and one of them was definately not to be sick.  I didn't even stitch yesterday, my poor needle must think I have abandoned it.  I have kitted up a little chart by the Trilogy that I am keen to start so I will just have to medicate myself and hope I don't produce to many wonky stitches..lol.

I had a major clearout of my stash at the week-end and spent quite a few hours Sunday and Monday trying to set up a new blog to sell/trade my items.  For some reason no matter what I do I can;t post the link on the sidebar of this blog and it also won;t work in google, yahoo etc.  So I will try posting the link on this post, can someone please leave me a comment to let me know if it works, thanks. Laineys Stash Room

Happy Stitching & Stashing. Hugs!

THREAD HEAVEN & TINY START!

I am in thread heaven today as I received all these gorgeous threads from the postman this morning. These yummy threads are more of the Dye is Cast threads that I purchased a few weeks ago.  The owner of the store very kindly offered to give me another discount on top of the one I already had as she is now discontinuing these threads.  I just couldn't resist ordering a few more.  I can;t wait to start stitching with them.

This little blog is the tiny start I have made on my Happy Moood.   I just couldn't get into it last night so I'm afraid it may find itself in the ufo pile soon as I am itching to find something else to start.

I had a major stash clearout yesterday and I spent a lot of time yesterday and this morning setting up a new Stash trade/sale blog.  I am sooooo frustrated as no matter what I try I just cannot get the link to the new blog to work.  Hopefully it will fix itself soon.  Hugs!

HAPPY EASTER!

I hope everyone is have a lovely Easter Sunday and is not indulging in too many easter eggs.  My Mum has been knitting lots of these cute little bunnies for the children and elderly residents at the care home my gran lives in.  Each one contains a cadburys creme egg and the kids can also use them as puppets. She has also made some larger ones that they are going to raffle for funds but sadly I don;t have any photos of them.  I have no idea why the bunnies have no noses or whiskers but my Mum is 72 so maybe she just forgot..lol.

I finished off my little Easter piece into a small pillow this morning.  I had been hoping to use some fluffy edging but when I went to my box I of course had every colour but the one I needed.  I changed a few of the orginal colours on this design and I used some cotton wool for the bunny tail.  For once I am happy with how this one turned out....lol!    

I was looking back my blog posts a few weeks ago and I see that I have said quite a few times that I am going to make a start on Barbara Ana's Wake me up in a happy moood so I now have it kitted up and ready to get stitching this afternoon. Happy Easter Stitching Everyone!

                                                                                                     

Egg heads & stitching!

My hubby Ian was having an Easter buffet lunch in the office on Thursday and they asked if people would bring in decorated eggs.  My daughter Heather decorated these as Dad at work and Dad with his camera.  Everyone thought they were very funny.   

My fabulous spring picture at the head of my blog was done by my little mindee Oscar who is four.  I have to take photographs as evidence for my annual inspections and keepsake albums for the children.  Oscar loves having his picture taken and can;'t wait to see his photograph.  It is also a lovely reminder for the children and parents to look back and see all the friends they made, fun and games they enjoyed and arts and crafts they made.  

I don;t know what blogger does to do my photos but when I upload them on to my laptop they are lovely and clear and then as soon as I post them on my blog they are all grainy.  Anyway, this is an up-date on my Easter stitch. I just need to finish my headless chicken and give my bunny a tail and this piece will be done.  I will  then start on my April SAL design that Elaine (shutterbuglady) chose this month.   It is another cute chart called Spring has sprung by the Rainbow Gallery. 

Happy Easter!