Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Royal Blood

No stitching to report, have been to Wellington to see Royal Blood in concert - awesome show. It may only be January but think it will be the best show I attend this year.... Only downside was the bus ride, older bus with broken air conditioning for both trips and temps around 30 degrees.

Monday, 26 January 2015

Craft today

Today I had a friend's kids for the day so in the afternoon we did craft and coloured and made a fox I found online from mister finch. I want to make a whole flock of them.

Saturday, 17 January 2015

First cake of the year

Made the first cake for the year for a friend of my sisters daughter. Thankfully had a purchased Dora, Boots and dog so only had to make the backpack, map, Swiper and the stars.

Saturday, 10 January 2015

New Project takes a bad turn....

I so needed to start a new project - not- but oh well did it anyway! As a reader of Tracy A Franklin's blog I was enjoying watching her Crathorne bug project evolve so decided before she got too far along I had better get it started.  Things were going along well new techniques were being tried and enjoyed and catching up was in sight till yesterday when the next step was shown and it involves seed stitch. A horror stitch to me as it involves that terrible word RANDOM. I do not cope well with random so even though I am viewing this piece as a learning piece - there are some slightly dodgee  stitched pieces I think a wee practice will be in order before I can begin the next phase. But I do recommend checking out Tracy's blog and also stitching the piece it is a lot of fun...

Progress so far.

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Thanks Lee

On Saturday our local embroidery Guild had it's work day and Lee showed us how to make her decorations. She told us we should finish one on the day - as long as we didn't talk too much... I left with not a lot done guessing I talked too much but tonight I have completed it.

I did manage to upend one of my buttons into my cup of tea!

Saturday, 6 December 2014

It's Christmas Time

Well eyes and 15 minutes a day has well proven to much for me and has gone by the way for the time being. Not much else has been stitched which beyond slack but hope to sort that out some time soon. I have been making dala horses and deer 'skulls' for the Christmas tree along with a pop corn garland

Friday, 26 September 2014

Day 39 - 41

Hmm once again I have been slack and this post is to catch up on the stitched eyes so far. Have not stitched yet today so will post that later. Have no idea what day I should be at so will make today day 42 and hope to have a clean run from now....