FNSI December

 Well here we are, the last FNSI for 2025. :) Project of choice for me was Mistletoe Stocking Swag by Fig 'n' Berry Creations. The red pieces do hav stitchery traced on them, i hope i can see it when i start stitching them. The others came as iron on so i was disappointed when i found none for the stockings.

Happy Stitching,

Stitching projects

 Not sure where it came from but i had this cross stitch project for several years. I dragged it out maybe 2 years ago & stitched the 2 rows under merry & hrist. Dragged it out again after i finished the sashiko & ta da i finished it last night. Now i need to get a frame for it.

As you can see it's tiny & stitched on linen. I had to stitch over just 2 threads. More fun & games. LOL

Next up was a sashiko project i bought off a seller on FB. After looking at the tiny little picture that came with it i thought i knew why it was sold off. No instructions. I couldn't figure how it was stitched with so many lines going every where. So it sat & sat. It wasn't until i bought the Celtic Christmas tree & learned a few things that i figured out how to stitch this project into the star shapes. You see i didn't know the stitch lines were soluble in water as the instructions were missing or so i thought. Today pulling out the red fabric that is for the border lo & behold out fall the instructions. Why they were hidden in there I've no idea.

It needs a press as i just soaked it this morning & was so excited about it i just had to take a photo. :) :) So glad this is another project/kit crossed off my list.

Happy Stitching,

reindeers

 A while back Julie showed that she had made little reindeers with candy cane "horns" for her grandies. "Hmm good idea i might do that". What started out as 3 morphed into 6. My son met a lovely lady earlier this year who has a little girl. I showed him Julie's photo & said i would also make one for S. Well then he pipes up & says "do you have read felt" he loves red. Next thing i know he wants one. I said to him "what are you 5" :) :) He's in his 30's.  Now the total is 5. Asked my daughter would her step son H want one. He's 15 but didn't want him to feel left out or was he to old for such things, nope he'd love one. Now i'm at six. lol

So yesterday was the day of making them.

Some fun & games for sure & if i make them again i will be changing a few things in the way they are made.

I found a random bulb starting to flower the other day & yesterday it finally opened

I can't remember what they were in this pot. Then i spotted the achimenes are flowering

and Mum's mini rose has one lonely little bloom :)

Plants & flowers are managing to survive despsite the heat & storms which i'm pleased about.

Happy Stitching,

Sashiko

 I finished the celtic Christmas tree last night. I've seen them with crystals added so i may do that before framing it.

Now i need a new project to stitch at night. :)

Happy Stitching

Santa is done & now......

......... onto a new project. But first is my little angel thingie which was also a freebie kit. I made it up before starting Santa. This was also a fun & games thing. I thought i'd achieved getting it into shape quite well but it had a slight accident when i was Christmas decorating.

Ta da Santa is done & dusted

and now for something completely different

a sashiko celtic Christmas tree. It is my first ever sashiko.  Now i just need to buy thread for my other sashiko project. :)

Happy Stitching

FNwF December

 I have this Santa cross stitch given as a freebie last year i think. Last weekend i made a start, zooming along real well i thought. I'd started in one area & wanted to continue using that colour so i counted carefully several times, or so i thought, the number of squares & merrily went on my way stitching. Bugger those areas didn't match. Unpick that first area & hope for the best again. Nope went to add another colour & Something not right still. About this time i was seriously considering binning the darn thing. It's not like this was my first cross stitch either. :)

So for FNwF hosted by Cheryll i was determined to get it done. I'd stitched quite a bit when i thought i should take a photo to post on Facebook FNwF. :)

Almost done

just a few stitches where the green thread is & then it is onto the black outlines.

I'd been worried my desert roses had carked it as they were taking a long time to get their leaves back. They'd all been nicely repotted & the stems weren't showing any die off so i couldn't figure what was wrong. Finally after weeks & weeks success leaves were appearing. I've been keeping a close eye for flowers but only 1 has flowered so far(i have 4 desert roses)

it has lots of blooms on it this year. This was the only open one. Cross fingers the other get flowers too. :)

Pop over here to see who joined in.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI November

 Thursday evening i traced out a Christmas stitchery to do

and made a start. Friday for FNSI i stitched some more

Recently i noticed a flower spike shooting up out of a bulb & thought it was a late flowering hippeastrum but to my surprise it turned out to be a spider lily

i was a wee bit excited to see it as it hasn't flowered in years & i thought i'd lost it.

The blood lilies have all bloomed & the look quite a sight

Thankyou to Wendy for hosting us again

Happy Stitching,

projects

 Although i'm enjoying sewing the little hexie project i felt i needed a break to do something else. :)

The hexies so far. Fabric on left is for the next round. 

I went looking in the kit box hoping i had something ready to go as i really didn't feel like doing any tracing or cutting. I found a pattern i'd bought several years back with a pre-printed panel. Perfect. Alas it was stitched with Cosmo threads so i had to spend quite a while finding DMC equivalents. 

I'd noticed that the blood lilies had blooms starting to form & 2 had broken out

several more coming up in this pot.

only 1 in this pot.

The hydrangea has flowered & looking quite pretty. 

Happy Stitching,

Lucy Boston

 Yesterday i laid out the Patchwork of the Crosses blocks to see how they look & to take a photo. A bit hard when there is so many blocks & a photobomber. This one was the best of all i took. :)

Now to start prepping all those squares to join the blocks together. :)

Happy Stitching,

FNwF November

 I started FNwF early as i was determined to get the 56th(& last) block of Lucy done. I started here

& it's finished. 

I may have started a new project. :) :)

Called Mrs Holder's Hexagons. I spotted it recently on Instagram & looked it up to find out it was a project from Temecula quilt company back in 2016. It's done in a concentric circle pattern & i'm using 1/2" hexies to make it.

This is the picture of it from Temecula quilt Company blog.

I spotted a flower forming on one of the hoyas i have

then happened to look up the tree where tendrils have taken themselves & spotted one which had opened.

Then after all the lovely rain(thunderstorms) i found a bloom on the on the crocus which has since had a 2nd bloom.

Pop over to hostess Cheryll's blog to see who joined in.

Happy Stitching,

FNSI part 2

 I had this little stitchery to finish so i started with that for FNSI.

Satin stitch all done

i moved onto starting another Lucy block

I noticed a stalk coming up from some potted bulbs & was happy to see a Jacobean lily bloom. i missed it last time as there was some gooseberry bushes covering it.

One of Mum's cactus has also burst into bloom

Thanks Wendy for hosting. Pop over here to see who joined in

Happy Stitching,