Scissor Fob Exchange

I joined a new on-line community recently and jumped right into the exhcange that was currently open. It was a scissor fob exchange. The theme was Easter. I've finished mine and will be sending it off next week, probably Monday :-). I recevied my fob from Linda. (Click on Linda's name to see her work). I thoroughly enjoyed receiving the fob she put together for me. Here is a picture:


She also included atwo DMC flosses one a Christmas green and the other a varigated orange, and a piece that is bookmark sized of an 18 ct Aida handdyed and called Autumn Splash. I think I have a bookmark in mind for this color.

Thank you so much Linda for a lovely package :-).

Frog Exchange

I belong to the I Love Cross Stitch yahoo group (<--Click on I Love Cross Stitch to go to the ILCS group site). Recently, they lost a long time member named Rene. In honor of her memory they decided to hold a froggy exchange, she loved frogs :-). It could be anything that was small; a bookmark, scissor's fob, needlekeep, etc. I looked on the internet and I found on-line a free pattern for a frog biscornu (<--Click on Frog Biscornu for a link to the site of the pattern). I selected that as my pattern before knowing who I was going to end up with in the exchange, fortunately, I ended up with Mel from Calgary (<--Click on Mel from Calgary to go to her blog). She didn't have a preference for the finished product, whew. We also were to include 3 specialty threads in the package. I chose a silk thread from Thread Gatherer's in orange overdyes, Weeks Dye works Violet, and a Rainbow Gallery Pebbly Perle. I thouroughly enjoyed this exchange and am glad that it arrived safely in Calgary after the weather we had experienced here in Colorado. Well here are the pictures of the items:

The Threads

The Frontside of the Biscornu

The Backside of the Biscornu

Keep On Stitchin'....



Edite on 3/4/11

Redwork Giveaway

Over on the Hand Quilting blog, the writer Violette is having a superb giveawy of a redwork book and some patterns. I think this is a grand opportunity for anyone that wants to learn how to do redwork or is already experienced in it. So hop on over via this link and enter for your chance to win. If you happen to mention my name and blog that would be nice also as I'll get an extra entry myself. :-)

Charm Bracelet Diva Giveaway

Hmmmm..........Seems I've got a theme going here. Posting about giveaways. Over at Charm Bracelet Diva she's doing a vintage jewelry giveaway. Everyone has a chance until October 22nd so head on over there and enter.

Good Luck

A Charming Giveaway

I can't believe it's been so long since I've posted. Where has the time gone? Oh well, what a perfect post to do for a new post. A giveaway is being done over on Singingwoods. (Click the name of the blog to go to the post). The owner of this blog does lovely jewellry. If I had the money I would buy some VBG. Go over and look at her post regarding this giveaway and look at all the fairie doors that she has posted. I love it.

Gift Of Stitching Creative Cross Stitch Challenge #5

Gift Of Stitching an online cross stitching magazine has been doing cross stitch challenges. I noticed their latest one and was intrigued. A simple cross stitch pattern that can be embellished and made into anything you would like to make it into, with one stipulation, you had to put something in the middle of the flowers, as the post stated it could be a button, bead, or whatever your imagination could think of to embellish it. As I belong to my local Embroider's Guild Chapter, I thought I would create a new name tag. You can never have too many name tag, lol. For my embellishments I used 2 gold bee beads, 3 size E beads in the center of the flowers. I used Caron's Wildflowers Spruce for the stems and leaves, and Sky Blue Pink for the middle flower and my name. I used DMC Perle 8 #552 for the Purple flowers and the floss for the back stitch around my name. For the back stitch around the stems and leaves I used DMC floss #502. It was a quick stitch. A bit harder to do the finishing on it, lol. But all in all I'm happy with the results of the piece and will be looking forward to wearing it in the future to a meeting.

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