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Welcome to Our Neighbourhood

2008-11-07T13:54:00.000-08:00

Very pleased with my piece, I feel very fortunate to have "neighbours" of Katrina, Georgie, Jane C, Jane B, Kathy, Patricia, Lisa and Susan to contribute to my rr. This is the first time I join RR, I didn't know what is involved before therefore I have too big a piece! Well, I'll think of some way to fill it up with verses, alphabets or something. Thank you friends/neighbours for your wonderful & beautiful works. I can't wait for this to come home. Thank you Jane, for posting this picture.

Automata - French Doll - A.Marque

2008-03-22T18:58:00.000-07:00

I don't consider this as fully completed as I have to make a band around the hip (delayed due to shortage of fabric) and the neckline at the front need another piece of lace attached to it. I bought the hat and handbag in different parts of Japan. What a shame, they only have one, I hope there'll be more when I go there this time.

Tote Bage

2008-03-22T18:49:00.000-07:00

My first attempt at making a tote bag. I lined the bag with iron on batting to give it more body. The pattern is from Arets Korrsting 1995 designed by Bjorn Wiinblad based on H.C. Anderson's fairy tales.

I'm taking this bag to Tokyo as a gift to Yvette who's been a great friend over the years, helping me in every way she could.

I'm very pleased with the result and I'll be making more for friends and myself too!!

PS Garden Fairy

2008-01-11T22:20:00.000-08:00

I'm in the mood to stitch small things - and this is a first PS Fairy I've stitched in 2007. Hopefully I'll have more time to stitch more accessories/ornaments. At first, I wanted to fill this up with Lavendar and use it as a wardrobe satchel, which I will with the next one.

Scissor Fobs

2008-01-11T22:09:00.000-08:00

Found these beautiful patterns from http://grillesdemaryse.canalblog.com/ I love Maryse designs and will probably join her SAL for the gameboard. I try to match the fabric on the back with the scissors - the one shown here is for Gingher "Julia".

Christmas Heart

2008-01-11T22:06:00.000-08:00

I found this freebie pattern from http://www.universbroderie.com/ and stitched this for DH. The back fabric is from Moda's christmas pack.

Karin's RR

2007-11-23T16:54:00.000-08:00

Voila!!! Here's my part of the neighbourhood that I've stitched for Karin. I have tweaked the PS "Friends" chart a little bit in order to fit the girl into the block - I have moved her to the right. The cat is from LHN and I'd stitched "JOY" out of my head - yes, that's what I wish for all in our neighbourhood, in other words "Joy to the World".

Queen's Sampler by Darlene O'sheen

2007-11-06T17:35:00.000-08:00

Again, I didn't understand what's involved in stitching a sampler until I've started this, I realised that both the right and wrong side will turn up similar if the stitching is executed with care, I'd followed the instructions and with the help of DOS "The Proper Stitch". As you can see, at first I didn't understand and my first band of alphabets wasn't done correctly, i.e. I should not carry the floss across to another letter but end each one and start again, hmm, I will have to frog it at a later stage. It is very time consuming, but I learnt so much from stitching this bit, I wasn't sure about the Acorn band which is why I left it. This is done on 36ct Edin. linen with 1 over 2 using silk floss (NPI & Vikki Clayton). The top picture is the back of work.

Fremme Danish Cross Stitch - Bjorn Wiinblad

2007-11-06T17:20:00.000-08:00

This abstract picture designed by Bjorn Wiinblad based on H.C. Andersen's fairy tales. His designs grew on me the more I looked at it. At first, I didn't understand why this book went for such a high price on Ebay, until I began to stitch it, the more I stitch the more I began to see things, like the man going up the hill, the pig on the left, the man's blue vest etc. I have used DMC floss intead of Danish flower threads, cos I have heaps of DMC which I should utilise. This is stitched on 28ct cream Jobelan - 2 over 2. there are 12 designs in this book divided into Four seasons. I would like to stitch Thumbelina next.

A Canadian Journey

2007-11-06T16:55:00.000-08:00

Finished at last!!! A joy to stitch this design by Giulia P. Antichi - she's such a lovely person, ringing me to help me with buying the scrim and ruler. I found the trim at my LNS, so I changed the trimming. I want to make more accessories this year such as pinkeeps, needleroll, fobs etc and I will definitely do another of Giulia's design.

For more pictures go to: http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=16296950&uid=4102775&members=1

Quaker Pinball

2007-09-12T20:29:00.000-07:00

Another project to do. I would like to collect a basketfull of these beautiful pinballs eventually - am thinking of stuffing some spice into them, or bells etc.

These are my first 2 attempts, the pink one is done with DMC and the orange one is with Vicki's HDF premium.

The box on top is what I used to make the hemispheres - the perfer tool.