Freebie Friday - Lavender Cross Stitch pattern and a revived pattern from 2010

Hi everyone, its Freebie Friday!

Tea for Two blog hop

Hi everyone, its Tea for Two blog hop day!

Winner of MIni Cat giveaway announced and May mini cat stitched.

Hello everyone, I have been stitching my mini cats again and today I announce the winner of the mini cat giveaway.

My exchange to Carol has arrived and other stitching news.

Hi everyone, my exchange to Carol of Stitching Dreams Blog has finally arrived at it's destination and I am pleased to say that Carol loves what I sent to her. 

Beautiful exchange received from Carol.

Hi everyone, thankyou so much for all of your lovely  comments on my last post.

Cross stitch finishing ideas for Needlebook, Covered box, Strawberry scissor fob and bottle cap pincushion

Would you like some cross stitch finishing ideas?

I hope you like my embroidered covered box with accessories, including needlebook, scissor fob and bottle cap pincushion,  the box was supposed to be part of an exchange but I got glue on the fabric and it shows so I decided to start again and make something else, of course I made sure on the next project that I did not get glue everywhere!

Edited: 14 November 2019

Added more photos

 

I used DMC thread number 833 in this design, there are swarovski crystals on the scissor fob and I have put a small butterfly closing on the needlebook.

I loved finishing this embroidered strawberry scissor fob

I show how to finish a strawberry over on my cross stitch finishing blog, see the link below.

Pop over to my cross stitch finishing blog for ideas on how to finish your cross stitch 

Lynn's Cross Stitch Tutorials Finishing Ideas here

Until next time - happy stitching!

A pink cross stitched gift set

Hi everyone, here is my latest creation, a pink cross stitched sewing case with matching accessories using my free parasol pattern.

Cross stitched box finally finished!

 

 



 

Hi everyone, I have finally finished the cross stitched Peacock Box - at last! 

You can see how to make a box like this if you check out my tutorials blog.

The pattern details can be found in this previous post

 

I have posted lots of pictures below.

 

 

 

 

 

Of course you know I love those Swarovski crystals!

 

 

I used DMC thread to make the cord for a  perfect match. 

 

I was going to put separate compartments in this but decided against the idea - perhaps next time. 

 

 

 

 

 

Last but not least, a bottlecap pincushion trimmed with Mill Hill beads.

 

Happy stitching everyone - until next time!

 

 

Christmas Cross Stitch Ornaments, progress on Covered Box and free cross stitch design stitched.

 

 

 

Hi everyone, here are a couple of my Christmas cross stitch ornaments that I have been stitching, the one on the left was an unfinished project from last Christmas, I finally decided to get it finished, the ornament on the right is a design that I created for, and published in The World of Cross Stitching Magazine last year.  

 

You can now access the free pattern for this ornament at this link

  

This week I have managed to make some progress on the Covered Cross Stitch Peacock box that I blogged about,  I am pleased with the result so far but I still need to finish off the inside.

 

I have also been stitching one of my free patterns, the Peace design, the pattern is available below. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am hoping to be posting to my blog again on Wednesday evening, untill next time thanks for your visits and lovely comments.

 

Happy Stitching!  

 



Christmas box exchange finally arrived at destination and a free pattern for you.

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and are looking forward to the New Year!

I was very pleased to finally hear from the moderator of the Hooked On Exchanging blog that my box had finally arrived at it's destination, I was ever so worried that it had got lost in the post as I sent it on the 1st December.

I painted a little box and hand made some polymer clay roses and a red brooch to go inside the box with some pretty red ribbon.  I lined the box with white fabric and edged the inside with red cording.

The cross stitch pattern is my own design and is available at the bottom of this post for you to print.

Other stitching news

I have finished Little House Neighbourhood for my sister's Christmas gift, I shall show pictures in my next post. I am really pleased with the way it turned out, I have framed it in a simple cherry frame and even though I say so myself it really looks lovely.

Hope you have a lovely New Year, until next time,

Happy Stitching!  

Another box finish and accessories to match

Hi everyone, I have finally finished this box and I am quite pleased with the result, inside there are a little collection of accessories of which you can see in the photo's below.

I have also heard from Lisa that she has received my Angel stitching for the Hooked on Exchange Blog, I will show that in my next post but here is the gift all wrapped up. Lisa said she loved the wrapping and could not wait to see what was inside! I must say, I usually like to make a special effort with the wrapping because I think it makes it more exciting for the recipient.    

A note for Angela who left a message asking about the alphabet pattern.  

Angela, you requested the alphabet pattern, however I could not reply to your email because it was set as 'no reply', you also don't appear to have a blog, if you send me your email address I will gladly send you the alphabet pattern, it is a freebie!

I finished the box in silk dupion and stitched the cross stitch in DMC 964. If you would like the pattern it is a freebie here from the Swappons blog, I have shown the cross stitch piece before but not fully finished until now. If you scroll down to the bottom on the swappons page you can click on the red Adobe PDF link on the right hand side and gain access to the freebie pattern. 

I decided to stitch the accessories using small sections of the pattern and then designed and stitched the silk strawberry trimmed with mill hill beads and pink spider web roses. I am hoping to draw the pattern for the strawberry and upload  to my blog for everyone to have access to it...... not sure when though, hopefully sometime soon.  

Here are the other photo's of the box and contents, I do hope you like them!

You can see my tutorial showing how to make a box on my tutorials blog here, it is not exactly the same inside but I have just added a couple of separating panels to the box below.

I trimmed the box with my favourite swarovski crystals.

I added this little embroidered padded section to the inside lid to hold my needles or pins.

Embroidered strawberry - my own design.

I made the butterfly pins after making them for another gift recently, I liked them so much I made some for myself!   

Here is the pinkeep trimmed around the edge with swarovski crystals of course!

I am currently working on my Little House Neighbourhood, hopefully I can show you some progress on my next post.

Welcome to all of my new followers and thankyou for all of your lovely comments!

Happy stitching!

Stitching news, freshly made scones and I won a giveaway!

I have had a busy couple of weeks stitching, my first finish was a box that I made for my tutorial on my tutorials blog, I then designed and stitched this silk dupion strawberry, decorated it with spider web roses and mill hill beads. My third project was a stitch red exchange for the Hooked on Exchanging group, I offered to be an Angel Stitcher for one lady who had not received her gift, obviously I cannot show this yet, however, I send it tomorrow ( Tuesday ) and as soon as it arrives I will show the photo's.

I had some wonderful news today, I won my first ever giveaway from Lydia's Treasure blog here.

Here are the photo's from Lisa's blog, I just loved it as soon as I saw it, I love her face, I think it is cute! 

Thankyou Lisa, I will treasure her.

 Lisa makes some beautiful quilts and lots of other handmade gifts, check out her blog, you will not be disappointed!

Here is the box finish, you can see the tutorials for this on my tutorials blog here

A close up photo of the strawberry I made to go inside the box.

After all of that stitching I decided to make some scones today, I added butter and strawberry jam and made a cup of English afternoon tea - bliss!!!!

Welcome to my new followers, thankyou for all of your lovely comments!

Happy stitching! 

Box making and my work in progress for this week.

Hi everyone, I am currently working on a couple of boxes, the first is covered in white silk dupion, I used this embroidery to cover the top of the box. Here are a couple of sneak previews of the work in progress, I will show you the box and contents in a couple of weeks when it is finished completely.

Here is a  close up of the spider web roses, I think the colours are beautiful.  

I have also been working on my Little House Neighbourhood, here are the latest photographs.  

I have also been working on a box tutorial for my tutorials blog here, I decided to make the box (below)  I had previously made for Hazel from the Quietly Stitching blog. I know you have seen this photo before but if you would like to see the instructions how to make it you can pop over and see part one on my tutorials blog.

Talking of tutorials, Lei B sent me a lovely photograph of the little pillows that she stitched using my tutorials, you can see Leis blog here , they are so beautifully stitched Lei!

If anyone else has used my tutorials or patterns I would love to see them and would be happy to show them on my blog here, just send me the photo with your blog details.

Thankyou for the lovely birthday wishes on my last post they were really appreciated.

Happy stitching everyone and welcome to all of my new followers!