Winner of Competition!

Hello all!

Firstly let me apologise for the delay in announcing the winner of my competition, June was a very busy month!

Well drum roll please! The WINNER of the competition is Kerryp77!!!!

You win my beautiful design of Love is Best!

Are you going to add it to your stitched pattern?  Please let me know your plans for it!

Please e-mail me your address, I think I had it before, but have lost it.

So the reasons for my delay, firstly it was my sister's wedding and here is the framed A Good Marriage by Lizzie Kate.  I'm please with the finished piece and think the frame finishes it off nicely.

Secondly I went to Cyprus on holiday and decided to make a new start, obviously!

I chose Greek Steps as i thought it was very apt.  I didn't do that much on it, as I was busy reading a very gripping book (Until You're Mine) and spending time on the beach and in the pool, but thought I'd let you see some progress on it!

Next for me is going back to Heather since I got page 3 though at the beginning of June and the final page is out next month.  She's stitching up a treat and hope to give you an update this weekend.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful stitchy time.

Happy Stitching

xxx

Giveaway! 50 Followers!

Hello all my 52 followers!

In celebration of me getting to 50 followers, I am having a giveaway and the best thing is that you get a choice of prize!

The choices are from top left - All Occasion Charts and threads, Christmas Charts and threads, Blue Tit mini kit with threads, fabric and chart, Love is Best when you Give it Away finished piece (I will wash and iron it before sending)

If you want to enter, you must be a follower (new followers welcome) and make a comment here stating, All Occasion, Christmas, Kit or Design.

Please share the news because if I get to 60 followers I will give away 2 items!

So what have I been up to since finishing page 2 of Heather?

Well I returned to my 10 hour rotation and finished 10 hours on Lakeside Village.

Not much to show, but i'm sure once I've done my next 10 hours that you'll be able to see more of the building behind the arch.

And next was Beacon Ridge, believe it or not I started it in July 2010 and not even finished the first page.  I suppose it was what it symbolised - my MS getting worse that year in the warm summer months, however in recent months I've really longed to get back to it so I did another 10 hours on it this week.

Next is to do as much as I can on Samantha before the next page of Heather. It should be a small straight forward page so I can get back to my rotation probably in July since June is a busy month in terms of cards for Father's Day and it's my sister's wedding too! When I have my framed piece back I'll post a picture on here I hope you all approve! 

Page 2 finally complete!

Well here she is! Page 2 finally finished.

I'm going to make cards today and possibly a bit on lakeside Village.

As an aside, I've noticed that I now have 51 followers!  I promised a competition/prize draw when I hit this mark, but I can't think what to do, so I'm giving you a choice!  I'll post a picture later, but here's the general choices:

• Free mini kit (from magazine)
• Chart book and 2 x threads (from magazine)
• My completed 'Love is better when you give it away' design which I did last year

All you have to do is post a comment and say which you want - Kit, Charts, Design.

Please spread the word as if I get over 60 followers I will be drawing 2 winners on 1st June 2013.

Happy Stitching! :)

I'm back! (very good reasons!)

Hi all, sorry I've not been on here at all for the past month, I was busy making Mother's day cards for colleagues but the funds will go towards my millennium frame that I'm going to get some time this year, I also got into a super good book which I read on a weekend away called Me Before You by Jojo Moyes.  I'm giving it away on World Book Night this year.

Anyhow back to stitching, I did get some of Heather done and hope to get loads more done tomorrow as it's a Bank Holiday!

And as it was being done on one of my Facebook groups, here's my messy back! 

I've also just noticed that I have 49 followers! If I get to 50, I will have a giveaway!  Not sure what it'll be, but I have loads of free stitchy gifts that I'll never get around to doing.  But of course it could be a copy of my World Book Night Book depending on preferences!

Happy stitchy Bank Holiday Weekend! xxx 

Heather BB SAL Page 1 COMPLETE!!!!!

Well this took me rather longer than I expected! But here she is, first page complete of Heather:

I'll be returning to Lakeside Village to complete my 10 hours with it but I'm going to have less stitchy time because my colleagues at work have found out I make cards so I'm currently inundated with Mothers' Day card requests!

I'll be posting pictures on my sister blog.

Short but sweet, but I'll be back with a picture of Lakeside Village!

Happy Stitching!

Heather Update!

A short but hopefully sweet update from me today!

I hope to have finished all the hair this weekend as I'm not going out in all this snow!

Thought I'd post this picture today so we can all see how much I actually get done!

Happy Stitching everyone!

HAED SAL Heather Update

Hello everyone, hope you are having a fantastic start to the New Year.

I've not had a fantastic start to my stitching since work has been super busy and by the time I get home all I have energy for is to eat and bathe before bed!

But I have started Lakeside Village (picture to come when I've done a bit more) and here is Heather.  Unlike most HL stitchers, I prefer to rotate the black with a colour as I'm so frightened of miscounting even though I use magic guide!  But also I think just doing the outlines would do my head in and I'd loose concentration!

I'm going to stick with my rotation plans and after this page is done, finish a total of 10 hours on lakeside Village before moving onto the County Durham sampler for 10 hours.

I don't know about you but I'm really looking forward to a Stitchy Year!

Happy Stitching,

Sam xx