Last night I put the final stitches into Little House Needleworks' Coffee Menu. I've been stitching along on this one with Carole - it's the first in a series of charts that we decided to stitch together. I think I enjoyed every stitch on this - well, maybe not the ones that I had to unstitch but it has been a lovely design to stitch and the colours are lovely. I corrected the mistake that I mentioned last time - I had stitched Dark Roast one stitch to the right. I suppose I could have left it as was but it would have been screaming out to me from behind the glass once it was framed so I took it out and restitched it!
Our next stitch is going to be Wildflower by SamSarah Designs. I've not stitched anything by this designer yet and I'm looking forward to starting this with Carole in November...it has some very sweet buttons on it and the colours are lovely.
I am also going to be joining in with the Some Kind of Wonderful Stitch a Long on the Stitch a long blog I'm so glad to have been given a place on this. I bought the book back in July and there are so many lovely things in it that I didn't want it to sit on the shelf waiting forever! I'm going to use some of my Fig Tree stash for the quilt and have begun cutting out the cream backgrounds into strips. Next job is to cut the cream backgrounds for the applique blocks.
I'm hoping to prepare the first blocks and start sewing on them soon and perhaps take some away with me in November when my friends and I have our second crafting weekend of the year.
I noticed this morning that the sign ups are ready now for this month's Friday Night Sew In. I wasn't able to join in for the last few months but hopefully I'll manage to do so this month - it's the day before my birthday! You can click on the link in my sidebar to join in with the fun.
Your coffee menu turned out fantastic! And thanks for mentioning FNSI, I need to go join in!
Posted by: Tricia T | 12 October 2011 at 01:45 PM
What a beautiful cross-stitch! I am going to be doing the Stitch-a-long also. It will be fun to watch your quilt grow.
Posted by: Yvette | 12 October 2011 at 02:10 PM
It looks fantastic!
Looking forward to Wildflower :)
Posted by: Carole | 12 October 2011 at 02:51 PM
Your cross-stitch turned out well, I spent a bit of time looking at your previous post and couldn't see the mistake, but guess once you know it's there it eats away at you.
You will enjoy the stitch-a-long, it's fun and helps keep you on track.
Posted by: Pip | 12 October 2011 at 09:56 PM
Lovely post and I love the pictures! keep them coming I really enjoyed it
Posted by: Tree surgeons London | 22 November 2011 at 02:22 PM