The Treehouse

The Secret London Cross Stitch...

Why secret? well, I have been working on this since July and totally forgot to tell Carole that I'd even bought the chart :o After finishing the owl stitchalong the crop girls decided on this as our next project. It has 6 of the little polaroid pictures in it - one for each month up to December with the other bits being fitted in as and when. The chart is from Jardin Prive and rather appropriate for all of the 2012 festivities.

Here's my progress so far...

It's really quite a fun and easy stitch. Of course I had to go and make a couple of mistakes - all of my water is in the wrong blue. I'm attempting to live with it but given the time I will probably frog it and restitch :)

An Owl and some Seedlings...

There are a lot of people signed up to make the Farmer's Wife Quilt and I just couldn't resist (there is a link in my sidebar to the Flickr group). The blocks are only 6" and the ones that I've made so far have stitched up quite quickly...they're rather addictive. I've managed to make 8 this week and would have made more but I was determined to finish off my Owl cross stitch. Once I've made another 4 I'll be up to date until it's time to make the next blocks. I've some free time tomorrow while the boys go kayaking so I may just fire up my sewing machine and make a couple more blocks. I'm using my stash of Fig Tree fabrics - I've started with some Fig and Plum, I especially love the colours in this collection of fabric. Here are my first 8 blocks...

The cross stitch that I finished this week is Once Upon a Time...an Owl, charted by Jardin Prive. It's turned out very nicely and I'm looking forward to getting it framed and hanging on the wall.

I am still without a card reader so these are scans, I just about managed to fit the Owl onto the scanner! I'm happily stitching away on LHN The Library now and enjoying it enormously. I did a little online shopping with Carole this morning - I think we rather egged eachother on! The upshot is that we will be stitching along together on LHN Coffee Menu soon and hopefully Sunflower Inn after that! I also have a Blackbird Designs chart that I'd like to stitch soon...if only the need for sleep didn't become so pressing after a while, lol!








 

Time for Tea

is finished! The colours are lovely and the little beads are the perfect addition.

 

I did draw out the shapes for this month's Henrietta Whisker's block last night but the light wasn't good enough for fabric choosing so I settled down with my next cross stitch project which is 'Once Upon a Time...an Owl' charted by Jardin Prive from the the art of Spanish artist Raquel Blasco Not my usual sort of colours at all but I just fell in love with the picture, here's a little peak of what it will look like when finished...

I have a few other charts from Jardin Prive and may do the Eiffel Quaker after this owl is complete although I really need to catch up on the Civil War Sampler blocks. I've got quite behind lately as I seem to have been enjoying cross stitching so much that I've got completely caught up in it!

 

Friday Night Sew In this month is on 20th May - I'm hoping to join in a little bit but we'll be spending some time packing up Catherine's rucksack ready for her DofE expedition...hopefully now that we've done the practice weekend we'll be quicker at packing for the real deal! You can join in too by signing up here