WATER-LILY

Finished stitching the water-lily. Found this in a card-making magazine in my heap of mags. which I am slowly working my way through. I liked the colours and simplicity of this plus the added corners and the bead dragonfly. It will be mounted in a card mount for a greetings card.

An also onto my third cross-stitch Christmas card and have stitched some fancy seams on my crazy patchwork square.

Got my copy of `Stitch` magazine this morning. On the cover is a gorgeous - and I mean GORGEOUS - phone pouch worked in crazy patchwork and embellished. I am drooling! If only I could produce something as wonderful as this!

MY FIRST CRAZY PATCHWORK SQUARE

After seeing all those wonderfully, gorgeous crazy patchwork squares thought I would take the plunge and try one. Found some small pieces of fabric in my stash and decided to use a small sample of cross-stitch as my first 5-sided piece. The colours of the other pieces are taken to blend in nicely with this piece. I don't know about the blue though. Still, this is an experimental square so I will see how it shapes up.

Now, I need to do some stitching on the seams - that should be fun. Got alot of my books down from the shelves and given them a dusting!!!!!!!!!

Stitched this small piece last evening. Hardanger Floral. A freebie from Yahoo Group TangleCrafts. Used 28 count Jobelan and Anchor Perle 8 and Caron Watercolour threads. Will mount this in a card mount.

MORE STITCHING

This is an ornament I stitched from a freebie design. You can see it here - http://www.debbiedraperdesigns.com/

I found the piece of light green 28 fabric in my box and used Caron Wildflowers Pale Lilac for the stitching. The edging is from my card-making stash.

This is a pincushion I stitched with a design from a magazine - can't recall which one. The piece has been waiting for some suitable edging which I found yesterday in my card-making stash. The colours were just right.