Home again

Hello my friends please come for a visit with me.

This month has nearly gone.

I`ve been working on some secret stitching which is nearly there.

I`ve completed my SAL for April a TTS wall hanging and blogged on that.

Also I had a flight to Christchurch for a weeks visit with my sister 

who lives an hours drive from there.

Last time I was down there it was so different as we came home only a few days 

before the first Earthquake.

What a change and so eerie in places with no traffic and damaged buildings

or they have been removed. 

This was as near as I could get to the Cathedral 

from the street we were on.

A building in progress of being repaired.

A container cafe and below one of the shops.

A mini car stuck to the side of a building.

Where the buildings  have been demolished there are 

designs painted so it doesn`t look so bare.

This one of `Noah`s Ark`

Over the weekend my sister and I went to 

Anni Downs two day workshop.

Anni and I together. Thankyou  Anni and Racheal of

 `Annies Country Quit Store`. I really enjoyed my self

and learnt a few new techniques  which will not only help with

 projects Anni gave me but also some others I`ve

been working on. 

 I`m showing you only part of one of the projects Anni 

had for us to do.

Here is part of my progress.

Paper pieced hexagons and wool applique.

This post has become quite long so will show some 

of my shopping and further progress in another post.
Thankyou for visiting and hope you will join me again next time.

Happy stitching,

Clare.

Easter Friday

Easter begins for us today.

Good Friday.

A cross is carried to remember the walk Jesus did for us,for he loved us so much.

He died for our sins.

Romans 5:8.

On Sunday we Celebrate that 

`Jesus is Alive`.

Luke 24:6-7.

So for `Easter Celebration` 

This is my gift from my swap partner Maria for Easter.

These cute bunnie faces,chocs,threads,

 an Easter egg place mat wrapped in the lovey fabric.

The mat will be used for display plus used when eating an egg in a egg cup. 

Thankyou Maria. I can see I will be stitching and

patch working with my fabrics.  

This is what I gave Maria. 

The basket was a freebie from Bronwyn Hayes of 

Red Brolly.

The rabbit a freebie by Sue Allemand.

A closeup of little Peter Rabbit.

I used a wet tea bag to give him some colour.

There was no tail on Sue`s rabbit so using 6 strands of 

DMC thread and colonial knots I stitched him one.

Sorry photo a bit fuzzy.

He`s so cute.

I won`t put the pattern away till I`ve made one for me.

  

As I thought my parcel had gone astray I brought another packet of 

chocolate carrots. I had not opened Maria`s because of Customs.

Knowing Maria has her gift I opened pack and found 6 carrots.

My daughter found the carrots and we thought with words on 

Peters tum we had to add these.

I hope you all have a blessed an safe Easter.

Happy Stitching,

Clare.

Stitching and other things

Hello my friends.

I have some time to chat with you.

Please join me.

My ED put me in for an Easter raffle at `The Paul Hunter Centre` 

where she attends four days a week and I won this.

Wow what a surprise.

It will be nice to share this with my family over Easter break.

A pincushion to be used with my BBDs needle roll.

This is the project for Chookyblues SAL for March 

My bag that I made for myself for February.

I`m always using this.Now onto Aprils project.

I also made and sent this off to my friend Cheryl.

Well thank you for visiting,come again.

Happy Stitching,

Clare.

Time to post again

Hello my friends.
So glad that you have time for a visit.
It has been awhile so it`s time to post again.

 I`ve had some finishing to do.

I finished my Birthday stitching by the end of Feb

 and a few days later completed the needle roll.
So pleased :)
 But since then have been rather busy.

Last week my Mum had a mini stroke. 

She`s home now and on the mend. The first time for her at 80yrs to be on meds.

To give one of my sisters a break and be of help I stayed with Mum.

We did have a visit to A&E.
So glad I had our car!
Now some `Show and Tell`.

My BBD needle roll finished. 

I used this `Thimbleberries` fabric sent to me in a swap last year.

I may make something else to make a set.

The stitching pockets inside.

Felt needle pages attached at the end.

Now what project to use this for!

This was part of my gift from my friend Katrina.
http://kiwistitching.blogspot.co.nz/

Love it. Thankyou again Katrina.

So many lovely birthday gifts last month but so nice for gifts to come after.

An Easter parcel sent to my swap partner Maria
http://maria-lifeontheblock.blogspot.co.nz/
for `Let`s Celebrate Swap 2013`

Over Easter once this gift has arrived I will post on what`s inside.
Well time for me to get back to my stitching as
we have even days for hand held watering every second day with having a drought.
We are suppose to get some rain Sunday.
The nights are cooler with dew in the mornings.
Happy Stitching,
Clare.

Last Day of Feb

Hello my friends. 

Thank you for your visit. Love having you here.

I joined `Let`s Celebrate Swap` with Mrs Martin  this year. 

Birthdays are celebrated and mine is this month. 

My swap partner Maria -life on the block is my partner. 

It will be lovely getting to know her this year.

Maria sent this lovely parcel for me.

Beautifully wrapped in this lovely fat 1/4.

A lovely card with stitchery pattern and fabric to stitch it on.

Thank you Maria.

 I have a few ideas on what I`d like to make my fat 1/4 into.

February is my birthday month.

Family and friends helped me celebrate this with gifts,cards,phone calls and texts.

I`ve taken this photo of some of my gifts.

I  have received more taking photo. 

I will show my gifts at another post as it`s quite late now.

I was stitching so nicely and my needle roll was nearing finishing.

Then a little frog came for a visit and reverse stitching was needed before I 

could carry on :(

So close to my dead line.

Once frog went away I moved further on.

I`m thinking of using fabric from my `Thimbleberries` collection to make this up.

Thank you for your visit.

I`m of to stitch some more before I head to my bed.

Happy Stitching,

Clare.

Stitching in my birthday month

Hello my friends. 

It`s nice to be chatting with you again,

so glad you could have a short visit with me.

This is my finished bag from `Red Home` book by Natalie Bird.

 February`s project for Chookyblues SAL. 

As you can see I`ve had more than one project on the go.

February is my birthday month and I try to make a project by starting at the begining

  of the month. To be finished either before or on my birthday. 

This is so close to the end of the month that it usually gives me time.

This year I was nearly a week into February before my Crescent Color threads came. 

I had decided to make `Flowers for Sarah Needle case` from BBDs `Thank you Sarah Tobias` book.

Once the threads came I went will this project. I`m so pleased I did.

  I`m using suggested threads and linen.

I have enjoyed stitching this. After a week this was my progress.

Today I`m this far along.

  I`m nearly finished this part and as picture on book cover you can see one more part to go.

I will show my progress again soon and tell you if I meet my deadline for this.

I was going to stitch the kitty cat `Too Pooped` but realized a month wasn`t

 enough time to complete him as the colours are so close in some places 

that I need a fine day to stitch. So this is a WIP. I will show progress during the year.

Thank you for a lovely visit and I love the comments I get as I truely  feel you did visit with me.

Happy Stitching,

Clare.

Valentines

Hello my friends, I hope you are enjoying 

Valentines Day.

A surprise posy from my Hubby.

Flowers from our garden.

Lovely.

I joined Cheryl`s Initial Valentines Swap of gone stitching blogspot .

I stitched Janice Woods Quaker Motifs  Freebie heart pattern.

Using DMC v115 .

Then using a motif heart and Michell   @  http://michellsplace.blogspot.com/

initial I complete this side.

As you can see I added heart sweets and a heart shape tin of full of sweets too.

This is the other side.

I made it into a needle booklet.

This is the thread holders and felt needle pages.

My lovely surprise from Helen @ www.lemuronastick.blogspot.com 

A lovely initial heart,an amazing mug mat (love the entwining hearts) and 

a selection of chocolate kisses. Yum.
Thankyou Helen for the lovely gifts and it was lovely having a chat to you.

She has stitched this so beautifully and I now have it hanging off one of the little draws on my treasured wall unit.

Thankyou Cheryl for hosting such a lovely swap.

Well hope you are all having a lovely day.

Thank you for visiting .

Happy Stitching,

Clare.