Beading the Winter Queen

I have finally finished stitching Mirabilia's Winter Queen and for the last three days I have been adding the beads.  Hopefully it will not be long until I have finished adding the rest of the beads and the back stitching. 

Sorry about the photo it's a bit dark.  

There are so many beads but she will be so beautiful when I have finished adding them.

I have decided to stitch another one of the Mirabilia mermaids when the Winter Queen is finished,   probably  the Siren and the Shipwreck.  I do love Nora's mermaids.

Happy stitching 

Sue

Christmas Cheer and some blankets.

Another Christmas ornament stitched, added to my pile of stitching waiting to be turned into a finished ornament.  I really must spend some time actually finishing them.

This one is Christmas Cheer by Country Cottage Needleworks.

It was such a fun stitch.

A small amount of stitching on my Winter Queen. I will finish her this year. 

I have made a lot of croched blankets over the past year and a bit, here are a few of them. 

My favourite one is the Canal Boat Rose one.

I'm half way through knitting a blanket, it's made from squares using different knitted stitches.  It's way too hot to knit at the moment so it will have to wait to be finished.

Happy stitching

Sue

Fa La La, a bag and an old WIP

Another small finish, this one from Country Cottage Needleworks.

another cute ornament from their ornament collection

Here is a bag I made, it's great for a day out, lots of room for bits and pieces.

and pockets to put things in.

I think this is one of my favourite bags, well until the next bag.  LOL

I have also dug out The Winter Queen.  I started her so many years ago and must finish her.    I do love this design but I think all the blues is why I keep putting her away.  This time I will stitch on her for at east a few hour a week.  I'll keep you updated.

I'm back

I cannot believe its been almost three years since I last posted on here.  So much has happened.  DS2 will start his third year at university in September, DS3 will join him for his first year and best of all DS1 and his wife had a beautiful baby girl and she is now 17 months old

Hailey loves bubbles

Last week I was looking over the blog and saw that in my last post I had almost finished Six Fat Men by Lizzie Kate.  Well it was still in the cupboard, unfinished so I dug it out and finally finished it.

Here it is complete with snowflake buttons

Must have this made into a hanging ready for this Christmas.

I also stitched a couple of ornaments over the weekend

Old Colonial by Little House Needleworks

and

Christmas Cookies by Country Cottage Needleworks

I have a pile of stitched pieces that need making into ornaments,  I really must make them before Christmas.

I have been crafting while I've been away.  I will show you some of the things I have been doing in future posts.  I have made bags, cards and done a ton of scrapbooking.  I have a Cricut Air machine and I love it.

Happy crating

Sue