Forest Fox and Friends.

Forest Fox and Friends square finished, just one more square to go.

Almost finished, still not sure how I will finish it.

I also finished off a few stitched pieces into bell pulls.

I think one is a Shepherds Bush design, one Lizzie Kate, one Just Nan and I cannot remember who designed the last one.  

I also made a wreath last Christmas, it was made from 52 small fabric pillows.  

Sorry I cannot remember who made this kit.  I added a few fir cones as well, might add something else to it next year as well.  It feels like it needs something else.

Happy stitching.

Sue

Pink Forest Cottage

Another square finished on the Country Cottage Needleworks Welcome to the Forest, the Pink Forest Cottage.  My granddaughter loves pink so she’ll say that’s her cottage and the blue one is mine.  Only two more squares to go and the rest of the border.

I made myself a sewing case, it’s from a pattern by Lynette Anderson.  It’s the first time I did this type of embroidery and appliqué.

Here is the inside, pockets to pop things in and I also made a small needle case to store my needles.

I had fun making this.  I’m sure I will be using it a lot.


A couple more pictures from our lockdown walks.

I do love walking along our beaches.  This is Margate Harbour when the tide is out.

Another of the harbour with the tide going out or coming in, I cannot remember.


Happy stitching

Sue

Blue Forest Cottage

Another square finished on Welcome to the Forest, one of the cottages.  I must say stitching the single red stitches along the top and bottom were not my favourite part of the square, not looking forward to stitching them on the next square.

Another photo I took last summer when I was making up some of my stitched pieces.

This one I stitched years ago.  Santa’s clothes by Raise the Roof.

A batch of stitched pieces before they were made into ornaments.

Another photo from our walk along Kingsgate Bay.

Happy Stitching

Sue

Still stitching

Still stitching, still in lockdown although you can go for longer walks and walk more then once a day.

Finished the second square and I’ve almost finished the third one.  I’m leaving the french knots on the toadstools and the eyes for the animals until the end, I might use beads instead.

Here is another bag I made.  This one is called Simona by Shamballa.

I like this bag, lots of room inside.  I had a piece of Liberty fabric and I used it on this bag.

Here are a few more photos I found of some of the Christmas finishes I did last year.

Country Cottage Needleworks Gingerbread Village.   Love this, so cute.

Two of Lizzie Kate’s Santa’s made into small pillows.

Another photo from one of our daily walks.  We are so lucky to have lovely places to walk.  It was a lovely sunny day, not a cloud in the sky but the wind was a bit chilly.


Happy stitching

Sue

Welcome to the Forest

I am really enjoying getting back into stitching.  I do go off and do other crafts but I always come back to my stitching.  After finishing my Farmhouse Christmas I have picked up my Welcome to the Forest by Country Cottage Needleworks.  I am making this for my granddaughter, she loves going for a walk in the woods around here.  We are lucky there are a lot of small woods within a short drive from here.

I had stitched the banner piece before put it away.  I’ve almost finished another square, I know Hailey will love this when I have finished it.

Last summer I batch made a load of small stitched pieces into ornaments.  I found some old photos of them after I had stitched them into small pillow ornaments and stuffed them.  They were waiting to have the opening stitched closed and the cording put around the edges.

The snow one finished,  my son Jack had that one and a few more for his tree.

I also made a few Christmas cushions.  It was nice to see the stitched pieces turned into some things.  I still have loads that are just sitting there waiting to be framed or turned into something.

We are lucky living on the coast as it means we have lovely places to walk on our daily walks during the lockdown.

Lots of cliff top walks.  I have noticed on sunny days the sky is so much bluer then it used to be.  I’ll take some photos when the sun is shining and post them.  

Well that’s all for now

Happy stitching

Sue

Lockdown stitching.

It’s been a long time since I did any stitching.  I have been making bags and I have done some quilting.  Since we have been in lockdown I have started stitching again.  I have so many WIP I am going to try and finish some.  Although I have not been stitching I have still been getting more patterns.  I have the new Little House Needlework’s Kringle chart but I’m trying not to start it until I have finished a few thing.  I had stitched the first two squares on the Little House Needleworks Farmhouse Christmas and that was the first WIP I decided to finish and I’m so pleased it’s finally stitched.

Not sure how I’m going to finish it yet.  Maybe a wall hanging.

Next one I’m going to finish will be Country Cottage’s Welcome to the Forest.  I have only stitched the top banner and I want to finish it for my granddaughter.

I also found these ornament finishes on an unpublished post.  I’ve already made them into ornaments and they were on my tree this year.  They are packed away so I cannot show them, I may not have stitched for a while but I did make a lot of stitched pieces into ornaments last year.  I don’t think I have any photo’s but I’ll have  a look.

I’ll show some photo’s of some of the other things I have been making.  This is a bag I made from my youngest son’s girlfriend for her birthday.

She is Harry Potter mad so I made this for her to use at university.  The Harry Potter fabric makes two pockets on each side of the bag.

A zipped top to keep everything in.

Inside it has a zipped pocket on one side and the other side I put a pocket for a notebook, her phone and some pens.  Plenty of room for other thing as well including her MacBook.