Look what I got for my birthday

It was my birthday last Friday and my daughters Carol and Sarah spent the day with me as they always do on my birthday. I had a wonderful day my DH gave me an iPhone and the girls gave me money but they made me these fantastic presents to put the money in I am sure you will agree that I am very lucky to have such talented children.

This is my gift from Carol

This is a beautiful lined pouch and Carol stitched it all by hand

This is my gift from Sarah

A beautifully handcrafted little birdhouse.

Sarah also made me this lovely birthday card.

I love all my lovely gifts thankyou Carol and Sarah.

Thank you for visiting my blog your comments are greatly appreciated.

Marabout Angel

I absolutely love this angel and really enjoyed stitching her she is so beautiful and as soon as I bought this book of angels I knew I was going to love stitching them.

I trimmed her with narrow white ric rac as you can see as I thought it was delicate and angelic like.


This is the back I used a very delicate white fabric.


I could not resist making a little matching pillow.


I stitched this 1 over 2 on 40ct antique white linen with DMC 318.


I hope you you like my angel, enjoyed your visit to my blog and will come again as I have lots more stitching to show you.

Lily of the valley my birthday flower

I love the lily of the valley it is the May flower the month of my birth and it is the flower of Flora day in Helston Cornwall. On May the 8th everyone wears a buttonhole of the lily of the valley and there is dancing in the streets I have wonderful memories of this festive occasion especially when my chidren danced the floral dance. The perfume from the lily of the valley always bring back wonderful memories of when as a little girl my grandmother would every year take me to flora day where there was always a fair and lots of stalls in the street and of course the dancing. I was born in Marazion but did live in Helston for a while where as a child I also danced in the floral dance. When I was married we lived in Helston and that is when two of my chidren Roy and Sarah danced through the streets with their school.
I always get a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat when the brass band starts and the little children all dressed in white are dancing behind. I now live in Plymouth but on Saturday I will once again join in the festivity when I go to Helston for Flora Day,and memories once more will come flooding back and tears no doubt will be shed.

This is a little pillow stitched in memory of all the flora days.
The design is by Dany and is stitched on 32ct natural linen 2 over 2 with the recommended DMC threads.









Thank you for your visit.

Lettre d' Amour

Here is another cherub made into a little pillow with my initial on it.


Lettre d'Amour is a french design by Couleur d' Etoile I just could not resist this little cherub. It is stitched 1 over 1 on 28ct cream linen with DMC threads 452 950 3023 3860.
This is the back of the pillow just with the cream fabric which is a very pretty small floral design.




Another cherub from my hobby bucket. Lots more to come but I am at last getting them finished.
Thank you for looking.

Amonamipierre cherub

Its been along time since I posted and its incredible how quickly the time has flown I have been kept very busy as DH took a few months off work to make some changes to our home, we have nearly finished what we planned to do and I have at last been able to take these photos for my blog. This little cherub has been sat in my hobby basket along with a lot of other little cherubs and angels for over a year waiting to be finished and posted so there will be more cherubs and angels posted soon along with a few other stitched things needed to be finished and I am not going to be staying away so long in the future.
I have made this into a little hanger for my daughter Sarah as it will match her newly decorated bedroom.


I have used a lovely William Morris fabric for the back of the cushion in these lovely shades that matches the DMC thread 3768 perfectly



It was all stiched 1 over 1 on 28ct cream linen.
I hope you like my little cherub and thank you for visiting

Blackbird Designs Country Garden

I am back from my holiday and at last I have got around to adding my latest completed stitching. I made the box about a month before I went on holiday but needed to add the cord and tassels, I managed to do this a week or so ago, since then I have been wanting to photograph it to put on my blog but DH has been home and I never seemed to be able to get them taken until today.



Design is stitched 1 over 2 on 36ct Edinburgh linen in antique white using WDW and GA threads as listed on the chart.
I followed a tutorial for the box from Judy Odell's book The Flatfold and friends.
I chose Blackbird designs Harvest Home for the fabric as the colours matched so well with the colour of the threads

The box is all hand sewn and padded and is really lovely to feel.

I made the corded and tasseled scissor fob and the bead just added that extra touch. It looked such a good match and was one I had already in my bead collection.

I am very pleased with how it turned out.
Hope you like it.

Blackbird Designs Free Petite Lettres Rouges

I wanted to make this design from Barb & Alma into a needlebook and over the bank holiday weekend I had the time to do it.
This is a photo of the front


This is the inside.


I made some accessories to match the needlebook.


I also made this beaded scissor fob to put my gorgeous little hornbook on, it is so sweet my initials are engraved on it. It was made for me by Bloom Woodworks


Thanks for visiting my blog I am off to see my daughter for a coffee now

A Noel ornament

Another finish at last.
This beautiful design is a free chart which can be downloaded from here.







I stitched the design 1 over 1 with DMC threads 815 & 321 on 32 ct Natural linen. It was stitched mainly on holiday in Tenerife last November. I have taken ages to decide on the finishing but am happy to have it as an ornament, one of many I am aiming to do by Christmas for a special little tree.

Petites Lettres Rouges

My needle has been very busy this weekend as I wanted to finish this little sampler for the contest at Blackbird Designs I added my initials and also added the word NEEDLES at the bottom of the sampler because I would like to finish it as a needle case at some future date.
We had to add a bird to the design and I got mine from a blackbird design which I thought was appropriate.
I really enjoyed stitching this little piece although I had only the weekend to do it as I only found the blackbird blog on Thursday but I did not start it until Saturday.

I never thought I would finish it in time but was so pleased I did.

I stitched the sampler 1 over 1 on 28ct zweigart cashel linen the colour is Vintage Country Mocha the photo does not do the fabric justice I used DMC threads 321 498 & 815.

My first pinkeep

I cross stitched this piece just after Christmas and have been longing to make it up. I had never made a pinkeep before and I was a little hesitant about starting. For a first attempt I am quite pleased with the result and hopefully my next one will not take me so long to start, and be a little quicker to make up now I have more idea of what I'm doing.

The chart is CoeurAuxPaons and is a free design from Carinne found here

I stitched it 1 over 1 on 32ct belfast linen using DMC 498.

Here is the front and back of the pinkeep.






I can't wait to start making up my other stitched pieces now that I have at last made the effort.

Mojo sketch

I made this layout of Ben using this weeks sketch from Mojo Holder




I really enjojed making this as it has been a while since I have made a layout. Thanks to Mojo Holder for giving me the inspiration.