Finishes and Thank You's

Dear friends and fellow bloggers,

Hi, good to have your company again. I trust you are all well?
 

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March Ornament ...... Now I do have to thank Marlene of Stitchin By The Lake fame. I was watching her YouTube channel and she showed this design. I asked google to find me this person who had designed it and so there I was looking at freebies galore, the links are below. This only took an afternoons stitching time. I stitched it on Tumbleweed / Woodland Permin linen which was a close colour to the DMC 642 suggested for the background stitching.

 

Come una Volta - Luli.

Freebie found here.

32ct Tumbleweed / Woodland Permin Linen.

DMC threads as recommended.

 

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Spring Delivery ..... An appropriate time to finally finish this I think as we are heading for Easter next month. Now I hadn't finished a flat fold for quite some time ... years in fact. So I headed over to Vonna's YouTube Channel and the flat fold tutorial and had a re-cap. I tried out the glue and brush technique. I normally would of used a small spatula but the brush is so much better. No matter how long you have been stitching and finishing there is always something new, that is tried and tested by someone else, that you can learn. I was half way through mine and saw on Vonna's Instagram had a photo of Spring Delivery as a flat fold for a customer, I had to laugh but at least I knew what mine would eventually look like ..... hopefully. Oh and while I'm here I sent for a bottle of  Mary Ellen's Best Press. It's my new best friend. I've had a small bottle, 6 fl oz (177ml) from Cotton Patch. Love it!! So my second lot of thanks go to Vonna.

 

 

Spring Delivery - With Thy Needle.

36ct Mushroom Edinburgh Linen.

Threads used found on this post.

Cording used DMC 152 and DMC 962.

Finished as a flat fold.

 

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Little Spot Sampler ...... When I finished the stitching on this piece I didn't really know how I would like to finally finish it off. Today I decided it was to become a pillow. In the back of my mind I had always wanted to put the small reels on the end of the cording, an idea that was on Carol's Stitching Dreams blog many moons ago, thank you for the inspiration. I'd bought a pack at the time but unfortunately they had been languishing in a draw. I've backed it in a plain blue fabric and was going for a blue cord but I hadn't a spare skein of either of the blue colours, so red it was. It does draw your eye to the hearts though. This chart was gifted to me by Kathy (no blog) last year.

 

 

 Little Spot Sampler - The Drawn Thread.

36ct Summer Khaki Edinburg Linen.

DMC as recommended.

Finished as a pillow.

 

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The Little Birds Sampler ...... It's finished!!! Over the past few nights I seem to have stitched more than expected and finished it off last night. There are plenty of speciality stitches in this one, just wish I could of photographed it a bit better for you all to see. It will go in to my drawer ready to be taken to the framer. I never made it to the framer last year at all, I'll have to rectify that this year at some point.

 

 

 The Little Birds Sampler - The Drawn Thread.

36ct Summer Khaki Edinburgh Linen.

Recommended NPI and Dinky Dye Silks.

 

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So that's me all done for today.

 

Until next time .......