More FUN with Friday Frolics and FNSI...

 Last night was another "TwoferOne" as it was both a Friday Frolics night AND Friday Night Sew In (FNSI).  I had a very productive evening as I managed to put stitches into not one by two projects and I have a Happy Dance for one of them - way to go moi!

Both of these projects I began on 15th January, 2015!!!!!! Yep, six years ago but as they popped up this week as my Friday Frolics projects they finally got some love!

First up is a Lizzie Kate design, "Well behaved Women" - as you can see I used my own choice of colours  and although some of the lettering is a bit pale, with the right fabric when I finish it as a cushion, I think it will pop!

As this was a Friday Frolics project, I am going to have my first Giveaway of 2021 of this cute design (no little button nor threads, though).

Giveaway "Rules"

1. Comment on this post on Kitten Stitching and the Friday Frolics to enter (be clear that you wish to enter the giveaway) = one entry.  

AND/OR

2. Comment on the corresponding post on Kitten Stitching (again be clear that you want to enter the giveaway) = one entry.   

[So, yes, you can get two entries into the draw]

3. I will post ANYWHERE IN THE WOLRD, although I cannot guarantee how long it will take for you to get it in this Time of Covid - lol!

4. Giveaway closes at midnight, January 31st AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time)

5. Good Luck!🍀

The second project which I managed to get two lines of stitching done last evening - but only because TraderVic and I bingewatched the third season of Cobra Kai last night - lol! ...

... is another design which I received as part of my The Silver Needle's "A Little Help from Our Friends Stitching Circle" called "F is for Friend" by Heartstring Samplery Design.

As I said, just a couple of rows of stitching but a stitch is a stitch is a stitch!

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hugs, 

Are you being Haunted??????

This week in the tub of "(sometimes) No Return", I found this cute piece, halfway finished: "Haunted" by Lizzie Kate.  (Not sure when I last stitched on this - cannot find a post about it anywhere) but anyway, here it is - back in the light of day, so to speak.

So I stitched (and frogged - boo hoo) ...

... and then frogged and stitched some more and finally had a Happy Dance!

 Thought I would just finish with some roses from my garden.

hugs, 

P.S. Click on the pic below to find out how to enter my latest Girl's Nest Giveaway - closes November 11. 

Friday Night with Friends_October 2018

Last night was FNwF...

this is a virtual sew-in hosted by the lovely Cheryll from Gone Stitchin'

Despite having a very busy day yesterday, I did manage some FNwF stitching and a Happy Dance!

Christmas Goose by Stacy Nash (if you think this looks familiar, I did stitch this about five years ago - check it out here - but I love the pattern so much that I am stitching it again as I think that I gave the first one away).

Please follow this link if you want to see what the other FNwFers got up to last night.

Have a good day, everyone, it is going to be a beautiful day here in gorgeous, leafy Eaglemont.

hugs, 

A Friday Frolics Happy Dance.....

As I predicted in my last post, I finished Silent Night last evening.  I am very pleased with how it has turned out - I love its subdued colourway.

But I would love to ask all of you for some advice. I am planning to finish it with possibly a white pom pom trim (like my red pom pom trim on Joyeux Noel) but I would love your opinion on which backing fabric to use: Option 1 (pale blue and silver) or Option 2 (mid blue with yellow stars)?

Option 1....

Option 2....

... and here are both options together....

I think I know which one I will go with but I would still love to hear your opinion.

hugs, 

An "accidental" Happy Dance and checking the Temperature....

I started my Friday Frolics this week wrestling Furio for control of my stitching - lol!  He really is my stitching cat!

I am pleased to say that I won the tussle (yay! I could beat a cat a 100 times smaller than me - lol!) and managed a finish before my Friday morning coffee group.

Sorry, I did iron it but it still looks a little crumpled!  I made a few changes to the original  - see below - I hope that you like them.

Then it was onto my Temperature SAL.....

Before: 

Progress.....

Pretty happy, quite a bit achieved on this SAL piece.

Of course, all of this qualifies for FNSI hosted by the wonderful Wendy.  

This is a virtual Sew-In held on the third Friday of every month.  If you want to see what all the other FNSIers got up to this month you can find out here.

What did you stitch on for Friday Frolics this week?

hugs, 

P.S. I am having ANOTHER Girl's Nest Giveaway (#6) on my main blog, Kitten Stitching, click on the pic below if you would like to enter.  Closes May 31st.

Happy Dance x 2!

Yay! I had great success with my two kitty cats yesterday for Friday Frolics plus I also made great progress on my Witch's Kitchen, too!

Alphabet Cats by JBW Designs

Witch's Kitchen a freebie by The Primitive Hare

A most successful Friday Frolics, how about you?

hugs, 

The Cat has Hatched!

I had great success with my Friday Frolics last week - I loved stitching Proverbi 4 so much that I kept up with it over the weekend and had a Happy Dance!

This is the companion piece to Proverbi 3 (you can see the two pieces together if you scroll down). 

The saying "Gatto ci cova" means "The cat is hatching" ie up to something no good! You can read more about it here.

Next post, coming up shortly you will see what WIP I have found for this week - I can feel another Happy Dance coming on!

hugs, 

My Twentieth, Twenty-first and Twenty-second Frolics for 2017.....

Here I am again, with a Threefer for you this time (is that even a word?????) .... I swear the days and weeks and months are just spinning by so fast in a whirlwind of family, friends, work, home and lots and lots of other things that seem to keep me busy and away from my blogging.

But, anyway, here I am right now and I am ALL yours, ready to give you Kitten Stitching and the Friday Frolics updates for my Twentieth, Twenty-first and Twenty-second Frolics for 2017.

Twentieth Frolic: Friday, May 26th:

For my Twentieth Frolic, I picked up this gorgeous WIP, "Peas and Qs" by The Cricket Collection.  

 Now, I cannot find any record on my main blog, Kitten Stitching, of when I started this gorgeous design and you can see from the photo below that I didn't get very far when I did start it (oh, I am so very easily distracted by other stitching!).

But for FF, I did manage to get a bit more stitched and a bit more colour into the design - I cannot wait to get back to this piece one day very soon. (The fabric is a much prettier green than this photo shows, I must say.)

This is a better picture of what this lovely design will look like once finished (in a year or two at the rate I go with focusing on one piece!)

Twenty-first Frolic: Friday, June 2nd:

For my Twenty-first Frolic, I picked up The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery's "The Twelve Days of Christmas", which I am stitching for the Christmas Ornie SAL blog.  For June, I needed to finish Six Geese-a-layin'. I am quite happy with how this month turned out.

The piece so far.....

Twenty-second Frolic: Friday, June 9th:

For my Twenty-second Frolic, I picked up Lizzie Kate's "A Very Scary SAL", which I last stitched on in April this year.

My re-ordered WDW floss had finally come in at my local LNS, Lazy Daisy, so I was able to move on with my stitching of this piece.  This is where I got up to after my Friday evening of stitching.....

.... and then I stitched a bit more throughout the weekend and got up to here....

Feeling very happy to have revisited this particular piece again - I hope that I manage to get back to it again before year's end.

So, that's three weeks of Friday Frolics and here we are, nearly at Friday again!

I wonder which UFO I will choose to stitch on tomorrow?

Stay tuned!

hugs, Kaye

My Nineteenth Frolic for 2017...

The night of my Nineteenth Frolic corresponded with Friday Night Sew In (FNSI), hosted by the wonderful Wendy from Sugarlane Designs.

Unfortunately, I seem to have missed the last few months  of FNSI posting (oops!  I actually haven't had a FNSI post since January!!!!!) but I actually managed to get my act together this month!  And now, I have a bit of a serendipitous story to tell.

Once upon a Friday, it was time for May FNSI and as it was a Friday, it was also Kitten Stitching and the Friday Frolics night, so I went to my Girls Nest and pulled out this UFO project.  I started this at the beginning of 2015.  My dear friend, Marie (of Sunday walks fame) was doing some clearing out and she was going to throw out his gorgeous wooden photo storage box.  Now, I thought to myself, I can do something with this and I started stitching like mad to create a memento or personalised sewing box for myself.  (Good idea, hey?)  I managed to finish five "windows" before the project somehow ended up on the back burner.

(I just checked back and the one and only, very brief, mention of this project was on my Kitten Stitching blog at the end of this post way back in March, 2015!!!!!)

Anyway, here is MY box as it is looking now:

 Now, as luck would have it, that very Friday morning, I was reading dear Carol's lovely blog, Stitching Dreams, where she showcased a very special piece that she had stitched for her dear Mother's 90th birthday.  

It was a gorgeous freebie from The Snowflower Diaries.  Now, this design (sans border) looked perfect for my memento box, so I quickly printed the design and off I went.

However, I did change the word "loved" to "blessed" and added a third baby bird to represent my third child.

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... and every fairy tale has a happy ending (or dance), so here is my finished piece.

I am so pleased that FNSI and FF inspired me to get this project out again - who knows, maybe it will be a FFO very soon?

Thanks for visiting, everyone and if you would like to see what everyone else got up to for FNSI, please click on the pic below:

hugs, 

P.S.  As I am super busy the next three days (doing fun things, of course) - there is still time to join in my Merry Xmas in July Exchange , which I am running on my Kitten Stitching blog.  Just click on a present below to sign up.