Friday, 23 March 2018

5 bats for Trick.....

A highly successful FNSI/FF last evening working on Counting Bats by Just Nan....

Before:


Progress:


Only seven more bands to go......

hugs, 


P.S. I would just like to invite you to take part in my Girl's Nest Giveaway #5, on my main blog, Kitten Stitching, please just click on the pic below to sign up for the item of your choice.  It closes on March 31st.


Thursday, 22 March 2018

Counting Bats not Sheep!

This week for FF I have rediscovered a WIP from 2016 ....Counting Bats by Just Nan.

Now, I love this design and I was stitching it for the 2016 Hallowe'en SAL but somehow I abandoned around May 2016.  I have no idea why as I cannot think of anything that was happening around that time to make me give up on the SAL for that year.

Anyway, it is back for today, hurray!


It would be nice if I could get another band done this weekend, wouldn't it?

Please feel free to come back tomorrow to see how much progress I make today/this evening.

hugs, 


P.S. I would just like to invite you to take part in my Girl's Nest Giveaway #5, on my main blog, Kitten Stitching, please just click on the pic below to sign up for the item of your choice.  It closes on March 31st.


Tuesday, 20 March 2018

Late again

Hello friends,

here is my update on my Friday stitching. The number generator had chosen the #16 among my WIPs, which is a design by Italian designer Sara Guermani, Stitching & Quilting Party.

Here is the part I stitched, I finished the cloud that I had started before, the three birds and started on the little house


And this is the overall design


Meanwhile I have added some more in that upper right corner and I'm still stitching on this project. It's just too much fun to put it away.

Until next Friday.
Brigitte








Friday, 16 March 2018

More on that slipper hunt.....

Well, some success on finding that slipper for Cinderella - it may not look like much progress but I am pretty pleased with how much more stitching was done - she is one of those very big projects that take a lot of stitching!

Before:


 Progress.....


What she will look like one day!


How did you all go with your frolicking last night?

hugs, 


P.S. I would just like to invite you to take part in my Girl's Nest Giveaway #5, on my main blog, Kitten Stitching, please just click on the pic below to sign up for the item of your choice.  It closes on March 31st.


Barbara - The Flashing Scissors (2018 - 2)


Hello Dear Friends,

The last few Fridays I have been working on my oldest project again, and coincidentally I found I hadn't blogged about this one since this time last year.


It is quite hard to hold and stitch with this frame, and I need a magnifying glass a lot of the time. In fact, you can see the magnifying glass got in the way of my photo here:

The Flashing Scissors

I've been putting this off because I really wasn't looking forward to stitching all the framework, and even now I am not looking forward to going back and finishing it, as most of this is just half stitches.

I've found it a lot easier to work on since I bought a new magnifying glass and light which I can attach to the frame, although, of course, it does make the frame a bit heavier to hold!

The Flashing Scissors

The Flashing Scissors

To ensure the borders all met up I started again at the top left, but this time I'm crossing all the stitches!

The Flashing Scissors

It will be a long while before it's all finished, but by joining in with Friday Frolics I'm being more motivated to carry on! 

Not sure if I will stitch this tonight, you might well be tired of seeing it now, so I might go and search in the Dreaded Cupboard to see if I have some other old project that needs some TLC!

Happy Stitching All!!!!



Hugs,
Barbara xxx

Thursday, 15 March 2018

Looking for that lost slipper....

Today for Friday Frolics I have pulled out a very old WIP/UFO..... my darling Cinderella by Mirabilia.


I just checked back on my old posts on my main blog, Kitten Stitching and if you click here you will see that it has been FIVE YEARS since I last stitched on/posted about her!!!!!!!!!  Oh, my goodness!


So, please check back tomorrow to see how much progress I make.


hugs, 


P.S. I would just like to invite you to take part in my Girl's Nest Giveaway #5, on my main blog, Kitten Stitching, please just click on the pic below to sign up for the item of your choice.  It closes on March 31st.


Tuesday, 13 March 2018

One of my oldest UFOs

Hello friends,

last Friday my number generator came up with #4 - Old Teddies by Anna Krajewski. I stitched it about 15 years ago but then abandoned it. When I left it back then it looked like that



I thought I could do a little bit of backstitching and stitched all the backstitches in the picture above the big teddy.



I have no idea when it will come out again. But the next will be the backstitching of the basket and the twigs in the basket.

Happy Stitching,
Brigitte