Mucho excitement. We will be the most organised house in Melbourne next year…ahem.

The piece I stitched (which now resides with Rita in mini-quilt form) is on the cover of the Notebook diary for 2011.

The floral spray was taken from a vintage pillow case & then stitched by me (under the influence of Ike Rosen).

I will be gifting these for Christmas…mothers, sisters, aunties…look out.

PS: A big giant thank you to all the lovely folk who left me gorgeous comments on the calendar post. I had such a great time making it & utterly thrilled that so many of you enjoyed it too. x

This is the finished mini for The Downunder Doll Quilt Swap organised by Kate.

The centre panel is embroidered using stem, chain stitch & a fair few frenchies too.  You don’t see much stumpwork about on blogs so I thought I’d break a bit of that out too.

The outside 3D border/quilty bit is based on the scrappy number I picked up at the antique shop.

I really hope my partner likes it.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone.

Wonking it up.  I’m usually not good at wonk with hand work.  My stitches usually end up even despite my best wonky efforts.

I’ve found the key to the wonk & thought you might enjoy being let in on the secret. 

Hold your work at arm’s length.

Lovely, lovely space (I’ve fallen quite in love – can you tell) right here.

Don’t forget to pop in & add your link if you’re playing along this week.

I like to stitch.

I like things to be useful.

Maybe you’d like to stitch with me? We’ll work on a few basic stitches & then make an “x” bookmark to take home.

Maybe there’s something else I’ve stitched that you like the look of? I can help you with that too.

Maybe you’d just like to come & have a natter & French Knot for three hours? Fine, great, love to see you. Just so you know you’ll still get a little kit & supplies so plenty of bang for your buck.

It’s all organised by Notebook & the classes are held at Amitie in Bentleigh.

Date: Saturday 28 August 9:00-12:00
I plan to focus on the bookmark at this class, but will of course be flexible.

You can book your tickets here.

There are other fabulous classes on offer. I’m seriously considering signing up for Andi’s quilt as you go but there’s something for everyone. View the August timetable here (we are on page 2).

I had a bit of fun mucking around with some thermal curtain lining & the embroidery floss over the weekend.

I’ve posted the details over on Feeling Stitchy with a link to the pdf template if you’d like to make your own.