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I did a very, very little progress on Watergarden in July. But I think it´s almost better to put only a few stitches in every month, than it will become an UFO forever.
After a discussion at the Swan Sampler group about Silvies (Au Fil des Reves) designs, I totally become tempted to start one of her designs. Immediately I pulled out her Bourse de Brodeuse kit, which I have since some time in my stash and started it last evening. I really enjoyed to put the first stitches in and I´m really curiously how the finishing will work for me.
I finished the Periwinkle Promises Sunshine Sampler Accent. This little sampler is worked with silk and only specially stitches. It really was funny to stitch.
And now I´m in the mood for a new start! I´m thinking of a sampler, maybe a reproductions sampler. I´ll take a look through my stash, I´m sure I´ll find a lot I want to start. And maybe a Prairie Schooler design, for some relaxing stitching hours too.
I just counted my WIPs. In July I had two finishes, this little Sampler Accent and my stitching for the Summer Exchange which I sent out yesterday. And I had three new starts!!!!!!!!! So I´m up to 19 WIPs at the moment!!!!!! I never will learn to reduce my WIPs, but I´ll not call them UFOs *lol*!!!!!!!!!!!
I just came home from shopping and I want to share with you my purchases!
We live in a very little town and when I go shopping I never get the thinks I´m looking for, but I always find a lot of things I´m not looking for but must have :-)!
First I bought some clothes for the autumn, but that´s another story :-)!
Then I found some wooden stars in three sizes, usually for decorating for Christmas. But I just tried them and they are perfect for using them as thread winders, for a very, very reasonable price :-)! I definitely have to go again tomorrow and have to buy some more.
Then I found some wooden boxes. I´m thinking of maybe to stitch a band around for covering and maybe lining them. So I have new boxes for my stitching supplies.
Then I found some tassels!!
And I bought a lot of this "Span Schachteln". Don´t know how they are called in English?? Maybe wood chip boxes?? They are usually sold for being painted, but I will use them for covering with my stitchings. I hope I bought the right sizes, because they are sold in a lot of sizes (from 2 cm - 40 cm) and in a lot of shapes.
And I bought some embroidered silk. I have an idea for lining a stiched bag with them
And last but not least I found a sleeping shirt with a Toile Rouge fabric. I really love this design and I think it will be nice to sleep with it :-). There was a nice pouche included, which I`ll use to put some of my stitching supplies in.
Don´t ask I´ll not post a picture when I´m wearing it *lol*!!!
I started my Merry Cox Birds & Berries and put the first stitches in. But as the most of this piece is stitched tent stitch on 32 count, I always can do only a little progress at a time before my eyes become tired.
Now I will stop stitching on this for today and will rest my eyes. Maybe I will look for something over two on 28 count :-)!!
I just got a message with a link about a stamp with embroidery which is realized in our country.
http://mitglied.lycos.de/bsv2005/html/20050719.html
Monday I have to go to the postoffice and have to look for this stamp!!!
I`m absolutely fond in needlework accessoires like sewingcases, pincushions, needlebooks............
So I often visit this HP and I always get a lot of inspirations!
http://www.stitchedwithlove.net/smalls.php
I love viewing the beautiful samplers too, but this stitching smalls are absolutely gorgeous, and a lot of inspiration and motivatin for a new start too !
This weekend our oldest DD will become 18 years old! It´s really a strange feeling to become an adult daughter. Here is a picture of her 18 years ago!!
And here an actual one:
Today I pulled out her baptized cloth which I stitched 18 years ago. I´m remembering like yesterday when I really had to hurry to finish it for her baptism. It´s used only one time and I´ll give it to her to keep it, maybe if she will become a daughter too one day to use it again.
It´s stitched on linen and I stitched a Tree of Life, our initiales, her birthday date and the saying
" GOTT GEBE GLÜCK" which maybe can be translated into "Lord give luck" ??
And I think she really had a lucky life till now!! Hope this will continue!!
The French ladies infected me with their patchwork projects. So today I received my first order from a patchwork shop. I bought some fabric.
And I bought some Japanese patchwork books.
http://www.quiltzauberei.de/oxid.php/sid/oxs42c554d15f265/cl/alist/cnid/1ee409a3fedab9567.20246285
There are six pages with Japanese patchworkbooks and if you click on the picture you can view inside the book. It was really hard to decide which one to buy.
There are beautiful projects inside, but as I´m absolutely new to patchwork and sewing it would have been much better to buy a book for beginners in German first. It´s a pleasure viewing the books, but the instructions are really "japanese" for me *lol*. No chance to follow them. But viewing the pictures is a lot of inspiration. I´m really happy that I bought at least one German book too.
After I read Veros blog and her article about Merry Cox http://verom.over-blog.com/article-578361.html , I pulled out my Merry Cox charts. Can´t understand why I never started one of her designs till now?? I really have to change this immediately. But I´m not really sure which one starting first. This designs are really gorgeous!
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