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a tiny present!
I really have enjoyed viewing the pictures of the first completed Austrian Spot Samplers. It's thrilling to view how my first design comes "to life"! As a little "thank you" I want to donate a little gift to the first three finished Austrian Spot Samplers....
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Sneak Peek
It's snowing outside and so I'm working on the model stitching of my new design, "Grandmother's Favourite Letters". Do you want to sneak a peek? Here it is: It's stitched on 36 count antique white linen with Old Willow Stitchery Threads First Color Black...
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Hexagons
First I saw this little hexagons on Vero's blog and have fallen in love with them. I was reading instructions how to creat them and thought that would be a great project for a beginner to quilting like me. Not really a good time to beginn a new project,...
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I love spring!
Is there any better time of the year than spring?? And is there any greater artist in the world than nature?? Not for me! I love spring when everything is growing. There are only a few days when the the shrub at our entrance is blooming like you can see...
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short trip
Whenever I'm on vacation I love visiting old castles, cloisters, etc. I love viewing the old buildings and I always get a lot of inspirations in colors and shapes for my stitching. There are a lot of historical sights nearby my hometown which I never...
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an Attic Find
I'm storing a lot of old linen on our attic. Mostly old handwoven bed sheets from my grandmother and my great grandmother. This linen is surely more than hundred years old and it's perfect for working old samplers in a higher count on it. Just I was looking...
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Grandmother's Favourite Letters
I finished the model stitching of my new design "Grandmother's Favourite Letters". The model is framed, some pictures are taken and the charts should be available in your LNS and OLS in US soon. The model is stitched on 36 count antique white linen and...
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back from a long weekend
I just came home from our annual trip to Vienna. Every year I spend a long "girls weekend" with my two daughters in Vienna. I love those days! We always have fine dinners, go to theatres and museums and certainly do a lot of shopping. Here are some impressions...
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Queen of Birds
I just finished the stitching on the model of my new design. So I want to share with you - hot from the needle - the first picture of the "Queen of Birds". It's stitched on 32 count sand linen with silk. Now I'll do the framing and the chart should be...
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Friendship Quilt January 2009
It's really time to continue working on my friendship quilt which I have started in 2003. I have added three new squares to the quilt and slowly it will be growing. And slowly it will become a real heirloom piece and a great rememberance on all my stitching...
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Want to share with you...
I just got a lovely picture of Amandas finished Austrian Spot Sampler in purpel, which I want to share with you. I really love viewing different versions of my designs and I think the Spot Sampler looks gorgeous in purpel. Thank you for the picture Amanda!...
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Christmas Drawing!
Just the Christmas drawing has taken place and I'm happy to announce the winners now! But first let me tell you how much I appreciate how many mails and entries I have got! I got so much lovely mails and Christmas wishes, that I really was overwhelmed....
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Christmas Give Away
Today there are two lighted candles on the Advent wreath, so I thought it would be nice to say a little thank you for visiting my blog, for your kind comments, for your stitching friendshipand and for letting me know you are out there. So I want to arrange...
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Pink Ribbon Biscornu
I stitched my Breast Cancer Awaraeness Freebie and finished it as a Biscornu. It's stitched with HDF silks on 32 count linen. For the middle I used an antique linen button. And just I got a picture from Milly with her lovely finish of this freebie. It...
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This and That
Just want to do a little update on my blog what's going on in this part of the world in November! First I'm busily stitching on the model of a new big sampler. I have collected so much old stitchings and the alphabets and borders slowly become faded more...
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Blue Deer Sampler
I just finished the stitching of my new design the "Blue Deer Sampler", I couldn't resist to do the framing immediately and to take a picture. It's not the professional picture for the cover of the chart, I only want to show how it looks like to you,...
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my love and my inspriations
One thing my parents taught me was - to live in the present, but to preserve the best of the past. I always have loved antique needleworks, so I started to collect them in my youth and I really love and treasure them a lot. Here are some pictures of my...
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Want to show you!
I have to admit that I absolutely love viewing progress pictures of my designs. May I show you here a beautiful finish and some progress pictures of the Austrian Spot Sampler? Just I received a picture of Bhooma's gorgeous finished Austrian Spot Sampler....
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What's going on!
Here's a little update what has been going on the last weeks! I really have been busy with publishing my first design the Austrian Spot Sampler. And I'm happy that I have been picked up by European Cross Stitch and they now will act as a distributor for...
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my first little bag
I always was admiring the handsewn bags I saw on the web. Especially the French stichers make such lovely things with stitching and sewing bags. I always wanted to do one by myself. Maybe as you know my sewing machine isn't my best friend, but I gave...
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What's going on
Today a little update on my stitching! I did a little progress on Three Pink Houses by Ewe&Eye&Friends, I'm doing in the EEF SAL. I really like how it comes along and I really like this SAL with so much great stitchers. So I'm just thinking of which EEF...
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EEF SAL
After I finished the Pink Hare Sampler by Ewe&Eye&Friends I decided to start another EEF design for the SAL with the "EEF girls". I chose "Three Pink Houses" and did only a little progress on it. First I thought this will be another quick design to stitch....
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The shepherdess
After I saw Su's lovely Mary Beale sampler finished on her blog, I had to pull out my Mary Beale charts imediately and I had to start a little of her designs. I chose this little sampler and I'm stitching it on 36 count Flax Edinburg linen. I really like...
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Another EEF Finish
I just finished another EEF design, it's House on the Holly Hock Hill. I started it last year, but when I came to the one over one stitching I stoped stitching on it. Now I pulled it out and thought - Now or Never - and finished the stitching on it. It's...
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EEF SAL
Here's my progress in the SAL I did with the EEF girls you can see here I almost finished the Pink Hare Sampler. And I think it will be finished soon. I only have to add the ribbon roses and I really like how it came along. I absolutely like to stitch...