New Stash :)

This weekend it's my birthday & the celebrations started yesterday with my first gift.  A ticket to The Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace from my good friend Franney of Franney Makes.  We met up at London Victoria station & traveled together to Ally Pally, both very excited to see what this years show has in store for us.

I had some birthday money sent to me in advance from my brother & sister-in-law.  They knew I was heading to the show so very kindly allowed me some pennies to shop with while I was there.

We had a fabulous time at the show, it's become an annual pilgrimage for us & we spend the year looking forward to it.  We also met up with two other lovely friends while we were there & catching up at the end of the day in the bar was a welcome rest.

Here's what I came back with this year.

Lisa G Creations - New Stash 2012

A Fire Dragon cross stitch chart
Cherry, whales & spots FQ's
Sew Stitchy charm pack
1 metre each of pussy cat fabric, pink with pretty birds & Disney Cars fabric
Spotty fabric in pink n cream & brown n cream

Not a bad haul of new goodies, came away with lots on a wish list & ideas galore of things to make.  Lets hope it's not too long before I can show you something made out of these lovelies.

Happy stitching :)

A New Toy :)

The day before I went on holiday I visited the Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace in London.

I made several purchases but only one that I'm going to share with you today.

My new sewing machine. A Jenome Memory Craft 5900QC. I love it :)



I bought some other bits at the show too but haven't got around to photographing them yet, hopefully soon.

Happy stitching :)

My New Stash

Finally I got around to taking pictures of my stash haul from the Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace. I love this show & this year was better than ever. Lots of new stands & sellers along with lots that I was looking forward to seeing again.

First up is Lizzie Kate:
Tiny Tiding XIII
Good Things
Cleaning The House
Be Naughty
The complete collection of Living With Charm Double Flips

Waxing Moon Designs - Eat, Drink & Be Scary
Waxing Moon Designs - Primitive Stocking
LHN - Poinsettia House
Hob-Nobb Designs - Halloween Stitch Em

1 Metre of Star Fabric
6 Xmas Fat Quarters

I love this collection of 8 Fat Quarters

Christmas decorations made with Ribbon, 1 kit &
Instructions for several others.
Small pussy cat quilt pattern
Fabric Bag Kit
Tiny Kit for note pad & pencil holder

Austrailian Handmade Xmas Special Magazine
2 Irish Quilt & Craft Magazine

I have a couple of finishes to share with you but they'll have to wait until tomorrow now as I'm off to catch up on some sleep.

Happy Stitching :-)

The Life Of A Quilt

Back in the summer I signed up for a 4 week quilt class at my nearest quilting shop Thread Bear. The day I booked the class my friend Franney & I popped along to another quilt shop, that just happen to be having a closing down sale, & I decided there & then to purchase my fabrics for the October class.

I decided to take photos from start to finish. Fabric choice, cutting, piecing etc etc. Here is the start:

Fabric Choice

Cutting in progress

Cutting complete

My next class is on Monday & thats when we start sewing so hopefully there'll be lots of lovely piecing to show you next week.

I hope to get around to showing you some of my birthday presents this week. I was lucky enough to have the twins looked after for a day last week so that I could attend one of the largest stitching shows in the UK.... The Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexander Palace, London. This falls every year about a week before my birthday so I often get money gifted early so that I can have a spend up. I've just been going through everything I bought at the show as it was all a gift from my DH & as today is my birthday I thought I'd look at it all again :-)

Happy Stitching all :-)

New Stash :-)

Last week I once again added to my 'to do' list. It was the long awaited visit to The Knit & Stitch Show held at Alexandra Palace. It was a lovely day, we were lucky enough to get a parking space right outside the main doors, any closer & we'd have been in the foyer!



Baa Baa Black Sheep Kit - Historical Sampler Company
Happy Christmas Kit - Michael Powell, Little Gems



Christmas Is... Chart - Lizzie Kate
You Can Touch The Dust... Chart - Lizzie Kate
Merry Christmas Charts - Lizzie Kate
Peace, Love & A Cure Chart - Lizzie Kate
Snowman style bellpull wire
Threads from The Gentle Art & Weeks Dye Works

Now all I need is a few more days without the twins or a much longer day!!

The Promised Picture

Here you go... an updated picture of Baby Love.


I've thoroughly enjoyed getting back into my stitching. Last weekend we continued having a tidy of the spare room & this involved me going through a rather large storage box where I came across all kinds of stitching goodies which included:

• Floor stand from Needle Needs
• Lap/Table stand from Needle Needs
• Several different sized frames for the above
• Cedric the knitted christmas gnome
• Lots of felt squares that came from my shop
• Scarf knitting project with fabulous alpaca yarn
• Some kits that I just had to have!!
  
• Several UFO's that haven't seen the light of day for a while :-)
  

This time next week I would've been to the Knit & Stitch show & hopefully returned with some lovely new stash to add to the collection. I will of course share with you any new purchases!

An Eve of Stitching

This evening I've put some time in on Baby Love. It's coming along really nicely & I've almost completed the main bulk of the design. I'm trying my best to get it done so that I can do the backstitch on it as I know that once the backstitch is on the design will really come to life & thats when the enthusiasm will really kick in to finish it off. Being such a small design it really shouldn't take me that long once I'm past the backstitch point.

Hopefully I'll get a picture posted tomorrow.... would have got that done this evening but the battery is dead again... maybe I should request a new one for christmas.

I've made some nice progress on the christmas gift stitching that I began last week, I'm pleased with the colour so far on the fabric. No picture to be posted of this until after christmas so a long wait I'm afraid.

Only 8 days to the Knit & Stitch show, can't wait. I hope there is lots of stitching there, I'll be gutted if there isn't. I do know that Historical Sampler Company will be there & both mum & me love their samplers so it'll be nice to see them & anything new that they have on offer :-)

Problem Solved :-)

The dilemma from last week has now been sorted. A friend recommended that I purchase half the threads needed for the new design & puchase the other half at the show. Well I went to order half & then realised that there is only 6 different shades needed so I ordered them all... yay :-)

Below is a picture of the threads & fabric. There are 2 shades from Gentle Art & 4 from Weeks Dye Works. The fabric is 27 count Cream Northern Cross Linen. Have to wait a while for me to show you the design though as it's the one thats a christmas gift. Can't wait to get started!!

A New Start

For the last few days I've been looking at a design that I would like to get started on asap. Only problem is I need to order the threads for it as I want to use the Sampler Threads & Weeks Dye Works that are listed. I have 21 days until me & mum head to The Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace so I know I should hold off ordering them but it's driving me mad. I don't have that much time to stitch at the moment & I would really like this done as a christmas gift.

What a quandary to be in... do I order the threads now & then I've got them & can get started or do I wait until Ally Pally & risk not getting them & then having to order them anyway? These things do my head in!

Below is a picture of what I'm working on at the moment. It's a mini birth sampler for Missy Moo, I started it just after the twins were born but didn't get to stitch much as everything was put on hold while I learnt how to incorporate the twins into my life. The design is only small & it's from the Kittens range of Cinnamon Cat designs. Hopefully now that I'm dedicating some time to the stitching I'll be able to post some more progress soon.

Baby Love

Happy Stitching :-)

Not much doing....

Once again another day & evening has passed me by with no sign of putting thread to fabric. It does disappoint me slightly but at the same time I've been busy blog hopping from my stitching group blogs on to further afield.

I have managed to add a WISP (Work In Slow Progress) column to my blog & in it have included my HAED design Dragon Riders. I guess what I'd really like to do is get around to turning the list into html links so that you can see the progress but I doubt i'll get around to it.

I also started a new blog yesterday, some random thoughts & memories that are unrelated to stitching. I added my signature to that blog too (with the assistance of DH).

We have 35 days left before me & mum head off to the Alexandra Palace Knit & Stitch show, very excited about that & can't wait to spend some money & buy up a bit of stash. More on that later I think.