IHSW or International Hermit and Stitch Weekend always starts on the third Friday of the month.  It's a chance to lock yourself away and focus on your stitching for the weekend.  You can take part on your blog or via the Facebook page - IHSW on Facebook. This year I am trying something different for IHSW - an A-Z Challenge!  These usually take place in April and people stitch one letter every day except Sunday.  I don't want to swap projects daily so thought I could do 2 or 3 letters per IHSW instead.   April is G and H.  Once again I wasn't wo ..read more

    Welcome to the April Gifted Gorgeousness link-up. The link-up date continues to be the 15th and I will keep the link-up open until the end of each month so you have plenty of time if you are late posting. The format remains exactly the same, there is a list of rules on the main sign-up page if you want to check what is required but basically anything connected to the word "gift" is allowed, whether it was a gift TO you or is a gift FROM you. My focus piece for February was stitched on gifted fabric and I picked it up again over the Easter Weekend and got a finish! Cricket Coll ..read more

    Hosted by Rachel the Ten Hour Stitcher This SAL is designed to motivate us all to do something with that box of Finished pieces instead of just storing them under the bed.  We will all be linking up on Rachel's blog on or after the 10th of each month (10 Hour Stitcher - 10th of the month). I was quite organised this month and have two framed pieces to share with you.  One was finished this year and the other is a little bit older (2021), I went through my frame box looking for a frame for the first piece and found two, a gold rectangle and a blue square.  ..read more

Today is my 13th Blogaversary, a Baker's Dozen years of blogging fun and hops around our community. So, here are the stats: * 13 years 1407 posts 712 followers 23,668 comments 1,963,323 pageviews WOW This time last year I was focusing on my Halloween at Hawk Run Hollow project which is now a finish. It went from here: to here: Chatelaine Gardens of London went from here last April: to here: Just a little bit of gold on the guards' boxes to do for that section My Spooky conversion of CCN's Main Street went from here: to a finish: Mirabilia's Fairy Idyll grew ..read more

      It's TUSAL time!   Here is my TUSAL jar with my current projects: On the left we have A Partridge in a Pear Tree from Cottage Garden Samplings and on the right The Quiet Hour Sampler from La Broderie. I am really enjoying both of these projects, the colours are beautiful and neither are overly complicated. In particular I am enjoying the letters on Partridge, it's been a while since I have stitched letters and there's a whole alphabet under the picture. stitched on 35 count cream linen Although Quiet Hour is an older hand-drawn chart, the diagrams for ..read more

At the start of the year I made a list of 24 projects I want to stitch this year for my "24 in '24".  The order I stitch them in is going to be determined by the WIPGO Board.  Jessie-Marie calls two numbers each month and those will be the two projects I stitch that month.  One small and one medium. In March, the numbers were 1 and 10.  These related to September Strawflowers from the Sweetheart Tree and Hocus Pocus Cabinet from Primitive Hare. I completed September Strawflowers and might even FFO it in time for the FFO Gallery on the 10th!  Hocus Pocus Cabinet hit a f ..read more

       WIPocalypse is hosted by Measi's Musings Each month we have to share the projects we want to complete before the End Of The World. Since 2011 I have chosen a number of projects to focus on that year, starting with my "11 in '11" and increasing to "24 in '24" for this year. This month I stitched on 6 of them and had 2 finishes. 1. Sweetheart Tree - September Strawflowers Finish 3. Rainbow Hunter - Alice Bottles Finished Cheshire Cat 13. Joan Elliott - Faces SAL 22. Primitive Hare - Hocus Pocus Cabinet 23. Cricket Collection ..read more

   The Smalls SAL is hosted by Rachel For my Smalls stitching this year, I have chosen 12 smaller designs and numbered them for my WIPGO Board.  Each month one Small will be stitched in the evening timeslot and hopefully finished within the month. In February, the WIPGO number was for the Alice in Wonderland Bottles Collection from Rainbow Hunter on Etsy. I finished Alice and showed her last month and completed the Cheshire Cat at the start of March. stitched on 32 count Antique Blue linen Once the Cat was done, I moved on to the March choice; September Strawflowers by ..read more

  Welcome to the Easter Treasure Hunt Blog Hop for 2024.  I am sure you all know how it works now - hop around the list of blogs and collect the letter each one has for you.  They spell out a message which you can leave in a comment here for me.  I have moderated comments so no-one will see them until 5th April.  Just to give everyone a chance to play along. Tickled Pink in Stitches Aimetu's Stitching Guava Gems Dragon Stitches and Stuff by Astrid Elfin Stitches An Arizona Stitcher Le Coeur Celtique Jocondine Needle, Pen & Sword Mary's Thread A Patchwork of ..read more

There are five full weekends in March this year.  Last weekend was IHSW and next weekend is "End of the Month" and time to post WIPocalypse, Pie and Stitch From Stash so this weekend feels like a bonus weekend. So what did I stitch for my bonus weekend? My focus piece has been Hocus Pocus Cabinet - Focus Pocus? but progress has been a little slow due to being so busy in the week. I managed to finish all the colour and now just have the black surround and the lettering to do.  I changed the colours to a mixture of Anchor and Jodyri.  The original used GAST and WDW. Here's where ..read more