First of all, my Christmas present from Eddy finally arrived ( he ordered from Thread Bear at the start of December, but I think he must have missed their before Christmas order from America). Anyway, my late Christmas present included A Stitcher's Journey, Christmas Garden and Buttons and Pins by Blackbird Designs, Celtic Summer by Lavender and Lace and 1814 Butterfly Collection by Carriage House Samplimgs. I was delighted with my present, even if it was a little late!!
Last Sunday Steff offered some old Country Cross Stitch magazines for sale over the TW Facebook group - I snapped up 4 magazines, with a total of 10 TW charts - she posted them in Australia on Monday and they made it to Yorkshire on Saturday! I can't believe how quickly they got here and I am very happy with these new additions to my stash.
Then I made a major new purchase. I'm writing this on my new iPad Air :) I'm busy kidding myself this was a necessary expenditure for work (and it will certainly be very useful), but I'm loving using it to surf the web and blog while sat on the sofa! I also bought a Logitech Bluetooth keyboard (for work), and a pretty case I picked up in the Sales...
I took this photo quickly last night using my iPhone, sorry it's so rubbish! The others are all taken with my iPad - it's starting to get dark now, so I'm quite chuffed with the quality.
I have been busy stitching - I finished Gaelic Banner last weekend, but it needs washing and pressing before I share it. I decided I wanted to do a quick project, so started Rose Garden by Blackbird Designs. This is where I am up to so far:
I can't remember what fabric this is (unlabelled from stash), but it is a very fine count!
Finally I forgot to post the TUSAL on Thursday, so here are my orts. Lots of green and gold from Gaelic Banner, and some pink on top from Rose Garden.
I think that's it for now. I hope the iPad will mean that I blog a bit more - it's certainly more fun than using my laptop. I've read a few blogs and have started commenting again - it's lovely to see what everyone else is up to!
Happy stitching folks xxx
4 comments:
What wonderful new stash, and an iPad must be just wonderful (haven't got one myself... yet) - enjoy the new toys :-) Thanks for the kind message you left on my blog.
What a wonderful selection of patterns and your ORT container is filling nicely. Happy Stitching.
Good to see you post:) hope you are loving the iPad, I've got one of the earlier ones and they are great for surfing but sometimes I have to hide mine to get any stitching done! Don't feel too bad about not blogging, it's been a challenge for me to find time too lately but hopefully that will clear up soon!
Congratulations on scoring some more TW! Your new laptop looks very nifty and incredibly compact :) I've always thought the Celtic Ladies lovely, especially since I've seen so many online conversions. And your new start is beautiful, I love the soft pink colour, it really adds to the vintage feel of the design ;)
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