Wordless Wednesday

Happy Birthday
from "By The Chimney With Care"
by Blackbird Designs

Across the rainbow bridge...

... there had better be crafting and cross stitch...

.... knitting and stash...

... pals to hang with...

... floss to chase...

... and lots and lots of love...

Kisse

New Kid In Town

Thank you so much for your words of kindness and comfort for our furry feline Kisse and ourselves!! She bounced back from her 'episode' more quickly than we did, she's a tough one, and we're still trying to catch up! Sadly her medication is for symptom relief only and we are determined to enjoy her for as long as we can! And we now includes this rather large chap!!

Meet 5 year old Guus who found us at the local animal shelter! He is a strapping lad who definitely needs a bigger cat bed than I have tried to knit for him... It's still in it's pre-felted stage, can you imagine how small it's going to be! Plus he likes to stretch out, so perhaps I need to make his a rectangular Kitty Pi... ;o) He has already shown a penchant for wool and he is displaying a natural talent for modeling my crafty things, I guess you'll be seeing more of him in the future!

Until next time!

All in a Heart

Our sweet feline, or cardiac Kisse as I call her, gave us quite the scare yesterday. Although her heart holds more love than one can imagine, the muscle itself is failing miserably... More than we already knew...


Not one for self-pity, here she is this morning -- pretending nothing is wrong with her -- modeling All in a Heart (Miss Crescent's Crowne).

I've had my medication, I've shown off your stinkin' stitches, now give me some tuna!

A few small finishes

Every now and then I have a few small projects all stitched up, and it takes me forever to finish them...

Sometimes with good reason... I didn't know the baby's name yet... ;o)

Rabbit on Wheels
Jean Farish

Sometimes because I can't figure out the right finish...

Be True
Little House Needleworks

I finally stuck my head deep enough in the cupboard to discover I had this frame all along!
(watch the sleeping feline definitely being true to herself...)

And sometimes stitching and finishing go hand in hand and all of a sudden...

Gingham Village
Twisted Threads

... a beautiful fob!

The Wanderer Returns

...bearing prizes and gifts from the North


...and tales of adventure

Still life with "Jane Austen Love Letter" (by The Sampler Girl),
smelly boots (no offence, Tanya)
somewhere along The Kungsleden, Sweden

(he loved it!!)

Ten swans are swimming...

Quite a while ago sweet, sweet Lavender Rose Deb sent me two beautifully stitched swans! She added a piece of gorgeous backing fabric and a skein of matching floss, suggesting I finish it into a fob/ornament myself. After completely ruining the floss and having to order another skein I managed to do just that!

I then went in search of the perfect photo opp and remembered the large family of swans I had seen in the area. Naturally the day I brought my camera they were gone... Today I finally managed to capture all these beauties together!

Thank you, Deb!!

3 grams of love

The lovely Erik has gone walkabout once again - in the very north of Sweden this time, roughing it without any mod cons, carrying only the bare essentials in one large backpack weighing a shoulder crushing 18 kilograms (for metrics and non-metrics alike: that basically means a ton!!).

Anything stitchy is apparently non-essential... splutter... cough... I beg to differ!!

Jane Austen Love Letter
Booklet #1
The Sampler Girl

Which is why I secretly tucked something into the man's backpack while he was trying to decide how essential underwear really is...


Not wanting to add to the shoulder crushing, my surprise had to be small and lightweight...

... 3 grams as it turned out...

... 2 grams less than his emergency whistle...

A Weary World Rejoices

A Weary World Rejoices

Shakespeare's Peddler
stitched on a 28ct Staci-Dyed

Yonder glorious morn is getting closer, like I can almost touch it... :o)
Lots of floss changes, but I'm very happy with the way it looks, in part because Staci's fabric is so gorgeous! All it needs now is a frame.

Although I am really more of a cat person...

... here are two dogs named Poemba. The one on the left is a French Country Dog by JBW Designs and the one on the right is a 12 week old Bernese Mountain Dog! The maternal power one cannot say no to kindly asked me to stitch this for her friend and neighbour who recently adopted this little cutie, soon to grow up into a massive lovable beast of a dog!!!
And honestly, it was a fun stitch!

And this is a piccie of Vonna's birthday gift. I was late in sending and I am late in showing, guess there's a theme going on there...LOL!!

front

back

Small Token
by
Blackbird Designs

The fabric I used for the back was a gift from Anna, and just perfect for this little ornament, don't you think?! Thank you, Anna!

Until next time!!