Tuesday, August 25, 2009

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!

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

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!

Saturday, August 15, 2009

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!!)

Friday, August 14, 2009

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!!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

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...