small stitching progress

After all of my not stitching related posts lately I finally have some progress to share with you. I only stitched a little bit here an there. Usually I am trying to stick to only one project at a time, but this time I wasn't really in the mood for that and stitched a few crosses each on all my WIP.

First of all I like to show you my update on Mary Wigham. It isn't as much as I liked to show you, but I am getting there.


Next one is something I stitched for a Round Robin. The Theme was "Winter" so I decided to stitch some cozy winter warms. The patterns for the gloves and hat are from a very old dutch cross stitch magazine. I got it once from my aunt.


This one is a freebie by Casey Buonaugurio. It is the same designer I stitched the Chocolate Covered Cherries from, which can be seen in an earlier post. I started this one quite a while ago and even thou it is such a small design I still haven't finished it. Shame on me!


Next there is "See the Stars" by Monika Buro. The colors look quite the same than my "other" new cross stitch project, don't they? Well, it is the same project. When starting the 3rd part of the SAL I recognized that I started at the wrong spot. It turned out I didn't leave enough border. So I had to frog everything and started all over again. This time I started with the 3rd part, so this way I am pretty sure that there is enough border left.


Last but not least is here a picture of my brand new project. Special Delivery by Blackbird Designs. I just couldn't wait any longer and had to start this. The picture showes the result of one evening stitching and I am already very happy with it. The fabric I have chosen is the same one I am stitching Mary Wigham on. It is a very rough raw linen from india. If you click on the picture it will enlarge and you can actually see how uneven it is. But I love it. I wish I could get more of it.

A new designer!

I'd like to share this beautiful design with you. It is from a brand new designer called "Tree of Life Samplings". The designer behind this is Jan from Belfonte Notes, I bet many of you know her.
To celebrate her first release she is giving a Giveaway. If you like to participate just go to her block Belfonte Notes and leaf a comment. Good Luck!

Day trip to Tallinn, Estonia

Again I don't have much stitching progress to show to you. I made a little progress on my Mary Wigham, but by far not as much as I was hoping to make.
But I'd like to show you some pictures of our yesterday's Day Trip instead. At the moment we are having two friends from New York staying over and yesterday we went for a short visit to Tallinn in Estonia. It was also for me the first time to visit Tallinn and I was so amazed. We took the boat, which takes only 2 1/2 hours, in the morning and walked a little bit around in the Old Town area of Tallinn . We were about to go for lunch somewhere when we met a girl in medieval clothes offering home backed bread in the streets. The girl belonged to a Medieval Restaurant, so we went there to eat. We actually just wanted to have a quick lunch and then move on, but it was all so good that we spend our entire time in that restaurant.

Our boat and a picture of Helsinki while leaving the harbor.


The Old Town of Tallinn

Olde Hansa, The Medieval Restaurant of Tallinn

I had for lunch game pot with ginger turnip and my Mr. had lamb stew with lentils. On side dish we both also had pickled vegetables and white mashed beans backed in bread. For dessert Mr. had a very delicious apple pie with almond butter sauce and I had a rose pudding. But for some reason we forgot to make pictures of the desserts. Throughout lunch we had spiced red wine and many different kinds of homemade spiced liquors. It was all so delicious!


These pictures are showing the porch we had lunch at, our two American friends, my Mr. and me and as you can see we had a great time. Lots of happy faces.

New Stash!

With today's mail came my first order of Gentle Art Threads. I have never used this brand before but have read lots about it on other blogs and always wanted to try it. It is the recommended thread on one of the charts I bought sometime beginning of this year. The main reason that I finally bought it, is that a few days ago I ordered 3 new charts from Carriage House Samplings and Elizabeth's Garden.
My Mr. never minds me spending money on my hobby because he is spending a lot on his one too and he thinks it is a good thing to investment in the things one love to do, but he got a little irrigated when he found out that I am ordering new stash, thou I haven't even started stitching the last charts I bought. Well, I think he has a point, so I finally ordered the GA Threads to start stitching Special Delivery from Blackbird Designs, which is one of the charts I purchased last spring.
I can't wait to start stitching, but I have to wait a little longer. I have a lot of due date stitching to do until the middle of next month and that really has to be done first. But having my new threads laying on the living room coffee table waiting for me to use them, hopefully gives me the extra portion of motivation to finish up my other projects.

New Stitching Motivation

For some reason always when it comes to the weekend I am loosing my stitching motivation. I just can't get myself into the mood to stitch at least a little bit. It might has to do with me working only on the weekends and then the night shifts. So I sleep at day and stay up at night. From Sunday to Thursday then I am off from work, and always try to have a little normality in my life. I try to get back into the sleep at night, stay up at day rhythm. Sundays and Mondays are always troublesome. I feel like sleeping all the time. But by Tuesday I am used to it again and my stitching Motivation is hitting back. And because today's Tuesday I can show you the finished 2nd part of the new project I started.

I also started stitching on Mary Wigham again. So hopefully soon I can show you an update on this one too.

Kesäkuu

I finished another house of my Cottage Sampler. The June cottage is finished and I am now half way through. I really would love to finish the whole thing up by the end of the year. I am having way to many projects in progress. Some of you know that I am stitching the month names in Finnish language. The Finnish word for June is kesäkuu. kesä means "Summer" and kuu means "moon".

Great news!

Those of you who are reading my blog frequently know that in the beginning of Summer I got my bicycle stolen. Well, guess what? IT IS BACK!!!
Because of not having a regular day job (upholstery jobs are very rare and I have to wait until Autumn until something comes up) I am working shifts at a nightclub a couple of nights a week. So while I was on my way to work I saw my bike at our local train station. It was locked up, so I couldn't do much myself. I called for the police immediately and got also my Mr. somehow to the station. I was on my way to work and haven't had the time to wait for the police and since it was Friday night in the Capital area, they were busy, I made my Mr. wait. While he was waiting I took off to work so the following has only been told to me. After about 1 1/2 hours of waiting, a guy showed up to take THE/MY bike, so MR. jumped up and claimed the bike back. It turned out that this guy bought the bike for 20€ without knowing it was stolen. But of course he didn't like to get into further trouble, so he just handed the bike over and my Mr. took it home. The police never showed up, nor did we get any further notice on a reaction. Well, I guess they were way to busy to get all the drunk driving party people of the road.

Fair and Square and something new

I am finally able to show you the squares that I send to Kathy, my F&S partner in Round # 14. She gave me notice that they arrived and now I don't have to keep this as a secret anymore. I stitches a design by á mon ami pierre for her. The original design is rectangled and a bit to big for the sizes we use for a F & S square, so I adjusted it a little bit to fit into a nice square.

I also started a new project. It was really not my intention, but I kind of had to. I am a member of a German Group of stitchers, that are stitching SAL's all the time. All the designs that are been stitched in this group are exclusive designs from European designer that are not available on the market. The major rule of this group is to stay very active and I have to be honest activity is not on my plus-side. I am a very lazy writer. Updating my blogs always takes me forever, because I never really know what to write. Anyways, here is a picture of my new start.

A little bit of this and that ...

Good Morning everybody! Today it is a beautiful morning promising a beautiful sunny day. Too bad that I cannot really enjoy it. It caught a flu or better to say a bronchitis and running around outside might not be the best idea, warm sunny weather or not. So I will enjoy the day from my big living room windows.

I wish I could show you some progress on my Mary Wigham Sampler but I have to admit that I was too lazy working on it. From time to time I get this disliking of big projects and than do only very small ones for a while. So I did also last week. I finished the Bergamot that I started already in the airplane and also finished a Freebie called Chocolate Covered Cherries. I really love the colors of this one. After finishing up those small ones I usually just store them in a box and than once a year I mount them into greating cards.


I also received an email from my Fair & Square Summer Round partner Malinda. My Squares for her arrived a little while ago, so now I can share the pictures with you.
I picked a design from By the Bay Needleart because it is one of my favorite designers without even knowing it is one of Malinda's favorites too. The design has been a Freebie and can be found on by the bay's blog.