snowflakes and antiques

Even thou there is almost no time for my favorite hobby, I made a little progress. Today between my porridge and a cup of coffee I finished the snow crystal I was stitching for Evelyn's Round Robin. I actually don't like to stitch that much with light colors on dark fabric, but I think it turned out quite nice. I kind of like the idea of having something simple as snow crystals on a winter table cloth. I'm thinking about making something similar for myself, but than with a light colored blue linen fabric.


I also have to show you 2 pictures of my newest treasure. It is this real antique secretaire desk. It is in a rather bad condition. The paint is peeling of and some of the wooden parts have to be repaired of changed. I also have to build 2 little drawers, cause the original ones are missing. My only problem now is that I have so less time fixing it right away. And I really would like to have it at home middle of May when my parents and god parents are coming from Germany and The Netherlands to visit.

Spring has sprung....

...also in Finland! Well, not quite yet. But temperatures are rising and the ice on sea, lakes and rivers slowly starts to melt. Today the Mr. and I jumped into our long johns and went for a nice long walk to Keravan Joki (river). There is still a lot of ice on the river, but it is already quite thin and went the weather stays that sunny and warm than it takes only a few more weeks until all the ice is melted.
Here are a few pictures from today's walk. Enjoy!

Emma's Sampler

Juhuu! Emma's Sampler is finished. I didn't make it during the weekend, but over all it is finished now and I'm so happy with it. Today after work, I went to a quilting store for some matching fabric, cause I will sew a little cushion from this sampler. I went with patterned fabrics in brown and rusty red. I think that looks quite fine together.

A little bit of this and that

I feel so sorry that lately I don't have much of my stitching projects to show. Life is so busy right now. Last week I have been told that I can make my final exams to become an upholsterer already in June instead of December. That means a lot of stress preparing for the finals now. I also started a new internship last Monday. It will take about 2 month and will end right before my exam starts. But the thing is, that the internship is at the Helsinki City Theater. It's the biggest one in Finland and I just couldn't say NO to an offer like this. I work in the upholstery of the theater and am part of building the scenery for an upcoming new play.
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But even though I don't have much time for stitching, I made a little progress on Emma's Sampler. Only a few boast buds and the surrounding is missing. I think I can finish this over the weekend.

And couldn't the weekend begin better than with a parcel from the craft store carrying you latest order? - Here they are: I treated myself with the 1999 Christmas Sampler from Carriage House Samplings and the Special Delivery Sampler from Blackbird Designs. I discovered after placing the order that Special Delivery is actually a Birth Sampler, so I don't really know now what to do with it. Maybe I stitch it with the name that comes in the chart. I don't really know yet. But it is anyways very pretty.

My first House

I almost forgot to show you.
This lovely wooden house has been stitched by Susanne from Germany for me.
I am taking part in a Round Robin (the first one ever for me) and I wished for houses. This is the first one out of seven. We are a rather small group with only 8 stitchers all together.
I will keep you updated how this Round Robin is going along.
Right now, I am waiting for the next piece to arrive that I can continue stitching my part for one of the others.

Huhtikuu

I actually finished the April-month already on Saturday after coming back from the craft show. For some reason I forgot to upload this picture. Well here it is: Huhtikuu!