M-O-O-N spells moon

It is done! My Little Moon Sampler is finished up. Just about an hour ago I made the last cross. Now I only have to find a fitting frame for it.
I only made a small adjustment to the pattern. I stitched the letters for "Friend" a tone darker, because the original color was not giving a strong enough contrast to the fabric.

The name I stitched to the bottom is my Mr.'s last name. We are going to get married anyways, so there is no point of using my maiden name. "Mattila" is a very common name here in Finland, almost like "Smith" in English language. The meaning of it is basically "House of Matti", while the name "Matti" can be translated as "Mathew" or "Mathias".

Little Moon update

Unbelievable that it has been already two weeks since my last post. Well nothing much happening here either. I'm still busy with work and studying. It's now only 4 weeks until my exam and therefore there is not much time for stitching left. Thou due to the Labor Day Holiday yesterday (we call it also Vappu) I got a couple of days off and that means lots of stitching time.
I made some progress on my little moon sampler. I'm still busy stitching and I technically could finish it over the weekend, if there were not one color missing. But I ordered it already and when my parents and god parents coming for a visit in two weeks, they will bring the missing color.

Little Moon Welcome

Easter holidays are almost over. Besides some nice long walking through the woods that almost ended up in 3 hour hiking trips, we stayed most of the time home spread out on our sofas. And that means I had a lot of time for stitching.
I made some great progress on Little Moon Welcome. There are a few blank spots due to two colors missing. I figured I will substitute them when everything else is stitched up.

Pikkuloma!

Today was my last day in school! Now I have 4 days of during the Easter holidays and than I am going straight back to my internship at the Helsinki City Theater.

I have been quite busy this week. I finished up a sofa for a customer and finally, after almost a year, my own bench. The top can be taken off and I am storing our winter scarfs, hats, mittens, as well as a few of my handbags in it. I made the seat in "chesterfield upholstery" style. I also finished up Emma's Sampler.I finally sewed it up to a cushion yesterday. Of course I had to place it on my brand new bench. It goes so well together. The Mr. was as well positively surprised when he got home yesterday.


While getting already in the holiday mood yesterday evening, I also started a new stitching project. But it is not my new chart "The Good Neighbor", it is supposed to be stitched with silk thread and I don't have it yet in my stash.
I started stitching "Little Moon Welcome" from Brooke's Books. Usually the designs by Brooke are a bit too cute for my taste, but with this Welcome Sampler I literally fell in love. And the best thing of all is, that it is a freebie.