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".

A little bit of this and that...

Unbelievable that is has been almost 2 weeks since my last blog entry. So many things have happen.
First of all I made a little progress on my Mary Wigham Sampler.

It is not as much as I planned to, but we had some disturbances going on last.
My beloved bicycle got stolen from my back yard. It was actually looked but the thief removed the front wheel where it was looked to, than stole another front wheel from the neighbors kid's bike, set everything back together and took off. I had the bike for 13 years and is actually a piece of crap (the tires get flat if not pumped up once a week, the gears are broken so it can only be driven in one gear, the saddle has a whole bunch of holes which can be very uncomfortable when it is raining, it is rusty every here and there and the lights are all missing) but I have to say, I loved that crappy old bike. I bought it when I was 18 from my first job ever. Took me have a year to safe enough money to effort it. I think the main thing that is disturbing me, is not that the big is gone, it is more that I cannot understand why people do such things. I have been raised with strong moral values therefore I can not understand that some people obviously don't have any morals at all. Anyhow, that is the main reason that I haven't worked on Mary Wigham since then.

But to keep myself busy with just something, I stitched up two freebies that have been on my ToDo-list for quite a while. First one is a pattern from prairie schooler called "rain" and the second one is "sweet heart cottage" from Maryse. I thing both turned out great. Especially the sweet heart cottage is most adorable.

I also would like to excuse myself if I am not updating my blog during the next 3 weeks as much as usual. My little sister and her boyfriend are coming on Thursday for a vacation. Since I am living in Finland, I do not see my family more often than once a year. So I like to give them my fully attention on this rare visits.
Happy Stitching to all of you and a beautiful summer (winter in Australia and New Zealand)

Toukokuu

Actually the Mr. and I planed on going to the movies yesterday, but due to a lack of motivation we stayed home launching on our couchs. While the Mr. was busy killing Monsters with his PlayStation, I took the time to stitch some more.
Now that I can't do much more on my Little Moon Sampler I dug in my WIP-basket and pulled out my SAL des maisons from Maryse. I finished the month May and I really love this one. The colors are so bright and lovely to look at.


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Yesterday was also the asignment of the new Fair & Square Round # 13. My this time partner is Renee. While surfing through her blog and reading her profile, I got the idea that our Likes and Dislikes are besides of a few exemption quite much the same. So I decided to stitch something that I would love for myself. But of course I will not tell you what it is. That's all top secret.

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!

Fair & Square and a little progress

Last Monday I received the Fair& Square squares from my round #11 partner Suzanne. Are the not absolutely beautiful. She picked for me a design from the Prairie Birds from Prairie Schooler. I have never seen these bird patterns before and had to google them right away. They are all beautiful and make me want to stitch the other ones myself.


I also made a small progress on one of my own projects. I started stitching the forth month April, in Finnish "huhtikuu", but as you can see the progress is really tiny. I have been very busy with work lately and only been home for sleeping, showering and eating my morning porrige.

I kind of plan on finishing this square during the weekend, but I guess there will not be much stitching time left either. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I am going to a Handcrafts exhibition on Saturday morning and if that wouldn't be enough excitment, my hubby is also playing a gig the same night with one of his bands. So that will be a very long day and night out.

Maaliskuu

The 3rd month of my little house sampler is stitched up. Only 9 more to go. This is a really fun project. It shouldn't take to long to get through the other once as well.

Helmikuu - February - Févier

Juhuu, my second house is ready. One is more beautiful than the other. Now I have 10 more to go.

Des maisons de campagne

I started yesterday to stitch the SAL des maisons de campagne from Maryse. The SAL actually happened already during 2007 but I didn't discover the patterns not before yesterday.
Every little square is showing a house matching the themes of a month. Altogether there are 12 squares.
In the original patterns the month names are written in French, but due to living in Finland I changed the month to Finnish writing.