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".

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.