A finish and some new projects

We've been having a heat wave over the past few days and it seems the temperature just keeps on rising and rising! Over the weekend, Hannah and I (DH was away) spent most of our time swimming, getting hot, and swimming some more, lol. We also enjoyed having some friends around for a pot luck tea Saturday night, and then checking out a local fair with arts and craft, fruit and vegetables, and other food stalls on Sunday morning. Late in the day I went along to my cousin to be's bridal shower - this coming weekend the lovely Amanda marries one of my youngest cousins, Glen. We are all very much looking forward to their wedding, they are a great couple.

So with the sticky, muggy, sweaty heat there hasn't been a lot of stitching going on these past few days, but I've been trying to do a bit here and there. This past week I finished the first of the three baby samplers I've been asked to stitch this year:

Baby Row by Bent Creek

stitched with the recommended threads on 32ct platinum belfast linen.

(please excuse my not such a great photo taken early on Sunday morning)

I downloaded the latest Gift of Stitching magazine the other day, and found several great projects in this issue. One of my friends is having a birthday later this month so I've decided to stitch this needleroll pattern for her - it uses one of my most favourite DMC shades 926 too. I'm looking forward to getting this underway as its been quite some time since I stitched a needleroll!

Another new project in my craft bag involved a visit to my local quilting shop to spend a voucher from Christmas. You might recognise one of the fabrics, its the same as I used recently for Alice's Mrs Perkins giraffe.

With these I'm going to make up lots of these hexagons and turn them into bags - watch this space!!

Lastly, from our weekend, Hannah all dressed up in a pretty summer frock before we went out on Sunday. I love that her hair is now long enough to put into plaits - my Mum always plaited my hair when I was the same age.

Enjoy your week, thanks for coming by today.

~Katrina~

Christmas Stitchalong & new "lovelies" in the mail.

Its been one of those weeks this week's, you know when you feel like you're chasing your tail all day long, lol. But its almost the start of a long weekend here, public holidays both Friday and Monday, so I'm hoping to get a bit of unwind time over the next few days, and definately lots of stitching and/or crafting time too.

So here's where I'm at now with Christmas Rules, my current stitchalong with Kath.

There's a couple of buttons to go on which I'll add when the whole piece is completed.

Just love the Christmasy colours on this one :)

I was very taken with one of the new Just Nan's, and as the US to Kiwi dollar is quite good at present, I decided to splash out and place an order with Amy at Down Sunshine Lane for Holly Bows. It arrived in the post a few days ago and I can't wait to get a start on this, who knows, I might just over the coming weekend :)

Please excuse the wrinkles in the next pic, but here's a small progress pic of Baby Row, which I started on late last week. The colours in this one are very subtle.

Lastly for today, my current favourite pic of my two favourite girls taken recently at the local park.

Thanks for stopping by today :)

~Katrina~