NYE Mystery SAL: Part 9

Welcome back! I hope you had fun stitching part eight and are ready for the next part! The First 24 hours of stitching are up! Still three more parts to go though, so you aren't done yet!

NYE Mystery SAL: Part 8

Welcome back! I hope you had fun stitching part seven and are ready for the next part! Next time a pattern is posted the first 24 hours will be up! Some of you are waking up on New Years Day while others are awaiting that moment when the fireworks start - I hope you are all safe and will stay safe!

NYE Mystery SAL: Part 7

Welcome back! I hope you had fun stitching part six and are ready for the next part! I bet you thought the green was never ending! So now you have seen a second colour I bet you are hoping to go back to green... yes?

NYE Mystery SAL: Part 6

Welcome back! I hope you had fun stitching part five and are ready for the next part! Will this green never end??? Perhaps - perhaps the other colours were just a ruse *grin*

NYE Mystery SAL: Part 5

Welcome back! I hope you had fun stitching part four and are ready for the next part! The First 12 hours of stitching are up! Still quite a way to go, so I hope you are remembering to eat, drink, and sleep!

NYE Mystery SAL: Part 4

Welcome back! I hope you had fun stitching part three and are ready for the next part! I heard you all go "What??? More green???" when you saw part 3! Lets see what's next eh?

NYE Mystery SAL: Part 3

Welcome back! I hope you had fun stitching part two and are ready for the next part! two times green so far - what will it be next?  More green? Another colour? Well there is only one way to find out!

NYE Mystery SAL: Part 2

Welcome back! I hope you had fun stitching part one and are ready for the next part! I'm sure you are wondering by now where you will end up with this as a start. More green? Another colour? Well there is only one way to find out!

NYE Mystery SAL: Part 1

Welcome to the NYE Mystery SAL! For the next day and a bit you will be given a new part for the mystery pattern every 3 hours - starting now!

Friday Freebie: 2018

This week's Friday freebie is fairly simple but hopefully you will like it! Its inspired by fireworks exploding behind something - in this case the year to come. If you start now and are not joining in with the NYE Mystery SAL then you may make it!

NYE Mystery SAL

I had a crazy idea and I have no idea if anyone would want to join in but... many moons ago when I quilted I joined in with a NYE Mystery Quilt that would be stitched as a group while waiting for the New year (and for the Americans something for the girls to do while the guys watched football). I thought it might be fun to do this for stitching.

2018 SALs and a Freebie

Regular readers of this blog will know about the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL that's due to start on the 3rd of January (If you didn't know about it you can read all about it here). I have been blown away by how many people are interested in this SAL!

Friday Freebie: Gingerbread House

This is the last Friday before Christmas and my mind is dreaming of a gingerbread house! So I decided to design one this year instead of only dreaming of one.

This pattern is perfect to use up scraps of coloured threads or even for variegated threads! Those ones with short colourful colour changes would be perfect on the roof for example. As with all gingerbread houses it's a good time to have fun! Also if you have any buttons lying around you could add those if they are small enough, perhaps you have a snowman button who could go in front of, or instead of one of the peppermint flowers.

You can find the pattern here

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas - or a couple of restful days if you don't celebrate Christmas!

I'll see you next week with the next Friday freebie. Also keep an eye out for my SAL announcement soon - I have exciting plans for next year which I'm sure you'd like to know about!

Surprise Freebie: Secret Santa Christmas Star

It's not Friday and this isn't a Friday freebie! It's the pattern I used to make the Secret Santa for the yearly Stitching Pirates group over on deviant art and the recipient has said it's ok for me to share it!
I stitched mine on 12ct Aida as that's what I had to hand, though I wanted to use 14ct Aida.

Friday Freebie: Stars in Star

I'm still making stars! I'm having so much fun with them and I've noticed some of you are too! If you check out Jess Griffin you will see what she's been up to stitching wise - a new Christmas stitch every day!

Friday Freebie: Stars and Snowflakes

Last week I had so much fun with the star that I did three more - all with snowflakes! I couldn't decide which one to share so decided to share all three so YOU can choose which one you want to stitch.

Friday Freebie: Star Tree

It's the first of December and Christmas is a mere 24 days away (eek!). This week's pattern is a star tree - or is it a tree star? Either way it's a star filled with trees! It's a little something to be used as an ornament or card - or anything you can imagine to make with it!