Friday Freebie: Ornamental Symmetry

This week I was in the mood to use greys for the pattern - nice cool colours to offset the heat of the day as it's been pretty hot here lately and it looks like the heat is here to stay for a bit too! I added the blue as it needed a little colour and this one seemed to fit the bill of being a nice cool colour.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 26

Welcome back for part 26 of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! This week gets us to the end of the band and the beasts get feet on all four legs! Those of you using colour can now see why I coloured the key the way I did.

Friday Freebie: French Checkerboard

The other day I saw a tweet by S Mooers Christelow and fell in love with the background, as I often do with medieval manuscripts. This one had some brownish squares but when I looked closely they looked like they had once been gilded so I decided to treat them as that and picked yellow instead of the brown for the pattern.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 25

Welcome back for part 25 of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! This week the start of the second half has arrived! Not everyone will be at this place - I know I'm not hehe. I'm still several weeks behind and have only done a few stitches this week but at least I have done some stitches - that's more than I've done in the last couple of weeks. That's life for you! Sometimes you are just too busy and tired to stitch.

A slightly late Friday Freebie: Ornament of the Month - June

Welcome back for the sixth Ornament of the Month! This month it's a little late - sorry about that! I was in the middle of party prep for oldest's birthday sleepover and completely forgot to post it - and was too tired after. Working on the basis of better late than never I decided to post it now (even if it's also a lot later in the day - or night - than it usually is).

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 24

Welcome back for part 24 of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! We are now half way with the patterns! We are however NOT half way with the stitch count! I hear a collective gasp of horror as you imagine there is more to go, but this is where I have good news: we are over half way with stitching (well at least those of you who have stitched all the parts so far)

Friday Freebie: Fob a Month - May and June!

Welcome to another edition of the Fob a Month for 2018! As life happened a bit too much I didn't get round to doing last month's so I'm making a post with both patterns this month so I don't end up getting too far behind with this.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 23

Welcome back for part 23 of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! I hope all is going well with you all! The social media users may have noticed that I've been quiet again this week - life has been pretty hectic and I've had little energy to do much of anything - even the daily chores have been too much some days - I even got muddled with my days so it's good my fiancé reminded me it was Tuesday or even this post would have gone the way of the other posts I need to catch up on!

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 22

Welcome back for part 22 of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! I hope you are all having a great week and that the Americans enjoyed Memorial Day Weekend. Even more of the beast shows this week - not the legs yet (they won't be in view until part 24 and 25) but the top of the main part of the body has come into view now!

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 21

Welcome back for part 21 of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! This week brings you more of the beast of this band - this week I coloured the different parts of the "key" to help you see things more easily.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 20

Welcome back for part 20 of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! I'm afraid it's a bit late (and the Friday Freebie even later) as I've not been well. No photo of progress from me - there just isn't enough to show.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 19

Welcome back for part 19 of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! Its new band week again! This time the challenge starts of picking what to use where when all you have to work on is my pointers as to what is what.

Friday Freebie: Ornament of the Month - May

Welcome back for the fifth Ornament of the Month! This month we are moving on to green - DMC 700 with DMC 702 as the backstitch colour.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 18

Welcome back for part 18 of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! Its new band week and this week you get it all in one go! The band is 12 stitches high and a bit more work than usual but it's fun to stitch!

Friday Freebie: Weavers Border Variations

Having seen the title many of you will be wondering why I'm showing a picture of my Randje per Week... well that's because the source of the pattern is stitched on it. That of course still doesn't help at all so I'll point it out to you: it's the teal and brown border in the middle of the photo. The border pattern is one of the weavers draft patterns found on the Antique Pattern Library and I liked it so much I used it on my Randje per Week.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 17

Welcome back for part 17 of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! This week there are only a few stitches left to complete the stags but 302 to do the little border between this and the next band. As it's the end of a band and I prefer not to give a single row of the next band in a pattern you have a row less of stitching this week - which is good considering this week's pattern has 486 stitches.

Friday Freebie: Summer Sun

Happy Friday! If you are in northern Europe you may have thought that summer has arrived already as it's quite hot at the moment (but due to cool down next week), though I know that many of you are either heading towards Winter or are having issues getting rid of Winter as it's overstayed it's welcome.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 16

Welcome back for part 16 of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! After last week's high coverage section of pattern this week it's a little less! With "just" 495 stitches compared to the 791 of last week it will be a little easier to stitch it before the week is up, if you are so inclined that is! As I want to have mine stitched up before I release the pattern I generally am up to date, though as you may have seen last week I wasn't. This week I have worked very hard to catch up and do both last week's band and this week's. Did I succeed? Well... you will have to read on for that answer!

Friday Freebie: Fob a Month - April

Welcome to the fourth edition of the Fob a Month for 2018! This month the pattern was inspired by tulips... and not just any tulips but black tulips! It's always been a source of amusement to me that what people call black tulips are generally (but not always) more like really dark purple or red tulips called black tulips as they are the holy grail of tulip colour, so I chose really dark purples and reds to create my pattern.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 15

Welcome back for part 15 of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! I've seen some people apologise for being "behind" on the SAL - please don't be! Everyone has different amounts of time available for stitching, so if you have a busy job or juggle a job with kids, or a family member to look after, or you are disabled or whatever, and use this as your therapy just enjoy the moments when you can stitch! I know some people collect the patterns so they can do four or so at a time! The patterns will remain free on my blog so you can just work at your own speed and enjoy the journey!