March TUSAL

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I feel like I'm about to go to some sort of addiction meeting...

Hi! It's been 3 months since my last TUSAL post...

Great start isn't it! I've been stitching so much I've not really had time for extra posts - even the WIP Wednesday posts have suffered the results of my stitch-a-thon!

Friday Freebie: Needle Keeper

We all use needles and need a way to store them - I have both a needle book and pincushions. Over the years have discovered I am a pincushion parker when it comes to needles. The problem with this, of course, is that as I use many sizes of needles they all get mixed up together - a royal pain when you need a specific size for something.

Spring Magical Mystery SAL: Pre-stitch 2

Welcome back! Hopefully everyone had time to stitch the first part before today! I saw lots of wonderful versions all over social media so I think many of you have! If you missed the other posts about this SAL please look here first: The Next Mystery SAL: The Spring Mystery

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 11

Welcome back! This week its time for the second part of band 2! I know some of you have been impatient to do it as yet again I have seen photos of the completed second band before I have posted this part *sigh*. I even didn't post any of my WIP pictures to see if it would help... but alas it did not. If things don't improve by the end of the third band I may have to be a bit more drastic about things - but hopefully the crappy size of the image I made last week will help. Onward to happier things!

Friday Freebie: Fob a Month - March

Welcome to the third instalment of the Fob a Month for this year. The theme of the year has become flowers - though it wasn't an intentional thing when I started this at the beginning of the year, I'm quite happy to have decided to go this route. This month's flower inspiration is the hyacinth - I have blue grape hyacinths growing in my garden and they are so very pretty. I love the normal ones too, but I can't grow them as they set off my allergies a lot more.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 10

At last it's time for the second band! This is a very short band - just two weeks so you will also get a preview of the next band this week! Remember: don't post pics ahead of what you have been given as a PATTERN. Also... did you see the blog post I made on Sunday with other people's embroideries? If not check it out!

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Other People's Embroideries

I asked in the Facebook group if anyone would mind if I shared their photos in a post so everyone could admire their work and perhaps get some inspiration for their own versions. I got a LOT of positive responses so here are a few of them - I'll be making other posts with more photos of people's work soon. I picked the names randomly from the post, just to keep things fair.

Friday Freebie: Ornament of the Month - March

Welcome back for the third Ornament of the Month! When you have finished this one you will be 1/4 of the way! This month we are moving on to a new colour: dark blue. I chose my favourite darker blue for this: DMC 820

Spring Magical Mystery SAL: Pre-stitch 1

A new SAL and a new banner - of course I couldn't use the current mystery as that would be a spoiler hehe. Welcome to the first pre-stitch for the Spring Mystery! Hopefully you have all picked 6 colours already and remembered to mark them A - F according to the list given in the first post: The Next Mystery SAL: The Spring Mystery. If not, now would be a good time to do so as the patterns are probably not in the colours you picked so it will be easier to remember what is what by the time the mystery proper starts.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 9

Welcome to the last part of the first band! I'm sorry this post is late - life happened as they say and things did not go to plan. At last you get to finish those toes and make the boundary between this band and the next! I have an important announcement added to this post so please don't skim but read it all carefully!

Introducing: Viking Dragon

Those of you who watch my social media accounts will have seen this photo, me referring to "Viking Dragon" and may be wondering what it's all about. Well... it all started with the latest Stitching Pirates contest: Any One Colour Contest. I like this kind of contest as it challenges me to think about what I want to do - I don't always manage to meet the deadline, which is a shame, but it doesn't upset me as I will have had fun with the doing already.

Friday Freebie: Beer Money Inc.

It's not often that I make fan art based on a game, especially not one that is so newly released as the game released by Tiny Rebel Brewery but this game is so incredibly fun I just had to! The game is called Beer Money Inc. and you can read all about it here.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 8

Welcome to the next instalment of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! It's week 8 and we are getting close to the end of this band! One more week and we will start the first of 2 parts for the next band!

Friday Freebie: Spring Dance

Happy Friday! I hope this posts finds you well despite all that's going on in the world right now. With spring round the corner I find myself drawn yet again towards the new DMC colours for the Friday freebie as they are so bright and cheerful - sadly I wasn't able to get the colours right in my designing program so below you will find a photo of the threads themselves so you can see how beautiful they are together.

The Next Mystery SAL: The Spring Mystery

Many of you will remember the result of the first Mystery SAL I did on NYE (and a bit before and a bit after depending on your time zone). People had so much fun they wanted to do more so here is the next one! I asked in the Facebook group if people were ok with some pre-stitching (doing some work before the SAL actually starts - at a slower pace) and the response was positive so... we will be starting a little earlier and do a slightly larger pattern than the NYE one.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 7

Welcome to the next instalment of the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL! It's the 7th week and we *still* haven't finished the first band! The good news is that there will be a new band in 2 weeks' time - which means that today is reveal time for the next band!

Friday Freebie: Fob a Month - February

Welcome back! It's Friday so time for another freebie - this time the February Fob a Month pattern. Like last month I made a pattern inspired by the colour of a flower - daffodils this time as they start showing themselves around the middle of the month and really brighten my days, more so than crocuses which are too small to be seen from my window.

WIP Wednesday

Last week the Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler looked like this. Normally you would not have to play spot the difference but as I mentioned yesterday I used the seam ripper as much as the needle and didn't get much of anywhere with it so I put it aside before I flung it into a bin.

Weavers Tapestry Band Sampler SAL: Part 6

Welcome to the rather late edition of the new time of the SAL! Late because I was side tracked and forgot today was new time day and thought I still had plenty of time - opps. I do apologise for this and hope I don't do it again - I'll certainly try not to!

Friday Freebie: Ornament of the Month - February

Welcome to the second part of the Ornament of the Month for this year! This month we are doing purple again, but this time a bit lighter. I did find time to do part of a pre-stitch this month and it's a good thing too! What looked fantastic on paper turned out to look like a nasty mess once stitched. Fortunately after a couple of tries I found what I liked and looks nice!