The Nordic Needle

Is an amazing store! It seems like there is no kind of thread that they don't carry. Just wandering through the isles of wonderful cottons and silks is stunning. Everybody was so friendly and helpful. Just great service!
My stash buying didn't go over board since the biggest temptation for me is always the fabric but they didn't have any 40ct in stock.
What made it home with me is "Winter Holiday Sampler" by Victoria Sampler with accessory pack and the white Mori silk to go with it. Then "Snowy Nights" by Prairie Schooler, some Whisper thread which I always wanted to try for Santa beards and sheep. I picked 3 different kinds of red to chose frame for "Christmas at Hollyberry Farm". I ordered the chart and threads a while ago but I don't like the Mulberry. It seems way too dark. So hopefully one of these reds will look nice.
The lady that rang in my goodies put a set of needles and a needle threaded in my bag....so nice! I will for sure make good use of them.

I did get a start on Lucky and am working on it this weekend.

And off to enjoy another wonderful stitching day.... Bine :)

Being a bad girl....

I figured I deserved to pamper myself today after all those tears on my last day at work yesterday. So Lisa and I went to the mall to buy a nice little top for me to wear tomorrow night when we go out for my send off :)
...hmmmm of course I ended off buying 2 tops. One I would have chosen in a different colour since I have never bought anything purple, but the nice lady in the store (talked me into) convinced me that the purple looks great on me... I decided to give it a try and of course I couldn't leave this oh so sweet black little top hanging there ;) guess I will have to decide last minute tomorrow which one actually to wear....
Blog surfing I realized that it is soon St. Patricks day. Thank you Paulette for the cute St. Patricks freebie! It is printed and the floss is picked. So here I go:

And off to enjoy another wonderful stitching evening.... Bine :)

There was no stitching going on last year anymore. :( Somehow live always seems to get in the way. And I am also not finished with my studies for Power Engineering. So there is still not too much stitching time. But I find, that I can concentrate better on my studying if I also get some stitching time in between...I consider that good news. LOL

I found that out, when I was so frustrated with some of my studying that I reached out for the needle :) and finished Hallow Eden at the end of February:

Hallow Eden - Plum Street Sampler
2011-08-06 - 2012-02-20
stitched on Vintage River Willow
by Lakeside Linens
using the recommended CC floss

In real live the fabric is a nice green tone and not the blue-ish grey my phone makes it look like.
I still haven't framed it yet. Hope to do that too. Maybe I can get a better picture then.
It seems like the finished pieces are piling up and get neglected then...

Since then I put some more stitches in Susan Rambo. I have to take a picture yet and show it to you soon

I wasn't too sure about the colours when I just laid them flat out on the linen before I started stitching, but now I absolutely love the colours of Hallow Eden.



Beginning of August I finished Jenny Bean's Halloween Sampler. I will put it in my pile of wrapped up finished things for now. Somehow I don't like to do the framing. I guess I am just a little scared to do it, since it will probably be quite difficult to get it straight in there....if I only had couple more hands. That would make it easier :)

Jenny Bean's Halloween Sampler - Shakespeare's Peddler
40ct vintage pearled Barley
GAST
2011-01-30 - 2011-08-06

Lisa woke up early this morning - of course! Why just can't little kids enjoy a Holdiay by sleeping in??? ;)

Since everybody else was still sleeping we both went for a little run. She is so cute when she tries to do some sports with me... Oh Mommy, see, I got some big muscles already, lifting her little fist and shaking her skinny arms at me. LOL

It is already lunchtime so I better wake everybody up, so that we can enjoy the nice and sonny day with a bike ride.

Leave you with the not really visible progress from yesterday:

It is crazy how fast time goes by! We went for family visits to Germany in June and now summer is nearly over. Temperatures in the early mornings are below 10 degrees Celsius now but at least usually raise up to the mid twenties during the day.

I was admiring Hallow Eden on other stitchers blog for quite a while ... I finally gave in and ordered the chart and threads. Luckily I found the exact right fabric in my stash :)

I started about three weeks ago and this is how far I got:


I tried to activate mobile blogposts from my Blackberry but couldn't get it registered. Pretty frustrating! Would have bin so nice and easy to do... Does anybody have experienced any problems?

2nd finish in 2011 - Rubie Owl's Sampler

Last night, just before bedtime she got finished. Stitched in my favourite colours:

Plum Street Samplers - Rubie Owl's Sampler:

Belle Soie silks

on 36 ct. vintage sand dune by Lakeside Linens

started 2009-07-04

finished 2011-01-29

And the winner of my poll " What should I stitch next?" with 50% of all votes (12 votes LOL) is....... Shakespeare's Peddler - Jenny Bean's Halloween Sampler:

....talk to you soon - I am a little bit in a hurry to start this beauty right away. I hope for your understanding :)

It is snowing again!

Big snow flakes are falling from the sky...at least not too many at once ;) We already have lots and lots of snow.

Ice skating on the big oval in the park was a lot of fun yesterday. But it was pretty windy by the time we finally went. Snow was getting blown across the streets and it looked like waterfalls flowing off the roofs of the houses. It looked really weird.

Rubie Owl a little closer to be finished:


And please don't forget to vote what I should stitch next (pictures are in my previous post):

"Oh mommy....

...it is so pretty! Can I hold it and you take a picture of me?" LOL


Today Lisa's school has a personal development day, so I am taking the day off and we will go skating for a while. It is a very nice day and the temperatures are awesome! Only -4 degrees C and also beautiful sunshine.
I am not the fastest stitcher lately. But if I get to it, I enjoy stitching a lot. Getting closer to finishing Rubie Owl's Sampler:


Of course I already think about what to stitch next and would like you to help me...It is such a tough decision for me... ;) please vote for a project. Pictures are below the poll...



Dahlbeck - Crazy Christmas Trees


and this is how it will look like:


LHN - Quilting:


And Shakespeare's Peddler's - Jenny Bean's Halloween Sampler is one of the things I found in the mailbox this week:

Happy New Year 2011 to everyone!

We had a wonderful Christmas...a bit more busy than quiet :) And a nice relaxing New Years Eve which I, following my tradition, used to start something new, that has been in my stash for a long, long time... I just love the Drawn Thread designs! After work, with just lamplight I decided to stitch Autumn Arbour on 40ct Zweigart Summer Khaki


instead of on my all-time favourite 36ct Permin Shell


...I still wish they would sell this fabric in 40ct....

There's also some progress on PSS Ruby Owl's Sampler. Still far away from being finished - but coming along nicely. The big green spot on the bottom is not too exciting and takes quite a bit of patience....



Haven't decided yet if I will join the Up 4 A Challenge blog, but I should at least do something like that here on my own. Will check some of my many, many WIP's later.

Sorry...

... I can't remember where I put the camera so I had to take the picture with my Blackberry. So there is hope - as soon as I find the camera, the pictures will get a little better! LOL
I love the colours of Ruby Owl soooo much!

Our friend just left for their holidays

...but they will be back in about 2 weeks. And then we will go on holidays. I am so looking forward to our holidays. We will go on a roundtrip for about 1 1/2 weeks and then we have to come back because Lisa has an appointment with a specialist and will get tubings in her ears. Hopefully that will keep her safe from these almost permanent ear infections.

I am excited since I got Vikki Claytons newsletter saying that she is in the process of dying 40ct linen. That is definately a must buy for me....well known as a linen addict.... Can't wait till she is offering it in her shop!

So this is my not too big progress on Rubie Owl's Sampler. Surprisingly I am not tired of stitching the leaves, yet. I absolutely love them and the colours.



And this is where I spent some time during the weekends while Lisa is playing in her little pool in the yard.

I made a nice progress

on Rubie Owl but I doubt that I will go on in this pace. Today some friends moved in with us. They decided to move back to their homecountry and sold their house so we offered to move in with us instead of living in a motel until they actually leave. It is kind of a challenge to live together with some other people in one house but I am positve we will get along for a few weeks.

As soon as the weather is warm and sunny...

....time goes by unbelievable fast. I had two finishes since my last post but no pictures yet. :(
And I got some stash .... and guess what ... no pictures yet ;(

But I started on Rubie Owl's Sampler by Plum Street Samplers yesterday. I got it in the mail on friday. Thanks so much to Paulette for creating this wonderful design. The colours are my absolute favourite.
This is how much I got done yesterday night:


The colours are lighter and a bit brighter in real life but what more can one expect from a scan.