Cathy, yes the Christmas Heirloom Sampler is a design by Victoria Sampler and I love to stitch their designs!!! They are such a big fun with all these special stitches.

Here's an update on my MTM. It hasen't grown much lately but I will stitch on it today a bit...

WOHOOOW!!! Now I'm a Member of the Stitching Bloggers Exchange Board and looking forward to some wonderful exchanges though I haven't decided to participate in which ones yet. But I will sign up soon. :-)

I did only few stitching the last days. Lisa (DD) was 11 months old last sunday and her grandparents came for coffee. Yesterday Lisa and I went to babys swimming group. It's such a big fun for her. :)

But I managed to finish part 8 of Christmas Heirloom SAL. It's the last picture I'm able to scan because it's so large now the future pics will be photos...

Now I go back to stitch on MTM.... It's a bit tiring to stitch the flower beds....

Part 6 and 7 of our CHS SAL are done.

Thanks to Carol! She helped me to find out why my MTM looks different to all the others... The bricks behind the fontain are two different colors but symbols look so similar that I didn't realized that there are two colors needed :-(((. Unfortunately it's too late to frog it because I sew some threads behind it.... Today I was so annoyed that I didn't stitch even one stitch on MTM.

First MTM WIP pic

Here is the first Medieval Town Mandala WIP pic. It's done yesterday after 6 days of stitching.

Besides to this one I do a few stitches every day on a cute christmas design for a winter exchange of one of my yahoo groups....

And today I'm goingt to meet a fellow stitcher to visit our LNS and eat a Pizza afterwards. So it will become a very nice day :-))

Becky, your bumblebee button box is georgous. I love it. I wish I could finish my stitching like you do......

I found a nice fabric for the lining of my This Too Shall Pass scissors case. Hopefully it's not too difficult to sew because it was a bit difficult for me to understand the sewing instructions. There were some expressions I don't understand....



Today I'm still stitching on Chatelaine Medieval Town Mandala.

Halloweeeeeeeeeen .......

Thanks to KarenV, Cathy and BeckySC for their nice comments on my last post. I love to read the comments :-) Becky, would you mind to send me a link to a pic of your finished bumblebee button box?

From Wednesday 09/28 to Friday 09/30 I stitched this cute little Holiday Halloween by Drawn Thread and I plan to stitch Holiday Thanks this month.

Does anybody want to trade these Drawn Thread Designs: Holiday Tree, Holiday Hearts and Holiday Wreath ? I would love to make them as well but I don't have them in my stash yet..... :-(((

Friday in the evening Martina Weber send an email with the password for the first part of the Medieval Town Mandala and I immediately started stitching.... Unfortunately I'm still waiting for 3 Gloriana Threads to arrive and one of them is needed in the first part :-(

We are back from a wonderful holiday at the Baltic Sea. We had a great time and the weather was OK. We took a lot of time just relaxing and doing some biking tours in the beautiful scenery.

In the evenings and during the lazy days I did some stitching of course. :-)
The first thing I stitched was a lighthouse the ABC-RR I'm participating:

Then I stitched a small one for my little Lisa. Bent Creeks Dance of Bumblebee.....

....before I had to stitch Felix in New York for a fellow stitcher in Austria. She wants it as a big sampler for her son. I think it turned out very nice. It is now on it's way to the last stitcher before returning to Austria.

And last but not least I stitched part 4 and 5 of our Heirloom Christmas SAL.

Thank you!!!

I'm very happy about your nice comments about my pillow. Thank you so much. :-)

Today I didn't do much stitching because we're leaving tomorrow for our two weeks holiday *yippie* and I had a lot work left to do...

I only finished stitching a small gift but of course l can't show a picture before it reaches the addressee. I'll show you later

Pillow finished!!! Wooohoooooo!!!

Today I finished my Passé Composé heart into a pillow. It will fit very well into our hall. Usually it takes a long time till I get out my sewing machine and finish my stitching... But I promised to better myself :-)

Yesterday in the evening I stitched Band 4 and 5 which means part 3 of our SAL. It's such a big fun to stitch it never becomes boring. And the special stitches are very well explained.

I don't know if there will be some time for stitching tomorrow. I have to pack all the things for our holiday trip starting on Thursday.

This Shall Too Pass

stitching is done today. :-) and I like it very much how it turned out. Now I have to buy some fabric for the lining. But I don't know if I will get one before leaving to the baltic sea. By the way the wheather is very fine at the moment :-) I hope it will not change during our two weeks holiday......

I read the sewing instructions but I'm not sure if I understood everything. I have a few sewing experience so I will get it done anyway.....I hope so ;-)

got some Ebay-Stash

yesterday I got my ebay stash. It's Victoria Sampler February Needleroll and Just Cross Stitch Christmas Ornament Issue from 1990. These older issues are OK but not that good as the newer ones....

Wohooo....it's finally done!!!!!

I stitched Drawn Threads Random Thougts from October 2004 - April 2005 and got the bellpulls just in time after finishing the stitching. But then I put it away ..... and today I finally attached the charms. Wohooooo. It's a real shame that it was in a cupboard for such a long time.....
I really love the Drawn Thread designs, aren't they wonderful?

one of my new starts of the last days....

I started This Shall Too Pass scissors keep from Elegant stitch but I changed the colors. The main color is Caron Waterlilies Cherry and the others are some DMC Threads. I hope it will work out fine....

Band 2 and 3 finished

In the last few days I started something new ( I'll show you some pics later) and I finished Band 2 + 3 of Victoria Samplers Christmas Heirloom Sampler. It works out very nice :-)




















The wheather is very fine at the moment and I love to sit under a tree with my stitching and tasty cup of cappucino.... :-)

I'm so tired.... hubby and I worked very hard in the garden today. Hopefully I'm not too tired to stitch a bit tonight.
I found two wonderful Periwinkle Promises designs at stiching bits and bobs today:
Mauve Meadow Book

and Summer Sizzle Book

but I didn't come to a decision yet whether to buy the or not.... I think I will sleep one or two nights before deciding.

Christmas Heirloom Sampler started

I started Victoria Samplers "Christmas Heirloom Sampler" and it took me 5 days to finish the backstitched tree. But it wasn't as bad as I thougt. I'm looking forward to stitch the following bands :-)

Now I have to stop and stitch a small gift. I will show a picture after it reached the addressee.

Passé Composé heart is finished

Yesterday I finished the "Coeur Fleuri" from Le Passé Composé. It's one of the designs I bought in Langenzenn.
My husband wanted me to stitch in the letter L for my DD's name Lisa.

back from Langenzenn

I'm back from Langenzenn since monday. But I was too tired to be very active the last week. It was a wonderful exhibition and a lot of fun to meet all the known and unknown stitching fellows at Kimmys home. :-)