Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Early Christmas Presents

Last Saturday we had another  meeting with Sampler Guild members at Janet, Heather and Mum’s house in London for Christmas. It was lovely, good company and good food.  I got some lovely presents!!!

  

 First I have to show you my Chocolate Letter from St. Nicolas, who visited Holland this month, yummy, thanks Atie :)) it's nearly gone :(

A couple of weeks ago I bought a Christmas tree which does not sting, I know I am cheating :( When it fell out of the box my heart sank, but I got him up in no time really! It's much fuller since this pic was taken.

 Early Christmas presents from Holland, a lovely Stable, Flow magazines, a notebook and mini notebooks, Thanks  Girl & Guys :)

 Linen and Ribbon from France, Thank you Paulette, I love it!! 

A Primitive Hare pillow from Britta, it’s gorgeous, look at the back too! And a lovely silver bird ornament, red stone heart and very tiny buttons, love them!

 Snowman pillow from Sandra S, on beautiful linen and silk ribbon and an Acorn thread winder:) Beautifully stitched Sandra:) 

 A Huswif from Laura made from fabrics she bought in Sturbridge Village, fabulous colours, love it a lot:)

 Presents from; Linda, Janet & Heather,Marjan & Caroline, thank you girls!! they are gorgeous :o))

It was Sandra’s birthday on Sunday; I made a little BBD Pillow with buttons on the back, you have to imagine them :o)

A big thank you to my wonderful family and my lovely friends, you have spoiled me and I love it !!

 Thank you all for being my followers and leaving me such great comments in the past year, it makes me want to pick up that needle now!!

Daisy and I wish you a Peaceful Christmas and a Happy (stitching) 2012 :))

Is it really December??

Hello my friends, just a small update for December (St Nicolas is in Holland and left me a Chocolate Letter!! because I am a good girl).

Last week we had a TSG meeting in Maidenhead, the venue was perfect and we all enjoyed the stitching and lovely food everyone brought to nibble on. It was good to meet up girls!! and presents too:))

Carol (no blog) gave me a lovely (belated) birthday present, it's  gorgeous don’t you agree!! My initials are on the back, you are so good Carol!! I do ignore the back a lot when making ornaments.   

And a  present from Caroline (no blog) who brought these goodies back from Hand-dyed-Fibers, she visited Vicky a while ago, lucky girl! The Barn Star is lovely too and has a wonderful history :)

 Stitching has gone out of the window for now! I have been working on my BOM II for  General Wives, a lovely project and am learning fast. I have also signed up for a House a day, click here or the button in the sidebar, you might be tempted too!! I could not resist it. 

My backing arrived for the 9 patch quilt (see previous post) it should really have been a Japanese fabric, but I love this Williamsburg Sampler by Windham so much and thought it looked great (my opinion of course) you might beg to differ!

 I like to show you what I did many years ago, making a quilt from scraps and skirts. It never occurred to me that it needed a binding, but hé one learns and the back is atrocious  bad stitching :(

Apologies for the bad background on the pictures!

That’s it for now, thanks to all of you who left wonderful comments and inspired me even more so:))))  200 Followers!! Thank you so  much!