WIP QS Day Dreaming Fairy - 13th of April 09

I continued stitching QS Day Dreaming Fairy, my SAL piece for HAED's 2009 SAL. I got about 1300 stitches done during Sunday and Monday and I am quite pleased. :)

Here's my wip pic (I changed the pic, this ones taken in better lighting):

Great giveaway!

I came across a great giveaway at Hungarian website. Click the picture and take part in the competition! :) When at the web site, click the text "Hírek oldalon" and you get to the competition. You'll see the English instructions how to take part after Hungarian info.

Pink Bunny

A fourth bunny has found its owner. Yesterday we went to see our friends' sweet little baby girl and we gave her this little bunny. I stitched the bib with part of Cosmic Handmade's free chart "Carrot Patch".


Here's a closer look at the bib.I'm a bit sad that DMC has desided to drop this bunny from their collection. I would love to find a few pink, green and blue bunnies so if you know where I could find them please leave a comment. I have given these to my friends' babies and would love to continue that tradition, also with my own children in the future.

Blogoversary and 5000 visitors! It's time for a giveaway!

Two weeks ago my blog had it's first birthday and my counter shows I almost have 5000 visitors so it's time for a blogoversary celecration and a giveaway! The price will be a biscornu (or it might be something else since I always change my mind on things! :D).

Just leave a comment to this post before 23rd of April and I'll draw the winner on 24th.

I would love to hear how you found my blog and do you come here often. :)

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

Goodies delivered

I had the first blog birthday at my Finnish blog a loooong loooong time ago and I had a draw then. I finally got the prizes on their way and here are some pics. I made my very first biscornu and needle book.

The needle book is stitched on Zweigart's cream 40ct Newcastle Linen, two over two with DMC's Color Vatiations thread number 4130. The design on the back cover is a freebie called "Love" from Debbie Draper Designs and the U on the front cover is from Checkered Alphabet from About.com (I added both links to my freebie list). This needle book went to Ulla and I am not 100% if she's already received it so I hope she doesn't come here to peek if she hasn't. :)


The mini biscornu is stitched on unknown red 30ct evenweave fabric, one over one with Anchor's thread 1315. The designs are from The Floss Box. This was so much fun to do since it's really tiny, just about 2cm across! :) Sorry about the other picture, it's a bit blurry and I noticed that after I had already sent the biscornu to Minna. You can see the other things I sent to her at her blog.

Now off to plan other surprises! :)

New Freebie links

I have found some great new freebie links so I updated my freebie list. I marked the new links with *. Go and see if there's something you like. :)

Srinity's Freebie List

edit 8.4.2009: I added "Blog de Gigi". My friend Ulla had found it. Thank you Ulla! :)

A great stitchers' weekend!

Last Friday I drove about 300km to spend a weekend on a holiday motel called Onnela with 22 other stitchers. Onnela means something like haven and that it surely was! The whole weekend meeting new stitching friends, eating good food, laughing A LOT and of course stitching! :D We had so much fun and I really can't even remember last time I have laughed so much.

Lilian Kok from the Netherlands came to teach us. She is such a sweet and wonderful person! She runs a mail art group at Yahoo and knows so much about diffirent stitching styles. She is also the person behind the My Aunt's Attic. She taught me some basic Hedebo and I will definitely try to learn more from the internet since it can be used for so much. Thank you Lilian!

She also designed us two charts. I managed to stitch the tin topper and some of the scissor case. The tin topper still needs a ribbon or a cord around the edge. When the scissor case is ready I'll use it to keep my iPod in it. :) I changed some of the colours of the designs, I changed the yellow for pale lilac and violet for Atalie's thread Rubis.

Totally Useless SAL

I took part in a Totally Useless SAL. :) You can read more about it from the blog Dragon My Needle but the basic rule is to collect your orts, little bits of fabric, broken buttons and so on from your stitching projects during the year and put them in a jar and show your progress at the beginning of every new moon.

I am a bit late showing what my jar has eaten but here it comes. I put in some bits and pieces from the little boxes I made for our wedding and also some yarn from the bouquet. The actual stitching orts are from the Neighborhood Row I stitched for the alphabet exchange. This is fun but I really must find a prettier jar. :D