January Gifted Gorgeousness

Gifted Gorgeousness is a great idea thought up by the lovely Jo over at Serendipitous Stitching to encourge us to use those stash items that have been gifted to us over the years or that we intend to give as a gift (shoehorning is also accepted)

This month I have 3 projects that fit the bill 

First is one you've already seen, the front and back cover of the Quaker Sampler Book that fella gave me for Christmas

Second is a stitching fairy for the RR I'm taking part in, the design is from May 1998 but which magazine it was in I have no idea about so please don't ask!

I finished the fairy Wednesday afternoon so pulled out My Ark to work on, this is for fella's Grandson

October Gifted Gorgeousness

Gifted Gorgeousness is the brain child of Jo over at Serendipitous Stitching to encourage us to use those stash items that have been gifted to us over the years or that will be a gift.

Short post again this month:(  with only 2 projects counting for GG

First is the owl I stitched for the RR I'm taking part in.

And My Ark has seen a little love recently

Last weeks stitching

Monday I started working on the next Round Robin.  This one has a theme of Seaside and because it was set up while we were away in Scarbrough and they have some very colourfull beach huts there as soon as I found the chart for these I knew they would be perfect for it.

Apart from changing the shade of yellow for the yellow hut (it was the same as the sand and I wanted it a little different) it's in all the called for colours.

I was away in Lincolnshire for the weekend so took my toms along with me to work on once the beach huts were done.

With any luck they will be finished at the end of October when I go to Fella's son's wedding

A new Round Robin

When I went on the stitching week to Scarbrough in May the topic of Round Robins came up and we decided we'd do one.

I went with a theme of Dragons for mine (hands up who's not surprised) and once I finished Tea I set about setting mine up and getting my square done.

I've used a Sparklies Solitaire, good old DMC and some krenick 

After a root round my stash I came up with Dragon Dreams Virtue freebies from 2002, as long as I took the title off it was the perfect size for the square :)

So this one is Friendship and I subbed the DMC for the scales and claws with #4 braid and the smoke with Ombre because I could :)