Making progress on my pretty lady.........

This is my after hours project...but.... she is coming along.. we do learn with every project and this lesson is pick your fabric carefully... I should have used something a little stronger because the stitching pulls the fabric in... I think I will be able to fix it and I may be the only one who sees it but still. when you put a lot of work into something use the best.. the fabric is good it is just a loose weave should have used something with more substance!  Happy Day All you lovely people out there!!!!  = ^..^ =  

A few more!

Some pictures!!!!!

O.k. I am making some progress.....or should I say Mr. Holly is making some progress..so I will post what I can.. this is the year of the daffodil here at Seaview cottage  They are just beautiful this year..  Our home was a small  ( tiny ) cottage built in 1912.... I grew up on this street but not in this house.  We had a neighbor who lived next door to us who owned her home and this cottage the land with.  she adored my parents...in 1962 she sold this to my parents for a song..... she really wanted to give it to them but my parents would not have it.  They had NO money and somehow they managed a tiny loan.....sooooo this is the great gift to our family and I am really just the caretaker...Mum and Dad are now here in spirit.. my mum was the greatest gardener and this spot has her soul.... she planted all the bulbs , hundreds of them... she always said " plant bulbs and you will live forever!!!! She was right!!!!!

Trouble in the computer photo world !!!

Well, I have lots to share with you BUT I can not get to my pictures......they are stuck in a mystery file and I can not find them......

I have garden and kitty and embroidery and........I've made an Easter dress for my dear friends sweet little 1 year old daughter...tomorrow I am making a bonnet to match....it has been so much fun to do... I embroidered the bodice with little pink, white and the softest of greens...I hope to be able to show it to you tomorrow..

I think I may just have to make the big computer purchase.... :( it's not that I haven't known this was coming but it is still big....and I'm going apple!!!! I think apple is going to be more user friendly ...at least for the things that I want to do.

Well, I hope I'll be back with pictures but if not Happy Easter to you all!! And a big thank you to all the people who have left lovely comments..it is so fun to meet all the wonderful people out there!!!!!

not quite finished....... then what????

A new embroidery!

This is my latest project!  Well, one of them anyway.... this is something I have wanted to do for a long time.  I found a beautiful oval frame at an estate sale last summer.  I wanted to embroider something that had an antique look to it.  I love love love the regency period .  ( Sense and Sensibility...)  this is a Kate Greenaway I scanned and then blew up  several hundred times then I put it on a light box and copied it to my fabric.  I am going to embellish it and I have changed a few other things......but I am happy with how it is coming out .  I am terrible at faces.  I just cannot seem to get them right which is why I chose this as a model.  The face is exactly what I love!!  So I am going to do the hat next.  I cannot wait to do the flowers around the brim!!  So so fun.  then I think I will do some flowers around the edges... not sure.... yet!  I always design my own stuff so this is strange to do something someone else designed but I love the picture so much I'm really enjoying it!             I received my new fabric from Aneela Hooey!!   .....If you don't know her you should this is her blog spot. ( link below)  Comfortstitching.....  I got her fabric from Moda fabrics.  She is a heavenly designer... everything she touches is beautiful.  I got her fabric collection called Sherbert pips! I think this is her first fabric and I pray not her last!! check it out  well, time to start dinner.  A long day of raking and  my back is killing me!!!!! I guess I better sit and embroider a bit!!!  Hope you all had a wonderful weekend!!!
http://comfortstitching.typepad.co.uk/comfortstitching/