Cross-stitch 2010

Having returned to full-time teaching in 2006 I have not had as much time to craft, though that is improving as I MAKE more time and aim to do at least 30 minutes of me-time each evening, plus a couple of hours in the weekends.  Last year I completed these two pictures...

Romeo and Juliet - a pattern that came free with a magazine I bought in the 90s.

from a magazine also bought in the 90s

My paper tole phase

In the mid 90s I attended a nightclass at the polytech and completed some papertole pictures - three or four have been given away and I don't have digital images of those, but the three that I kept for myself are here...

More cross-stitch catch-ups!

More from the 90s...plus a few from the 2000s - am gradually getting them onto digital!

1997? - we had cat called Tigger who spent a lot of time looking stressed out and we joked that he would just sleep if it all got too much for him - I adapted this from a pattern book, changing the colour of the brown cat into ginger to look like my cat.  I experimented with different stitching techniques to make the patchwork blanket.

Late 90s, this was from a pattern that my mum asked me to make for her.

This also was stitched for my mum from a kitset she had, to match the one done earlier of the cat under the blanket.

A trio set from 2008 - this is the view of the girl at the front...

...here is the side view of the "Girls on Bike" - was a kit set again...

...and the girl at the back!

I did this picture in the early 90s - Phoebe was our little Sydney Silkie dog;
I took a photo of her and sent it to a lady who turned it into a pattern for cross-stitch.
This was  a gift for my mum; she recently gave it back to me.

Raggedy Quilt

Made this raggedy lap quilt last week as a present for my wonderful friend Donna who actually turned a big-0 earlier this year -  Donna has four boys so I figured she needs some girly stuff in her domain!

Is all flannel (I used some fat quarters I'd bought from Kits'n'Thingz in Invercargill, and went back to get matching flannels for the border and backing) and I love the colour combo - was amazed at how easy it was to do this style of quilt. I loved being able to quilt as I sewed (but will take more care next time that the back seams are matched more carefully).