round 2

Hello girls! :)
I finished my 2nd cat last week, I posted on my blog but I forgot to post it here too.. sorry =)

Are you ready for next round? It's time to start our third and last cat! uhuuuuu we are close to the end ƪ(^◡^)ʃ

I'm keeping record of how everyone one is doing. Please, check the list on the sidebar and let me know if I'm missing anything ;)

I could not advance more my cat, because I had too much work. Here is what I have done.
Rosário

My 2nd Cat

I wasn't quite lucky... I couldn't catch up with my SAL among other things.. huhuhu :'(
Well, he will be coming up shortly.
In the meantime, this is the cake he will be carrying :)



Happy stitching girls!

Birthday Princess

I've entered a challenge on MSCSG.  What we were asked to do was stitch one of Margaret Sherry's Sketchies and be creative, use painted fabric, coloured threads and add a little touch of yourselves! It can be a new saying, buttons, lace, anything you want.  We were given two weeks to complete the challenge which ends today.  So this is what I have come up with.  Adding Mill Hill glass seed beads 00553 and Metallic threads. 

Birthday Princess

Happy Stitching Everyone

"Kiss Me" Valentine Mice

I have had a letter published in Cross Stitcher Magazine Issue 238.  I sent them a picture of my "Kiss Me" Valentine Card.  They cropped the picture to show the mice only, and also reversed the picture, so that the heart shaped balloon was on the left and the rose on the right.

"Kiss Me" Valentine Mice.

Here is what my letter says in the magazine:-

Valentine smooches

When I received my copy of issue 236 I completely fell in love with Margaret Sherry's kissing mice (above) and dropped everything I was doing, so that I could find some fabric and threads to start stitching it straight away!  I've just finished it this morning and had to take a photo to share with you.  This will make such a great Valentine's card for my husband - he's going to love it.

And yes, he did love it.

Happy Stitching Everyone

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Let's Bee Friends

Well, I've finally finished "Let's Bee Friends".  I stitched him for the March SAL on the Yahoo Margaret Sherry Cross Stitch Group (MSCSG).  I first started him in June 2010 as he was a free cover kit in Cross Stitcher Magazine 226.  I had a few problems with the kit as I like to do everything in 2 threads and not 1.  So I had quite a bit of unpicking until I got it right.  The flowers are in 2 threads and done in Anchor thread.  The cover kits threads were not Anchor, so I used what I had in my own stash.  Thanks to the group SAL, he is now finished and not a UFO anymore.

Some time ago I stitched an Archie Bear card for my friends Birthday.  I've just realised that I have not shared it with you, so here he is now.

Happy Stitching Everyone



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My Ice-Skating Hedgehog - First Post Here!

Hi everybody -

Thought I would share my finish today.

This came out of Cross Stitcher, Issue 209.

Come visit me at my stitching blog, Crossroads of My Mind.

Thanks for letting me share. Love Ms. Sherry!

Happy Stitching,

Pam (USA)

1st SAL Completed!

Finally, I've finished my first cat! I think my problem was that I was trying to make it look more like one of my cats and couldn't quite get it right. Although it looks like there is a stain to the left of the cake, there is something wrong with the camera, not the fabric! 

 Now to decide what to work on for the second cat...

Hi everyone!
Here is an Archie Bear design I stitched for my brother-in-law's birthday. It was a freebie from Cross Stitcher. I used aida and DMC threads. Archie is such a cutie, don't you think?
I hope you like it!

Isabelle

Cat #2

Second Cat done!!! =)