The Girl that Stitches

Butterflies Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been stitching another butterfly cushion! This was the colour scheme of the first one I stitched some time ago. Original Butterfly: Monet’s Room I stitched another version of this butterfly as a gift for my Sister. The colour design of the cushion was inspired by Monet's painting "Water Lily Pond 2." My Sister has a room with a Monet inspired colour scheme, so I picked colours that would work in this room. Water Lily Pond 2 by Monet: New Butterfly; Ready to be stitched to cushion: Finished Cushion; 22 count Hardanger tented with 3 to 4 strands: Lilly Butterfly The Pattern is available on the downloads page .  The colours used in this Monet version are: Happy Stitching! xxx

The first page of Rainbow Girl is finished! I really enjoyed stitching the rainbow colours! I’m starting to get used to the feel of stitching 1 over 1 on 25 count and would certainly use this fabric and thread combination again.  It’s definitely up there with 20 count lugana (2 over 1) as a favorite combination of mine. Progress update:   Fly by Needleminder  I’m pretty good at losing needles… I think they all end up the same place as all those missing sock pairs… Maybe there is a needle snatching monster as well as a sock monster! Anyway, I made a needleminder by snapping a little magnet onto a butterfly brooch/pin that was handy. It’s working great… but whether I will stop losing needles… well that is probably still unlikely lol! ;) Post edit: Requested pictures of brooch;