X-ing into NEw Year

Bringing forward my first of many WIPs into the year 2012 - "Vierlanden 1826"

A pretty busy day today - breakfast in TTDI for tosei, puttu mayam and idli with DH and DS 1 & 2, followed by some grocery shopping at Giant Hypermart and 2 hours of reflexology. So dinner was not homecooked though the restaurant was called "Homst"!..



A cut-out from the front page of the STAR newspaper today to usher in 2012!




Progress on 'Vierlanden 1826'

Weihenburg Contest Sampler Progress

Many months after I started on this contest sampler, this is how far i have gotten. November'10 seemed like many months to complete and I thought I could do it in a few months, give or take some lazy moments. Alas, the lazy moments seem to win over the urge to complete it in time. This is it for now, hopefully it will not take long to showcase the next progress!.

Contests

Two contests that I know of that is still on:

1. Win silk threads from Dinky Dyes. Details on their website:www.dinkydyes.com

2. Sampler contest. You get to stitch a sampler with your own colour of choice. Design will be provided. But to enter the contest you need to join the weihenburg group at this website if you are interested - www.weihenburg-samplers@yahoogroups.com

Here is a peek at my progress. For now I am going to stitch up the design and hopefully will be up to it to add some beads to spruce it up a little. The deadline is 25 November 2010.



Materials used: Belfast linen - 32 count - grey, DMC thread nos. 99, 815, red variegated thread (Ondori)and a multicoured thread - no name - from Diane, USA ( from NNC's birthday exchange).

WIP - Vierlanden's 1826

Today I picked up an old WIP. I have decided to revive my stitching of this fantastically large sampler all done in a multi- coloured theme. It was supposed to be a SAL with a few members on the NNC stitching group but apparently only Charlene managed to complete it yonls ago! The rest of us - well .....hmm...

Quaker Patchwork - My Finish

This is my finished portion of the Quaker Patchwork from the Weihenberg stitching group. Since I has seriously miscalculated the size of the fabric,this is as much of the pattern that the fabric could take in. I did some modifications to the right hand edge to give it some 'closure' and all in all I am happy with the results. Sorry my scanner could not take in the edge so you will not be able to see it. Anyway i was so pleased at the design and colours used. So pretty!Happy dance!

WIP - Quaker Patchwork Sampler

I have been working on the Patchwork Sampler from the Weihenberg Group whenever I had the time after work to do so. This is my progress so far. I am afraid we will not see the full sampler as my fabric is not big enough for it due to a serious miscalculation on my part.

Birthday Present From Diane

This morning I collected my birthday present from the post office. My secret birthday exchange partner in the NNC Group was Diane from The USA.Oh how I love receiving presents.

See all the wonderful things she sent to me - A lovely birthday card, a wooden treasure chest which opens to reveal a pair of pink scissors, a clover thread cutter, DMC tapestry needles, Mill Hill beads kit, mother of pearl thread heart shaped keep, Dinky Dyes Silk Threads and a stitched pincuhion perched atop a shaker stand. Thanks sooo much Diane. The postage cost her a bomb but the presents are worth much more.

Quaker Patchwork Sampler

After months of 'cross stitch' block I decided to pick up my needles and stitch again. If it had not been for the Round Robbin that I participated, I was like going mental about wanting to do any stitching. Instead I engrossed myself playing online games, staying till late at night just trying to complete them. Finally I am out of that doldrum and decided to do this Quaker Patchwork Sampler from the Weihenberg Group. I love the colours even though they are more towards the greys and greens. Sadly I miscalculated the size of the fabric required ( I don't what I was thinking when I measured it!!) and so have decided to stitch as much of the pattern as the fabric allows. So this is how far I have progressed.

Little bags

I crochetted 2 bags - the supposedly pink one a couple of months back and the greenish/brown one yesterday. They look brownish after scanning. Actually the top ones has shades of pink, light blue and medium brown while the bottom ones a of medium brown/yellow/green shades.The pictures just doesn't seem to do justice to them. Anyway I was bored and was not in a mood to do any cross stitch, so I used whatever little wool (Minlon yarn) I had and voila! - a small bag measuring 6 inches by 8 inches. Something very handy to bring along when I go to Giant hypermart to buy the odd groceries. Even the pink flowers on the green bag has turned out a different colour.Oh Yes, now I am without any yarn left. I wanted to get some at Mydin today, but they didn't carry the colours/shades that I wanted.So sad....:(

Alynn's RR

This is Alynn's RR which will be returned to the owner in due course.Alynn, I will have to find one Saturday when the post office will be opened or maybe I shall pass it to you at one of the bees whichever is earlier. Patience ya!

My RR Has Come Home To Roost

My RR has come home after having visited Alynn and Margaret. That's Alynn's contribution on the bottom left and Margaret's is above hers. Thanks gurls. They are lovely. Now I have to find another chart to fit into the blank spot.

Stitching Bee

Stitching Bee
Venue: Starbucks, BBV II
Present:Anna,Alynn & DD,Rose,Veronica,Janet,Janet's DD,Janet's Niece,Margaret, Margaret's DD,Jackie, Lily,Mel,Sabariah,June...Hope I DIDN'T MISS OUT ANYBODY.

Absent : Nik (got exams today - poor thing!), Paul, Usha

Agenda:

- Chatter, Natter, Lotsa Laughter
- Show of projects/WIPs
- Browse MW's new cross stitch books - so European and so expensive
- Sale of old CS&C Mags by yours truly. Alynn and Janet bought 5 so they each got one issue free, MW bought 2 issues - thanks a bunch gurls.
- Snack on cupcakes from Alynn and carrot cake from Anna
-Did Jar exchange: 5 members took part. I got Janet's, Mel got Paul's, Paul got mine, Alynn got Mel's (much to my envy cos there were lots of yummy buttons) and Janet got Alynn's jar.

PS: Mel gave me some buttons too.

- MW distributed Diane's gift of DMC threads to all present. Thanks alot Diane, they are lovely - variegated, silk, metallic and rayon.

Sorry no pictures of us enjoying ourselves thoroughly but you can feast your eyes on the floss and button!

Bee ended at 2pm.

Can't wait for the next meet....

II

Stitching Bee

NNC Stitching Bee was held at Starbucks, Bangsar Village II on Saturday, 13 June'09. Those who turned up - be it early or late - Margaret, Alynn & her 3-year old DD, Usha & her DD, Nik, Valerie, Josephine, Paul, Anne, Shanny and her 2-year ols DS, Owen and of course yours truly.

Valerie brought us little chocolate cup cakes and Shanny gave us chocolates from Swiss Land. Nik gave a green crocheted bag ala the Victorian eram and Paul who happened to be my secret partner for the bookmark exchange passed his handiwork to me. I will post the pic after this.

Well I brought some yarn and crochet needle with the intention to crochet but I did not. I returned Paul's crochet needle to him - the metallic green which I used for my first pink '3-stranded yarn' crochet bag. Incidentally I have given this bag to my future DIL. Thanks Paul for the loan of your needle.

I left around 12.40pm as I had a wedding to attend in Dato Keramat. In fact Usah left a tad earlier than I did as she too ahd a wedding to attend and had to go back home first to Klang to change to her saree for the reception.

Anyway, I was gld to meet up with everyone again. It has been a while since the last stitching bee .....hmmm when was that? And Shanny who is back in Malaysia from Swiss Land for a short stint - well it has been something like 2 years since we met her.

No pics of the meet. My camera is not able to upload images to the PC. Oh sorry ! sorry! I have a photo of the bag Nik gave me. Here it is.

NNC Card Exchange 2009

I don't know whether it was time to post the card to our partner but I thought I saw 15 April as the mailing date. I panicked and sent mine off to Radha the weekend before 15 April'09 and I believe when she said that she ahd received it, the card must have reached her yesterday. So here it is the card that made it's way to Alor Star, Kedah in the NNC Card Exchange.I stitched the design that says"Hi" to meet the criteria of a stitched card. I did try punching holes on a piece of card and drew stitches to make faux stitches but it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to. So I threw it away. How I wish I owned a sewing machine. The embellishments was bought from the 'Kedai Bunga' in Nilai.The patterned paper was a freebie design from a card blogging site.Yeah I looked through so many blogs till I've forgotten from which blog site I got the freebie from.

Well Radha this is for you. AND not forgetting the Organiser of this exchange. - a big THANK YOU to YING

Gudi Kolden's Many Years Sampler

WIP on The Many Years Sampler by Gudi Kolden. See it at her blog. I know it is moving ever so slow. Well It's either a case of too tired or too lazy and most of the time both! However it remains to be one of my favourites.