Sharing my life and love of cross stitch. Thoughts about this and that.

Monday, April 14, 2014

More Spring Freebies


The Way to Happiness -  BY Les Marottes de Nathalie -  A Norman Vincent Peale quote - in French, English, Spanish, German AND Italian - I think a former mystery SAL. Download the English or other version in 5 separate parts. (90w x 254h - if her count is correct, the dimensions are off a bit - 16ct would be 5.63 x 15.9") Copy the picture, key and thread colors, then paste into Word, etc. DMC equivalent listed. Very Nice. Also see her her other Grilles Gratuities and her Jardin Prive' designs and products.

Ces't Le Printemps - by Madame La Fee - Heart with Bees and Flowers
http://www.madame-la-fee.com/images/grilles_gratuites/cestleprintemps.pdf
Fleur de Cerisier  - by Madame La Fee - Cherry blossom. Looks like it would make a lovely hand towel insert.



Check out the other freebies at www.Madame-La-Fee.com  Look for "Free Chart" in left column.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Miscellaneous Freebies

Kitties Will Puke ...  True if a bit disgusting project.

DMC Threads - Related DMC blog with 2 new freebies and some cute spring ideas

Plum Pudding Design freebies

Which gives me the opportunity to relate that I had the happy privilege of meeting Connie from Reflections Gallery in Omaha, who model stitches for Plum Pudding, last week when she made a trip to Texas to visit family. We'd emailed and planned to meet at Stitch Niche, shop and have some lunch.  Well, it happened to be a busy Wednesday morning, Kathy had several customers come in who needed personal assistance, so Connie just stepped in with her best needleworker attitude, helped a stitcher select threads for a new project, then assisted a couple who dropped in to "just look around" find what they were looking for .. and then some! :D  I've already finished the Prairie Schooler "Where the Bees Are" and one of the smaller designs, so decided to Add "Rabbit Run" to my sudden need to CROSS STITCH!  It was rather amusing seeing Connie, here on a vacation, step in and go right back to work. She's VERY knowledgeable and a wonderful lady. After spending a lot more time there than anticipated, we headed to El Chico to give her a Tex-Mex fix *both ordering sour cream chicken enchiladas,  me substituting another bean for the rice and her substituting another rice for the beans.  That gave us a chuckle, had a long conversation and discovered we have so much more in common as well, and she insisted on paying for us both. THANK YOU AGAIN, CONNIE!!. Wonderful visit, but what else would one expect meeting a fellow cross-stitcher!  Really hope we can meet up again in the future.  When I can figure out why my scanner insists on saving to .pdf instead of .jpg. I'll post some pics of my recent projects!

HAPPY SPRING EVERYONE!! 

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Cross Eyed Cricket Easter Freebie

Tisket-a-Tasket Egg

I've finished stitching the new Prairie Schooler  Where There Are Bees (requires about 1-1/2  skeins of 3787) as well as the multi-motif  smaller ornament, as well as two of the Halloween designs from the Mini-Card pack. As soon as I can figure out why my scanner keeps converting everything to a .pdf file rather than a .jpg, I'll upload pictures.

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

New: Brooke Nolan Series, Pam Kellogg & Others


Advent Animals- by Brooke Nolan - New Advent Series (43w x 52h)

And for Spring:

Happy Spring -The Snowflower Diaries - Easter Egg shape with flowery edges (69w x 72h)

Butterfly and Daisies Towel -  By Pam Kellogg from Craft Ideas - really like this one! (155w x 40h)

I Love My Garden - By Mary Wright from Craft Ideas - also very nice  (116w x 116h)         

Spring Tulips - DMC - Not new but Springy

Wedding Sampler - DMC - new


                           ! ! Happy Spring Stitching ! !


Thursday, January 9, 2014

And a new Shepard's Bush Freebie

Happy Snowman - Under "New from the Bush" click on the Snowman.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Newest Permin Freebie

Sorry, no longer available.

Small forest scene with tiny deer.  (30w x 40h) If you get a Microsoft page error, just refresh. Hmmm. Would make a very nice scissors fob or card insert.

BTW, I owe a debt of gratitude for the stitchers on the 123 message board who are better at keeping up with the newest freebies than I am! Although I'm not updating my freebie's page very often any more, keep in mind that many of the sites change and update their freebies on a regular basis, so be sure to check back at that site from time to time.  And please let me know if you run into a 404 page error message so I can either update or remove a link.

And if you have or know of a freebie design or site I've missed, let me know. I'm happy to include a link!

Thanks!

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Happy New Year to All

Almost a week late, but still sincerely meant. No stitching news since I still haven't stitched a thing. I didn't even manage to finish the Patriotic Santa ornaments I stitched during the spring for my sister. Hopefully by her birthday in July.
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