Thanks And A Happy Mother's Day!

Thanks & Happy Mother's Day!
In Japan today is a mother's day, and so I stitched "Mum's the word..." © Primrose Samplers this year for my mum and my "Surrogate Mother in Law" Carol R.
You might thought what is or who is my "Surrogate MIL" on the last post...
She is my dear friend Carol R. !

Why "Surrogate MIL" ??
If you read my blog regularly, you might know about my real MIL, so Carol R. offered me to be my SMIL!
I can't explain well as my English ability is not good enough, so please visit her blog (here) and please read the reason why, lol

Anyways, here are some photos of framed piece of "Mum's the word..."

Isn't this beautiful?! I love this and also my mum fell in love again as always (lol)
There was another antiqued beautiful frame, and I was going to choose that one, but when the mat was made and set the stitched piece, this frame was more beautiful than the antiqued one!

Just simply beautiful, I thought and decided!

Here is a close up photo of the frame.
Now I still have been stitching for my mum this design, but she also will choose this mat and frame for this design!
So my SMIL and mum would have the same piece, how nice!

Here is another present for Mother's day from my hubby and me for my mum.
This is preserved flower, and so these flowers keeps their beauty for about 2-3 years.
Every year we send flower, in Japan carnation is the symbol of mother's day, so this also has carnation in the vase.

Isn't this beautiful?! I fell in love with this and decided to send this to my mum.
I also sent the flower for my real MIL... just token of ... what? LOL

I chatted with Carol R. last night and it was SO fun!! We chatted for a long time and she made me happy with her warm and thoughtful words, thanks SMIL!

Anyway, Happy Mother's Day for all mum in the world!!

Take care + have a lovely weekend!
Happy Stitching!

Design : "Mum's the word... (Chrysanthemums)" © Primrose Needleworks
Fabric : 32ct Witchelt Linen (Sandstone)
Thread : GAST, CC, and DMC (I changed some colours)

Mum's The Word...

Tomorrow, 10th of May (2nd Sunday of May) is a Mother's Day in Japan.
Last year I stitched "Love You, Mom" © Bent Creek for my mum, and this year I choose this design for her "Mum's the Word..." © Primrose Needleworks.

I have been working on spinning threads on bobbin as how I organized threads were not good idea for a lazy person like me, I was putting threads them in plastic bags like small ZipLock, and put them in the boxes.
But this idea wasn't really good TO me, I couldn't find what I want to find and so bought threads and at the end so many same colours were found in the box... silly me!

So now I can't find the recommended threads easily as I have been working on it and messing around with threads!
So recent work of mine, I changed colours a lot, but it doesn't mean that I don't like the recommended threads, just couldn't find them, lol

Anyways, so I changed colours for this pattern, too.
"Chrysanthemums" in #746 wasn't show up well, shame...
I didn't know "Chrysanthemums (菊）" and checked dictionary, and then the dictionary said it's used for funeral as well...　so I asked Su if this pattern would be for dead person???
But Su told me, in England it's also the symbol of mum or mother's day!
In Japan also "Chrysanthemums" is used for funeral, so when Su told me about that I felt OK! go and start stitching! :D
Thank you, Su!

I added "2009 YUKO" above the word "Chrysanthemums", but I stitched it with one strand and so it was shown quite weak, but it's OK, I'm a modest, lol

Here is a humming bird, the chart was written to do backstitch, but I couldn't do beautifully, so I did long stitch. I think it's fine and beautifully done, though what do you think???

I framed this with beautiful mat, and presented to my "Surrogate Mum" in England.
I have been stitching the same design for my mum, too, as she loved this as well!
I heard that my "Surrogate Mum" received it safely, so I will share some photos of framed piece tomorrow!

Back to stitching, until tomorrow I would like to finish my mum's one!






Here is another diary "Tomato Diary" lol
Now we have been growing strawberries and tomatoes in the planter.

This is so nice experience for little kid to see and know how they grow up!

Here is a tomato's flower.
I didn't know that tomato's flower is yellow like this until now.

My mum is always thinking about my son Tass, thinking how she makes him happy, smile and make him excited!

I really appreciate for her, she doesn't do anything to me, she says "just relax now", but she is old so seems quite tough to nursing him all day.
Thank you, Mum!



P.S. To Bonnie who has left a comment on my last post, could you please tell me your e-mail address? Thanks.

Take care + Have a lovely weekend!
Thanks for visiting!!

Design : "Mum's the word... (Chrysanthemums)" © Primrose Needleworks
Fabric : 32ct Witchelt Linen (Sandstone)
Thread : GAST, CC, and DMC (I changed some colours)

Love You, Mom by Bent Creek

Yesterday, finally "Love You, Mom" © Bent Creek has finished!
It's quite smaller than I thought, but it took long time to finish, whew...
After I framed, I run to post office with my son and sent this out to my mum as belated Mother's Day gift, with some CDs!

I used ready-made frame which was in my stash, so it's not so good, as you can see it reflections...
But she called me as soon as it arrived to her, and told me she does like it so much, and sounded that I made her day brighten up!
Now I feel relief and am very glad to hear that she liked it!


This time I used overdyed threads, as my mum likes the reulst by stitching overdyed threads, but I'm not used to stitching with them, that's why it took time so long until complition.

The recommends colours seemed totally different with the sample photo, so I changed some colours.
And primary, there should be three hearts buttons besides the word "MOTHER", but I didn't have recommended hearts buttons nor suitable one for this design, so I stitched pink hearts instead of atattching the buttons!

If I disclose my real motive, now I'm giving a sigh of relief...
I like this design and wanted to present it for my mum very much though, to stitch along this was actually not so fun... (lol)
Now I can change my mind and can try another project! Yahoo!

Next one? It probably be "Biscornu" for May challenge (Monthly Finishing Challenge)!
Or another thing, now I just want to make small one, something like pinkeep or thread keeper!





Design : "Love You, Mom" © Bent Creek
Fabric : 32ct Wichelt-Permin (Sandstone)
Threads : WDW & GAST,
*Whitewash (WDW) ---> Pineapple Sherbet (GAST)
*Harvest Basket (GAST) ---> Nutmeg (GAST)

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

YOU are the best!

I have been stitching "Love You, Mom" © Bent Creek
for Mother's Day, but couldn't make it in time...
I think I can finish it in a few days, and after framed
I will send it to her immediately with some CDs!

Mum, you always help me, even though we are far away,
you come here to help us a lot whenever without any hesitation.
I'm embarrassed but I didn't know how much you love me
when I was young, but now I feel your love so much.

Thank you always, and I love you, too!

And, "Happy Mother's Day!" to all mothers in the world!

Too Belated Mother's Day

When I've made a tote bag for my friend's birthday (the last post), actually I've made totally five same style bags at the same time! LOL
Because I'm really not good at sewing machine, so once I finished to make one, I didn't want to do the same process from the first again!

This for my mother, I wanted to stitch beautiful CEDER HILL's bouquet design for "Mother's day", but couldn't make time to stitch for her, so this is really belated "Mother's Day" gift.
Too late, though! LOL

I stitched her Initial with DMC #814 on purplish-gray linen (which my friend Domy gave me before).









Here are some photos of the leather handle (dark brown one) and fabrics which I used for her bag.

She knew that I was making bags, but she didn't know that I'm also making a bag for her, so when I gave this to her, she was so surprised and seemed really happy!

I'm really glad that she is so happy to get this as a surprised present!

I will show you some other bags' photos later again! LOL






From : "Charted Monograms for Needlepoint and Cross-Stitch"