"#3 Hope Perches” by The Sampler Girl

Hi, it's been so while since I posted my work last time!
Finally I can share it with you all... whew
I had finished this before Sweetie Tass had been hospitalized, but had no chance to take photo and post it here until now.

I finished as mini pillow as same as the sample photo of this chart.
Luckily I could find the nice fabric for this, I'm so happy that I could make this into mini pillow like this, as I fell in love with the sample photo when I first saw!

I'm going to finish another The Sampler Girl's finished piece into something.
I also have to work on my PIF gifts!! I wrote on the last post, though please forgive me, Susan and Marie!
I have ideas for the PIF gifts in my mind, so please wait for it's finished!


Take care and have a lovely weekend!
Thank you for your visit.

Design : "#3 Hope Perches” © The Sampler Girl
Fabric : 32ct Belfast "Vintage country mocha"
Thread : Recommended Threads

Quaker Animal Exchange FOR Veronica

I saw that Veronica posted on Quaker Inspired blog that she has safely received my "The Workbasket Quaker Animal Exchange" piece which is one of project of Quaker Inspired blog, so I'm going to share what I've made for her!

It was very hard to choose what animal to stitch for her, but I had very nice over dyed thread just for flog and also the fabric, so after long time thinking I've decided to stitch flog...
But I recently knew that the "flog" is not good meaning at stitching field, in English... I hope she didn't mind what I've sent for her this "flog"...
I didn't mean it, at all... ('~';)

This time also I couldn't find a nice idea how to finish this off, as I stitched this on 28ct fabric, it became a bit big, so I made this into a tasseled pillow again...

These (see the last post...) were the first time for me to make tasseled pillows, but I quite like how these turned out!
So I think I will make some tasseled pillows from now on! :D

Here is the photo of backing fabric which I used for this flog pillow.
The colour matches so well with the thread colour, the photo is a bit blurry, though...

The chart has three motifs of Quaker Animals, and I also have another chart of this series, so I would like to stitch some of them for myself in the future, as it was very fun to stitch and also these Quaker Animals are very lovely!

Anyway, I do really hope that she liked what I've sent for her!

Recently I haven't been taking Grass Hedgehog's photo at all, as she looks the same as before!
If there was something change, I would take a photo of her and will upload the photo here!

Design : "Quaker Flog" © The Workbasket
Fabric : 28ct Cashel Linen - Vintage / Vintage Green (6159)
Thread : Needle Necessities Inc. Floss Overdyed (unknown col.)
Finished as : (Tasseled) Mini Pillow

HoE LHN Exchange FOR Carol S.

Yesterday I've got a lovely e-mail from Carol S. that she has safely received my HoE (Hooked on Exchanging) LHN Exchange piece, so I'm going to share what I've made for her!
Carol S. is a very talented lady as you know, so I was a bit nervous to stitch for her and also it was very hard to choose a design from lots of LHN patterns!

Then I've chosen this design "Necessities Sampler" for her as I liked colours of this design.
I stitched on 32ct Belfast Linen, so it became a bit big, so again it racked my brains trying to find an idea how to finish it off...

Then I found the idea to finish it off as tasseled mini pillow which I wanted to make at least once!
It was a bit difficult for the first time to make them, so I think they were not perfect...

So I told her honestly that it was my first try and so they aren't perfect, but she told me there was nothing wrong at all...

She is so kind, isn't she!

Thank you Carol S.!

I will practice how to make beautiful tassels like she does!
I forgot to take photos of them, though I stitched our initials and "2008 HoE" on the pillow!
Here is the photo of backing fabric which I used for this mini pillow.
This photo doesn't show the colour justice, but I used my favourite fabric for it!

Anyway, I'm so glad that she told me she liked everything I've sent to her!
I heard that her DH loved sweets (Pocky) that I sent, so if there was another chance to send something to her, I will send variety of Pockys!! lol
Mine will be delivered from someone soon, I think!
I'm so thrilled to think about it nowadays!

Design : "Necessities Sampler" © Little House Needleworks
Fabric : 32ct Belfast Linen (Ivory)
Thread : DMC
Finished as : (Tasseled) Mini Pillow