My Garden #1

Instead of stitching the Frosty Knotgarden I got sidetracked by Lynette Anderson's 'My Garden' BOM. This is the first of nine blocks. There are already eight of them waiting to be stitched in a box, but for some reason I have been neglecting them for a long time. I am using the recommended Moda 'Evening Mist' fabrics.

Yesterday evening DD fell asleep on the couch, so I covered her with a quilt. Very soon Cleo and Julius shared this comfortable place to take a nap too.

Spring basket

This lovely basket filled with different kinds of flower bulbs DD gave me yesterday! I was very surprised by this beautiful gift!

And an update of Frosty Knotgarden. Two of the missing threads did arrive last week, so I can stitch everything now except for the darkest colour of the flowers on the corners.

'Hermit and Stitch Day'

It turned out to be impossible to have a 'Hermit and Stitch Day' with DD and DH at home. But I did have a lot of 'Hermit and Stitch Hours' scattered over the weekend and I managed to stitch a lot of Frosty Knotgarden during this hours. I couldn't finish the right corner because I ran out of several threads. I do hope the package of Needlecraft Corner will arrive today or tomorrow. This package includes Blackbird Designs 'Anniversaries of the Heart' #10, the missing threads and some Piecemakers tapestry 28 size needles. These are my absolute favorite needles, but at the moment I only have two of them left.

Now I am going to visit the other Hermit's blogs to see what they have done during their stitching days. Thank you for organizing the 'Hermit Day', Joyce.
Thank you for all your lovely comments; I appreciate them very much.

One Frosty corner

I still have to finish the flowers in the corner. I ran out of the darkest colour :o(
Andie, it isn't my wishlist you can see in the side bar, but all the Chatelaines I am stitching at the moment. I did subscribe to the beautiful Spring Knotgarden too! And I ordered the kit of the Hummingbird Garden. Well, confession time...

Stitching:

• Peacock Garden
• Fairy Flower Garden
• Frosty Knotgarden
• Summer Knotgarden
• Watergarden
• Mini Mystery 01

Charts and kits waiting:

• Winter Watergarden
• True Mystery 2
• Hummingbird Sparkly Garden
• Knotgarden
• Spring Knotgarden
• Indian Summer Reflection

Finished:

• Secret Victorian Garden
• Celtic Maze
• Tuscany Town
• Autumn Watergarden
• Mini Mandala 5
• Mini Mandala 6
• Romantic Rose Garden
• Flower Medallions
• Elizabethan Sweete bag

OOPS! It is quite a long list! A very long list indeed!

Mini Mystery 01

This is part one of the Chatelaine Mini Mystery 01 'Amber and Aquamarine'. It is a small design and easy to stitch and I really love the combination of colours. I still have to add some crystals, which will soon arrive together with the Hummingbird kit from ECC I hope. This is going to be a series of four small designs with a gemstone theme. I am wondering which gemstones will be choosen for the other designs.

This was not exactly what I had in mind feeding birds in the backyard!

The sparrow hawk (sperwer in Dutch) caught one of the blackbirds and left nothing but a bunch of feathers. I could make a photograph through the window glass while he was eating.

Henrietta Wiskers #1

LHN ornaments series 2010

This cute snowman is the last LHN ornament of the 2010 series I had to finish.
And here is a picture of the whole series of last years ornaments.

I hope you are wearing sun-glasses, because the result of the free mini mystery Bobbin did add to last autumn's series of mini mysteries, is rather purple! This is only the top ; it still has to be turned into a cuddly pillow.

Thank you very much for all the support for Julius! The vet was very content when he removed the stitches on Friday. And we did talk a lot with the outcome we don't have to decide anything untill Julius has a small growth back again. Depending on the speed it will return and Julius' condition at that time we still can decide what we'll do then. So we all hope it will stay away for a long time!

In my last post I did write about my plans to use the Thimbleberries fabrics leftovers again to make the Bunny Hill free BOM quilt 'Henrietta Wiskers'. But I have changed my mind completely when I found a huge pile of stash of this quilt.

Block one is almost finished. I will make a new post later today when it is completed.

Once more two ornaments

The flashlight didn't work, so the photo is a bit dark. I still have to finish the last ornament of this series, but couldn't resist to subscribe to the new series. You can see a picture of the first ornament of the 2011 series here.

Another new project I am going to start is the Henrietta Wiskers free 2011 BOM from Bunny Hill Designs. Henrietta is a very cute squirrel! I have been digging in my stash already and thought it would be a challenge to use leftovers of the Thimbleberries fabrics again. I probably still have enough of them left, even after having used quite a pile of them for the Snowbound quilt, and found this collection of required beige fabrics in a box. And otherwise I will have a very good reason to go shopping for some new fabrics ;o))

The lab report of Julius' growth said that the edges still had malignant cells in the muscle side: the tumor hasn't been totally removed last week as we did hope. It is a very nasty and fast growing type of cancer. Now we have to decide if we'll try once more to remove everything, which means another major surgery next week to cut out as much of the muscle tissue as possible, with a very uncertain outcome. The thing could already have been spread all over too. Or do nothing and love Julius as long as possible, living a happy life without any pain and suffering. A very hard decision!