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I forgot to say that Mason is nearly up and crawling (he’s rocking, so we need to get those gates up pronto!). Zac and Bran can ride their new bikes with ease, and always remember their helmets. Bran also is showing awesome timing with the cricket bat he got from Nana & Grandad. He can heave it over the neighbours house. Oops.

This is Bran’s sampler – an Alma Lynne Ark that I altered. Cause I always do.

This is Mason’s – Sharon made it from a Maria van Scharrenburg kit. I had to finish off the bottom border but didn’t touch it otherwise.

and this is a framed pencil sketch print I found in a Devonport op shop of a Selwyn-like church and graveyard. Si loves things like this. We found a gorgeous old church while roaming the other day – St Johns in Drury. Took some great shots with my new phone.

a post for Rowyn

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Rowyn is someone I admire. She’s got cats for a start, and she finishes her needlework. That is something I struggle with, as I get bored working on the same piece. Her taste is different from mine, but I think she’d like these pieces too ($4.99 from Spotlight, or Rowyn, I’ll send you the charts when I’m done). They’re little kits from Janlynn.

This nativity is something I want to do; I’ll have to order it. I do have somewhere a Just Cross Stitch magazine or similar part nativity, but I’d want it to match.
I am part-way thru the one of Christ in the manger;  if I was kidless each piece would be less than a day I guess. This time around I’ll frame in the plastic frames provided but I would like to repeat on 20 count linen and frame as a sequence for the wall. I think that would look quite cool.

Projects and progress

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Here’s Tapestry Cat. A Teresa Wentzler kit that I brought for myself two Christmases ago and have yet to finish. If you haven’t worked it out by now, I flit from project to project. Part of this is (currently) due to preggy brain, and some of it is because this is what I do. Things rarely get completed in one sitting, as I get bored. And when you’re renovating houses, working full time, parenting and being a partner, and always involved in things outside of the home as wel, there’s the time thing.

But since Murray died I have spent more time on this. I would like to finish it this year; it’s been a cathartic tool in that my hands are busy, I am creating something beautiful, and I can clear my head of the worries.And if that sounds wierd, well, we all grieve in different ways.

giveaway patterns

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Sorry I was too tired to post these last night! The wolf lying down is one I have stitched and the other my DH didn’t like in the end, but I had kept anyway. Both are from The Stitchery. I forget that magazine’s new name – all I can remember is that I don’t buy it anymore as it’s not the same!

Please let me know if you’d like one or both of these patterns – I think I might list the finished piece and finally get it gone!.