Cross Stitch Blog, page 21

Fun day out!

29th Aug 2016

Even children love tractors. My 2 and 6 year old grandchildren enjoyed a day out with their parents to a tractor rally. It must have seemed high up in the large tractor and Rosie the youngest thinking "this must work!"

Happy day

24th Aug 2016

We had a lovely weekend away with my eldst son and Gareth my 8 year old grandson, playing cricket, footbal and rugby!! Perhaps getting just a little too old for this, but great fun was had by all. We also spent time trying to find creepy crawlies (already dead) for him to put under the mini microscope that we took for him. Quite amazing how a tiny plastic instrument worked SO brilliantly, even black poppy seeds were incredible to view.  

The poser here...

Congratulations!

18th Aug 2016

Stitch this quick and easy design to send your congratulations to the happy pupils who have had their A level results today.

Thinking about stitching for Christmas!

17th Aug 2016

Hope you are having a good week. If you are anything like me, this year seems to be passing very quickly, so here is a reminder for you all to perhaps start thinking about stitching for Christmas. From large pictures to groups of card designs, there are lots ideas to choose from under the 'Seasonal' catogory on my shop site.

How time flies!

27th Jul 2016

Sorry that I'm so late in getting in touch. I have had such a busy week, time just seems to have flown. Just a reminder that the monthly free chart will be posted in the next few days.

I hope your week has all gone well.

Bye for now, Lesley

Victorian beauty

19th Jul 2016

This elegant Victorian beauty, dressed in formal attire, with pretty lace gloves and yoke on her dress and with her exquisite hat, overflowing with delicate pink roses, give such grace and charm to the whole picture. This was such a delightful design to work on and I can't wait to try some others like this.

Here you can also see my original drawing that that I did as I thought some of you might like to see how I start working on a design. I...

Another week

12th Jul 2016

I have had a busy week catching up after our lovely holiday in Tuscany and then the following week was spent with friends visiting us from Sydney, Australia; it has been a number of years since we met so it was a really good time for us all to catch up.

A birthday party was held last Saturday for my eldest granddaughter, where fun was had by all and I took this charming picture of the younger one enjoying the simple pleasures of...

Carousal horse

10th Jul 2016

I was delighted to find this picture of my carousal horse that I designed for Cross Stitch Crazy 214 shown here in the latest edition of the magazine. Susan Kearsey from my county of Suffolk, had stitched the picture for her daughter's first baby, a little girl named Kyra. She very cleverly added the the child's name and date of birth to make it a very special gift.

Congratulations to all!

Cleopatra

6th Jul 2016

If you love the Egyptian styles and are captivated by the fascinating Cleopatra, you will find this design in the latest issue of CRAZY Cross Stitch magazine, No 219.

Stitch her on evenweave for a luxury finish or simple 14 count Aida to give the same size design. With free metallic gold thread that is given with this issue you are well on the way to completing her. Gold seed beads add the final oppulence!

As usual there are lots of lovely designs...

Holiday time!

1st Jul 2016

Just trying to do catch up after a lovely cooking holiday in Tuscany, Italy, where David and I met a lovely group of like - minded 'cooks!' Here is one of me hard at work as we all tried to produce a section of food that we would later eat for our lunch.

The other photo, if you can make it out, is of the wild boar that we all called Eric, that duely arrived at 8.20pm each evening. We unfortunatefully didn't...

Squirrel time!

15th Jun 2016

Not just the birds happily feeding - we now have 5 squirrels that help themselves! The plastic dome prevents them from getting to the feeders, but they do an excellnt job on hoovering up the left - overs. Great fun to watch. My granddaughters will sit for a long time looking for them and counting them. The eldest, Leah, at nearly six, has names for them all..........even though we can't tell the difference!

The other photo was a view taken from...

Narrowboat scene

8th Jun 2016

Feel a sense of calm as you work on this peaceful narrowboat scene which is decorated with romantic folk art motifs to give an authentic look. This design is fairly easy to work, although I have added a few fractional stitches for detail.

Find this picture in the latest CRAZY Cross Stitch magazine, issue 218, which is out now.

Feeding time!

29th May 2016

Looks as though  the birds have some competition lately. Amazing how they all get on and give each other 'space!'

As yesterday was so lovely here, time was spent relaxing for a couple of hours in our garden. We started watching a pair of robins, that we knew were nesting in a large conifer tree, now feeding their young. We counted that one of the parents reached the nest with food every two minutes and left the nest within 5 seconds. No wonder they...

Another week gone by!

24th May 2016

Hope you have all had a pleasant week, but, where does the time go?! This odd picture of me was part of that. I was just tying some roses in place when, within a couple of seconds, the heavens opened. I just made it to the wood shed. Thankfully David, my lovely husband had built a weather - proof construction. Goodness me, that rain came down. David thought it was very funny!! and took the picture.

You may have noticed that Christmas has...

Latest design to be found in Cross stitch Collection

16th May 2016

This group of vintage cups and saucers will be a delight to stitch as each one is decorated with fine detail and pretty coloured patterns. This chart is also quite special, as the central cup is decorated with a gold crown to represent the celebrations for Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday. Find it in the latest edition of Cross Stitch Collection, issue 262, which is out now.

50 Tropical floral designs

10th May 2016

Cheer your day up with these six vibrant flower designs that are included with 46 other cheerful blooms in the latest edition of CRAZY Cross Stitch magazine, issue 217 which is out now.

Escape to the country!

28th Apr 2016

This lovely cottage - inspired teapot with its traditional thatched roof, flowers around the door and the cat basking in the sunshine will hopefully delight. Full of nostalgic charm and interst with a wishing well, geese in the front garden and the milk bottles ready for that cup of tea!

Find this pretty design of mine in the latest issue of The World of Cross Stitching, 242, out now. Also in this issue is a selection of 41 kitchen garden motifs, brillant...

April news

26th Apr 2016

Not much to add this week to my BLOG, except that I have added three new designs  to my SHOP site. The first, a group of colourful tulips, which is an easy picture to stitch; a bright and cheerfull  bunch of red and orange poppies that are shown off in an elegant blue and white oriental style vase and finally, a cute bunnie amongst tulip flowers, which may bring a smile to your faces.

I will be adding the latest FREE chart on Friday, a liitle...