My last piece for the Auction

Hello everyone! I decided to enter this 15-sided biscornu into the auction. I was stitching it for an exchange, but a little voice told me one night that it should go to the Auction instead, so voila! The colors are a bit off, but it is stitched on a medium pink linen, with two varieties of DMC pink thread and mauve-y pink glass beads. Maybe they will take a better picture for the auction! It is a free pattern from Kathrin's blog.




Now on to finishing the other two and getting them in the mail!! This has been fun!


Hugs!


Maggee

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Faith and Joy

Hi everyone! Just put the finishing touches on my contributions to the auction yesterday and hope to pop them in the mail tomorrow... This year, I decided to stitch two donations--sure hope they bring in lots of money for breast cancer research.


First up, is a freebie called "Joyeux Noel" by L'r de Rien which you can find right here. I used white DMC and a 28 ct. dusty pink evenweave and finished it off with a white beaded edge and little bow hanger.


My other contribution is from Little House Needleworks and is simply called: "Faith." The sentiment on this one "Faith is being sure of what we hope for" really brought to mind anyone struggling with a disease or difficult situation. I used a putty colored 32 ct. Jobelan and Crescent Colours and the fabric shown in the background to back it. I was so excited to find it as the colors were a perfect accent for the fibers used in the stitching. This one is finished into a pinkeep with a white satin ruched ribbon and little pearly pins placed along the perimeter.

So, that's it for another year--I so enjoy doing this, Cathey! Thanks for organizing it for us each year...

SWEET LITTLE BERRIES

Sweet Little Berries completed this morning . . .

Sweet Little Berries by Little House Needleworks

stitched on 28~count Cream Cashel Linen with suggested Crescent Colours


My normal pillow finish! with dotty burgundy fabric panels each end and back to match the strawberries at the top.  The seeds on the strawberries were meant to be french knots but they looked so irregular when I had done them I unpicked them and put matching seed beads on instead!

Hope everyone else is busy putting their ideas to fruition.

Thanks for looking
Jane
xxx

Less Than Two Months Left!

How is everyone making out with their donations? I see that quite a few have finished and have even mailed them out! I have to say that I'm guilty in that my donations are still here :oS I must get myself organized!

I want to congratulate Nia because her donations were featured in this week's Attic Newsletter! Hope is absolutely gorgeous :o)

I do have one request from those that are participating...if you have finished your donation, can you please email me privately? I want to be able to get an idea of where we stand so far. Thanks!

A BIRD OF HAPPINESS

Hi everyone from a very wet, windy and gloomy UK!

I've just finished another stitchy item for the forthcoming auction ~ this is 'Happiness', a design from Brooke's Books Publishing . . . .

I stitched this little cutie on 28~count Sand Carolina Linen with the listed DMC conversions, added beads for the flowers, a silver 'made with love' charm at the bottom and the backing fabric is a pale pink and white as shown in the picture.

I hope this contribution will indeed bring 'happiness' into someone's very important life.

xxx

If anyone is interested in the chart, I am more than happy to send it on to you, just leave a comment over at my blog and if there's more than one person interested I'll pick a name next week.