Loretta Spears Mystery 13 'Superstition'

I stitched this some time ago but did not get around to finishing it so decided to make it into a little sachet. I backed it with a pretty pink satin the same colour as the little heart shaped beads that I have added to the corners along with a little loop effect from some pretty pink based coloured seed beads

My birthday gift framed

I have just framed my birthday gift from Pierrette and spent some time looking for just the right frame and I found this, its is brushed silver metal with a swirly circle design on it which echos the swirls on the canvas.

The mount is a black velvet/suede mount and I did toy with having a second inner mount but decided that this would show of the little Kitty best of all.

I had problems taking a decent photo as whichever way I tried I kept getting reflections, outside I got trees and clouds show up and inside a flash bounced back and I got a spodge right in the middle so I hope that you like not only the frame and mount that I chose but also the photo

A wonderful birthday gift has just arrived

I have received the most darling and cute early gift for my birthday next week from my very dear best friend Pierrette of an adorable needlepoint design of a little cat which is just so like a couple of my cats I used to have called Boris and Doris now both over the Rainbow Bridge.

I will be making a trip into town tomorrow and will see what beautiful frame that I can find for it and will then post another picture when its framed

Bargello

As Bargello seems to be all the rage at the moment I realised that I had never added a picture of my Loretta Spears design Bargello Fantasy after I had it framed. This was made as a Companion piece to my Bargello Symphony

Needlepoint

Not done much stitching recently, could be the time of the
year but have just managed to finish this which is part of
the same series as the Mojave which I have already done.

Needlepoint

This is called Mojave designed by Jim Wurth and is created
to make into a Christmas ornament it is six inches across
but I have not decided yet if I want to make it into an ornament
or to have it framed, this is part of a series of ornaments

Hapsburg Lace Sampler

This is a Hapsburg Lace Sampler from a design of Tanya Berlin of Berlin Embroidery
http://www.berlinembroidery.com/hapsburglace.htm I have made it into a Bell Pull instead of having it framed and have changed the colours of the ribbon from the origianal design of baby pink and baby blue to a Royal Blue and a Chocolate Brown. This is going to be a gift for my Gary and Pauline, my very dear brother in law and his wife.

Bargello Fantasy Needlepoint

Bargello Fantasy is a Loretta Spears design, I started it around Easter last year but due to ill health had to stop work on it after only completing a small part of it. I was then unable to stitch at all during the time I had my operation and afterwards whilst having treatment and recovery and only started stitching again just before Christmas but then my time was taken up with creating Christmas Gifts and then after Christmas stitching some Birthday gifts which I finished around 3 weeks ago which is when I started work again on Bargello Fantasy called by me 'Blue' this is a companion piece to the other Loretta Spears design that I stitched just after Christmas last year called Bargello Symphony which was called by me 'Pink'

Needlepoint

This is a little Orna Willis needlepoint design called Sunflower

I have just finished it and now have it framed, I made it for a Christmas gift for my daughter Susannah and just hope that she likes it. She lives a long distance from me which is why she has not received it yet but I am planning on visiting her shortly within the next month

My 1st ever Needlepoint

This is my first ever needlepoint project and the design was by Loretta Spears (I think that she is now either chronically ill or deceased and her designs are no longer available unless on Ebay or somewhere similar) this is one of her series of Mystery Designs.

I was only able to attempt this and complete it with the help of my wonderful friend Pierrette who held my hand from start to finish.

We chat daily but for around five weeks we not only chatted but exchanged photos of Bargello Symphony daily where she stood over me with a big stick (LOL).

This is the end result, Pierrette also completed the same project along side me for herself, however I changed mine very slightly as I always like to be different. If you view hers see if you can see the difference and I do not mean the way that she has mounted and framed hers.