Christmas is on its way

Dear all

I have been doing some embroidery .First of all an angel for a card to Wendy and Jean,finds at xstitchpals on yahoo.I have used DMC-gold ,DMC cotton amd some beads in gold on Aida.Fleur is another lovely lady who was the first lady who sent me a card this season and to her I sent a Christmas tree on Aida

A Christmas ornament I haven't decided what to do with but I hope I can use it to a card for a friend.
From Jean I'v got an angel in cross-stitch and she also sent me another card and a little surprise.More of that another day.tina sent a little bear .These 2 cards are very very beautiful and this was my first swap cards.So happy.

The needlebook in crochet ,pineapple,is something my teacher in textile handicraft showed me and I really want to do something like this.Perhaps I use another type of yarn then DMC perlé which is too soft .

Iwanted to use a pattern of a basket and I counted wrong and I had to change it.I like the result with silkribbon flowers.Sweet one.I think I found a pattern on Kreinik.It's an own version.

Today we have had Santa Lucia, a "queen" coming with the light in these dark days.It's a saint from Syrakusa who is the one we celebrate.The Santa Lucia and the other girls and boys sing so beautiful songs,often christian songs.They come in the morning when it's still dark outside and it's really some minutes of silence and lovely songs and musicThis is about 08.30 in the morning.

Enjoy life and take care of you.

Soon we have Christmas

Small and lovely embroideries

Hello all

Today i have been doing a little on an angel-RR and a card to a swapfriend.This morning I really felt happy for the white snow is back and I don't miss the rainy cloudy days we have had.I long for more snow for a white Christmas is so wonderful

This is a link I found some days ago and I hope you can find something interesting too if you love embroidery.Small piecies in different technics.

http://www.victoriasampler.com/VS_Club/Free_Patterns/index.asp
As I do presents I can't show anything .Sorry but...

A time full of joy and a time full of stitches

Hello all

To Bea-I start the fairy embroidery next weekend.So exciting.


Look at the pictures on the last update.

The dark period is here but I try to do some embroidery.
A.This is a small application of Raggedy Annie-well it was going to be that.She seems to have been eating a little bit to much.I made it as a Christmas present to a friend.Well I hope she likes it.

B.This is my first witch I´v ever done in cross-stitch and it was really funny.She is a combination of beauty and uglyness.Why not?!

http://atelierfeesbrodeuses-legouis.club.fr/nouveau_fichier83.htm

C.As I perhaps told you I'm a member of a handicraft course and ther we have to make patterns of our own.This is a print of it and then I took the motive in the middle and made a little cross-stitch embroidery with varigated threads in blue and dark pink.And it beame a little cat in the middle.Sorry the picture is so small.This took time but it was so funny to do so now I feel I can go on doing other patterns too.Not professional ones but ..

D.I found a pattern in a book where they only used these small stitches and made rows in different colours.This is a piece I only made to test the idea.I love it and I think I'm going on doing a purse or a small handbag or...later.In the japaneese sashiko they use these types of stitches and it's so decorative .You can use simple stitches and get so much effect.I love the idea.


I have a RR to do during the week and some presents to send away.Just now I'm also knitting a scarf for a friend.Soon we have Christmas and I love to do some small gifts for my friends.And I hope I can do some Christmas cards too.This is a lovely time but also a busy time and I have to work too.
Have a nice time

Ullas Fiber Blog

Japaneese kogin techniques and The Christmas Elf Fairy

Hello all my friends

I want to show you a technique I tried today

http://ethnicfiberart.com/charts.htm#swedish_sollerosom

You find freebees both for Kogin and to one of the swedish techniques-Sollerösöm.
We have so many techniques to choose among.

And I 'v got the kit from Mirabilia "The Christmas Elf Fairy"
Hand dyed threads cotton floss,metallic thread,beads from Mill Hill,a little wooly thread,70& Kid mohair.30%Nylon and32 count Natural linen from Zweigart.
86x124 stitch count.
What a happiness.I'm going to do it ready to Christmas eve.

Blackwork sampler II

Garden Paradise Blackwork sampler II from Stitcher´s world September 2004 is the pattern do.This is one of four squares.I have used DMC black 2 threads and DMC goldcoloured 2 threads.It's my first project in blackwork and perhaps I have this as a square in the niddle when I do a purse or.....It's really hard with gold thread and this is the first little embroidery and I know I'm going to do more.

Wish you good luck with what you are doing.
Ulla

right adress to Libilou

Sorry I gave you the wrong adress to Libilou

This is the right one
htpp://job2310.blogspot.com

Ulla

My SP Libilou has sent me so many lovely gifts

gul sak




What a day.

Today a big package arrived from my SP Libilou.So exciting.
She has been so generous and in this last package she sent me also a lovely shawl in dark blue,a shawl with a lovely form

htpp://job2311.blogspot.com

On September 10 you find her picture.Isn't a lovely shawl?

And I'v got sweets,dishcloths,potholders,yarn,stickers,a hook....So many things...i really loved them all.We are members on
www.crochetville.org/forum/ and we have been members of an autumn swap.

My best wishes to you all and especially to Libilou

Winterday and Halloween cross-stitch

The 26th of October 08.50 I had this lovely wiev from my window.About 5" of snow in the garden.I love these days when it's not so cold.
I have done my first Halloween block.It's a mix of two patterns from Lizzie&Kate.Perhaps I do one in black and with another aida to get the motive bigger.

October-a month full of darkness ,time for cross-stitch and the first snow

The 25th of October we got the first snow.White and beautiful but cold.

Assissi embroidery is a lovely form of cross-stitch where you do the crosses around the motive.I found this pattern on a site from NewZeeland with many free patterns



My husband was hunting elks and I made one in cross-stitch.And he got no elk.This elk is from Anna 10/05
made a bird in cross-stitch, very common in Christmas time.I love the colours contrasting the white snow and the green trees
I'm going to use it for a patchworkblock.

The bird reminds me of winter and Christmas.This is a piece to a patchworkblock in crazystyle.


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