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Tilton Crafts, Christmas, and Fablehaven!

My Mother got me an awesome stand from a thrift store a little while back. I believe it's supposed to be a 'smoking stand' of some variety, where you would put newspapers/magazines on the racks and cigarettes at the top. Now it's a sewing stand, and holds all the patterns and threads while I stitch! The Winter Wonderland project is tucked in the magazine there at the bottom, and the circle at the top perfectly holds a little Christmas themed box that I stick all the threads for a project in. On top of this, I found the most amazing site ever: Tilton Crafts . I love their RAK option (Random Act of Kindness) that lets a person buy a download/PDF pattern and have it sent to the email of another person as a gift! My Father made use of that option, and sent me two of the patterns on my wish list: Our Seasons and In Her Room by the artist Yuu. I've already begun work on the third in the sequence of the seasons! Our Seasons by Yuu My sister, Mother, and I are i

Delft Unexpected Visitors - A Finish!

The last post on this blog was quite a while ago! It was also a picture of the back of this piece that is now finished -- a Christmas 2020 gift that felt quite appropriate! This is Night Spirit Studio's ' Unexpected Visitors '. I was inspired to do the Delft/willow pattern colouring thanks to Calamity Ware 's fun take on the usual floral patterns (we're big fans of Calamity Ware in our house). I think it came out quite well, though it took several tries to get the colours just the way I wanted them to look. I didn't reinvent the wheel: I found a Joan Elliott piece in Delft colours that I liked, and used floss from that piece. The difficult part really lay in deciding which sections got which colours to make it look right, rather than all sort of blending into each other. The fence, for instance, was originally one of the lightest blues in the bunch, with a darker field behind it. But paired with the white fabric, the fence basically disappeared so it got pulle

A Tiny Nessie

When I first saw the square for June , the first thing I saw was a sea monster. Knock the wings off, and the body looked just like one! But if you do that, and turn this cute pair into sea creatures (or lake creatures, if they are Nessies?), then you have to redo the background. I really wanted to do some sort of buried treasure, but it just wasn't working out, so this is what I ended up with. The seaweed and bubbles are from the original July square (with the mermaid), moved to a new home here in this block. Then the Nessies are just recolours of what they were as dragons (plus some flippers). It was more difficult to know how much cave to do. There isn't much like this in the rest of the project -- thickly stitched areas that cover a lot of the fabric -- especially not as a background. There was quite a lot of cave at first, that I had to chip away at, little by little, so it covered the least amount I thought I could get away with while still looking lik

April Showers bring a Gnome & Flowers

This was the quickest, easiest square to do! ( Especially after all the trouble the last two squares have given me.) I saw the original gnome for this square, and knew I wanted to stitch one that looked like a Tomten , since we have them around the house every year for Christmas. A simple enough edit; I was happy to find 453 was a good backstitch colour to make the beard pop on my white fabric. This square was also lovely to do because of all those wonderfully springtime hues in the grass and blossoms and the bright warm wood of the tree. Made me happy just to look at it while I worked on it. It's the next square that's giving me a minor headache. I've completely changed the square for May, and it has a lot of different shades of green planned; it's been difficult to figure out which greens to use to keep it from looking all the same. Ended up being very thankful for this little piece of Easy to do in amongst all the difficult bits, haha. And now, if

Rays of the Sun

Here at last are the unicorns for August! I realized I hadn't explained why I'd changed this square the way I did. This square originally has a rainbow, and puffy white clouds, but when I saw those clouds, I immediately thought of The Magic of Pegasus. Yep, the Barbie movie. There's a sequence midway through in a cloud castle where three girls ride different coloured pegasus (pegasi?) to colour the clouds in for sunset. Each of the pegasus' bodies are a different colour to match the colour they turn the clouds every sunrise and sunset, and I really wanted to mimic that look with this square! Hence the setting sun, throwing off rays in the upper corner instead of a rainbow, and the colour changes. I'm really quite happy with the colours for the top unicorn! Time will tell if I ever really like the lower unicorn, though.... I've gotten a bit of a start on the next square already. Lots of little additions to that one to come!

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