Shabby Collage Book wrap

Another eclectic mix of vintage linens and

crocheted doilies and some very yummy ancient lace.

Ta da..:)

A deliciously tactile book wrap for that precious keepsake.

Happy stitching

Phillipa

Budding Paleontoligists in the family?

Since I have heaps of ideas for patterns for

girls and household, I thought I had better do a couple of patterns for little boys.

I'm sure your little hunters will love these. :)

Happy Stitching

Phillipa

Rusty Tools from the charity shop and Beads

Another nifty find at the charity shop.

They are already hard at work and the 2 beaded necklaces have been added to my beading stash. The blue have already been used on a crazy jewel tone block.:)

Happy stitching

Phillipa

Eco Dye. Camelia

On one of my jaunts to the post office i spotted some windfall camelia flowers. So what's a girl to do?

See what the potential is.

A lovely pinky colour with a nice perfume :).

will add to my shabby stash.

And since the liquid is still quite strong, Ive started another batch with lacey bits and scraps.

The first batch was left for just on a week, as I kept forgetting about it.Will I forget again?

Probably.lol

Happy Stitching

Phillipa

Hand Embroidery Patterns. By ME! Yippee!!

A while ago I posted about some little embroidery's that I did.

Well I had quite a few nice ideas from peoples and so

I'm now doing my own patterns.
These will be available as PDF's. No worrying about postage costs. :)

The first 4 are now on my Sella account .

I have heaps of ideas in the ol' noodle for many different designs, both traditional and contemporary.

For my overseas followers I have also started an Etsy shop.

I'd love to have you follow along.

I will have freebies and ideas and lots of other items on stitching in the future.

Now that Ive made a public statement about it all, I'd better pull finger and get moving :)

Happy stitching

Phillipa

Jewel Colours. Another block done

A blingy butterfly and a spiderweb complete with resident.

Enjoy.

Happy stitching

Phillipa

Jewel Colour and Butterfly Bling

Bling butterfly on hand crocheted doiley

amid  a bouquet of daisys.

Silk ribbon daisys are fun and effective to do.

You can see that they've been set among others

done in different threads to bounce the textures

against each other.

Happy stitching

Phillipa

Colour, colour, colour and spider-web.

Nearly forgot the spider-web and spider.

Couched gold threads held down with

DMC Metallic 273.

I love that thread and use it alot.

Happy Stitching

Phillipa

Jewel Colours. Crazy Quilt Block

Inspiration.

Enjoy

Happy Stitching

Phillipa

I cant reply to comments..Sorry

I cant reply to comments on my own blog and comment on other peoples blogs. Ive seen that others out there in blogland are getting similar problems.

Dont know why.

Its darned annoying.

So if you "Can" comment. I'm jealous.If you know how I can fix it, please let me know.

And be assured I am reading your comments. :)

regards Phillipa

Playtime continued

2 photos of the same thing.

These could become rather addictive ;)

Happy stitching

Phillipa

Shabby Chic Book Wraps.

2 of my Shabby Chic collage wraps are now

here on Felt. But I can only get 4 photos on there , so here are some more.

Hope you enjoyed the photos.

Happy stitching

Phillipa

Playtime

A variety of yummy fabrics and laces.

Different textures.Different sizes.

Dollops of beads on top.

Great fun with a heap more to do.

Another great stash building group of flowers.

Happy stitching

Phillipa

Domestic Linens

Getting into the swing of the Felt site.

So more contemporary to check out if you like.

happy stitching

Phillipa

Wrist-cuff with Ted the Bear

He's just gotta help out. :)

This will be on Felt soon.

Til next time

Happy stitching

Phillipa