Of course I love cross stitch … but I am LOVING these wall stickers by Lauren Moriarty
Available in a variety of colours – you can recreate your favourite stitching project on a wall in a jiffy. Each pack comes with instructions and a grid for you to make up your text or design at will..
LOVE IT
Well lordy me… SUPERSIZE STITCHES is out in the UK and US on 10th October this year and whilst promoting at the London Book Fair last month, my publishers have also secured translations into 4 other languages – Finnish, French, German and Swedish (plus a couple as yet unconfirmed)… so Bienvenue, Willkommen … and ..? Sorry my school girl linguistic skills end there. Best leave it to the experts!
.. and I have had permission to release a couple more shots of the projects from the back cover, which features 3 projects … First up… this Giant Shaped Russian Doll…
She is a supersize 50cm tall.. and there are variations in the book enabling you to stitch her in different sizes. She is one of my very favourite projects… and I hope you like it too
Really excited today to share with you one of my latest projects I have been squirreled away working on. It is my Granny Square Stitching…
Regular readers amongst you will know of my love of crochet – and I have stitched up quite a few little blankets in my time – hooking up mini squares when I have a spare moment to experiment on new patterns.
So I thought why not try it in cross stitch – and low and behold here it is -
I have worked this on a 40 cm square (each square 10 cm) and the pattern will be available in full kit format – which you can obviously then adapt at your leisure. I used this prototype to cover an old chair seat with – and photographed it next to one of the kids crochet monster crochet granny squares that I made in the past from scraps of old yarn
I am a little bit in love with this one – and hope you like it too…
Whilst my design is on the cover of this months CrossStitcher 243 – the team have landed a super coup with a free Cath Kidston Stanley Dog pattern – taken from her book STITCH.
There is the pattern as taken from the book and instructions on how to make up into a lovely pencilcase. Whether you choose to needlepoint or cross stitch – we think this is a classic to keep
Lot of pattern for your buck this month.. and there is a voucher to get £3 off the book included …not bad for a £3.99 purchase.
This weekend it was Glastonbury… those who follow on twitter will have had my minute by minute posts of what was a truly nostalgic musical feast it was – before the fallow year next year.
The summer solstice start to the festival season was surely one of the greats? With us all shaking our booty to the gold jacketed glory of Beyonce and her rock solid thighs on Sunday… Ceelo Greens mammouth shoulder pads, The Kaiser Chiefs, Coldplay and Gwenyth, Mumford and Sons and even U2 finally doing a festival… let alone the sideline shows of Morrisey, Kool and the Gang et al….
They even have a whole Craft Field these days…. and built a whole tower block out of polystyrene!
Craft blogger PERRI LEWIS has a full crafty low down from her adventures.
For me the festival always reminds me of my youth – when it meant that Uni exams were over, we rocked and then had 3 months off! Now I feel lucky to get a mere 3 minutes off… but hey.
Me and Mr H will keep on rocking … and in homage I made up this YOU ROCK quick cross stitch mini pattern for Granny Knits .. and have reframed 2 of our best selling 100 secrets to life to hang in my office
Think my blog may take on more of this 100 secrets feel to make sure I am living up to my own standards!
I am thrilled to share with everyone my Royal Wedding Sampler, which is going on the next Cover of Cross Stitcher Issue 238 (out 22nd March)
The publishers have asked me to keep this under wraps since last year.. but I have persuaded them to let me give you a sneaky peak of my finished piece.. which they have bought forward as they love it so much!.. giving you plenty of time to stitch it ready for the big day.
As the Royal Wedding approaches – there is of course the plethora of standard ‘tat’.. but there are also some other modern creative pieces which we think are rather splendid. In December The Independant commissioned some designers to come up with some modern spins on Wedding memorabilia.. which I thought I would share with you.. Mr X Stitch did his own Keep Calm cross stitch sampler – which is fabulous in its simplicity. Artist JAMES BROWN (who has done some recent commissions for Cath Kidston) opted for something in his signature poster style – but we particularly adore the Corgi teatowels by TO DRY FOR and this colourful china of Westminster Abbey by PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS NEED PLATES.
Dont forget we also have a “Commoners Wedding Sampler” for you non royals in our signature wools.
Roll on the long weekend!….
I was asked a lot last year by various folk, if I could design an ‘up to date’ wedding sampler … well seeing as it is the Royal Wedding this year (one of 2 no less) I thought that I would finally have a go – and work on my own take on the Big Royal Day!!..
When I finish stitching it, I will give you a peek… but I have designed it with a full alphabet and calendar so you can adapt it for your own date!
Stitching for this will include metallic gold on the crown! I have also done a version with a heart in replacement of the crown (for us commoners!)
I have also worked a cushion version (which you can use for rings or as a gift depending on the size chosen) – which you can stitch up in wools or stranded cotton. Patterns will be on Granny Knits for purchase soon.
Hope you like it … x
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| Mini Cushion Version for Us Commoners |
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| 6 Bright Butterflies – No 1 |
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| 12 Bright Butterflies – Long |
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| 6 Bright Butterflies – No 2 |
Happy 2011 to all of you – we hope you had a Happy Holiday, and were not struck down by the dastardly flu (like me for 2 weeks)… hence the delayed return to the fold!
Whilst bed ridden, it did mean that I got a chance to stitch up some ideas I have had for a while and sketch out some great new plans for the New Year.
I can also now share with you one of my pressies – stitched for my Mum… which I couldnt share before as it would have spoiled the surprise!
I worked mini pics of the kids into 3 colour 7 count wool cross stitch and then framed them in over sized white frames and double mounts. Sadly I was remiss at taking pictures of the finished framed pieces, which are now adorn Grandmas wall in Yorkshire!
We do will be offering a similar pattern service for this later in the year… and are relaunching our bespoke photo print range too.
