Happy dance time and lovely giveaways

Hi everyone,

I finished my Tree of Stitches on Thursday, a lovely design made by Abi Gurden for a SAL she held at the Yahoo Group she owns TheStitchSpecialists (if you love speciality stitches or want to learn how to stitch them, this is the group ;) ).

I really enjoyed doing it and Abi's instructions were great to follow, it made all the stitches look so easy to stitch... and this is my Tree finished (I still have to wash it and iron it, but couldn't wait more to share it with you)

The Tree

Lester the Owl

And Horace the rabbit

Now moving to my other topic,

Kaye is having a gorgeous giveaway to celebrate her 20 followers, it's a lovely blog to follow so I would recomend you to have a peak. here is the link for her giveaway which will close on the 19th of August.

Also

Dixiesamplar is also offering a giveaway for her new blog, since she lost the previous one

Thanks for comming by and
Happy Stitches to all 

What've been doing...

I know, I know, it's been a while since my last posting regarding my projects. But as it happens in the beggining of every month I've had tons of work to do and little stitching time. But I did stitch and spent my "weekend" (my days of are Monday and Tuesday" dedicated to stitching. And I was able to complete one of my monthly goals, not that they are that many xD.
I finally caught up with the SAL Tree of Stitches of Abi, and now I've completed part 13 (it's nearly finishing). I've to do some adjustments since I made some mistakes like wrongly finding the center and therefore getting a wee bit short on the top and miscounting some stitches and so I went round the issue when there was too much to frog. But I think it's ok, and apart the big center problem, i don't think you can tell where the other misltakes are.

And here are the piccs a general view:

And a close up to the new stitched parts:

   Part 7-9 

Part 10-11

Part 12-13

Also I dyed another piece of fabric, this time it was blue, and here is the final result. I really like it :)

I've put a piece of white paper on top. To work as a comparisson.

And this is what I'll be stithing on it:

It's from Cross Stitch Magazine, and it's perfect for one of my grandmother's since she loves orchids and I think that by now she has one sample of almost all orchids in her house and they are gorgeous.

And to finish this huge post, I'll be stitching on Jasmin until the SK SAL starts... this is how I left it the last time I stithed on it:

Ohhhh!! By the way... if you managed to read this far I also wanted to let you know about the International Hermit and Stitch Weekend that Joysze hosts on her blog... I'm already in for this month and if you want to try it just go here.

And finally stop with the talk and back to stitching :)

Happy Stitches everyone 

Dragon Fae 1 and Tree of Stitches

As the title says, that's what I've been working on this week, I've done a couple more stitches on Dragon Fae and completed my first page, and did a bit more, and managed to stitch up to Part 7 on my Tree of Stitches, I must say i'm really enjoying learning all the new stitches :)

And here are the pictures of my work

Tree of Stitches Started

That's true, today I started another project, I couldn't wait and so I started the Tree of Stitches designed by Abi for a SAL for the TheStitchSpecialists group.

I managed to complete three parts just in one stitching session and I'm really happy with the results. 

I hope you like it

(part 1)

(part 2)

(part 3)