Well, hello! I’ve tried to come back to blogging sew many times 😉 let’s see if this time it works. 🤞 – – – Recently I picked up an oldish WIP, the 2015 Sew Advent Band Sampler, and after Carol, the designer, asked to share one of my progress pictures with the iStitch Design FB Group, she told…… Continue reading Sew Advent, Sew Early, Sew Long, Sew Late
Look at the calendar! 😱 It’s about time I reveal the solution to the Alphabet Club Mystery! As some of you guessed, it’s a SSSSSSSS.. SCIMMIA! 😀🙈🙊 February was the TAC month for S, so I stitched something starting with S (in Italian, of course! 😜). Congratulations those who guessed and those who participated, I…… Continue reading An Alphabet Club Mystery revealed
You have it! This is possibly the last clue I’m going to give you. Or should I say, the last clue I had planned on giving you, but since nobody has guessed yet I might tweak a new shot here and there and set up a batch of fresh clues for you.. Ready?? Here comes the ninth clue! 😀 🔮 Remember…… Continue reading A clue for the weekend
Because you’ve all been so kind and persevering with The Alphabet Club for such a long time, I had this idea brewing in the back of my head of a special TAC Mystery and was waiting for the right piece to fall into my lap. Well, it did a little before the holidays, and as a way…… Continue reading An Alphabet Club Mystery
Hello! Remember me? 😉 I used to love stitching and blogging about stitching up until the Christmas holidays? 😜 I had to take some time off needles and threads because of a series of factors including a fiercely piercing pain in my shoulders that just wouldn’t let me stitch for more than an hour and…… Continue reading Rinfrescata: on books, news and birds
I promised you a weekly update, but guess what? I just got a finish, so.. 😉 This is the bonus design to Trick-or-Treat Costume Party Club by The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery. I stitched it almost entirely as charted, but I had to do my thing with colours (that orange and purple look so good, I had…… Continue reading Time to wrap it up!
Happy Hallowe’en everybody!! 🎃👻💀👹 Sadly time wasn’t on my side this October 😔 I didn’t get all the Hallowe’en extravaganza ready in time – but I’m determined to work my needles off this week! 😀 What I can show you is the main designs in Trick-or-Treat Costume Party Club by The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery, I…… Continue reading Trick-or-Treat Party
Hello! Hello! Sorry for the long absence, it has been a LONG time, I know, but I couldn’t let Halloween pass with all the seasonal stitching I’ve been doing and not show you something! 😊 👻 – – – First off let me start by telling you this is another of those big TAC catching-up posts, and because it…… Continue reading it’s an LP – Halloween edition
In the spirit of keeping track with my progress and finishes month by month, I’m starting this post as a draft at the beginning of May and updating it with every relevant piece of news until the early days of June, this way you’ll have an account of what happened as it happened. 😉 I felt like doing…… Continue reading KABOOM! (3rd rundown post – May)
My entry for TAC this month is kind of a double treat, you’ll see what I mean 😉 This first post will be focused on idle nattering – the one coming up shortly afterwards is going to be a LONG post, jam-packed with pictures and finishes, so get your tea ready, grab a snack or whatever you fancy – it’s going to take…… Continue reading The Alphabet Club – K –
The Grey Tail 