Postcards Around the World - October

A couple of days ago, I finished the October installment for my Postcards Around the World cross stitch - a few days ahead of the end of the month deadline, are you impressed??

This month it was New York. It was a fun one to stitch, even if I'm not sure about some of the colour choices. But I went with it because it still looks like fun, and it's obviously meant to be New York.

October - New York

The whole picture so far - September and October completed.

November and December will go along the bottom row next to New York. After that, I need to go to the top to start January, and I've sill got to stitch the top three frames for January, February and March (which is why you can't see them in the picture!) In fact, I've also got to finish the frame for April as well!!

Something for Miss Beauregarde

Just a quick one to show you the Blueberry Muffins I baked today from my Mary Berry 100 Recipes Book - very kindly bought by a girl in my class last year as an end of year present!

The recipe is very simply plain flour, baking powder, caster sugar, lemon zest, melted butter, eggs, milk, vanilla extract and blueberries, to cook in the oven for 25 minutes.

Fit for Violet Beauregarde 

Ok, so the blueberries leaked a bit. But they still taste good so what does it matter?! =D Best of all, they're not so sweet so they'd make a good healthy breakfast muffin. That is, assuming there's any left of course!

Postcards Around the World - September

This was a Stitch-Along project I brought from Cloud Factory *ages ago*. The idea being that every month, starting from January, you get sent part of the design. Except, I forgot to start in January. So, I've decided to start with September in line with the academic year instead. Makes sense, right??!

September's postcard was Tokyo. I also had to stitch the white frames for other months so that I knew where to put this one, which took a fair bit of time, but the Tokyo postcard itself didn't take very long.

The Bigger Picture

The fabric that I've chosen is  hand dyed fabric that I bought online - it reminded me of old style postcards. I don't think the pictures do it justice -it's an oatmeal/brown sort of colour.

September - Tokyo

October is New York - a place I've actually been to! Stay tuned to see that one soon =)

Greetings!

A little while ago, I made some cards for some good friends of mine. It was the same weekend I'd been going through my old World of Cross Stitch magazines so I was inspired by the mini designs that they feature in their issues.

For Christina

This was a birthday card for a friend that I made using my Sissix Die cut machine. I cut squares of pink and blue squared paper and layered them on my blank card. Then, I used my Happy Birthday die to cut the main motif from pink card. Once I stuck it all down with foam pads, I stuck self-adhesive rhinestones in the corners. In total, a pretty quick design but I was happy with how it turned out!

For Kat

This was a mini cross stitch that I found in a past issue of World of Cross stitching. It took me a couple of hours to stitch and then I frayed the edges of the fabric. To make the card, I cut a square of blue card and stuck the cross stitch onto that with double sided tape. Underneath the blue square is washi tape. At the bottom of the card I put some more washi tape and a ribbon with a hand tied bow and then the "Congrautlations" wording came from my Sizzix machine.

For Claire

This was another mini design from a past issue of the World of Cross Stitch magazine. The whole article was a A-Z of Oriental designs. I picked this one because my friend loved her visit to Japan. Again, this one only took a couple of hours to stitch, and then I frayed the edges and mounted it on pink card with washi tape underneath.


I am also in the process of stitching Christmas cards for my sister-in-law. Yes, it's early, but still!! I won't post them yet because I don't know who they're for and I'd hate to spoil the surprise!!