55 - Gazette 94 Autumn Patchwork

Gazette 94 Autumn Patchwork Square

September Needlecraft Haven Freebie Challenge

54 - Owl from Cross Stitcher mag

Designs from Cross Stitcher magazine.
Posing with Madame Muriel the Travelling Granny
(see main blog for her story)

53 - Owl from Cross Stitcher Mag

Designs from Cross Stitcher magazine.
Posing with Madame Muriel the Travelling Granny
(see main blog for her story)

52 - Gazette 94 Autumn Heart

First in a series of seasonal hearts by Gazette 94.

Stitched on 36 count white evenweave.

51 - Bronny's Bits Sheepie Farm

Happy Dance down on Sheepie Farm!  This cute little design is a freebie fromBronny's Bits.  She is having a sheep year.  Have a look at her blog if you want to see lots of cute sheep.  Last year was Snowmen, who knows what next year will bring!

Her entry for 7th August tells you how to get the chart.

I have changed the colours and one of the sheep into a piggie.  The reason is the book under the photo.  The small boy has 4 favourite books which we read every bedtime.  They are all published by Barefoot Books and written by Clare Beaton.  The illustrations are all photos of fabric collages and are lovely.  I really recommend them for pre-schoolers.  The theme of How Big is a Pig is opposites, each animal is shown representing a pair of opposites - so "some cows are thin; some cows are fat", "some dogs are quick; some dogs are slow" with the same refrain "but how big is a pig," then a rhyming question "can you answer that?" "Do you think you know?"  Slightly less repetitive than many books!

50 - Autumn Round Robin

Michelle's Autumn Themed Round Robin

49 - Margaret Sherry Christmas Robin and Mouse WOCS 181

WOCS is World of Cross Stitch the popular magazine and here is the cover kit from Issue 181, a lovely Margaret Sherry Christmas design.  Stitched exactly as it said in the mag with the supplied material - hard aida and non-specific threads.