A Small Finish, My own Stitcheries for patchwork, and more.........

A touch of Autumn in my garden

Autumn is most definitely here in England. My small Japanese Acer on the left with the pink Ixia's peeping through, and the Mahonia in the pic on the right are just a sample of natures rich colours. Isn't mother nature amazing, only a few weeks ago the Mahonia was a dark rich green, and the Acer was a beautiful burgundy copper colour.

Well my faithful followers I haven't really been doing a lot of stitching the past few weeks, especially the week before last, as I had the builders in my kitchen laying down a new floor surface which needed a latex screed spreading all over before laying the final finish. This had to be done over 2 days, so the kitchen was a no go area. It was awful as I had to have most of the kitchen appliances etc in my lounge Ugh!!

However, I did get to make a little key fob from a pattern that I found some time ago on Corinne Leroy's beautiful blog, the pattern can be found here. I used 18ct white hardanger, and DMC 817. The gold chain edging was a piece of gold coloured thread that had been knitted through one of those knitting dolls that children have where the cord comes out through the bottom of the doll. 

My~~~Happiness Is~~~ Blocks for patchwork

I have designed a series of Stitcheries, which I hope to be able to sell if they seem to be popular.

Below are a couple which I have stitched up to show you.

I would really like your comments about the stitcheries to enable me to judge whether I should carry on with the project, or give up now.

Pinkeep WIP

This is a work in progress of a pinkeep which I have worked on 36ct raw linen. When I found the pattern which is a freebie on Sablaise's blog, I thought how lovely it was, and could also be used for a Christmas ornament, especially done in these colours.Thank you Sablaise.

The pattern can be found here.

The cards below are just some which I came across a couple of weekends ago at a flea market.

The two with the brightly coloured flowers are Dance cards dating back to the 19th Century. The one with Cinderella printed on it is dated 1889.

The other with the white Chrysanthemums on is a Christmas card dated 1888, and says on the back Edies' love to Nellie.

I just couldn't resist them. I bought 13 cards in all, and will post some more another day.

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The Dividers which I have used on my blog are courtesy of the Gutenberg Library which I found whilst downloading some free books, and of course are free to use under UK & US Law as they are now copyright free.

Autumn Mists and Mellow Fruitfullness....

As I drove through the Devonshire countryside yesterday my thoughts turned to the richness of Autumn with all its majestic colours about me with the fruit trees absolutely laden with wonderfully huge scarlet and golden apples hanging on the trees. Pears too, the biggest I have ever seen. One tree reminded me of the Nursery Rhyme "I had a little nut tree nothing would it bear, but a silver nutmeg and a golden pear". The pears were shining a beautiful rustic gold in the heat of the Autumn sun. Even the Farmers were taking advantage of the good weather that had been bestowed upon them, busying themselves with the last of the haymaking. It seems they have been lucky this year with two cuts, so the animals will be well fed this year.

With these thoughts, and sights, I remembered a saying that my Dad used to say, and which I had only repeated until now, never questioning where the words came from. Today I have found out where, and this is where my title for my blog has come from. A poem "To Autumn" by the famous poet John Keats. Obviously my Dad must have learned this poem at school, since I can never remember him reading poetry otherwise.

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The Winner of my Giveaway Pattern

was Kate who is from France.

Congratulations!!!

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My Recent Makes

This lovely biscornu was made from a pattern which was a freebie from
http://battybat.free.frI thought that it was quite seasonal with Halloween coming up.

This is the back:

This pattern for stitchery,is from Primitive Bettys

A Little Christmas Gift Bag

Thank you to all of the lovely visitors to my blog, even if I don't reply to all the comments, I always read them and appreciate the messages that you leave.