I have had a lovely week of stitching and am very pleased that I have already finished the first set of stockings.They are so pretty and have turned out even better than expected.
The designs are from the wonderful Jenny of Elefantz Stitchery Club and I followed her advice to back the fabric with interfacing which worked really well without a hoop.
I am so pleased with the stitching on these, especially the blanket stitch which I only learnt how to do this summer and though I say so myself has come out very neat 🙂 Now they just need to be cut out, backed and stuffed.
Apologies for the slightly blue pictures again, I even tried taking shots outside but even that did not make any difference.I did get a nice shot of the frosty hills behind the house though.Look at that lovely blue sky!
I have been working almost solely on this project while watching lots of interesting things on Netflix, a very good murder mystery called Guilt and a competition program about cabins in the wild that has given me lots of ideas for future holidays as they feature lots of cabins from one of my favourite site Canopy and Stars!
Wouldn’t you love to stay in this tin tabernacle, or the very cute gardener’s hut or the geodome.
They have so many wonderful places on here that I am putting on my wish list for future trips. All pictures from their site.I am slightly addicted to watching tiny house videos on You Tube so this would satisfy some of my cravings to have my own tiny house.
Meanwhile we have booked mine and Mum’s city trip for next year, we will be going to Krakow in Poland in April. We were hoping to be able to get to Istanbul but flights and times were not good from here so we are now really looking forward to our first visit to Poland and to sights like this.
We have not yet sorted a Spanish city trip but that will probably be done in June. Meanwhile back to reality and I have another set of stockings to prepare today.These have been so quick to do I think I may make more than six as I would like one as well.
Have a nice week ahead, hopefully on my next post I will have some good progress on the Steampunk jacket to report, so far all I have done is cut out pattern pieces, which took about 2 hours, and work out how much material I have, and discover I have not got enough interfacing or lining so I will have to buy those before I can progress much further.
My plan is to have at least the pieces cut out and possibly the bustle made before the end of the week. The jacket part is going to take more fitting so I have allowed a month for that as the event is on the 24th Nov and I know from past experience that it can take a while!
Take care and thanks for visiting.
Stitches of Time 
The tiny houses fascinate me, too, but I have a nagging doubt about combining a stitcher’s stash with a tiny house!
I know, you would have to seriously destash, or rent a storage space just for that. I love the designs of them though and the locations are often stunning.
Your stockings are just gorgeous! Blanket stitch is a great versatile stitch, I’m sure you will use it in plenty of other projects! The blue tinge in your photos may be caused by the white balance being set to cloudy – that setting always adds s blue tinge to photos. Hope that helps!
Thanks Catherine, I usually use an auto setting on my camera but will try some other ones, it has only happened recently and is not on all pictures.
Love your stitching! Those small houses are so cute!
Thank you very much for visiting and commenting. I love doing little pieces of embroidery like these.