July Cottage

The photo of the Cottage for July is out see here.

Now is it wrong to totally change a design, is it a breach of copyright?
I will not be stitching this as it is, as I am English and proud of it. And there is nothing wrong with People celebrating their national holidays, but it is not me. I hope that doesn't make me sound bad, it was the same for March I am not Irish so changed that one!

 I am probably gonna be told off here, but why are American proud to celebrate St Patrick's day, but not St George's day, or St Andrew's or St David's day when they are more likely descendant from those nationalities as well. I do hope someone from abroad could let me know so i am not so ignorant of why this is?

I did ask if they would maybe do an alternate design for those of us who are not American or into Americana stuff. But I didn't see a reply unless I missed it.

Umm I may just leave that one until I decide as I would like to change that to a English summer theme, I will do the same for the November one.
what do you think?

IHSWeekend

This weekend's progress
This is my version of Lucy's Flower
I think the stem on mine is too chunky but I like it!

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Here is the March Cottage finished, I have omitted some parts of the design to suit me.

Yay!!

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And I have finished off two small blankets, by tidying the ends in, these will be used in the Cat Cabin.

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I have also had another finish this design is called Sew Red from iStitch designs

Yay!!

I used some thread I bought from the Quilt show last year.

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And Sunday was the Scout Hut Nutters Crafters group again, Which I managed to get all this done whilst here(well most of it) That is me right on the end, my Daughter is the one taking the photo otherwise she would be in it as well.

I do love attending these days!

Lorna and Jo from my last post are in the line up!!

Next month it is over two days. And I am aiming to go both days, it is 30 mins drive away from me.

Some ladies are local some travel more than me, so I can't complain.

Thank you for visiting!

WIPocalypse Feb

It's that time again for the WIPocalypse and here is my progress since the last Full Moon

Here is the little bit of progress, I have managed on NBPQ. I am getting bored with this one so for next time I will be working on a different WIP. Here is my January POST

I have stitched the two cottages, Just waiting for the March cottage to arrive.

I have changed Feb slightly, I have stitched blue birds like I have seen elsewhere on other's blogs. And I haven't stitched all the hearts I felt it was too much for me. I know that I will change the March one as I don't celebrate St Patrick's day. I might keep the colours but change the shamrocks. I will do the same for July and November as well.

I received a surprise package today from Karen, who has been de-stashing and she has sent me a selection of bits and bobs to help with fundraising for Cats Protection.

Thank you so much Karen, It is really appreciated!!((hugs))

I have been busy today, it was my eldest son's Progress day( Parent/Teacher meet), I am really pleased with his marks even though we have found out he hasn't been doing all his homework and he has been hiding the fact he has had detentions!! So he will be banned from his game for a while. *sigh*

Also been busy on the Cat front with a stray SEE HERE

thank you for stopping by xx

Way behind

On blog and forum reading, I am hoping to catch up soon, I have been busy with Billy, and I have been involved with Derby Disability Sports forum, trying to get that off the ground and active. As well as attending the gym and Zymba.

Here is my Amaryllis I was given for christmas I was so pleased it flowered.

Isn't it pretty!!

My threads arrived so I can finished my ornaments and cottages

Here is an update on the cottages

I am currently stitching February, and I have ordered March.

I will have to pick up Beatrix Potter Quaker soon as I really need to get that finished!

Thank you for stopping by I really appreciate it.

I just had to!!

Seeing all those cottages in blogs all over, I just had to! they screamed at me...honestly they did!!
The CCN Monthly cottages January and February, not seen the March one for sale yet.

Not sure if you can see the white on white, but I couldn't wait to dye my fabric so I just started.

But I am not sure about the size as these are stitching up quite big, I am thinking 1/1 instead of 2/2.

I have left the needle in the top one so you can see how big it is.

I don't know as I wanted to stitch them on the same piece of fabric , I don't think it will be big enough, and my brain doesn't want to try and work it out yet, maybe in the morning!! lol

No colour as I haven't got all the colours, waiting for my delivery from Sew and so.

Are you stitching these? what count are you using?

I am also stitching for an exchange so I cannot share that yet,at least until the end of March !! eeek!!

I have started attending Zumba, so hopefully I can get rid of some more weight this year!

My foster cat is doing better now settling in a little, it is going to be hard when it is time to say bye !!

Thank you for stopping by!

Hugs Rachael xx