Friendship Bag Exchange

This is the first swap for 2012 at NNC. My partner was Usha who is an expert at crochet and this is her first attempt at sewing a bag.....and she hand-sewed this very pretty draw-string bag. Furthermore, she also embroidered the two hearts (using the chicken scratch technique) and appliqued it onto the bag.
Besides making and sending the bag to our partners, we have to fill up the bag with stash which we think our partner would like to have, and Usha sent me some very nice stash which I definitely can use! Thanks, Usha!

In return, I made this bag for her. I followed the tutorial here.

Have been LAZY....(one Mug Rug revealed)

....this post is so overdue.
I handed one of the Mug Rugs to my partner, Sabariah during our last Bee held at Sally's house in Shah Alam. She received the 'Chinese' Mug Rug and I stitched it with the alphabets using the method described on this book. This is a quick way to do letters as one don't need to measure ahead, just cut out strips in various widths and sew as you go along - the author calls it Unruly Words! The rug turned out quite wonky as the brown borders are so uneven!
I also gave a Chinese tea cup to Sabariah, but I forgot to take a photo of it. :(
I have yet to send the other one to my other partner. Besides the Mug Rug, she and I are in another exchange and I have not completed this other one yet. So the other mug rug will only be revealed when she has received it. Sorry, peeps you have to wait a while.......:D

Lizzie Kate

I have decided to take part in the international Lizzie Kate Exchange organized by Angela. This is my first international exchange and I'm pretty excited by it.

It has been a while....

....since I have written here.
Let's re-cap what I have stitched or sew thus far....

Firstly, I have stitched the Jan and Feb ornies for the Christmas SAL which I signed. Here there are:

January ornie for Christmas SAL

Design from Cross-stitcher magazine, UK

February Ornie

Design: AMAP (freebie)

Secondly, I stitched some Redwork

These designs are by Alicia Paulson (see posting on 7 Feb 2008 to download the patterns) which features different designs for each day of the week. As you can see, I still have Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday to stitch!


These two pieces are a monthly BOM SAL from Capricorn Quilts. Unfortunately, the designs are retired after the month is up. At the moment, April pattern is still available, but Jan-Mar are no longer available (free) .

And then of course........

the Rose Sampler SAL from EMS

the Old Sampler from here

How Does Your Garden Grows from Papillon Creations. This piece involves speciality stitches besides cross-stitch and it is quite fun to stitch once I have figure them out.

The last three pieces are international SAL and will run until the end of 2008!

Besides stitching, I also did some crochet like these:

They are amigurumi bears. The pink one has been sent to Irma in Chile for the Secret Valentine Exchange at SNN. The brown bear is for the NNC lottery to be drawn in Sept 08.

This brooch was also sent to Irma in Chile.

This one was given to BJ.

At NNC, there was the recently concluded Charm Exchange where there were not sewing involved (phew!). We sent 10 different pieces to each participant who has signed up. The participants were Emily, Nik, Ratna, Tini and moi. So I received 40 different pieces of 5"x5" fabrics from these lovely ladies.

There are more exchanges to come both at NNC and SNN and shall write about them sometime soon....;-)

NNC-Card Challenge

Tis' the card I received from Emily. She included a crocheted heart-shaped bookmark in purple!

Garden Pillow from Mel

I received the Garden theme pillow case from Mel in our CCE exchange. She appliqued felt pieces of birds and flowers and used ribbon embroidery. She also enclosed a hand made card and a tag which I think is made from photo paper baked in the oven!

WIP ~ Finished Work

This is what I've stitched so far Bouquet for Cheryl:

This is a challenge - BJ offered to reimburse the Carrie threads we used if we can finished stitching this chart by 31/12/2007!

Have also completed the cushion cover for Mel for the Cushion Cover Exchange on NNC co-ordinated by Lene. Send it out on 5th July 2007.

NNC Wish List Exchange

Yesterday, I mailed the reversible tote bag to Margaret. It's pink on one side and the reverse is blue! This is my second exchange on NNC, the first being the pincushion! I have finished my obligations, but have a number of WIP to complete - namely:

1. Fairies x-stitch from Marie Barber's book

2. Tulip quilt

3. Ripple crochet

Then it will be Bouquet for Cheryl a challenge thrown by BJ of NNC and distributed of Carrie's thread. It's her way to promote Carrie's thread in this region and we purchase 5 skeins of CT and stitch the Bouquet by 31st December 2007. If and when we finish the project by that date BJ will give us 5 skeins of CT free of charge. I have already placed my order - I'm going to stitch it using Joy Noel (a multi-colour variegated in shades of christmasy colours, namely green, red, gold, etc). Besides this, I have also ordered a skein each of Fall Splendour, Purple Pansy, Over the Rainbow, Lagoon Green and Lumiere de Cheryl. Each skein costs RM4.00. I hope I can complete this challenge on time!