Bookmarks and Classes

The bookmarks finished:

Next a bit more progress on Stained Glass Sampler:

And finally, I've spent the weekend doing a class with Michael Boren - Arabella Reborn - and here is my progress - I went for the bright pink option:

I also drooled over the colourways of Olive Grove and Amethyst, but I wasn't sure I wanted to stitch the same design twice (either Daphne or Arabella), so I'm going to wait and hope that there will be more in the series that I can do in other colourways. Otherwise, some day when I've run out of other things to stitch (rofl) I might think about restitching them in new colourways...

Stained Glass Sampler

Wow - two posts in one day.

I started my group correspondence class that I'm doing with the local chapter of ANG today - Stained Glass Sampler by Carol Algie Higginbotham:

Teacher bookmarks are stitched and just need to be finished (see these didn't take long Cheryl - only about an hour each):

And lastly the retirement gift - another, slightly larger, bookmark. The design is a mix of things from Cherry Parker and I'm stitching it on a piece of CountryStitch fabric - Dune I think:

Finishing class

Yesterday I went to Gingers and took their padded matboard finishing classes. Now I have a nametag (long overdue), and finally Teresa Wentzler's intermediate whitework ornament is finished too.

I took the decoration for the nametag from some of Cherry Parker's NZ patterns, the footprints are kiwi tracks, and I altered the colours on the sheep to suit me.