I'm not much of a home cook, but recently I've been wanting to take up baking, so over the weekend I made a cake:
... and some chocolate Easter nests:
They were well received and I have the bug to do more!
Every Easter my mum makes me a card -- here is this year's offering:
The design is one of four that was in a recent edition of Cross Stitch Collection. I've been trying to get my mum to have a go at blackwork for sometime and so I was pleasantly surprised to get this. She says that she enjoyed doing it, so hopefully I can persuade her to have a go at some of my designs!!!
Now that things are back to normal, I shall crack on with the stitching. I'm having a break from the crochet for a while as making all those chicks has injured my shoulder and I need to give it time to recover!
Also, I have a new blackwork project that I've recently started charted and I will be providing WIP's for this when I start stitching it. It's more advanced than what I usually do, and I'm a little apprehensive, but as my dad always used to say to me, "you never know until you try!"
If it works out, it could become a bit of a feature!
... and finally, I've been having a clear out in my inbox recently, and came across a few emails I received from people (last year), about designs of mine they'd stitched so tomorrow I thought I'd have a bit of a "feature" to showcase them!
Till then ... Keep Kalm and Cross-stitch!!! xxx
Wow you have been busy baking! It looked like the easter cake my MIL made. I couldnt eat it tho because I can't eat anything with flour anymore!! Kinda of depressing!! LOL!!
ReplyDeletePretty card too!! :)
Hey this isn't exactly on topic, but I've wondered how you design your blackwork pokemon. I am working on my own but mine are a little more cross stitch heavy. Just wondered if I missed your 'here is how I design' post or if one could possibly be made in the future. ^_^
ReplyDelete(long time reader, fan of your work!)