Easter Treasure Hunt Blog Hop 2019

As I did last year I am participating again in the Easter treasure hunt blog hop organised by Jo of Serendipitous Stitching. What you do is to hop all around the blogs that take part and see the Easter or Spring stitching they have done. Also you should collect all the letters that each blog gives to find a phrase. Once you have it you should go back to Jo's blog and leave a comment with the phrase.There is until Friday May 3rd.

I saw in April’s issue of Just Cross Stitching a embroidery tray design. Obviously I am not going to do any tray but I thought the design was nice for framing. It is a design from Anna Chinotto of La Bottega delle Meraviglie di Anna. I stitched it in Aida Rustic Oatmeal 18 count and used most of the call for threads, I substituted some of them. I framed it over a baby pink felt and I made the borders thread finged.

I love the small detail of the bow on the rabbit and the sheep, it is really cute……

I want to end this post showing a close up detail in that embroidery, the french knots. I have been trying to make them for years and only now I can only say that……. I KNOW HOW TO DO IT!!!!!!!!!! I am extremely excited and happy, I thought I could never do them.

The letter I am going to give is......

And the next blog you should go to get the phrase is Le Coeur Celtique. I didn't know that blog but I got surprised with it, not only for the content but also because it looks like mine.

Let the People Choose - April Update

The Let People Choose SAL is hosted by Serendipitous Stitching.

Time again for Let People Choose SAL, organised by Jo from Serendipitous Stitching each month. Every month there is a theme proposed, what makes even more funny participate as you not only stitch but also look for the pattern you want to stitch. This month Theme is Speciality Stitches. I think I was quite lucky when I decided to buy April’s issue of the magazine Just Cross Stitch. As it is the Easter special issue they proposed some Easter designs. I quickly fell in love with one of the designs as it was Ummm……...beautiful? ……….. I can’t really find a word to describe it. It is an Easter egg make using only special stitches and they proposed different options: green, blue and pink. Ok, I would like to make all or even more colours, but for the first one I chose green. I used 28 count Lugana fabric in cream and the call for DMC threads for the green egg. 

The egg is designed by Charlotte Smyth of Charlotte's Web Needlework and it is called A Stitcher's Egg. 

The variety of stitches used to make this eggs are the following (if you see the egg picture I am starting the stitches list from top to bottom):

• Elongated Smyrna Cross Stitch
• Mosaic Stitch
• Scotch and Reverse Scotch Stitch
• Algerian Eye Stitch
• Triangle Variation Stitch
• Rice Stitch
• Long Arm Cross Stitch
• Woven Cross Stitch
• Montenegrin Stitch

I finished it in the obvious egg shape, using cream back fabric and cardboard to make the whole harder and I put green cord all around which not only help me to hang somewhere but also is very decorative and hide the two part join edges. Let’s see if I can make the other colours before Easter.

Easter Treasure Hunt Blog Hop 2018

I am doing this post as part of the Easter Treasure Hunt Blog Hop 2018 organized by Jo from the blog Serendipitous Stitching. You can read the original post explaining the Blog Hop HERE.

Each one of the participant has allocated a letter and we need to make a post showing our letter on Good Friday 2018. Then, we need to go blog by blog in the order specified to get all the letters and make a sentence, which this year is the first line of a poem.

We also need to post each one an embroidery related with Easter or spring. This year I did few projects related with Easter but I chose one to show in this post. It is a design from the magazine CrossStitcher, the 2017 Easter issue, and is a hen to cover the boiled eggs. I did as part of the Easter decoration and it is really cute.

And now let's go to reveal the letter I have been asigned to show. That is.........

To get the next letter, please visit the following link http://lottloft.blogspot.com/.

I have really enjoy participating in this blog hop. Thank you Jo.