ATELIER SOED IDEE

Today I received my favorite-season-exchange of our dutch stitchinggroup from Willeke . My favorite season is autumn, so she stitched me this wonderful chart in brown/yellow-overdyed thread, finished as a towel. She also send me some nice charts and two great pins. I got a text-message from my mother in France that she received my mailart. My mother collects mice and DS calls her "Granny Mouse" because of that. So I finally stitched her a mice-mailart. (The mice-buttons were in my stash for almost two years...) This tea-box was a birthday gift for my friend Jacqueline B. On top of the box is a little kit from Bent Creek, called "Good Morning". I knew Jacqueline really liked the kit, so I made her this tea-box. I also happened to find " good morning-tea "!

First of all, I want to thank you all for your nice comments on the Peacock chair! They're making me glow.... Yesterday I "pimped" a small tin. Becky has inspired me with her beautiful tins! Anyway, here's my first attempt:

Today the mailman had another surprise for me... The monochromatic exchange from Outi ! She stitched me a very pretty Quaker-strawberry in my favourite color blue, on a pale green linen. There were also 2 shades of DMC variegated and some nice beads in blue. Thank you Outi, for the pressies!

It was a struggle to get there, but the Peacock Stitching Chair from The Cat Whiskers is finished! Not exactly the way it should be (the drawer doesn't open very smooth, it's not standing straight on his feet, I've had to put a stone in the drawer otherwise the chair falls....), but it looks good in the pictures, doesn't it? I've stitched it on 32 ct. cream Lugana, with TG Silk 'n Colors "Wood Smoke" and DMC 4140. For the ribbons I chose VC Silk Ribbon "Chine".

Third post in two days! It seems I really have to tell you a lot... ;) The past week I was working on Secret Santa of Lavender and Lace. And the Christmastree is finished now (except for the beads). Now that I stitched a larger piece of the tree, I love the way it works out on the fabric! You can see the progress I made here . I'm already looking forward to the next time it's Secret Santa's turn in the rotation. Then I can work on the cozy Santa and his pretty purple chair! But first I'm going to stitch some mailarts now.

I found out that Paula received my Monochromatic Exchange! Paula loves purple and blue colors, so I made her this pillow. I knew right away that I had to use this fabric for the exchange. It's a 28 count Jobelan handdyed by my friend Jacqueline W . The pattern is from My Aunts Attic . This blog is from my friend Lilian. When I was at her place last year, she showed me a big box full of handwritten charts. She told me that they were from an aunt of her DH, who got it from a closed LNS. I got all excited about it and said to Lilian that she has to do something with all those pretty charts! After some time I could convince her and I helped her with digitizing the charts. And that's how My Aunts Attic was born...

Since a while I'm collecting birdhouses and birdhouse-charts. So a few days ago I bought myself this lovely birdhouse-photoframe. I couldn't resist it! But it was still empty... So this afternoon I stitched a small birdhouse that fits in the frame. The chart is called "Titmouse on Birdhouse" and it's a freebee from this site . I've stitched it on 32 count ecru Lugana with DMC. So now it's a titmouse IN a birdhouse ;-) Today I also received a lovely birdhouse-card in the mail. It's a belated birthday-card from Iris . Thank you so much Iris! The card is so beautiful made!