GOS Contest #6 Entry

They are up to Contest #6 and this is what I have done with the design this time. My hubby is really good at woodwork and he's so nice to make me my hornbooks in just about any shape I can come up with. This time I thought an arch shape would be nice for this design after I added the quaker design at the top of it. This one was stitched on mushroom 28ct. evenweave using HDF silks....and this one is name "Chocolate Covered Cherries". Yum yum yum. What is it with me that I am always buying these flosses that are named after food. LOL

The spoon in the foreground was also made by

hubby for me. It's called a Sweetheart Spoon and it's a celtic tradition to present one to your sweetheart....hence the name.
Since it's friday, I want to wish everyone a good weekend and I hope you are able to get some stitching in. We all need a little therapy now and then and mine is stitching.

As always, Barbara

GOS Challenge #5 and This Ones a Giveaway

This challenge from GOS this time was a stumper for a while then it hit me. This one is a standup that holds your needle in the front on the magnetic strip and then on the back there is a lace sleeve to hold your scissors.

This is also a giveaway. Please leave your name and email on this post and I'll have hubby draw a name next saturday nite. This is open to anyone that reads my blog.
Good luck and as always, Barbara

GOS 4th Challenge Entry

Here is my entry for the fourth Gift of Stitching contest. It's a little tin with the design stitched on the front with a pincushion attached to the top. It's just waiting to hold all those little doodads we stitchers have.

GOS - 3rd Challenge Entry

I absolutely love doing these entries for their contest....lets the creative juices flow. LOL Anyways, here is my entry for the latest contest. Can you tell I love biscornus? The part I had to use is the house with the bird on top. I added the little white picket fence around it and the decorative red and green stitches. It was alot of fun to stitch.

Entry for the GOS Contest

I have entered two of the contests that the Gift of Stitching magazine has sponsored and this was my entry for the first contest. My sweet friend Peggy received it in the mail as a surprise.