Le Tour des Jardins and "English Cottage Sampler"

A friend of mine invited me to go to Le Tour des Jardins tomorrow. This Tour features best Master Gardeners' projects and privately owned gardens here in North Louisiana. The gardens are so pretty at this time of the year here and we are looking forward to this great event.

I want to make a little present for my friend. Among freebies by Teresa Wentzler I found a nice design "English Cottage Sampler"- it perfectly suits the topic of our tour. I was thinking hard what to make it into and when at Michaels yesterday I saw nice little satin boxes I thought that is it! As you can guess I like to make boxes but usually I buy wood boxes for my crafts, that is the first box not made of wood.

Though Teresa Wentzler is one of my favorite designers I have stitched only one more design by her but I did it several times and made pincushions and fobs for me and one of my friends .

The design is called Geometry and I think it looks good on pincushions. Still I want to stitch something more intricate from TW designs... one day.

Nice weekend and happy stitching to everybody!

Papillon Creations SAL , Part 3

I have some pictures to show of what I have done. I was working on Part 3 of "How Does Your Garden Grow?" Speciality stitch version by Papillon Creation. The square in the centre is the part on which I was working. Oh, I enjoyed stitching this project, it is like a treat for me.

I made some changes in colors. Instead of making each coner in different floral color I decided to add more greenary and to use the same colors of the purple palette in all corners. I think I avoided a little motley effect and made a more organized garden.
















I am pleased with how the Garden is turning out. I wonder what else is going to grow in the garden.

I also wanted to show you the little box in which I keep floss and other necessary things for the project. On the top of the box there is "Pearl Angel" by Just Nan, the design is so delicate here!






















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Happy Stitching !