Strawberry Stitching

 Lots of strawberries today..............both real and stitched ones to enjoy............they are one of my favourite fruits for both eating and designing.............this little strawberry quilt was a real pleasure to make...........

 ..........it has cross stitched strawberries on some of the white squares, stitched using waste canvas which is very easy to do.............and on some of the other squares i have appliqued circles cut from some of my favourite strawberry print fabrics............

                                       ............had to put the bunny in this picture :)................

 ..............the strawberry quilt fits the little ikea bed, and i made a little pillow from aqua polka dot fabric with a cross stitched strawberry in the corner.................

 .............another bunny to model the little quilt for me...............this is little strawberry, of course........

 .................she is back on the dresser again now that strawberry season is here once more.....

 ....................the little  strawberry quilt is my project in the latest issue of crafts beautiful......here are some pretty pages from the magazine..........and you can visit the website here..................

                                ...............little fabric strawberries i made last year.............

 .............and some delicious real ones to eat today :)................in the picture below you can also see a sneak peek of my new applique quilt.....the progress has been rather held up waiting for some fabric to arrive but now it's here so i hope to be speeding on with it...................

 ...............some of you who are long time readers of my blog may remember the strawberry hearts quilt that i made many moons ago..................i love this quilt, it's still one of my most favourite ones.....and i decided a week or two ago that it should be the next one to have a quilt label made specially for it..................

 .................i designed the chart and have begun stitching it in between lots of work projects and lots of crochet evenings..............i'll show you the finished label soon..................

..................a posy fresh picked from the garden today............ three different kinds of rose (gorgeous scents), feverfew, sweet william and a sprig of nepeta...............we have a lot of strawberry jam jars here as we eat a lot of strawberry jam, on bagels, toast and scones............ it's lucky the jars are so collectable.................

..............now i'm going to water the flower pots, the beans and the sweet peas, then i'm going to do some crochet.............thank you for visiting my bit of blogland and for your sweet comments and emails..................wishing you a sunny week with lots of strawberries (if you like them) and plenty of
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