Little Linen Stitches

 In between lots of design work and other essential things this week i found some time to play with some little linen stitched motifs and here are the results..................

 ............i began stitching on linen way back in the day when i first designed cross stitch samplers and wrote cross stitch books..........i always keep a stock of 28 count cashel linen in my stash for cross stitch projects and now i also make bunnies from this linen too..............my early books are still a useful resource for little cross stitch motifs to use in different ways...........like the cherries i stitched for this little pincushion, a gift for a cherry loving friend.......

.........i loved using up tiny scraps of sweet summery fabric that was lying on my cutting table for these quick little makes........

 ...............the vintage style kettle motif in this pincushion was stitched for a wall hanging in my simple sewn gifts book, but after i'd stitched it i decided i wanted it to have a heart in the centre, so i re-stitched it for the book and kept this one till now.........

                                  .................i decided to add a word embellishment..............

 ....... i printed out this little one with rubber stamps and backed it with bondaweb and white fabric, sewed it round and cut it out to make a little label.................

 ...............this sunny little house was a design for a new home card originally...............

 ..............i liked the colours with this sweet lecien floral fabric.......i really love this particular fabric at the moment and though i only have a small amount left i'm adding it to lots of projects to keep on enjoying it.................

 .............the sun has certainly been shining brightly here still over the last week....though we did have a huge deluge of rain which the garden was glad of...............it still felt hot afterwards and most unlike the usual uk style of weather.............we have enjoyed some lavender scones in the garden this weekend........

 ..............lovely sweetpeas, they are my new favourite now the roses have all but finished..........

 ............a few weeks ago a little pink and cream coloured playhouse arrived in our garden..............

 ..........the children have played lots of games in it and filled it up with toys..........daisy loves to ride about on her tricycle, always with some toys in the back (this time it was the sugar bunnies turn).....and in the basket on the front she puts special things like a bunch of sweet peas, or even her ice lolly if it becomes a bit cumbersome to hold it while cycling ;)................

..........we made some funny face ice lollies........and enjoyed some chilled water melon......i've been loving the summertime so much, even though i'm not great with high temperatures really and always have to seek out some shade to keep cool......

............thank you for popping into my little bit of blogland, it's wonderful to see you :) and  thanks for the sweet comments and emails too..........i hope you have a happy summery crafty week with lots of bright and sunny times............back soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx