Idle hands, busy minds

well, I have been doing a little stitching in between huge clean ups, clean outs - whichever way you look at it lots of cleaning and tidying. Packing up a whole house is just so jolly exhausting. Rowing man and I have been really sleeping well at nights. But in between times, I have managed to do this... Gail Pan's Christmas Wish BOM, I have only done the stitching, I haven't decided what fabric I want to use yet.. still several more blocks to go yet, but plenty of time to think about this...

I visited a lovely little boutique vintage gift shop recently - Elizabeth Russell House which is a very lovely quaint shop in an old turn of the century working man's cottage, owned and run by two charming sisters. It sells delightful gifts, furniture, linens and decorative accessories - vintage, contemporary, oriental, and I found a whole heap of old embroidered doilies that I just could not leave behind, some of them I used in this...

and the other side.... it is a really neat sized bag to put those little stitching things in, grab and go!

and a little time for this - cannot yet tell you what this is for just yet ...


and this is also a Christmas WISP -The Wish Quilt - that was in the Homespun MagazineVol 9 issues 7,8, & 9. I did most of this stitching while we were traveling over New Years in Paris and Canada. Great thing about stitching - you can pretty much take it anywhere, anytime. I feel quite lost if I don't have anything to take with me.., anywhere, all the time.. , and quite desperately lost if I have nothing for my idle hands to do!!

and this last little cutie, Kris, I am sure that you will recognise this, I won this delightful pattern as a giveaway on Kris's Blog - Tagalongteddies - isn't she just the greatest! Thank you Kris!!!
I just need to decide if I will make a teeny tiny stocking, or maybe use it on a bigger stocking.


Hmmmm....