Crafty Photo Scavenger Hunt: March

If you’re new to the Scavenger Hunt then please visit Kirst’s blog to see how this all began.  I’m acting as guest host again this month, and I hope you find everything to your liking!

I’ll start off with a list of those people who are taking part – please do visit their blogs and have a look at their entries for this month.  If they haven’t posted their photographs yet then please be patient and check again on the 31st!

• Rachel at The Awesome Lady
• Jeneveve at Timballoo
• Ruth at The Goldhawk Project
• Margot at Tulsi Crafts

Inspiration

I’ve been poring over magazines again this month, as well as books, and especially CrossStitcher which is my new favourite thing…

Something I Made

I’m ridiculously proud of this piece of cross stitch

Motifs: Retro

Perhaps more vintage than retro, but it’s the thought that counts, yes?

Sunlight

Sunlight on a wooden floor which really caught my eye.

Books

You’d think I’d be spoiled for choice for this category, but I actually really struggled!  In the end I took a slightly different view of things…

 

Clearly I had a bit of a yen for the sepia filter this month…

In a few days, once I’ve had a chance to view all the entries for this month, I’ll put up my favourites – please do pop back to have a look!  In the meantime Jeneveve over at Timballoo will be guest-hosting for April (it’s my birthday next month so I figured I’d have a break!), so please pop along to her blog on Monday 2nd April to see what topics she’s chosen

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Cross stitch corner #1

It was inevitable really because I do seem to have an insatiable need to learn new crafts, but I have picked up a new hobby: cross stitch.  My interest was piqued last year when a friend sent me a minature cross stitch kit, I enjoyed it a lot but didn’t have the time to look into it further when I’d completed the kit.

A year on and I’ve definitely caught the bug.  When I visited Stitch & Craft a couple of weeks ago I was fascinated by the variety of cross stitch patterns that were available, and did buy a pattern which I’ll be attempting soon.  I also ended up getting a subscription to CrossStitcher magazine, and on my way home picked up a copy of the March issue too.

The March issue of CrossStitcher has got loads of vintage style patterns in it and I was particularly taken with these vegetable ones.  I thought that, as they’re small, they’d make a good starter project for me before I attempt the larger pattern I bought at the show.

I started off quite well really although I didn’t have all the right colours.  I had to make do with the selection of threads I had in the house so there were a lot of substitutions and trying to match colours as closely as possible by eye.  I finished the first one this afternoon and I’m really proud of it.  It’s not perfect but it’s pretty good!

I think I’ll tackle the tomato one next, and as an added bonus these little cross stitch patterns have given me another idea…

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