Exchange Heaven - valentines gift

My little "Valentines Hearts" pillow has arrived at Maddy's house ..... in England. She loves it and I am thrilled about that :)

14ct Aida

DMC 3832 & 3833 2 strands

single heart pattern found at http://dany88.canalblog.com

Valentines Swap - Exchange Heaven

I got a package from Sue D. last night and in it was this gorgeous creation :) Looooove it :)
Thanks Sue.
My package is in the mail and should show up at the other end sometime within the next few days.

We woke up to snow early this morning and now almost all Tennessee school districts are out on another  "snow day". I'm finishing up the dress I have been making for my daughter.

Exchange Heaven - "Colour" swap

This is what I sent to Lindsay. She likes snowmen amongst (other things) and requested purple or bright rainbow. I decided to do a snowflake because you cann't have snowmen without them :)

You can find the pattern for the snowflake in the 1995 edition of Vanessa-Ann's Holidays in Cross-Stitch. I used 14 count Aida, 2 shades of purple matt cotton floss from Designed for the Needle and DMC variegated Jewel Effects #E130.

Happy stitching.

Carol H.

Exchange Heaven - Colour swap

This is what I received from Lorna in our recent "colour swap" exchange. It's been a while since she used Aida and I think it is lovely.

Just for fun I took a picture of it sitting in the flower arrangement on my dressing table :)

The colors are variagated aqua through blue and green. They look much brighter in reality.

Thanks Lorna.

Happy stitching.

Carol H.