Happy Christmas and a Merry Stitching New Year

Hi Every one :)
The mods would like to wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a very stitchy New Year ..... we are looking forward to the coming year with lots of things in the pipe line .. including a lovely band sampler designed by Mouse and some Biscobuds which are being designed by Val.....


This year we are celebrating our 10th year as a small but very successful,chatty and extremely friendly and enabling ;) stitcher's group :)


The photo is a design which  freely given to the members of the Friendly Stitchers for this Christmas  by Mouse .... who also stitched and finished this version off ... other stitched  versions can be seen on the main group :)

Designed and stitched by Mouse

Happy Christmas to you all and may the stash fairies be good to you :)
love 
Ally , Mouse, Gillie , Karen and Val 

Midsummer stitch and show competition

in third place Gillies pincshion

Hi Every one :) over on the group we had a Midsummer stitch and show competition where you had to  stitch  and finish off and the show to the group from some little designs I had designed  :) there was three to chose from and I left it to every one to choose their own fabric and threads and the way the item was finished :)


The group then voted and here are the winners :) Drum roll please :) .......

first place winner  Elaine's ort bag 

in fourth place .. Heathers biscornu :) 
in third place Gillies pincushion :0

In second place Mouse's pincushion

in second place Mouse's pincushion and scissor fob
and in first place is Elaine's ort bag :)


The winners will all receive a small prize and this will be posted off to them asap :)


The competition was  great fun and we shall have another one hopefully soon :)


The next exchange we are doing is the Summer Sensations biscornu exchange that was voted for by the members as our next exchange :) 
I am looking forward to seeing who my partner is :)


Until next time take care and happy stitching :)

in fourth place heathers biscornu

love mouse xxxxx

Speciality Stitch a month SAL

We are now up to the month of May - lets see some progress pictures ladies ... here is mine up to date

Spring themed pin cushion exchange

Hello every one :)


Just a quick update on the group 


We have just sorted out the partners for our first exchange of the year ... a spring themed pincushion, pattern of their own choice along with spring themed threads to be with the respective partners by the 21st of March :) 
I am looking forward to seeing the finished pincushions, photos will be popped up on here asap after they are all received.... I have just got to  finish putting mine together and it will be on its way to my partner very soon .....  I am being very organised for once heheheh..


Every one has been working hard on their UFO's and progress pictures have been going into the wet noodle award album .... there will be a closed poll at the end of September and the winner will be announced in October :)


Personally I think they are a wee bit scared of me and the noodle hence why they have been working so hard on them heheheh ;0.... that's why I am not entering any of mine to make it fairer for everyone else ... 


We have encouraged people to try working on linen and they have enjoyed it very much as well as getting people more organised with their stash and discovering "new bits" they had forgotten about and not to mention the enabling lots of new charts, threads and fabric :)


Hope everyone is managing to get some stitchy time in .... 
till next time
love mouse xxxx

Welcome to the Friendly Stitchers blog

Welcome to the Friendly Stitchers blog ..... we want to show off our members' beautiful work to the blogging world and to also let people know about our group  which has members from all corners of the world, as well as all levels of stitching ability. Amongst the group we have some great designers too!

Come and join us as we begin a new year of stitching challenges and opportunities!  We have some great things planned for our members and are looking forward to meeting you! 

Our very first offering is a beatifully stitched and finished hussif by one of our American stitchers, Karen (Blog: http://sunshinestitches.multiply.com/journal ).  This was designed by Abi Gurden, a former member of our group.

folded over 

Stitched by Karen 

personalized by Karen

Talking of designers ... Val one of our Mods and a long standing designer here for us , has just announced a monthly SAL which she has designed to encourage us to use different types of stitches in our work .She has done this in the form of a traditional sampler of stitches in a nice manageable size, those of us who have seen the preview are quite sure that this is going to be very popular in fact we can't wait to get started :)

Happy stitching love mouse xxxxx

xmas freebie charts

Well I have now finished all the xmas charts available free for all members of the group - hope you like them and will get stitching !

First past the post !!!

Okay dokay - just seeing if this is going to work OK

This will be a nice place for all members of Friendly Stitchers to contribute to .... so let's have all your stitching pics and anything else you want to comment on ....

Val x