Firstly, I have nearly finished stitching the wise man/king in the Shepherd's Bush Christmas stocking. This one is called Brett but there are lots to choose from. I am making my fifth! His robe is richly coloured in the variegated thread, Razzleberry! Doesn't that name sound as delicious as it looks? The rest of the stocking will be quite quick from here as the majority of the stitching is in the wise man.
Secondly, I only have another few hours of stitching left on the Christmas ornament by Little House Needleworks called, Bringing Home the Tree. I am thrilled with how it looks. Mary, my daughter, will love hanging it on the tree this Christmas.
As many of you, my lovely readers and friends live overseas this is a warning that I might make you envious. I am going to post a Spring photo. Stop reading now if you can't cope. I am loving my Spring garden. I have only been at this house for 3x Springs and the gardens are what I have planted as they had been neglected prior to that. The snow-in summer, cerinthe and golden oregano are making a stunning border to one of our garden beds. I try to garden 30 minutes every 2 days which seems to keep it in hand. Gardening is not good for the nails even though I always where gloves!
Also gardening related, I recently picked our first lemon from our Lemon Eureka tree and cooked it into Lemon Delicious.
The lemon juice was so flavoursome and I was delighted to find no pips inside. It looks like more lemons are on their way but will take a few more months before they can be picked. I hope I run into the problem soon here I have too many lemons and have to give lots away!
Thanks for wandering through my flower beds...
Jan x
16 comments:
Belles broderies de Noel bonne journee Marie-Claire
Very nice stitching on these two lovely projects. The lemon delicious is making me envious more than the spring :-)
I LOVE the colors on your stocking! Honestly, you make me want to go get the pattern, and I don't even celebrate Christmas! :P Enjoy your lovely garden
Shepherds Bush is just the best--hard to resist anything with lemon
Send sunshine... its pouring with rain here lol
SB stocking is so lovely, the colours in this are so majestic.
lovely stitching.
I'm so jealous of the spring garden!
Great progress on the stocking Jan. Pretty yard pics and yum.
Linda
Never mind the spring pictures, I found myself downloading the magazine with that delicious looking recipe! Lovely stitching!
Jan, I so admire your stitching ability. I have a cross stitch that I started 38 years ago and it's still in my closet. Maybe, one day I will be talented enough to do this exquisite art. Wishing you a wonderful week.
Beautiful stitching.
Wonderful x stitch x
Your stocking & ornament are lovely
Beautiful stitching as well as your garden..i am sure envious of that as ours is totally empty right now... i should be planting some bulbs soon...
Good looking wiseman and your daughter will surely love the ornament too. I enjoyed looking around at your blog.
Thank you for stopping by.
Jackie:)
Beautiful cross stitching, I'm sure the finished Christmas stocking with the Wise man will look fabulous.
Lovely stitches ~ and Oohhhh.....that lemon treat looks good! Nothing like fresh lemons!
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