New start update and ... a giveaway!!!

As promised earlier, here is progress on my new start (I started this project just today!!!)

I knew I will enjoy stitching this project but I had no idea I will love it so much! I think this one will be done in no time ( who knows how many projects I will finish before Freddy comes back!)

Even though I didn't celebrate today with a turkey dinner (I think I would eat that turkey until Christmas!) I will have a celebration with a giveaway! I want to thank all my followers and here is what a lucky, sweet  friend will get (click on the picture for a bigger view):

• 32 ct Mercedes lugana (13 x 18)
• Shiver Me Timbers chart from Sue Hillis Design
• Stork scissors, and
• stitched by me thank you card

Now, the rules:

1. Leave a comment on this post clearly indicating that you would like to be entered in a draw. Please make sure to include an email address if your blog doesn't link to one (I have to be able to contact you if you are a winner)
2. You must be a follower of my blog 
3. If you post about this giveaway on your blog with a link to mine you will get an extra entry! 

I will draw the lucky name on Sunday, October 31 at noon PST. (PST does not stands for provincial sales tax but Pacific Standard Time!!!)

Good luck and so long my friends,

Happy Thanksgiving Canada!!!

Did you know that the history of Thanksgiving in Canada goes back to an explorer, Martin Frobisher, who had been trying to find a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean? Frobisher's Thanksgiving was not for harvest but homecoming. He had safely returned from a search for the Northwest Passage, avoiding the later fate of Henry Hudson and Sir John Franklin. In the year 1578, he held a formal ceremony in Newfoundland to give thanks for surviving the long journey. The feast was one of the first Thanksgiving celebrations by Europeans in North America. Frobisher was later knighted and had an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in northern Canada named after him — Frobisher Bay.

Today, I'm spending my Thanksgiving all alone. Freddy is in Ontario and he will stay there to the end of the month. So... can you guess what I will do today? Of course! I will stitch!!! It looks like it will be a nice, crispy, sunny day in the Yukon - I will take Topaz for a long walk. And since I'm on the topic of stitching... I have a finish! I decided to finish my chickens as a wall hanging. I'm not a 100% satisfied with my finishing quality but it is my first ever attempt to make a hanging.

I came across a very cute design that I had to have it! I just finish stitching it and I think it will make a very nice bell pull, what do you think?

That's not all! I also finished a little blue square for my swap:

This square is a fragment of Nancy Rossi design - Bless this house.

It is a lovely design and since I enjoyed stitching part of it I decided to do a whole thing. Later on (today!) I will share with you my progress on this new WIP.

Happy Thanksgiving to all Canadians!!!

So long my friends,

Great Giveaway!

Make sure you will check this one out!

Lovely Mel from Epic Stitching has an awesome Halloween giveaway!

She is celebrating her 150 posts and 180 something followers!!!

So long friends,

I've got a word from my daughter-in-law and...

here it is, my first granddaughter - Michalina:

Isn't she adorable? Isn't she the most beautiful baby ever? I can tell you, from now on I'm stitching for the little princess almost exclusively!!!

And here is a proud mommy, daddy and the baby and of course I am one proud grandma typing this message!!!

So long friends,



It's snowing in the Yukon!

I know, I shouldn't be surprised by seeing snow on the north but, come on!, not on the 24th of September?!?! 

Usually, before end of the work I'm checking road conditions and what I've got yesterday? A snowfall warning! 4 inches! I look outside from my office window and this is what I saw...

Today isn't snowing heavy anymore but it is cold and wet and crappy. A perfect day for stitching, reading and catching up on a housework.

I finish stitching my hens - now it is time to really finish it. I'm undecided - should it be a flat-fold or a wall hanging...? It is a small piece, the stitching area is only 5 by 7 inches.

And I'm working on Halloween/Autumn ornaments. Since they are for exchanges I will show pictures after my partners receive them.

Have a happy stitchy weekend everyone!