Happy Valentine's Day! (NON-FREEBIE)

I made these for my boyfriend across the waves. Happy Valentines, sweetheart!

Design: Union Jack Heart

Designer: Britain's No 1. Cross Stitcher, #237 (p34), April 2011

Fabric: White 14-count Aida

Threads: DMC, colours as supplied in chart.

FREEBIE - Royal Guardsman

Design: Royal Guardsman

Chart: http://www.themakingspot.com/cross-stitch/pattern/quick-stitch-soldier

Fabric: White 14-ct Aida

Threads: DMC

This little guy is my first freebie of the year! He's a Royal Guardsman. He was originally offered as the cover freebie from the April 2011 edition of Cross Stitcher UK, but is offered for free download through The Making Spot. The only thing I changed was the background cover of the flag, as the original chart had it as the same pink as the face and hands of our little bloke, but given it should have been blue, I made it blue.

Enjoy!

My next freebie item is a needle set - scissor fob, needle book & pin cushion, called "Busy Bees". It's from www.xstitchhappy.com. I will upload photos as I get them done.

Egyptian Royalty - part three

ANOTHER FINISH!

And just so we can see how they look together:

Yay!

I was upset to find, when I went back to my local LNS yesterday, the orange fleece remnant had been sold. However there was some white, so I will make some snowmen instead I think (at least until some orange comes to hand again). Until then, I am also working on a new chart. Again from a magazine (Cross Stitcher (UK) Jan 2004 edition). This one is called Willow Pattern design, and is apparently a representation of a very famous, and very old, chinese tragic love story. I'm up to here so far:

Next time I post I'll include the little story that goes with it, but for now I will include something else I am working on, and which is almost finished:

It's from the Bookmark Collection, from Told In A Garden (Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum). It was supposed to be stitched on sage green aida, but not having any to hand, I am using DMC 3032 to stitch the background, which is almost complete now!

More later. (Including freebies)