Miss Bobbin's Needle!

I have started work on the little journal/newsletter I

mentioned in the previous post - this one for summer,

and completely handwritten/illustrated by me!

It will take a little time, but hopefully

it should be ready to send out in late June.

I am also revisiting my old mice friends, 

in particular Miss Bobbin, a stitching mouse

who is never seen without a needle

and thread in her hand. I am working on an idea

of a book featuring her and her little 

stitched creations, to be tentatively called

"Miss Bobbin's Needle,

Stitches and Stories from Rosebud Lane".

Obviously this will also take some time

to put together, but I will post

images of the designs and other ideas

as I develop them! I love the mice

and would love to do another publication

featuring them. (My first book about the mice

was published in France in 2018 and is still available

on Amazon!)

So many things to do and create - I am

grateful for this in my life, and the peace and joy

making things brings to me 

and hopefully to all of us at this rather

difficult time.

Blessings to all this weekend

And so it is...on we go...

Gail xxx

Miss Cupcake!

Some of you may know that for a number of years

I created a range of small, completely handstitched mice,

which I called 'The Mice of Rosebud Lane'.

I don't make them any more - they took

a long time to make and rising costs of the materials and postage

meant I had to charge more for them than the market

would allow.

However I still love those little rodents of mine, 

so now I create them on paper and 

with stitches - in artwork, designs and, hopefully,

one day in books, too!

Miss Cupcake is the first cross stitch design

in this series - sadly I have not yet been able

to frame her as I wished, since my

picture framer is not operating due to lockdown.

But here she is - with her delicious cakes...

and the chart of this design will be ready for

download in just a few days.

Enjoy my little mice!

Blessings and light

Gail xxx