Happy Valentine's Day and welcome to the Secret Stitching Sweetheart Blog Hop. Over the last few weeks I have been receiving some lovely photos of love through the email. At the weekend I emailed them out to the participants in this year's blog hop to display on their blog and wait for their Secret Stitching Sweetheart to come and comment.
Here are this year's particating blogs:
๐ Kitten Stitching ๐
๐ Lesley's Stitching Diary ๐
๐ The Alychmyst's Study ๐
๐ Dragon Stitches and Stuff by Astrid ๐
๐ Needles, Pins & Dragonflies ๐
๐ Jeremiah's Mom ๐
๐ Tickled Pink in Stitches ๐
๐ Ariadne from Greece ๐
๐ Le Coeur Celtique ๐
๐ Stitch Niche ๐
๐ Fireflies & Cats in the Garden ๐
๐ The Flashing Scissors ๐
๐ Jocondine ๐
๐ Thoughts & Musings ๐
๐ Needle, Pen & Sword ๐
To help inspire everyone with their stitching I posted a list of freebies designs suitable for Valentine's Day. You can see the full list on my Themed Freebies page. Here's the one I stitched this year:
It was my project for FFO Sunday this week and I made it into a cube finish, you can see the backing fabric here:
It's not quite an FFFO (Finally Fully Finished Object) because I realised that I didn't have any pink or red felt for the base.
The design is from the Amint Kipattan blog. There are lots of different hearts there, look up "sziv" in the sidebar. I hadn't noticed the little ribbon roses when I printed the chart out! There's a first time for everything though and they look OK. I stitched this on 32 count Pink Belfast linen from Zweigart using my own DMC colours and some random beads. Which need reattaching where I caught them on the invisible thread! I also changed the leaves to satin stitches.
I've stitched quite a few hearts over the years, here's a collage of some of them:
