Round Robin

Here's my piece for the RR I've just joined.  My first ever RR!

I decided on The Rainbow as my theme, each person will stitch one colour.  As there are six of us I'll stitch two bands.  I started with Green in the middle so the next person gets a choice of colour and so on.

I've chosen my bands from a sampler in a book by Brenda Keyes.  It is based on a 17th Century design but I've totally changed the colours to fit my scheme.  The first band is cross stitches in 3 shades of green.  The next band is Rice Stitch with bottom stitch in green and the top in green metallic (703 which I used on Baby Swing!).  The 3rd band is blackwork with some Algerian Eyes in a tweed of blue/green and dark green.  Originally I'd planned in using a variegated thread but didn't have one I liked so tweeded instead.  I actually prefer the tweeded effect alot of the time (and it's easier!).

I have also kept up my resolution to stitch every cover kit for the two magazines I get.  This week was Cross Stitcher magazine's turn.  As a member of EWBA (Enough With the Buttons Already!) I was not going to be fiddlefarting around with tiny little buttons covered in the hardest aida I have seen, it was like perforated paper!  So I used the aida to stitch the flowers directly onto the felt shapes then pinned them to this lovely tote bag I won in a FB giveaway.  I did use the buttons, I coloured in some scraps of fabric in tones which matched the bag then covered with tiny buttons with them and sewed them on the bag.

I have to give a shoutout to Rossiter Designs who sent me the bag via their FB page.  If you're on FB then type Rossiter Designs in the search box and up they pop!  I like their cute Russian Dolls designs best.