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Sunday, 14 February 2016

Secret Stitching Sweethearts Blog Hop


Happy Valentine's Day to you all!  I hope that those of you in relationships got well treated today.

Over the last few weeks my email inbox had been receiving Hearts and Love in preparation for the Secret Stitching Sweetheart activity.  I have a lovely spreadsheet and each person has now been emailed a picture from a random participant.

At some point today they will post the picture they received on their blog and wait for their Secret Stitching Sweetheart to reveal her identity by leaving a comment.

Here is the full list of participants (in no particular order):



So please hop over to the blogs and leave a nice comment.  Each participant will be trying to locate the photo they sent in and trying to find out who sent their's.

Here's some more love for you all, some great freebie designs from around the world!  I keep a list of freebie links on a special page on my blog so if you have any to add, please let me know.

Here's the first one all stitched up:



And of course we must never forget the Patron Saint of Free design - Gazette 94!


(there are 22 designs labelled Couer or Heart).

I had a very exciting Happy Dance on Friday which I will being showing off tomorrow for Gifted Gorgeousness!  Just to keep you waiting.  However I will show you the beginning of the next letter:

Stitched on 32 count Oceanic Fantasia by Crafty Kitten

And if you hop over the Kaye's Friday Frolics blog you can see a sneak peek of the finish!

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Finally, I remember reading someone's resolutions for the year in January and one of them was to "Learn Blackwork".  Was it you?  If so, then please leave a comment because I've been wracking my brains who it was and I have a very nice chart!

24 comments:

Kaisievic said...

Hi Jo, Thanks for another great blog hop. Also, just wanted to let you know that the Silver Lotus link does not seem to be working. K xxx

gominam said...

Thanks for organizing another exciting hop and sharing these freebie links! Another beautiful new start. Have a Happy Valentine's Day:)

Barb said...

Thank you so much for sharing all that great information.

Linda said...

Pretty and finish and start Jo. Thanks for the free links.

Linda

Stitching Noni said...

Great post! I am on the blog hop trail now :o)
Hugs xx

Mini said...

Loving the blog hop and thank you for the freebie links .
It was me who wants to learn blackwork...How nice of you to remember that!

Thoeria said...

Happy Valentines Jo :)

AnaCristina said...

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Justine said...

Happy Valentine's Day! Looking forward to some hopping later.

Heather said...

Happy Valentine's Day I hope yours was fun! Mine just started its currently 12:45 am lol. I hope everyone had fun with this if I ever stitch anything love related I'll join in :)

FlashinScissors said...

Hi Jo, Happy Valentine's Day! Lovely post, and thank you for the freebie links. Thank you for all your work preparing and running this blog hop! Its great fun!
Barbara xx

Sheryl said...

Happy Valentine´s day. I´m off to see the entries. Thanks for the free link designs.

Leonore Winterer said...

Happy Valentine's Day! Just got my post up, I'll go hopping later. And I'll have to check out those freebies as well, thanks for sharing :)

Christine said...

More free hearts than you can shake a stick at! Looking forward to seeing your finish tomorrow

Vickie said...

Happy Valentine's Day Jo! Thank you so much for this hop and the freebies.

Clare-Aimetu said...

Thank you Jo for doing the Blog Hop - beautiful hearts everywhere. Thanks too for the freebie links :-)

Kerryp77 said...

All those freebies, wow! I'm off to check out some of the valentines blogs. Happy stitching Jo

Tiffstitch said...

Thanks for organizing and I'm going to have to have a look at all those links. Congrats on a great start on 'S'!

Katie said...

Thanks for hosting this wonderful excuse to hop around to new blogs. I was lucky enough to receive a project from Gracie. Now I'm off to find my piece.

Babs said...

Lovely stitches :)

to answer on your question about Mothers day, where I live we celebrate it the second Sunday of May, but there is one part of the country that celebrates it in August aswell.

Astrids dragon said...

Love the heart!
Another fun year, thanks for hosting and for all the freebie sites! Love to you.

Bea said...

This was great fun Jo, thanks so much. If you do it again next Valentine's I think I'll have to join in. Love finding new blogs.

Tiffstitch said...

I have another free design for you from DMC. http://dmc-threads.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Color-Variation-Chart-092-Heart.jpg I saw it stitched up and framed on Pull The Other Thread.

Brigitte said...

A very nice blog hop again, Jo.I haven't visited all of the participants yet but will do tomorrow.
Thanks for the links to the heart freebies.