The People Chose Coffee

This SAL is all about what you want to see on the blog.  Each month I ask for suggestions for themes and then put them up to the members of the IHSW Group on FB to vote for their choice.  This is what they have chosen:

March - Coffee

April - Modern Samplers
May - Fire

Well, I've had my first coffee of the day and have another ready to drink while I type this up.  The first question must be - are you are a tea or coffee drinker?  I have always been a coffee person.  When I was a child and couldn't sleep my Dad would make me a drink by boiling milk in a saucepan and adding a little coffee powder to it.  When I got old enough to make the choice I would always go for coffee.  Now I still like a Cappucino when I am out but instant is good enough at home.

When I think of Coffee designs, Beth Twist of Heartstring Samplery is my first thought.  She did a series called Magical Elixir all about Coffee.  Her Coffee Quaker was the most popular design with lots of people using coffee-coloured and coffee-named threads to stitch it.

I really need the Coffee Quaker!

This is my Spooky Coffee scrapbook page:

The top design is by Witchy Stitches.  I stitched it over one on some coffee coloured evenweave.

The bottom design is a freebie from Plum Street Samplers called Brew Ha Ha.  Again, I stitched this over one.

Several years ago I was sent a kit by Yiota to review.  I chose Coffee Fairy:

which I started on this amazing fabric:

stitched on Monarch from Sparklies

This one is currently waiting it's turn with my older projects.  I had a phase of starting several large projects at once and now I am trying to reduce the number by focusing on them in size order!

You can also use coffee to dye fabric, but it turns out that I have only used tea.  So I will save those pictures until we get Tea as a theme!

Now it's over to you.  All you have to do is make a post on the theme of Coffee, mention The People's Choice SAL (you can copy the picture I used at the top of this post and in my side bar) and my blog. Please link up using the URL of the actual blog post, not the home page of your blog. I look forward to seeing what you all post.

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Finally, I need your suggestions for the next poll. Any thing, no matter how obscure, weird or random will go into the poll. Keep the theme suggestions to a single word or two - so you could have Cats, or Blue, or Holidays, or Warmth etc. Really anything which could be illustrated in cross stitch.

Looking forward to reading them all!