Sliced bread... (the best thing since)

I'm a tad giddy with excitement here. Can you see why?





I've just discovered these amazing cross-stitch kits for iPhone 4 covers.





They're from the ever-wonderful Purl Soho in New York.





You can read about the designs stitched in the first picture here.





And Purl Soho have them for sale here.

Crafty weekend

Being part of the Commonwealth, we have a lovely little holiday every June called the Queen's Birthday holiday. I'm not sure why but it always comes as a surprise in this family - it's a nice little treat just before school holidays and it happened yesterday. So, what can you do with an extra day to your weekend? Well, my Big Girl and I did some crafting. I have a few projects on the run at the moment but I suddenly needed to do some embroidery... and the BG taught herself how to blanket stitch her pin cushion together. We had fun :) What did you get up to?

Thread work

I find the thread work of Naomi Ryder incredibly inspirational. She's an extraordinary textile artist and illustrator who creates stitch drawings that reference the everyday. You can view her amazing portfolio here. I found her via here.