Hi everyone, I know it’s been a while – I’ve been busy and away on holiday.  The above stitch work is a project I have been sewing during my dinner breaks at work.  I have never added beads or ribbon to anything I have stitched before – so another first ticked off.

Hi

This is the first cross stitch that I ever completed – it is in a Perspex frame/cover as it can be used to stand a teapot on.

 

 

 

Hi everyone, this is my current project, who knew there were so many shades of green!  The image bottom right is the actual cover – not my finished craftwork, though I hope it will eventually look like that.

I am also proceeding well with my work on Hetty, my parrot.

Will post again soon

 

 

 

This was Hetty’s 13th Birthday Present.  Finally uses it two months later.  A lot of coaxing and patience required as she is not very trusting.  Curious but hesitant.  However, she soon took a lump out of the ladder,  my little shredding machine.  I love her so much.

 

This was my first large project.  It was delightful how his face came to like, and when I put his eyes in I felt like he was watching me as I sewed the rest.  Sorry about reflections but he hangs in pride of place in the lounge.   Hope you like.

Hi, these two images are the works of art I am presently stitching.

The Lady is called Maude and is a creation by Jill Cater-Nixon and distributed by Classic Embroidery.  Very intricate but a delight to stitch.

The second image is my creation of my adored Meyer’s Parrot – Hetty.

 

 

So comfy!!!  Team Hetty – got my own T-Shirt now.

I just saw my first swallow, swooping here and there.  Summer has officially arrived.

Yippee !

Hi I’ve just set up a Tumblr account – go see HettyCharlieRuffles.

A sunny bank holiday – hooray – Hetty here and I’m taken outside in my cage as I am fully flighted you see – and if I fly too high I would be disorientated and lose sight of my fabulous human, for whom I have much love.  As you can see I was doing acrobatics and everything.  I know in the 1st image it looks like I have grown a bunch of feathers on my head, but I can assure you it is a shrub in the background.