AfterTheNight...

This is my own design AfterTheNight... after the night is morning and it's different on the morning. In this design I wanted to create the hope a new dawn brings. If there is no dawn the light can be seen during the polar nights in many different ways. We always have the moon to shine our way; or Northern Lights.

(For this project I used 16 count black Aida and 4 shades of DMC thread for the stitching plus 5th shade for the text.)

WovenPillows

This time I designed and made these two decoration pillow cases of recycled traditional Finnish woven wall hanging called "raanu". They are made of wool but the warp is traditionally white cotton. Don't try to do this unless you are advanced in sewing and craft. Simply because you need to be very skillful in your sewing skills and understand the structure of woven fabric to avoid the warp to fray out and whole project to turn out to a disaster.

PS. If you google "raanu" you will find many pics of this traditional Finnish wall hanging. They are very colorful like our autumn nature and Northern Lights which both usually inspired the designers. Today "raanu" is not popular anymore because it is often considered too big, needing too much space and old fashion. They used to be hang on the walls to create warmth.

NorthernLights -keyring (free chart)

This time my own design freebie week leads us to the NorthernLights. These special dancing lights have always fascinated humans; with fear or admiration. In Finland we know that fox caused this phenomenon. That's why we call them in Finnish "revontulet" which means Fox's Fires. Here's a tiny keyring chart for you to carry the fire with you to enlighten the darkness.

Lost and found

Yes, today we made some photos. I included updated framed pictures of that sad polar bear baby.

This is also my own design.  The work includes metallic threads and glitter in the fabric. There's also blue and golden glass seed beads. It's a lonely and sad polar bear baby who has got apart from the mother. Now there's three polar bears in the collection. We'll see will the family get more members. :)

I also sorted out my finished framed cross stitch pictures. It's result was that some got up to the walls and some had to go storaged. I also realized that I have lost one chart. Meaning both the paper and electric version. It is a disaster because it is my own design and none has a copy of it!  Outs! And it is impossible to track the chart from the finished project because it includes many shades which are too close to each others. Poor me. It is about reideers, fells, northern lights and traditional living around there.

Later on I found the chart! It was at the end in a totally wrong place! Yeppee!!!

My top secrect project is going on well and I am now used back to normal Aida 14 count. Tomorrow I'll stitch it more.