Good morning everyone,
Just popping in to say hello and to share with you a photo of a card made by a lovely lady called Joy.
She emailed me after reading this post and requested a copy of my chart. I love Joy’s 3D pop-up version and hope the recipient liked it too.
Thank you so much for sending the photo Joy. I hope you had fun making your card 🙂
If anyone else would like the chart, just send me an email. The address is on the right of the page.
Time to crochet 🙂
Avis x
Posted by Sewing Beside the Sea on May 4, 2015
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Hi everyone,
It’s my daughter’s birthday today so I just had to stitch a card for her. She loves to play the ukulele so that’s what I decided to stitch.
I had to be a bit sneaky, going up to her room and taking photos of her ukulele while she was out at work, and then yesterday, stitching it while she was at home. I honestly don’t know how she didn’t find me sewing this. Every time I heard her footsteps I was pretending to be stitching something else until she went away again 
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I did find some inspiration from various images on the internet for a pattern but I couldn’t use them because I wanted a good likeness to my daughter’s ukulele. Thankfully, I had just the right thread colours in my stash. Some of the tuning pegs were facing different directions, I needed the correct number of frets, had to copy how the neck was attached and I also added some metallic threads for where the strings are wound around the pegs at the top. I lightly padded behind the stitching panel with some polyester wadding.
This is how it turned out.
She really likes it so I’m very happy about that . It’s always nice to give something handmade. If you want a free copy of my chart, just send me an email. The address is on the right of this page. You could then make your own little changes here and there to make it like your own ukulele.
I’ve also been making a zipper pouch. There is a link to the tutorial and more photos on my other blog Oh Sew Tempting.
I hope you are all finding more time to craft than I am at the moment. I’m still far too busy for my liking.
Sewing Beside the Sea | All things made with my needle and thread
Update: Sandie from Tigermum’s Creative Corner has sent me photos of her fantastic card which she made from my chart. Isn’t it fantastic? She used DMC 4128 thread to acheive the wood grain effect.
Here are her husband’s ukuleles. You can see why Sandie needed the correct thread now.
Avis x
Posted by Sewing Beside the Sea on September 14, 2014
https://sewingbesidethesea.wordpress.com/2014/09/14/someone-has-a-birthday/
Good afternoon everyone,
It’s being raining here for the last few days, not exactly what we’d expect here at the end of May. So what better way to spend an afternoon than to stitch a card for a friend who hasn’t been feeling 100% lately.
My friend loves lighthouses. She’s interested in their history and visits them whenever she can. I wonder how many she has climbed so far. I actually live very close to a lighthouse and the view you get from the top of it is truly amazing! As long as they don’t test the fog horn while you are up there, it can be very pleasant 
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Anyway, I knew I had a cross stitch chart for a lighthouse somewhere in my stash. This one is by Michael Powell. You can find more of his designs here if you are interested.
Thanks to the Royal Mail, my friend received her card this morning even though I only posted it yesterday. She wasted no time putting it in a gorgeous frame 
. I couldn’t have chosen better myself.
Get well soon, dear friend!
Avis x
Posted by Sewing Beside the Sea on May 28, 2014
https://sewingbesidethesea.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/lighting-up-the-night-sky/
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