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Cinderella's Fairy Godmother

May I just say that I've come off the chain a wee bit and indulged some of my very pink stitchy fantasies with this one? I'd like to introduce The Spirit of Cinderella's Fairy God Mother. I went a little nuts...but I hope in a good way. She's so very Marie Antoinette mashed up with Mdm's. du Pompadour and Barry.

Here she is in full flight. lol

Wind in her feathers...

Safely back indoors.

She's the first of my Famous Fairies in the Spirit size. I hope to do a Tinkerbell and Blue Fairy in the future for this catagory. I should do a Tooth Fairy also...Maybe a Tatiana? But most of all, I've got to do a line of Spirit Princesses so I can design a Cinderella to go with this one. Oh, my...
This model was stitched on 14 count White & Metallic Silver perforated paper with DMC floss & Color Infusions Memory Threads, Kreinik's #8 Fine Braids, 1/8" Metallic Ribbons & Micro Ice Chenille, size 11 seed beads, small craft feathers for her hair and assorted ribbons and trims for her skirt.

Her finished dimensions are approximately 6" x 20". The length can vary depending how long you cut the ribbons.

I got the feathers and ribbons from my local Hobby Lobby & Michael's stores, by the by. Pink is one of my favorite colors so I also had a LOT of ribbons already in my stash that I used...So, by all means, use what you already have on hand for a project like this.

As far as the other stitching materials I highly recommend The Cottage Needle as a source. If you don't see what you want in her listings just ask Rachelle and she'll help you out. I can also recommend 123stitch as a good source.

The Fairy God Mother is available now as a chart pack, which includes perforated paper, beads, beading needle, charts, keys & instructions. No Chart-Only just now.

Thank you SO MUCH for taking a peek.

Happy Spring Stitching...

FINALLY! It's TAMMY TIME!

Hello all you wonderful Tammy 4 All Seasons Blog Hoppers! Thank you so much for your patience with me today. Our technical problems were ironed out in the 11th hour.

I'm sending out the biggest THANK YOU to Madame Samm, Mary, Cori, and ALL of you amazing stitchy ladies who participated in this blog hop. This was my very first blog hop and it's been the most fun I've had in a long time.

Most of you know I don't sew, (Hoping to correct that soon.), so I've created an alternative Tammy as a thank you to all of you. Just click on the image to download this cross stitch chart.

Looking forward to this new year of stitches with Madame Samm, Cori and all of you at www.sewwestitch.com

Love,

Brooke ; )

Well, Drats! I'm having technical difficulties...

WELCOME dear blog hoppers! I apologize sincerely for my delay in posting today. I'm having trouble with my Homestead site builder, which is necessary for me to present my gift to you.

Please come back today and check after 1:00 PM EST. I do have a surprise for you and am looking forward to your visit.

Thank you so much for your patience. See you soon...Brooke ; )

So Excited! Tonight At Midnight The Tammy 4 All Seasons Blog Hop Begins!

To all you WONDERFUL quilters / sewers / stitchers participating in Madame Samm's Tammy 4 All Seasons blog hop...THANK YOU all SOOO much for choosing my cross stitch designs to stitch on your Tammies. I can NOT wait to see your amazing work. I'm sure you can tell - this is the first blog hop I've ever been involved in so please forgive my goofups. There were many.

Can't wait to see what you've done with Cori's darling applique designs too. You rock, Cori!

Thank you Mary for running this with Samm! And to all the ladies behind the scenes working their tookuses off...I appreciate you all so much! Thank you!

I also want to thank Madame Samm from the bottom of my heart for choosing my designs for this hop and for inspiring them. Your encouragement and ideas made these designs happen. So looking forward to more VINTAGE stitchy fun with you and your crew in 2015 at www.sewwestitch.com .

The following are the blogs participating in the hop. Thank you SOOOO much, ladies!

 January 9, 2015

 Sew Peace To Peace

 Sun Shine Quilting

 How arT you?

 

January 12, 2015

  Living with Purpose

 Grammie Q's

 Stitchin By the Lake

 Ipiece2-Mary

 Just Let Me Quilt

 

January 13, 2015

 Lovelli Quilts

Quilted Delights

 Cheryl Wilkinson will post to Ipiece2-Mary

 Just Because Quilts

Stitchen' My Life Away

 

January 14, 2015

 Jane's Quilting

 Lisa In Port Hope

 Brookes Books

Leslie Schmidt will post to IPiece2-Mary

Creativity Amongst Chaos

 

 January 15, 2015

  The Quilting Queen Online

 Needled Mom

 Bumbleberry Cottage

 Moose Stash Quilting

 Sew Incredibly Crazy

Meadowbrook

 

Amy's Stitches

 

 January 16, 2015

  Kwilt Krazy

 Selina Quilts

 Hill Valley Quilter

Lakeshore Stitches

Malini's Quilting Adventure

It Seams To Be Sew

 Julia Plunkett will post on Sewwequilt

 

January 19, 2015

  KrisLovesFabric

 Ga's House

 Secretly Stitching

 Creatin' in the Sticks

 Grandmama's Stories

 WHY-KNOT-KWILT

CeLynn's Sunflower Patch

 

 January 20, 2015

 Deborah Thomas-Wilton will post to Ipiece2-Mary

Stitch and Quilt

Buzzing and Bumbling

Karamino's handmade

Quiltscapes

Quilt N Queen

Sew We Quilt

 

 Love,

Brooke ; )

The End Of The Rainbow?

Well...There they are. The last two of the collection are Mayor Munchkin with his proclamation and pocket watch at the ready and dear Mrs. Winkie, the official bee keeper for Winkie Land. Both designs are now available as hard copy charts-only in our Etsy store and as instant downloads in our Craftsy store.

I can't believe the Once Upon A Stitch Oz collection has finally come to a close. There's just no time in my 2015 schedule for more. But never say never, right? There are so many more I'd love to design...Like Aunt Em and Uncle Henry, Ozma, Tik Tok, The China Doll, etc...I'd love to design a group of steam punky people from the Emerald City. So, there will probably be more Oz characters in the future...but just not the near by future. So, for those of you wanting to stitch these together on one looooong piece of fabric, this is a good cut off for you. But, have no fear, there were many more Oz books to work from and many other types of Oz collections I could do. For instance, I've been hankering to design a collection of small chibi or Kawaii Oz Christmas ornaments. I think those could be really fun.

I'm sending out a big THANK YOU to everyone who purchased, stitched, complimented, encouraged regarding this collection. I appreciate you all SO much!

Wishing you all the very BEST for a happy, healthy, prosperous and STITCHY New Year!

Love,

Brooke ; )

Vintage Winter

Ah, Winter...How romantic you are. Can I tell you how fabulous it was designing these very vintage seasonal fashions for Madame Samm's upcoming blog hop? Well, I just did...but I'll write more closer to my hosting day on Jan. 14. Wanted to let everyone know that the 4 Seasons Tammy Bag Vintage charts are now available for instant download in our Etsy Store.

By the way...I charted all four designs with DMC but did you notice what happened there with Winter's stole? I overlayed and couched some of Kreinik's Micro Ice Chenille on top. Simply love it, Darlink...