Gifted Gorgeousness March 2018

Jo of Serendipitous Stitching organizes a link-up party where we show stitch gifts we made to give or items that were gifted to us and are related to stitching and sewing.So on the 15th of each month we can link up to her blog. This is my first year taking part in this. Thanks Jo for the chance and the inspiration.

So from February 15th till March 14th I stitched...
the rest of the letters on my fabric book.The fabric book is a gift from Katerina of mindspinfabrica. I used leftover threads from various other projects.
T

 U

 V

 W

 X

 Y

 Z

 I added those paper and fabric ladies which I made them from an exchange kit.

 I also added fabric at the back of the stitched letters.

I want to add a video of me opening the pages of the fabric book but it is probably too big for blogger so maybe I won't manage after all.

I then continued with my flower bookmarks.This cross stitch kit by Bucilla was a gift from my friend Marabeth. I stitch one bookmark each month.

 So I finished February

 and started March.

 I also made a seaglass felted stone with lots of different beads for a friend.

 I stitched this beautiful cactus ornament from a kit sent to me by my friend Kim in England. It turned out lovely!

 I also made a bunny for Easter.The pattern was a free one from the blog The world according to Agi. She has lots of free patterns in her blog and they are beautiful but I especially liked this one. It's a great way to use up left over bits of thread.

 Then I finished the bunny as an ornament and made an egg from a free pattern from Kathrin's blog.I turned that egg into an ornament too. Finally I turned an older beaded egg which I had received as a kit from my friend Marabeth into an ornament too. I might give those ornaments away as gifts this Easter!

 Or I might put them up in my Easter egg ornament tree along with my Metropolitan Museum of Art Easter eggs.

I also kitted the next big project I am going to make. This is my husband's figure of Karaghiozis, the Greek shadow puppet theatre protagonist, which another stitcher turned into a cross stitch pattern using pic2pat free cross stitch pattern maker. I am going to stitch this for a huge piece of art that is a collaborative work and lots of stitchers will stitch pieces that commemorate the Greek civilization. I will tell you more about this later.

Something else I dealt with this month was these eggs which are beaded with some beads I had received at an exchange.

 I made them

 and then remade them for a better look.

Finally something I won as a giveaway from Jeremiah's Mum blog!Jeremiah himself chose me to win this!Thank you so much.These are two lovely patterns with charms.

 Although not all thinsg qualify for GG I think there are still a lot of them here. Thanks Jo for organizing GG once again.
Finally a giveaway from me. I have this pattern by Stoney Creek that I know I am never going to stitch so I would like to give it away to any one of my readers so if you would like it please say so and I will randomly pick a winner and send it along. Please no no-reply bloggers. I need to have a way to contact you.Otherwise leave an e-mail to me. Thanks.

My trip to the Peloponnese(10)- New Year's Day on the coast!

So we had left the New Year's Day to be a walk by the lovely beaches on the coast line near Nafplio as everything else(museums mainly) would be closed.
But when we woke up we were met with disappointment!
It was simply raining!
I didn't want this to put me off. I really wanted to see the coastline and collect sea glass if possible.
So we started after breakfast.
First we walked all around the Arvanitia pathway, which is a coastal path all around Acronafplia.

 I was impressed by the amount of prickly pears all around us. I just wish I could take some and eat them but we didn't have any gloves with us.

Near the end of the walk the rain had stopped. And we saw the deserted Filoxenia hotel and some people swimming but I tell you it was cold.

 Unfortunately no sea glass was found at the pebble beach but I had to take some pebbles.

 Spot the winter swimmers there?

At the end of the walk we reached this part of the old town of Nafplio that brought us to a park.

 And finally to our car. First we went to Tolo, a famous touristic summer resort in the area.

 There I found a bit of sea glass but I am sure this piece is simply one of those plant decorations otherwise it is too good to be real sea glass.

 My felted stone definitely had to be photographed there too.

 Then we went to Ancient Asini.

 And there I found this tiny yellow treasure!But not much more but of course it was beautiful and there are antiquities there.

 Then we reached Vivari. Which has a little lagoon.

 And finally Kandia. With its lovely dark sand beach.

 And then it started raining again.

 I only collected a bit of this lovely colourful dark pebble-sand.

 And a bit of sea glass.

 But the rain came heavier so we had to leave.

 We ended up eating out of course.

 And returned to the hotel with its lovely vintage sitting room sets that reminded me of my childhood toys.