What Delilah Did

Hello Mr Magpie!

Meet Mr Magpie - the last of the new collection.

I stitched this before Christmas but have been waiting to share it for all this time because he looked too cheeky to be consigned to a flat piece of fabric and I have only just gotten around to bringing him to life as a cushion. I am surrounded by magpies where I live and I find myself saying "Hello Mr Magpie" about five times a day to ward off the fabled sorrow that descends when you spy them alone (utter nonsense but I do it all the same). I thought it only fitting to stitch one as they are so handsome, though on second thoughts maybe I ought to stitch him a wife sharpish to be sure of an endless supply of joy...

If you visit me often you will know that whilst I adore stitching I am not the world's biggest fan of sewing, so most of my embroidery tends to wind up in hoops and frames. But last weekend I figured out a really easy way of making lovely cushions without much measuring or cutting or faffing about with zips and I am now a convert. They are such a doddle that I made two actually, and they will be the basis for the new kits - everything you need to turn five of my large patterns into cushion covers (including the backing fabric to make them up). So if you want to make a magpie cushion exactly like my one above, I hope to have them ready in kit form by the end of April.

If you can't wait until then the pattern is in the shop now. Be sure to say hello to him!

Delilah x

Another Prolonged Absence = Another Exciting Development!

Somehow spring is on the doorstep and I hardly noticed the time passing. I would dearly love to go and lounge in a flower meadow, but alas this is not a picture of me living out my heart's desire, just a still from my favourite film that accompanies me while I work - any such dreams will have to stay firmly in my head for the time being. The promising thoughts of books and baking and walks and all those things I hoped to do when I cut my hours in the office have fallen hopelessly by the wayside as something else has gotten in the way...

But is is something brilliant. Whenever the blog goes quiet for a while like it has over the past month it is fairly safe to assume there is something big happening behind the scenes. I'm afraid I am not able to tell you very much (well anything really) about it yet, but trust me when I say that it is incredibly exciting - another dream come true; another box on the way to being ticked; another mountain of work to get through - and that it will be absolutely worth the wait! To me it is even more exciting than the last Very Big Thing, by quite a margin in fact, so that might give you a small idea of just how giddy I am feeling about it. Bring. It. On.

 

Aside from that, you may have noticed that things are looking a bit different around here - I was running out of space with the old website and there were lots of things I couldn't do with it, so with the help of an awesome template from here I have been building myself a new one. It looks pretty basic at the moment and there is still rather a lot to do because the exciting thing happened before I could finish it, but hopefully it is a little easier to find what you are looking for with all of the links for the shop and blog in once place. I plan to prettify it and add some video tutorials and other things as soon as I can find the time, but I need to finish the new kits first so it will remain a work in progress for now.

Also, I have been having some irritating trouble with comments, so if you have left one and it hasn't shown up I am very sorry but they have not been working properly. I think they are fixed again now though so please do say hello!

There are new kits on the horizon, and I still have the last of the new designs to share with you so pop back soon :)

Delilah x

Image: Bright Star, 2009 from here.