What Delilah Did

And the Cindermice Stitch-Along winners are...

The winner of the grand prize for our overall favourite photograph is...Christina Snellgrove!

Nicole and I were blown away by all of your fantabulous #cindermicestitchalong entries and saw some especially excellent eleventh hour photos submitted in the final days, but after much deliberation we agreed that Christina (aka @gussetsandgodets) had really gone above and beyond the call of duty when it came to capturing such wonderfully imaginative images of her little mousie characters.

We struggled to choose just one of her pictures - the above is probably my personal favourite, but the four below are some more examples of the almost impossible cuteness to be found in her feed. Well done Christina!

    

    

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NEW CATEGORY

The winner of my favourite unique Cindermouse variation is...

Miranda Mae Turton!

This wasn't even a category originally but one of my favourite things about this stitch-along has been seeing the unique variations that some of you have made to my Cindermice patterns, and I felt that this little beauty of Miranda's deserved a special prize - she has combined the Cindermouse body, Fairy Godmouse dress and Mouse Charming crown to create the most beautiful little Princess Cindermouse - well done Miranda! For your prize you get to choose any kit from my shop, be it hoop kit, cushion kit or supply kit :)

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 And the runners-up are...

(L-R: @weefairytales, @sophiemay103, @fairygirltoo, @doesmostthings,@misslavelli, @nanniebirdie, @lemmingkings, @zusenfluf, @daisyeyes)

 

...all of you!

This race really was a very close run thing, and choosing the main winners wasn't easy at all; it genuinely could have gone any number of ways and I think that everyone has done such a stellar job and put in such a lot of effort that I want to offer a personal thank you treat to all of you who submitted images of your projects!

And so, I am offering everybody who took part in the Instagram contest a free What Delilah Did PDF pattern from my shop; yay! You can pick any one of these that you'd like. To claim your pattern, just send me a private message to @whatdelilahdid on Instagram (from the account where you shared your pictures), telling me which pattern you would like and which email address you would like me to send it to :)

 

Thanks again for taking part; it's been a ball!

 

Delilah x

Fairy Godmouse PDF pattern + a stupendous grand prize!

Fairy Godmouse, the third and final character in the Cindermice Stitch-Along, is now available as a PDF pattern in my shop!

Hop over to order your copy and complete your set of beautiful little mice in time for Christmas.

We have put together this rather stupendous Grand Prize for our favourite #cindermicestitchalong photo on Instagram and you have until 25th December to submit your photos!

The prize is jam packed with goodies, including bright and beautiful 100% wool felt sheets and balls, gold glitter fabric, pretty ribbons and gold striped baker's twine from Cloud Craft; and one of a kind loveliness from me in the form of a peg doll trophy, handmade feather necklace, a special edition green and pink Fanciful Flutterbies cushion kit and some stitchable postcards.

Thank you to all of you who have taken part in this stitch-along. Nicole and I have loved every minute and we hope you have too :)

Delilah x

Another Kind of Trophy

Watching all of you share your Cindermice Stitch-Along photos has brought be so much joy that I wanted to give a little something back. So I have been busy dreaming up a stupendous prize for the winner of our favourite photo competition, something really special that money can't buy. The first part of it is this trophy doll - she has taken me the best part of two days to make and is completely one of a kind. I have poured all of my thanks into her and hope that she will be cherished by the winner for always.

More exciting things from both me and Cloud Craft will be added to the winner's pot in the coming week so this will definitely be a prize worth winning. The final kits will soon be on their way, followed by the release of the final PDF pattern, and then the race is on to submit your photos by Christmas Day. I can't wait to see what else you come up with!

Delilah x

The Fairy Godmouse

You shall go to the ball!

Character number 3 in the Cindermice Stitch-Along had to be the Fairy Godmouse - the story just wouldn't be complete without her!

Kits go on sale tomorrow morning at Cloud Craft.

Delilah x

Mouse Charming PDF patterns are now in the shop!

If your Cindermouse has been lonely, the time has come to make her a mate! Find the spanking new Mouse Charming PDF pattern in my shop.

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It is so exciting to watch your mice coming to life all over the world - there are now oodles of them! Keep up to date with the #cindermicestitchalong on Instagram to find out what other people's mice are getting up to. I have a feeling that love may soon begin to blossom as Charming starts to make an appearance...

Happy Tuesday!

Delilah x

Mouse Charming

Kit No.2 from the Cindermice Stitch-Along is now on sale at Cloud Craft, and it's a corker - meet Mouse Charming!

If you signed up for the whole series of kits at the start then there is already a Mouse Charming kit reserved for you at Cloud Craft HQ, but if not then hop over and order yours now.

I know I shouldn't have favourites, but this little guy is mine. His tailcoat and epaulettes just kill me with their cuteness. And despite looking quite complicated, he is actually quite a lot easier to make than Cindermouse, I think.

I love photographing these little mice. I really like working with small things and think there may have to be a couples photoshoot in my not too distant future, to celebrate the love of Cinders and our dapper prince.

One of my favourite things about this whole project is seeing the adventures that your mice have been getting up to as part of the #cindermicestitchalong on Instagram:

  

Photo credits @gussetsandgodets, @susiefish60, @bobbypinbandit.

It's going to be so hard to choose a favourite for our prize at the end!

Delilah x

Happy Things: 10th September 2015

Today I have been doing my final pattern tests for the Cindermice Stitch-Along, and they have left me with one naked (and apparently very confident!) little mouseling. I *love* her. I am 97% sure that my Christmas tree will be getting a bevy of naked little mice this year.

I really wanted to incorporate these beautiful felt balls into my Cloud Craft collaboration somehow, but I couldn't shoehorn them in this time. They are destined to become something else I think. Maybe just a string of them would be cute?

Most exciting of all though, my studio is almost finished! That peg board you can see in the background is part of it. I just need to unearth all of my supplies, and the lovely wicker baskets to put them in, so that I can fill up the shelves. I could burst with joy!

Happy Tuesday!

Delilah x

Join the Cindermice Stitch-Along!

Kit subscriptions are now on sale at Cloud Craft!

Scroll down for all the details.

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First up, I have made a cute little video to tell you all about how the stitch-along is going to work:

 

I just love clunky stop motion!

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So would you like to know more?

In a nutshell, the Cindermice Stitch-Along is a series of exclusive needlework projects, designed to help you hand-stitch the most beautiful collection of heirloom ornaments in the run up to Christmas. I have been loving watching all of your #whatdelilahdid makes on Instagram recently, and I thought it would be a lot of fun for us to all make something at the same time. So the idea with this is that we will all stitch the designs together and then share our progress and finished ornaments on Instagram - I can't wait! The official tag is:

#cindermicestitchalong

The result of a collaboration between me and Nicole Twena (the brains behind modern needlework emporium Cloud Craft), the stitch-along will pair my cute Cinderella-inspired character designs with Nicole's supremely high quality stitching supplies: a match made in heaven.

I have carefully designed the projects to be suitable for adventurous beginners and above. A little sewing/embroidery experience will certainly help you, but you don't need to know any specifics because I am making video tutorials for every step, so you can stitch right along with me and see exactly how it's done; no need to decode complicated diagrams or written instructions - hurrah!

Nicole will be producing three exclusive, limited edition kit boxes for the stitch-along, each of which will contain all the materials you need to make one of the characters. You can subscribe to the whole series or order just one box. (The pattern and basic instructions will be included with each kit, together with codes for the online tutorial videos, but you will need Internet access for the full experience.)

The exact contents of each box will be a surprise, but I can tell you that they will include beautiful 100% wool felt and DMC threads, to ensure that your ornaments continue to look amazing for years to come. Cindermouse here will be the first design in the series, but the other two characters will remain a secret until the boxes start dropping through your doors - it's more exciting that way!

Subscriptions are available anywhere in the world. Further information on the technicalities of subscribing to the kits can be found here.

Nicole and I have worked very hard to make these subscription boxes really special, but we know that not everybody will be able to sign up for kits. Therefore I will also be making the projects available as PDF Pattern downloads to coincide with the delivery of each kit, so that we can all stitch together. If you would like me to email you when the patterns are ready to order then please sign up to our Cindermice Newsletter here.

We are really excited about this project and can't wait to get started. We hope you will join us!

Delilah x

Ps, if you have any questions about the stitch-along that haven't been answered in this post or on Nicole's FAQ page then please leave me a message in the comments below and I will get back to you there, so that we can keep everything in one place. Thank you!

Coming Autumn 2015

I can't wait for you all to meet this little lady and her friends! Register for updates here.

Delilah x

Two Little Rabbits

I have just added this Little Rabbit pattern to the shop. It is a smaller version of my old Florence pattern, which, although lovely in its own right, just had so many solid stitches that even I got bored stitching it. A few of you have asked me where Florence went, so I wanted to replace her with something that didn't take quite so long to complete. This one will still take you a while (about as long as the Cassia Cameo), but I think it is pretty enough to be worth the effort.

The other little rabbit you can spy in the picture is a present I made for my niece's first birthday. She's called Pearl. Isn't she darling?

I made her from this wonderful pattern. It comes with clothes patterns too, but at 1am the on night before the birthday party she still didn't have an outfit, so rather than dive into something new, I whipped up this little apron dress from a practice doily-type-thing I had made a few days earlier (I can finally crochet - whoop! The pattern was from this book) and some minty coloured felt. Look how sassy she turned out!

The apron dress also shows off her pom-pom tail to perfection, a last-minute whim which became my favourite bit of all. She will get more clothes eventually (proper ones, not just my random inventions), and after the tail is inevitably pulled off by an over-zealous toddler she might even be able to fit her bottom into them...

Delilah x