Hello! Sorry for my late update! I have been a bit busy here =)!
I have been stitching on my Past and Present sampler and will post pictures in my next blog update! For now I wanted to show you another completed sampler that I made recently! It´s "Elisabeth Easton" - From The Good Huswife - Original and historical samplers. It was really fun doing this one and I made a few changes to it to make it more personal to me! I just love all the colors and I´m looking forward to hang it on my wall!! Actually I have to say that samplers are growing on me! I´m really more of a motif stitcher, but my mother put me up for a test every now and then with samplers like this one :D!

Thank you for visiting my blog and I hope to see you again :D! Have a great day!

Hello all stitchers out there!
Right now I´m making a few cross-stitch cards to sell on Ebay soon so my Past and Present sampler gets to rest a bit! I have stitched the black stitch row and will post a picture on it soon! For now I would like to show you something special I made for my mother. She loves this painting by Gustaf Klimt "The Kiss" that he painted between 1908-1909. The only thing she knew about my present was that I had to borrow yellow DMC-skeins from her :D! She could not figure this one out and thought that I was sticthing something with sunflowers! I found this pattern in a cross-stitch book that I have with Art Nouveau by Barbara Hammet! I did not know that I had this pattern and was so exited about this! She got it by her birthday and the expression on her face was unforgettable!

It was really fun to stitch this and I hope you all enjoy the beauty of this artists work as we do :D!
See you all soon!

Past & Present sampler

Hello my fellow stitchers! 
Right now I´m working on "Past and Present" by Karen Kluba! It´s an amazing design and here you can see my progress! I´m stitching on a 34ct Legacy Linen and it is a really enjoyable fabric. Unfortunately the picture is not that good, but I will take more pictures and post here soon =D!

Thank you for watching! My hope for this blog is to eventually inspire more people to start stitching!! It´s really fun and very relaxing! Take care and happy stitching!

A LITTLE TASTE OF JAPAN!

Welcome to my new blog "Maria´s Needlework & Samplers"!

Here I will upload pictures and talk about my stitching progress and sometimes about other stuff!

In a few years I have gone from stitching complete cross-stitch kit´s on aida to more difficult sampler´s on small count linen. I try to personalize my works by changing colors and add new content to them. The resent sampler I made I used the Swedish alphabet including the letters Å Ä Ö (pictures will come later)

This geisha I made in 2013 and it´s an original Jill Oxton design. I really love stitching geisha´s for some reason =).

Thank you for visiting my blog! Happy stitching =)!