The Snowflower Diaries

        Dear Stitching Friends,      I am still in the middle of releasing my new seasonal patterns, I have so many!:-)  I have designed this lovely one called 'Pumpkin Spice Keeps Me Nice' to grow my collection of ornaments I display for autumn and my dear friend, Zsuzsa has stitched the model.  It is designed for DMC but feel free to use your favoruite brand, I encourage you to do so! I love so much admiring all the colour and thread choices of my dear customers.   The pattern is available here:  SHOP   Zsuzsa has been model stitching for me for many years.  Sometimes when there are too many to stitch, I have more model stitchers to work with.   She is very kind and it is a pleasure to work with.   I can stitch now only on 32 count, but her eyesight is better, so she can stitch them on 40 count, too.    Since the era of project bags had hit my country, I use zillion of project bags, there is not two the same in my stash.  I fill the project bags for her with the new designs

      Dear Stitching Friends,    I have so many new designs for this autumn to share.   I hope to finish releasing them next week and post a #flosstube video about the autumn/Halloween themed designs of The Snowflower Diaries this year.    I cannot honestly say I missed my stitching business that much last year and this year, meeting my Husband, and the journey of our love and magical marriage made me so full that I truly didn't even notice the time had passed! Now that we are settled and enjoy our crafts together - he is a drum making master, - I have found great joy again in designing, stitching and sewing and he is all for it. He is truly the sweetest man.  Today I have released a small free pattern for the season.  If you go to my LINKTREE page here:  CLICK you can find the google drive you can download this free pattern among with other free patterns of mine.   Today is a very hot summer day here, school is a week away, so today program here is to buy all the school supplies

        Dear Stitching Friends,  A year ago I have established a new cross stitching shop with my dear friend and neighbour, Timi from Vintage Tulip Design.   Within this new shop, called LUCKY BUTTERFLY STITCHERY we have already designed two major stitch alongs, two wonderful and great projects you are welcome to join anytime!  In 2024 we have released the #spookylovesal.  'SPOOKY LOVE'   is a collection of 20 cute Halloween ornaments with vivid DMC colours you just fall in love instantly.   I have to tell you I am in love with this collaboration with Timi.    And now the big news: The Spooky Love collection is COMPLETE! We’re beyond thrilled to announce that the final 5 patterns of our Halloween-themed stitchery adventure are now live in our Etsy shop! https://luckybstitchery.etsy.com/.../spooky-love-stitch... From a whimsical witch skeleton with her magnificent hat to adorable pumpkins and a mischievous black cat, these last designs bring our collection of 20 cute and w

  Dear Diary,  I don't know where the time went... it is now only 5 days to go and I am getting super nervous and excited at the same time!  To this day we had to get our booth ready for the #needleworkexpo online page, I still have some smaller adjustments to do: to link my brand new shop I set up for the wholesale buyers and upload my stickerpacks! We will have dress reherseals in the next days! Let's see what I have accomplished in the past days since my last blogpost:  - the new releases are printed, though I had a hard time to estimate how much to print as I have never been to the needleworkexpo and don't know what to expect.    The printing was a challenge, I tell you, I had changed the printing company and chose new brand of papers!  I also invested in a professional printer to my office, an Epson goddess to print the stickers and information sheets.  - I had bought my first Cricut machine from Spain, ah, it is so dangerous, because I am so addicted to the many featu

        Dear Diary,    I have been so very busy these days that I have skipped a whole 10 days of recording everything here, but believe me, we were not resting at all...:-) okay, maybe one day, when I was abducted by aliens and was forced to binge watch Netflix.   First, let's talk about the debuting new patterns! There is now only 1 that is still under stitching, and this is the so called "crown" piece of my Magical Plants cross stitch pattern series.  I have no excuse, while I was stitching I got better ideas and made some alteration to the pattern and also had to change some colours, too.   There are 4 stitched pieces at the framers, I have been working in home office and did not go to central Budapest where the framer is, hopefully I can pick them up tomorrow (and pay a lot of money:D).  The rest are fine, I have altogether twelve new releases, but maybe I will pair some up, I will see, how they look better.  The photoshooting is still going, because we have started

  Dear Diary,  A month and I will be in the middle of the Expo!   The pile on my desk and my living room is growing, also I still find myself sketching new ideas and arguing with myself that now we should draw a line, I already have enough designs.    I had only a few hours in the evening as it was workday, I had been working on the main piece (I call it crown piece) of my new 7-piece Magical Plants series, it will be first released for the Expo and it will be released in my shop only in November.    This main piece is my personal favourite for the Needlework Expo.   It seems it will be the last one to be fully finished.  I also wait 2 shippings from one of my model stitchers.  Until if you are curious, here is the first piece, SACRED SAGE of the Magical Plants series, it has been published two weeks ago and available in pdf with instant download upon purchase in the Etsy shop :  It is stitched with Gentle Art Sampler Threads and DMC, and as always you can find the DMC conversation