First of the Hardanger Bookmarks Backed

Here's the first of the three hardanger bookmarks complete with the backing felt. It's the right way around this time (!!!) and you can see a nice bit of pink through the cutwork. So, the back is now secure from accident and picking fingers, (you know how some can't resist....)!! The other two are yet to be done, but I might get the purple one done this evening. I hope so, so that they can both go to their new owners on Sunday afternoon.=) Oh, got a 'phone call from one of the recipients of the card below and she was thrilled with it and said she was going to keep it forever! Isn't it lovely when you get such enthusiastic feedback from your handmade gifts!?=)

Got a nice package of stitching goodies from New Stitches' Stitch Direct this morning. A back issue of NS plus a materials pack for 2 hardanger cards, a pack of bell-pull ends, a pattern for another hardanger hanging and a stitcher's notebook, which looks interesting! I'll enjoy filling that in.

Finally managed to work out how to get proper titles here on Blogger, but sad to say, you can't have them in any other colour than grey.=( Shame about that, but maybe they'll improve on that at some point. I like to have my title and text co-ordinating!!!