Bags in my shop

I have uploaded my newest creations, the bags in my webshop.
If anyone is interested, look at http://adorna.se/product_categories/1548.

If you want to know the prices in another currency, just ask, also please note that the webshop prices include postage in Sweden. So if I need to send it abroad, it might be a bit more, if you come and pick it up yourself, it will be cheaper.

(Wishful thinking, right?)

I showed here some of the bags, here are the ones I made this weekend:

New pattern for sale

I have finally finished the piece I was sewing for my boss. He came up with the idea of using this saying in a sampler, so I made the design and stitched it for him. He will have it framed and put it up in his office.

However the pattern copyright is mine, so now it is up for sale.



Size: 353 x 119 (ca 64 x 21cm or 25.5" x 8.5")


It costs 90 SEK / 14$ / 10,5 € / 9£.

Make sure you send me your e-mail address so I can send you the pdf file.

This is what it looks. I used 28 count white Lugana and 4 skeins of DMC 796.



(Sorry for the bad photo, I had to take it at night so I could hand it over the next morning. I will post a better one when it is framed.)

My "Save the world" piece and some bags

Hello, dear friends,


Remember, I told you how I entered an embroidery competition? The topic was how we can save the world with embroidery.
I wasn´t sure if I could post pictures of the work since they said it should be unpublished, so I rather played safe and waited.
Well, the results are on the website now, and I am not among the winners, but I have to say I don´t feel ashamed: those are all so fantastic pieces of art that I had absolutely no chance. It is a different dimension.
If you want to look at them, here.

But now, finally, I can show you my work. Here it is, and I am really proud of it. Just love how it turned out.

The text at the bottom is in Swedish and this is what it says:

Under this walnut shell there is a butterfly hiding from the rain - according to my 5-year-old friend, Lizi. This is to honour all that and all those who have to hide from the suffering of the world.

I don´t know yet what I will do with it. I don´t really have place for it at home, and I would be so happy if I could hang it somewhere where others can see it and get the message.


I have also been working on my commission. Here is the latest picture, although since I took it, I have done a lot, it is almost ready.

I have also been sewing a lot.

I made some teddy bears for the charity I sometimes help out. I made a bag for my daughter, and then a few more that I will try and sell in my webshop. Well, sounds a bit pretentious to call it a webshop, but perhaps I will be able to sell something this time :D Want to have a peek?

The teddy bears above, and my daughter´s bag bellow. She loved it.

And these are the ones I made for my shop:

I will soon be back with some more pictures, and a cross stitch pattern or two. Watch this place :)

Happy stitching.

"Bibiscornu" - a new type of biscornu

I have come up with another new type of biscornu and since it actually doubles the corners in a way, I called it a "bibiscornu" - but if anyone can come up with a better name, suggestions are welcome.

I am publishing quite a lot of free patterns here, but I thought that those that involve coming up with a new structure, not simply another cross-stitch chart, would be my "capital" - and I am trying to sell those. There hasn't been a huge rush to buy my patterns, so far I have sold 3 of them in more than half a year. I am not expecting much, to be honest, I know that most of us are out there on the hunt for more freebies. Why buy something when you can find similar patterns for free?

Still, I hope that some people who enjoy all the freebies, when they can afford, will also buy something, especially if that means something new, like the twisty biscornus you can find on the Patterns for sale page. Or the newest variation on the traditional one, the bibiscornu:

I still have to write the instructions, it will be available in a few days.

Matyóbaba. Doll in Hungarian folk costume.

Legújabb megvásárolható mintám. Matyóbaba. Remélem, tetszik. Én nagyon élveztem hímezni.

This is my newest pattern for sale. The costume is that of a group called "matyó" in North-Eastern Hungary, near my birthplace. I hope you like it. I really enjoyed stitching it.

I am planning to do a series of these dolls. The next, of course, is going to be a Swedish one.

Mérete / Size: 49 x 71 stitches.

Ára: 1000 Ft
Price: 5 Euros

A new pattern for sale

Here is my newest pattern for sale. A love sampler, we could say - but not the usual type. Still, I think this says more about love than all the hearts and sweet words.

Size: 150 x 80 stitches
Price: 5 euros. Pay with Paypal and I am sending you the pattern in e-mail.

Patterns for sale

I have been planning to create some patterns for sale for a while. I hope that those who like my free patterns, will perhaps interested in buying some of my design, too.

The "shop" opens with these two small patterns.

Square spiral with blackwork pattern:





Twisty:





Price: 5 Euros /45 SEK each.
For this price you will get en e-mail with the pattern and instructions on how to sew them together. You can pay with PayPal. Please, make sure to let me know which pattern you want and to what e-mail address I should send it.

I will also make a page with the patterns for sale where I can add more later.
Wish me luck. :)