Gifted Gorgeousness June

Yesterday was Father's Day and also the 15th so it is Gifted Gorgeousness time hosted by the lovely Jo at Serendipitous Stitching a lovely chance to share our latest gifts. These can be gifts given or received, or any item made using fabric, threads, buttons, ribbon, chart, backing fabric that has been gifted

I've shared these gifts already in this month's Fully Finished Objects post. The coasters were for our daughter and her hubby as they have moved into their first house, the bookmark for a friend and the name plaque for our daughter's best friend's second daughter (I stitched one for her first daughter when she was born).

My other gifts are all re-gifted. I stitched them for my family and now they are back with me. I have had some in the attic for a while but I have redone our spare bedroom and they are all now on display, although some have been reframed. 

The Veteran Motors was a gift I stitched for my grandfather in 1998 to celebrate his 90th birthday, he worked in the motor industry in Coventry, retiring from Rolls Royce in the 1970s.

What is this life was my Dad's favourite poem and I stitched this for his 80th birthday in 2006. It was originally in a gold frame on his lounge wall but I have reframed it to match the cars and the following two stitchings.

These two were for my Mum, one for Mother's Day the other for her 75th birthday in 201. They were in plain silver frames in Mum's craft room but they are now in matching frames in our front room. 

It's lovely to have these hanging up again instead of being in the attic. I remember stitching these and gifted them, it's nice they are gifted back to me now. 

I'm so pleased with our spare bedroom now as it has so many family items passed onto me, although it is sad my family members are not with us anymore but I love looking at theses items that remind me of them.

The yacht and flag's picture was my dad's, with Mum's two pictures next to it. The pink vase was my grandmothers and the dried flowers are from our daughters wedding. The biscornu is one I stitched as part of a SAL with Needlecraft Haven, Iris was my grandmother's name so it fits there perfectly. The blue dish was a 10th wedding anniversary gift from my Dad and I've put some shells saved from the beach in Wales where we used to have a holiday caravan. The room is full of gifts from me and to me, it's feels a very peaceful room. 

Thanks for visiting to see my GG posts, as usual |I am stitching another gift at the moment but it won't be ready for a while yet. 

June's Fully Finished Objects

Thank you Rachel for hosting another opportunity for us to share our finishes. Pop over to Rachel's blog Ten Hour Stitcher to find the links to everyone's FFO posts.

I have a very special finish to share this month, our daughter and son-in-law have moved into their first house. When then moved into their apartment I stitched two coasters (link to my previous post) so it seemed appropriate to stitch two more.

I decided not to do cross stitch but embroidery. I drew the design on squared paper and used it as a guide although embroidery does not really follow straight lines. I was so pleased with how they turned out and the new home owners liked them.

I also finished a bookmark for my friend who needed a bit of a hug. My stitchy friend Julie gifted me the bookmark chart, it was a kit she had stitched with lots of threads unused so she passed it on. I had some aida band in my stash and just added a row on the left to make it fit.

I also finished this name plaque for our daughter's best friend's little girl. I stitched one for her first daughter Orlagh,  our daughter is her Godmother, so I wanted to stitch one for Innes too. The design is by Durene Jones and was in a magazine many years ago. I have used it many times changing the letter characters to suit, there's rabbits, cats and butterflies on some letters but I swapped them to be all girls. Orlagh was so pleased her little sister has her name too,  I do my gift stitching to make others smile and that really made me smile.

You'll see these projects again soon in my GG post for June, I will have some special gifts to show too.