Fox and Rabbit Mystery Sampler Box

Here is a blog that I have been looking forward to writing as I was fortunate to be able to get a Mystery Box from Fox and Rabbit when they came available on June 30th here in Canada.  I have delayed this post to make sure that most people that ordered the box should have received it and opened it.

Karen and Brendon Kirk are the owners of this company and they had been mentioning this box quite a few months ago on their Youtube channel. When they told us about the box, they had said that there would be a sampler pattern, fabric and floss in the box along with some other surprises.  

You can probably guess how excited I was when they went on sale, and I was able to purchase the box before they were sold out. It felt wonderful to be able to order the box but then there was the waiting until the box shipped. As the box was coming from Australia, I knew that it was going to take some time once it was actually mailed. The box was mailed on Friday August 12th, and I received the box on Monday August 19th so that didn't take too long to get here. I was tracking the box all the way on its journey and was excited to see it was out for delivery.

The box couldn't have arrived on a better day and when the postal carrier knocked on our door, I was quickly there to receive my box. The box was so nice to see with the Fox and Rabbit logo on it and on the side, it says Mystery Sampler Box 1. It was then time to open the box and see what we received and there was a lot of stuff in this box. Here is a list of everything that we received:

• Half yard of Vintage Sand aida (colour created especially for this box)
• Elizabeth Cheavins 1869 chart
• Fat quarter of Baked Clay linen for chart
• Elizabeth Cheavins Pinkeep chart and finishing instructions
  
• Piece of Baked clay linen, finishing fabrics and LadyDot trim for the Pinkeep.
• Cardboard templates for Pinkeep.
• Pin pack for the Pinkeep.
• Thread pack for both projects
• Embroidery scissors
• Fox and Rabbit enamel needleminder
• Elizabeth Cheavins thread ring and charms
• Bee wax waxer
• Caramello Koala chocolate
• 20% off voucher for PDF charts from Fox and Rabbit
• Fox and Rabbit sticker

As you can see there was a lot of stuff in the box, and I am looking forward to working on these projects. The half yard of Vintage Sand aida will going into your fabric stash for now and it will be used for a special project or two in the future.  

I am excited to start working on some of these projects, but I am going to be good and wait for a little while to make sure that I can give these projects that attention they deserve.

Sampler Progress

Sampler as of June 16th

Over the last few days I have been able to work a bit on the sampler that I started a couple of weeks ago.  I haven't been able to focus on it like I had hoped but at least I have been able to make a bit of progress on it.

As you can see I have started working on the motifs as I wanted to see what it was going to look like.  Yes I still have some of the border stitching to do but wanted to do something different for a little while.

I did do the final motif because I figured if I put the year on it, I then had to work on getting it finished this year.  I am hoping that it will be done way before December but at least now I have a goal for completing it.

The original sampler has the motifs in a different order but last Wednesday evening a friend of mine, Silverlotus and I decided that it would be fun to put them in a different order so with her help we put the remaining motifs in a random order.   I am not sure if I am going to stitch the motifs in numeric order and place them in the random spots or if I can going to stitch them in the order what we generated.  I will figure that out once I have some time to pick up the sampler and do a bit more stitching on it.

First two motifs added

So now I need to do some work and hopefully before the end of this coming weekend I will have a bit more done on this sampler.

Sampler

Sampler - Kathrin Ellison

This past week I have been working on a sampler that has been sitting there as just fabric and floss.  This is a sampler based on a 15-sided biscornu that I stitched in 2011.  I have had the fabric for the sampler since then and last Monday I decided it was time to start working on it.

The outline was finished last Monday as I did spend some of my day working on it.  I had a few things that I needed to think through so being able to stitch for a few hours helped me do just that.

Sampler - Kathrin Ellison

Of course things have been busy for me so I wasn't able to get much more done until this weekend and I sat down and worked on doing a bit more of the sampler work.  I have to admit that I have been really enjoying this sampler so far and I want to get it done quickly.

I am hoping that over the next couple of weeks I will be able to get some of the actual motifs completed besides the one where I have the year and my initial.  I am still working on doing the border outline and have also been adding some beads.  If I can get the outline done soon I will feel a little better.  I think I might work on a couple of the motifs soon just for a break from the border.

Each of the squares has a different motif in it and they aren't large so once I get started on them it shouldn't take me long to see some results.

Well before I can work on the sampler again I need to get some work done so I am off to do just that.