Happy Birthday Fire Flower

HOORAY! Fire Flower is a go! Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Fire Flowerrrrrrrr....happy birthday to YOU!

It's all been going on today. I picked up the kit booklets this morning then, as soon as I got home, cut and put together several thread cards complete with sticky thread number labels. After lunch I cut all of the fabrics and 'bits' and printed the templates, then had the excitement before tea of putting the kits together!!! I really enjoy laying out the fabrics and components and seeing which way looks prettiest and shows off the different fabrics well. Once decided, I will stick to this order for all of the kits throughout. After tea it was all about promoting the new kit so you will find posts about it on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook, my website and now on here too if you are reading about it!

This is such a bright and happy kit and has lots of new tips and tricks inside the booklet. I've changed the diagram and description for the bullion knot stitch to better represent how I actually make a bullion knot - I do it slightly differently because I use a very taut hoop. It can get slightly confusing in classes when my students are trying to follow the more traditional diagrams and I am showing them a different (better) way. So now my diagram is the same way that I do it, and there are some other handy hints and tips throughout the instructions which hopefully you will find helpful.

The colours just sing out don't they? It's quite a different colour selection to the other kits I have on offer at the moment and it's great to be able to offer such variety. I had a lovely supplier meeting at the-stitchery in Lewes last week with a lady whose fabric company have a lot of gorgeous batik fabrics. I may possibly have spent quite a chunk of monies on my order but in it are the start of at least two new kits, possibly three, where I am focusing on different colours to suit everyone's tastes and sitting rooms. Don't get too excited about those yet though as the fabrics aren't due until August.

I am really pleased with this kit though. If you read back through my previous blog posts (or click here) you will know that this is a re-working of a previous kit I designed for the-stitchery. That has now sold through so I've taken the template back and redesigned it, keeping some bits and tweaking others. I wasn't sure if it was going to work but I'm super chuffed with it.

On a completely random note, for anyone reading this who doesn't understand the word chuffed, it means; pleased, happy, delighted. I use the word 'chuffed' all of the time, but apparently my American followers don't know what I'm talking about and I had to send the definition to some of them last week! I hadn't really thought about the English-ness of the word but I hope you will all add it to your vocabulary as it is an excellent term. 

So, if you are interested in purchasing your very own Fire Flower kit, please click on the link here and it will take you to my Etsy shop. If you do make it, please send me a photo as I love to see how everyone interprets my kits - there is always room for personalisation.