Christmas Greetings

Design: Christmas Greetings by Elizabeth's Designs
Fabric: Murano 32 ct.
Stitched by: Ponechka from Russia

Finishing? What's that?

I've made peace with being one of the world's slowest stitchers, but I really need to conquer my non-finishing tendencies. I've been on an Ornament Campaign, and I've finished a fair amount for me, but I haven't finished any of them. Sigh -- story of my life!


St. Ruth's Designs Christmas Cottage from JCS 1998 (I'm pretty certain it was 1998). Done in DMCs on opalascent lugana.


LK "Faith" in DMCs on Wichelt's "Summer Sky" hand-dyed jobelan.


I think this is a LK pattern, but I was going by a picture so I'm not sure. If you can lend any knowledge, I'd be grateful.


part of a larger design from a bok I can't find now -- one of those big books of Christmas patterns


JABC's Jingle All the Way


Elizabeth Designs Christmas house form one of the JCSes - might have been last year's even.


part of a larger design from a British stitching magazine


Charland's wonky tree from last year's JCS in Belle Soie over-dyed silk on natural linen. And, an "edited" and beaded LK from last year's JCS.

And, drum roll please, the only ornie I've finished so far this year ---

From Gift of Stitching magazine.

As you can probably guess, any finishing catalysts would be greatly appreciated. lol

My April ornament

Design: Silent Night
Designer: Elizabeth's Designs
Fibers: DMC 500,726.840,930. Marlitt 800, WDW Collards
Fabric: ?? 28ct

I was able to get this stitched on Sunday. Just in the nick of time. I substituted fibers for what I had on hand. The falling snow did not show up well, so I may stitch this one again on a different fabric.

Gwen

March Ornament & Card

Hi Everyone,
I have finished my March ornament & card. The ornie is from the 2001 JCS Christmas Ornaments magazine by Elizabeth's designs. Stitched on 28 count Jobelan using WDW 'Angel Hair' for the sheep and DMC Threads. I changed the colour of the 'snow' the sheep is standing on, in the pattern to green, as it does not snow at Christmas in Australia.
The card is a freebie I found on the net somewhere. Stitched on 25 count evenweave with DMC Threads.
This is fun Jennifer, thanks for the SAL.
Sue in Australia.

My February Ornament

I finished the stitching on my ornament a few days ago. I have not done the finishing yet.
Christmas Tree
Elizabeth's Designs
JCS 2005

My christmas stitching

These are some of my christmas stitching, I did stitch a lot of christmas theme biscornu as well:

Just cross stitch ornament issue, Jean Farish:

Prairie Schooler, Christmas strawberry:

Bent Creek Glad Tiding:

Blue Ribbon design, Red ornament:

M design, snowman freebie:

Pam Kellogg Christmas Biscornu:

French freebie:

Sweetheart tree design:

Elizabeth's Design:

Merry christmas and a happy new year.

Stitched by Anita

April & Mai Ornament

hi everybody!
I'm sorry for showing my ornie for april that late...but hopefully you still want to see it :-) It's a design by Prairie Schooler - Santa Collection 1992.



For may I stitched two little motifs from the Christmas Alphabet by Elizabeths Design. I want to stitch a MERRY XMAS with these motifs. And fit them with ribbons on a wreath. As I don't like every given motif with the letter I'm going to choose those I like most ;o))
So I don't need to worry about what to stitch during the next SAL weekends. I will be busy some time with the 9 letters.

My April ornament

This is my first christmas ornament ever and I made it as a present for a stitching friend. Some of you may recognize it from 2002 JCS Christmas ornie magazine. It is the Christmas Rose by Elizabeth's Designs. I changed the colours and didn´t do all of the stitches.

Anne's April ornies (a bit late)

I made up for missing March too by having an entire day yesterday devoted to ornie stitching. Here are the results:


Cardinal Snowflake by The Victoria Sampler
from 2004 JCS Christmas ornie magazine
Stitched on 28ct Kiwi Illusions Jubilee in Alpine Spring (Countrystitch)
using substitute threads from my stash


Merry Christmas by Glory Bee
from 2003 JCS Christmas ornie magazine
Stitched on 28ct 'mystery' evenweave
using recommended threads except for using Crescent Colours Toasted Marshmallow instead of GAST Porcelain


Christmas Rose by Elizabeth's Designs
from 2002 JCS Christmas ornie magazine
Stitched on the same 28ct 'mystery' evenweave
using all the recommended threads

Christmas Ewe

Here is my April ornament Christmas Ewe

by Elizabeth's Designs from 2001 JCS.

Ornaments from the beach

Last week my children had holidays, we decided, to spent them on the beach. There was a lot of time to stitch and - lucky me - I prepared 3 ornaments. Yesterday evening I made the finish. The "christmas chorus" is a little cushion, filled with spices, my favorite ornament is the rendeer, it is stitched in petit point over 1 fabric thread.

The charts are all from JCS 2006, The Workbasket, Waters Edge and Elizabeths design. Stitched with rests of thread (simply Anchor) and beads on a rest of home colored (with coffee) stitching fabric ;-)).

Greetings to everybody, have a nice day!
Birgit, http://lamone.canalblog.com/

Holley's February Trio

This month I managed to stitch three ornaments, but to be fair, one was started last month. I'd like to average two ornaments each month so I was happy to get an extra ornament in this month. Maybe next month I'll work on a larger ornament. I'm very fond of these smaller designs though. Everything was stitched fairly quickly. Since I substituted missing fibers with stuff on hand, this SAL is helping to justify my stash.

The first finish was Christmas Tree by Whiskey Creek Ink, which can be found in the 2006 JCS Ornament Issue. I did not have the recommend threads so I used DMC 75 for the red and Watercolours 89 Caribbean for the Green. I love how it stitched and plan to make a teeny two sided pillow ornament. I also plan to stitch a darker version at a later SAL.

Next, I finished Red Berries by Rosewood Manor from the December 2006 Issue of Gift of Stitching. I absolutely love this design and have been admiring it from the first moment I saw it. I think I'll be greedy and keep this one for myself. Again, I didn't have the recommended fibers so I substituted with colors I had on hand. It's stitched on Queen Anne's Lace 32 count jobelan with DMC4210 and Crescent Colours Bejeweled (a gift from Charisse at the Wagon). The beads are Mill Hill 2012.

There are so many lovely variations that could be stitched: Metallics for the star shapes, silver and gold beads, white berries instead.... I liked this design so much, I purchased another Rosewood Manor Ornaments chart.

While watching the Oscars, I stitched Silent Night, a freebie by Elizabeth's Designs. The only recommended fiber used was the DMC B5200. The Star is stitched with toffee by Six Strand Sweets. I used Espresso by Six Strand Sweets and #448 Evergreen Soy Luster Solids (thanks to a very generous Maxine at the HAED BB--I love it!) were used for the trees. I used Bejeweled again for the border and words. The fabric is Squall by Sugar Maple Fabrics in 32 count lugana. The trees were fun to stitch! I think the trickiest part of this design is the white over one stars. If I did it again, I think I would use the Mill Hill petite beads instead of the tiny cross stitches.

All the designs are gorgeous this month.

Congratulations on the beautiful stitching!