I have a new Santa cross stitch ornament to add to the tree! I call this one Santa’s Day. He’s definitely fun to stitch up! I love the wobbly, googly eyes and the plaid skirt. The hanger is with ribbons, and if you’ve seen my latest ornaments, you know this has become my favorite. I …
Things are busy here getting ready for holiday season with cross stitch another Christmas ornament! It’s going to be a zombie Christmas this year it seems. All with good fun in mind, of course. I just love Christmas ornaments. The best memories I have from childhood are the whole family gathered around the table with …
It’s that time again! The final project for the embroidery journal project for the year. I feel this project brings me full circle, but I’m going to save the year review for another post. For now I will focus on this project! This is after a little drawing I did for our scrap book journal. …
An embroidery I did last week. I finished it into a little quilted wall hanging with a vintage lace border. I’m trying to actually make some of my embroideries into something as I finish them instead of just throwing them on the pile for later. The pile is impossibly big now!!!!
It’s almost time! I made this little embroidery to celebrate: I used Appleton crewel wools. They are sooo nice to work with. This time though I used linen, because I found out the hard way that it really isn’t so easy to pull them through a tight, woven cotton – they just get worn fast. …
