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Saturday 12 September 2015

My sparkly Christmas tree!

Hello Xmas SALers!

The theme for this month caused me some trouble. Although I absolutely love Christmas trees and Xmas gifts, I couldn't find a single chart that I fancied stitching. I even considered giving this month's theme a miss - can you imagine?!! Thankfully, in the end I found a little leaflet of charts from The World of Cross Stitching magazine, and in it was a simple design of a Xmas tree using a few cross stitches and some blackwork. What makes the design special is the fact that the whole tree is stitched with metallics:)

In the original chart gold and red metallic threads were used, but since I didn't have any suitable gold threads I decided to switch the gold for green metallics instead. I hoped it would work since the Xmas tree normally is green anyway lol.

Today I made a start:
 

Since it is stitched with DMC metallics it is quite a slow process. I can only stitch with short threads so it's lots of starts and stops... However, I am quite pleased with my process and it actually looks quite nice and sparkly:) Most of all, I am very pleased that I, at last, found an ornament to stitch for this month!

Have fun with all your Xmas ornaments!

Annie

12 comments:

Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...

Nice start. I found a great tree design and have started today. It's not a traditional Christmas Tree but in a way it is!

Cathy said...

Nice start! I'm still trying to decide what to stitch this month. Guess I'd better get busy.

Kaisievic said...

It looks fabulous to me, well done - lots of brownie points for perseverance and ingenuity.

Jo said...

Are the metallics hard to work with. Do they fray easily

Annie said...

Yes, and yes! I don't particularly like DMC metallics since they are quite springy and definitely fray easily; hence the very short threads... I have found Kreinik much easier to stitch with, but I didn't have any in the right shades.

Rita said...

Looking good!

Justine said...

It looks great! Worth sticking with the metallics. I've never tried DMC metallics but I've heard Kreinik is much nicer, and I struggle with that!

Carm said...

I too, had a time finding a chart I wanted to stitch. Found one started it then found another a few days later that I liked better, LOL! The sparkly tree looks great!

Stitching Noni said...

Great start! Your tree is going to look gorgeous when finished :o)
Hugs xx

Brigitte said...

Great choice. I had the same problem when looking for a tree chart. But I think it's still time to go through some magazines and find one.

kate n said...

Those metallic threads look really good and definitely make the effort worthwhile. Its lovely.

Bea said...

That is a terrific tree! Great choice.