August Santa

Hello All -
I am finally getting to post my August finish, a Santa from Prairie Schooler.  I have been so busy I have barely had a minute to post or visit the internet.  It could also be too much on-line playing Pokemon with my kids.

Enjoy!!

CJ
Texas, USA

Tiny Bit

I'm up to my ears in boxes and " what am I going to do with this?", but I did manage to sneak in a couple of very short stitching sessions. Here's what I got done.

I'm sticking to the same set of patterns 'cause it was just too tricky to go rooting for floss.

September & Christmas presents

Hello!

I had planned to stitch this months ornament at the weekend during IHSW but I couldn't resist starting him...and then finishing him!

He is the 3rd in the joan Elliot Roly-polies set and with the theme being tree/presents he falls into the present category nicely.

So...here he is!

and here he is with the other two...

I am looking forward to next month and the angel!

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

September's Choice

I was waiting for my pattern to arrive and yesterday Mr Postman popped it through my letterbox.

Yes I know it's Lizzie Kate again but I really like her designs.

Here's how much I managed to get stitched before everyone got up this morning.

I've done quite a bit more now but I'll leave that for another day.

Happy stitching 

Melanie xxx

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!

Merry early Christmas my fellow Christmas Ornie SALers,

Wow! What a wonderful month of finishes we have had for our inaugural month of Christmas Ornament SALing.  Around twenty-four or so wonderful ornaments were finished by twenty-two stitchers in August.

Well done, everyone, and as promised, I have done a random draw to choose a winner of this great pattern from my stash:

A Christmas design called "Encore une et J'arrete!"  ("One more and I'll stop) by La Sylphide Toquee 

So, drumroll please......

and the winner is the lovely 

RITA

Rita, if you email me with your snailmail address, this pattern will be winging its way to you soon.

Now, to have a think about what I might give away for September - something nice, I am sure - so get those needles flying for your September Tree or Present design.

Congratulations Rita and hugs to you all,

need a little help

While going through mags etc to find charts for this SAL I ran across Stitcher's World Jan 2002. While in a store I saw it on the shelf and wanted to do the stocking on the cover. Since I was in a hurry I didn't check to see if the chart was inside. Only the finishing directions were in that issue. The charts had been in the Nov and Dec issues. I've been hunting these since then. If anyone runs across these in their stash an would be willing to sell them please let me know.
I finished my Santa a day late. Starting on my tree this week -end! Thanks for any help you can give me :)