Serendipitous Jo's September Ornie - Christmas Food

I have decided to stitch the Christmas Cubes by Primitive Hare as my Christmas project this year.  I looked at the themes which Kaye had chosen for this year and all but two are covered by the Cubes.  Perfect!  It does mean that I will stitch the letters out of order but I can cope with that.

Here is Cube 7 - I

This is exactly as charted apart from the substitution of B5200 for Blanc.

Here are all seven so far:

stitched on 35 count Country Mocha from Willow Fabrics

You can tell "I" was photographed at a different time to the rest!

Hattie Hedgehog

Here's Hattie - complete with her teapot and cup of tea. This is a freebie from Brookes Books, part of the Animal Advent series.

She was "5" in the series - I stitched the year instead....as this will be a gift for a special little girl this Christmas.

Now......onward to October!!

Advice please....

Hello lovely Christmas Elves ...

Just wanting some advice, please.  I thought that for a change I would try to Finish my latest Christmas Ornie, Xmas Tea, straight away - I know, I know, be still my beating heart!  I am actually going to be organised! lol!

Anyway, reaching into my newly organised tub of Christmas fabric, literally the first fabric that caught my eye was this one:

But then I rummaged around a little bit more and found this one:

I think that I am leaning more towards the second one but I would love a second opinion - so please let me know what you think.

hugs, Kaye

P.S. Don't forget to check out my previous post about ideas for next year's themes.  Looking forward to your input on that post, please.

So far, Theme 1 is appealing to some people whilst some great ideas are coming in for Theme 2.

Lots to drink

Hey guys!

I am on time and with an actual stitch that isn't a stretch of the theme!  Go me!

I brought some hot cocoa to go along with Kaye's tea so we won't go thirsty ;)

This is Hot Cocoa by M Designs from the 2013 Just Cross Stitch Ornament Issue.

I love hot cocoa around Christmas time or any time of the year actually so this might stay out all year.

Can't wait to see everyone else's Christmas food stitches!

Khristine

Tea anyone?

Yay!  I have finished my September theme relatively early this month - all up to date - Yay!  (Don't ask me how far behind I am on the Hallowe'en Ornie SAL - three months and counting, I think!)

I present to you, Xmas Tea.... 

Xmas Tea

Designer: Primitive Acorns

Source: JCS Christmas Ornie Mag 2016

28 ct linen

Assorted floss from stash

It was a very sweet stitch.

hugs, Kaye

P.S. Don't forget to check out my previous post about ideas for next year's themes.  Looking forward to your input.

Themes for 2017

Hi lovely Christmas Elves,

It is that time again!  Time to start thinking about our themes for next year, so if you have anything you are really keen to stitch, now is the time to suggest the theme.

I am thinking of running two alternate themes for next year.

I have been chatting to the lovely Jo, one of the stalwarts of this blog and my inspiration for starting it, with her Hallowe'en Ornie SAL.  Anyway, we were having an email chat, as you do (since I live in Australia and she lives in England) and we were both saying how much we love stitching 1. Pieces with a theme and 2. The Twelve Days of Christmas. So, I said, how about we do that for a theme next year with an alternate set of themes for those of us who may not want to commit to a Twelve Days of Christmas stitch.  And if you wish, you could dip in and out of either theme.


So, I am thinking we will have:

Theme One:  THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS.....

On the First day of Christmas my true love sent to me
a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

On the Second day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Two Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

On the Third day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Three French Hens,
Two Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.

Subsequent verses follow the same pattern, each adding one new gift and repeating all the earlier gifts, so that each verse is one line longer than its predecessor:

4 Calling Birds

5 Gold Rings

6 Geese a-Laying

7 Swans a-Swimming

8 Maids a-Milking

9 Ladies Dancing

10 Lords a-Leaping

11 Pipers Piping

12 Drummers Drumming

There are so many different designs out there on this theme - I just did a quick Google search and look at all of these:

Theme Two will be a variety, just as we had this year (and there is no reason we cannot use some of the same ideas again). So, get your Santa hats on and start sending through some choices to me!

If we have more than twelve ideas for Theme 2, then I will set up a little poll.

HO! HO! HO!

hugs, Kaye

P.S. Just as a reminder here are the themes for the last two years:

THEMES FOR 2016

January - Music

February - Snow

March- Santa and his helpers

April - Ornaments/Decorations

May - Reindeer

June - Christmas animals/pets

July - free choice

August - Christmas clothing

September - Christmas Food

October - Toys/Presents

November - Oh Christmas Tree!

December - Angels/Nativity

THEMES FOR 2015  (only a partial year, as the blog was only started in August)

August - Mr and/or Mrs Santa

September - Christmas Tree/Presents

October - Angels/Nativity

November - Snowflakes/ Snowman/Wintry scene

December - free choice

Better Late than Never.....

Here's my ornie for August - I start to laugh every time I look at this design - from Sue Hillis Designs, out of Just Cross Stitch "2014 Christmas Ornaments" magazine.

"If You Don't Believe" - design by Susan Hillis

Now.....on to September's ornament! Thank you, Kaye for such a great motivation and SAL!