Serendipitous Jo's December Ornie - Angel

Throughout all of 2016 I was stitching the Christmas Cubes by The Primitive Hare for each relevant month on this blog.  I finished stitching them in November and finally finished finishing them the Friday before Christmas, just in time!

Here are all nine on display:

I backed them all with the same holly print fabric and made low-sew cubes using my own technique.  Each cube took about 2 hours to finish.

Having complete the series I needed a design for December.  I had already decided to follow the 12 Days of Christmas themes for 2017 and had chosen a Joan Elliott design for this.  As luck would have it, the design features two Herald Angels at the top.  So I have completed one to fulfil the December 2016 theme.

I haven't quite completed her, she needs some beads to go in the little gaps but I will bead at the end.  There is also some metallic thread to go around the border.

Here is the whole piece so far:

stitched on 32 count white evenweave

New Badge for 2017....

HAPPY NEW YEAR 

TO ALL CHRISTMAS ORNIE SAL STITCHERS.

MAY 2017 BE A HAPPY AND HEALTHY YEAR FOR YOU ALL!

(AND, OF COURSE, MAY ALL YOUR STITCHY DREAMS COME TRUE)

To celebrate the New Year, I have designed a new Christmas Ornie SAL logo for 2017.

Please feel free to download it and link to this blog.

ENJOY!

Hugs, 

Kaye

December 2016

To all of you thank you very much for your kind comments! Well thank you!!!
Today I finished the job in December - Angels:

Each angel has a different skin color. I wish all people of the world, without distinction of skin color, peace, love, freedom and understanding!

Daniela

Merry Christmas....

Wishing all of my very dear bloggy/crafty/cross stitchy friends the very Merriest of Christmases and a safe and Happy New Year.

I would also like to thank you all for your friendship, support, advice, encouragement and kindnesses to me over the past year.  This Christmas Ornie SAL blog,  has been so much fun and such a joy to see the wonderful Christmas stitching that everyone creates, and  gives me great pleasure to know that this blog has, just maybe, been of pleasure to you, too.

All the best for 2017 and I hope to see you all back on this SAL blog in January.

hugs, 

O Holy Night....

My December choice for the Angels/Nativity theme was O Holy Night, this is from a JCS Ornie Mag (sorry, can't remember which one but I will check up on it and get back to you). 

[Update: dear Lili (no blog) has just let me know that it is from JCS Christmas Ornie Mag 2013 - thanks Lili.]

It is stitched on 28ct Willow linen, I then made it up into a little felt bag, which I filled with Christmas goodies as my Christmas present for my best friend, Kim.

I just wanted to thank everyone for taking part in this SAL, I hope that you have had fun and I look forward to having more fun with you next year.

Wishing you and yours the Merriest of Christmas and a Happy New Year, 

hugs, Kaye

Rita's December 2016 Angels

It's been crazy busy around here getting ready for Christmas to which you can probably all relate.  Last night I managed to finish stitching my December ornament for this group, Country Cottage Needleworks' "Angels".  I'd been looking at this design ever since it was released but this group's angel theme pushed me over the edge to buy and stitch it.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

My Family's 2016 Ornaments

I know, not this month's theme, but I wanted to share with you my family's 2016 ornaments.  (I either make or buy ornaments each year for all 4 of our kids and one for DH and I to share.  However many of us are together before Christmas have an "unveiling" before putting them on the tree the ornaments' first year.)  This year I chose Santas on sleds.  Both the designs and the sleds are by Foxwood Crossings and widely available in both online and brick and mortar needlework shops.

(I'm not sure why the pic is upside down.  It's rightside up on my computer.)