Friday, January 11, 2013

CCN Santa's Village


Here are the first 2 of 12 fantastic designs I'm model stitching for Country Cottage Needleworks.  The first one is Santa's House and the second one is Poinsettia Place.  They are designed to stitch individually or connected.  The top border will connect to the next design.  They would also be very cute stitched as stand-ups or blocks of some sort to set up like an actual village!

LHN Birdhouse Alphabet

I was able to stitch the model for Little House Needleworks chart Birdhouse Alphabet.  It was so much fun stitching with the Crescent Colours Belle Soie silk floss.  It stitches up very quickly!

Monday, January 7, 2013

Lizzie Kate Snowman SAL December progress

I've been so busy stitching this year that I forgot to share my December progress on my LK Snowman piece for the SAL I'm in.  This piece is so much fun to stitch!  I was able to frame out a few more of the blocks last month with some extra found stitching time!

Heavenly Stars

This pattern is from the Stitchworks and is called Heavenly Stars.  I stitched it for my cross stitch shop Cross My Heart who are making them into pillows to send to the Newtown, Connecticut families and first responders.  Mine is stitched on 28 ct Nautical Blue lugana from Sassy's Fabbys.  I used all DMC for it instead of the recommended Kreinik fibers.  I used DMC 823 for the words and 825, 745 and white for the stars.  Every stitch in this contains a prayer for those families.