My first cross stitched biscornu finished!

I am so excited because I have just finished my first cross stitched biscornu!

Here are the pictures, I just love the little Father Christmas, don't you?

I will probably stitch lots of Biscornus for a while!

The pattern is from Just Cross Stitch Ornament Magazine 2008 designed by Louise Henderson of Cherished Stitches.

Stitched on 32 Count Belfast Linen

Colour - light mocha

DMC threads

Mill Hill Beads

Swarovski Crystal in the centre

Prairie Schooler Ornament

I finished this Prairie Schooler Ornament, it is from the Just Cross Stitch Ornament Magazine 2008, I sooooo loved making this one!I used DMC threads stitched on linen, topped off with Swarovski Crystals. Click here

I just love Pink!

You can get the letter L here

Materials used

25 count dublin lugana linen

Dinky Dyes silk thread

stitched 1 over 1

Mother of pearl thread ring

Swarovski crystals

Materials used for blog giveaway and more stitching news.

As promised I have listed the materials I used to make the blog giveaway Christmas ornament:

• Fabric - Zweigart 32 Count Brittney - Lurex, silver flecked white
• Flowers-Dinky Dyes Silk thread, Lilac number 111 but any DMC color would look the same.
• Centre of flower-Kreinik metallics Fine (#8) Braid colour number 9300
• Merry stitched in DMC number 210 and backstitched in dark purple DMC
• Purple trim on outside edge - Madeira Glissen Gloss Estaz colour number 19
• Mill Hill Antique Glass Beads colour number 03053
• Metal ornament for the back

I hope you enjoy stitching this as much as a I did!

My first Biscornu and stitching news

I am currently stitching my first Biscornu, it is a Christmas design, and I have finished stitching the Priarie Schooler Christmas Ornament, I will post pictures shortly.

The Christmas Noel design at the top of the page was completed a number of years ago, it is

Celtic Christmas by Lavender and Lace, I though it would be a good idea to show it to celebrate the season!

Thankyou for looking, Merry Christmas everyone!

Blog giveaway - we have a winner!

Congratulations - the winner is Barb aka omashee!

Barb leave a comment with your email and I shall send you an email with the details of when I shall post it to you.

Thankyou so much for all the lovely comments, I was inspired to stitch more of these in other colours, I was also surprised how many of you love purple!

I wish I had the time to stitch you all one, but I am going to put the list of materials I used so that you can at least copy the colour scheme. I shall post them over the next few days.

I will be doing more blog giveaways in the future so keep watching!

Happy stitching!

Cross stitched Purple Ornament blog give away!

Click on the pictures for a closer look

These are the cross stitch ornaments I promised to show, the one on the left is similar to one that I made for a recent ornament exchange and the purple one was an experiment with colour and texture, I wanted to know how different they would look! I was really pleased with the result and I hope you are too because I have decided to give away the Purple Christmas Ornament as a blog giveaway in celebration of Christmas.

All you need to do is leave a comment and say why you would love to receive it, when it is drawn I will then invite the winner to leave another comment on the post with the email address and I shall send it to the lucky person!

The draw will take place on Saturday 20th December at 6.00pm GMT.

Good luck everyone, I look forward to reading your comments!

Finished cross stitch

Miniature stitched piece

Hi everyone, I thought I would show a picture of something not connected to Christmas in this post. I have stitched 1 over 1 on 25 Cream Dublin Lugana linen using DMC thread number 115, it is a Mon ami Pierre free pattern, unfortunately it is no longer available. 

I am unsure what to make with it yet, maybe a tin topper or a mini pin keep?

I am currently working on some more Ornaments, I have just started on my first Prairie Schooler Christmas Ornament and I was looking at one of my Paula Vaughan work in progress, the Porch Swing, it looks really nice, I shall post a picture later.

I have shown here the stitching lamp I use when stitching on linen because quite a few people have commented that they find the holes too small, I could not stitch on linen if I did not use this magnifying lamp, what a difference it makes. You can clip it on your stitching hoop, however I do not always use a hoop so I clip mine to a folder placed on my knee.

Happy Stitching!