I saw my first snowflakes of the season yesterday – huge fluffy flakes for about 5 minutes. I just happened to look out the door that the right time or would have missed it. I’m glad that’s all it was – I am not wanting snow yet!!
I finished Penny Autumn last night. I decided I liked it with just the single border line and m not going to add the pennies on the other three sides. I am going to extend the ends of the side borders down a few stitches, so they look like a continuation of the bottom border and aren’t one stitch outside of that. It’s just a bit too big (top to bottom) to fit into the frame I had been thinkiing of in my stash so I haven’t decided how I’ll finish it. It’s about 5.5″ x 4.75″ on the fabric I stitched it on and I think it is just so cute.
I finished this about 11pm last night and was still wide away so hmmmm what to work on next. Earlier in the day I had pulled out two of the big wooden snowflakes that I plan to mount a holiday stitch on. You might remember when I bought these last year. Here’s one of them and I need to get that stitching fully finished onto the ornament as it will be a gift. I like the color/grain of the wood and didn’t want to paint it so I decided to just rub on a coat of wax. So got two of them waxed and set aside to dry so I can work on getting the stitching attached this week.
Well I was still wide awake so pulled out a chart for a little cardinal that I might want to give as a gift. The chart came with the hand painted fabric to match what is shown in the chart image.
That fabric is so very pretty but it’s 28 count linen and I will never be a linen stitcher so I pulled a scrap of aida out of my stash
I’m using 20 count Fiber on a Whim and the color is Milk and Honey with all the called for floss – 3 Weeks and the rest DMC – so got the DMC on floss tags, found a good movie, and started stitching on it. I finally made myself put it down about 3AM.
You know I love greens – Weeks Dye Works Bayberry is another fantastic green. Check out all the shading you get in that floss color.
Yesterday I got my 12 Days of Christmas box from The Colorado Crossstitcher shop. It has 12 little packages you can open – allegedly the first 12 days of December – or any day you want – or well you can open them all at once for instant gratification the moment you receive it. I chose the latter. 🙂 I won’t show you what was in it because I don’t want to ruin the surprises for anyone else who ordered it but it was a fun package with lots of stitching goodness.
Justquiltin with Denise Russart 
Penny Autumn looks really good with just the single line stitching on the three sides. I think all the pennies would have looked too busy. I’m really going to love the cardinal! Our family always says when you see a cardinal it means your loved ones are watching from heaven.
The “unused linen ” could maybe become a “needle cushion”; like a batting stuffed yo-yo ; the backing being one of your lovely floss winder cards.
A good idea but I want to see that linen stitched on, so linen and chart is going to someone who will use it.