Category: Stitching

Christmas Tree — Holiday Card 2020

Bargello Christmas Tree 2020 cp

Bargello style Christmas Tree, stitched on 24 count Congress Cloth, color 9032 (Vintage Merlot).  Purchased tri-fold card with Christmas Tree cut out.

Stitch is Bargello over four fabric threads with two steps.

Threads Needed:

2 spools of Sulky, 12 wt.… Read more

Physalis, cross-stitch

Physalis cross stitch

Took me several months, but I finally completed this cross-stitch. I love the design and colors, but cross stitch takes me forever.

Purchased on ebay as a kit, it is 18 count, 21cm by 40cm cross stitch kit called Physalis … Read more

Digging Out Snowman, Bellpull

Digging out snowman

Final finish of 2018!  Digging Out, beaded cross stitch bell pull.  This was a full kit purchased from 123Stitch. Mill Hill’s 2007 Keeping Cool Collection.  Approximate finished size is 2.5 by 5.5-inches.… Read more

Gentle Snowflakes

Gentle Snowflakes

The Gentle Snowfall design has a layered outline to represent an ornament and an inner pattern featuring snowflakes softly floating in the still air of a brisk winter’s day. The 10 plus page, full color booklet, provides discussion of the … Read more

purple pillow cases, machine sewn

purple pillows

My notes for creating pillow cases and decorative stitching (on the cuffs) pillow cases:

14 by 28-inch size pillow forms purchased online from Joanna fabrics.

100% cotton fabric:  Maywood Shadow Play (purple).

Pillow cuff: decorative stitch functionality of my sewing … Read more

Tulips and Pomegranates Bargello

Tulips and Pomegranates, Bargello design

The Tulips and Pomegranates design is a counted, Bargello needlework embroidery presented within a full color 40-plus page booklet.  My booklets are divided into sections that discuss the main pattern parts of each design, present photos and graphed charts in … Read more

Fiesta Flowers, Hardanger design

Fiesta flowers, Hardanger design

Fiesta Flowers is a counted, Hardanger needlework embroidery presented within a full color 50-plus page booklet. Rhodes style patterns and ribbed spider web flowers add dimensional interest within the traditional Hardanger kloster block areas of this design.

The design booklet … Read more

Fiesta Runner, Hardanger design

Fiesta Runner, a Hardanger design

Fiesta is a runner size Hardanger design worked in the bright colors of a summer’s day.  An Intermediate level embroidery, Fiesta is presented within a full color 60-plus page booklet.  Within the booklet it is assumed you are quite comfortable … Read more

Holiday Lights — Winter holiday card 2018

Holiday Lights

Each year I like to send out embroidered Winter holiday cards to friends and family.   This year my design show cases the beauty of holiday lights worked in unseparated 6-strand embroidery floss. Holiday Lights is presented within a 10 plus … Read more

Sunflowers, Silk Ribbon

Wild Flowers, silk ribbon

Silk ribbon kit given to me as a Christmas present. Fun to stitch. I was told purchased on Amazon. Instructions written in an Asia language so I could not read them, but no matter as two full photos were provided … Read more