Winter Bird House

Winter Bird House

Counted Cross-Stitch

The stitched pattern came from a downloaded free design from Herrschners.com.

Cross stitched, the pattern Happy Holiday Birdhouse (3.5 inch x 4 7/8 inch design) was designed to be stitched on a towel.

I completely stitched all the … Read more

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly

Counted Cross-Stitch

The larger butterfly pattern came from the”Butterflies” Collectors’ series afghan: Monarch (77w x 75h Stitches); Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (79w x 73h Stitches), in the Stoney Creek October 2007 magazine.

The smaller butterfly and flowers came from website: Cross … Read more

Roses Sampler

Roses

This was an intense project, a purchased kit.

Designed by Sandy Orton. Design size count is 198 x 140, finished size 14-1/2 x 10-1/2 inches. Sold as JanLynn kit.

The pattern is composed of several specialty stitches along with cross … Read more

Stem Stitching

Stem Stitch MC

Needle’Thread.com

Fall 2104 Mary Corbert provided a web page listing 12 of her articles that will help us stitch a … Read more

Hardanger Bookmark with open work

Bookmark

The design is by Roz Watnemo, sold through Nordic Needle as the kit Basic Hardanger, Bookmark #4.

Stitches taught in this kit: Satin stitch (kloster) blocks, solid motifs, cable and double cable stitch, Smyrna, three eyelet variations, cutting, woven bars, … Read more

Basic Hardanger Bookmark, peach

Bookmark

The design is by Roz Watnemo, sold through Nordic Needle as the kit Basic Hardanger, Bookmark #3.

Stitches taught in this kit: Satin stitch (kloster) blocks, solid motifs, Smyrna and three eyelet variations.

Each kit includes a lacy edged 20 … Read more

Basic Hardanger Bookmarks, blackwork

Bookmarks

The patterns that I used are from a Blackwork design called Black Beaumont, designer Elizabeth Almond, purchased from Nordic Needle website. It is a square design six by six blocks of Blackwork around the edges with a sort of formal … Read more