Advent Calendar Finish

I have finished the Advent Calendar - sadly it's too late for this Christmas but there's always next year. I stitched little ornaments for it but they turned out to be too large. I decided to sew clear plastic vinyl (hence the glare in the picture) over the days of the month to form pockets. Inside each pocket is a word for the day so the granddaughters can expand their vocabulary. The pockets are really too small to hold any sort of wrapped candies so I put a pocket at the bottom to hold some candies which may soften the harshness of vocabulary lessons during Christmas break. The words in the pockets are:

Brave, Careful, Caring, Fair, Forgiving, Gentle, Good, Grateful, Helpful, Honest, Joyful, Kind, Loving, Obedient, Patient, Polite, Positive, Prayerful, Respectful, Sharing, Smart, Strong, Thankful, Warm, Wise

Here is a link to my wip that shows the days stitched in green thread inside the pockets (covered up by the words on slips of paper that I have inserted in the pockets for the picture here).

I may have to stitch this calendar again and next time follow the directions and stitch it on 14 count so the ornaments I have stitched can be put to use (the finish here is stitched on 18 count).

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

WIP Progress

I have started another project.  This is usually available as a "stamped" cross stitch kit from Dimensions and now I have looked around but I am not able to find it as a counted cross stitch chart anywhere - I just saw it recently but I didn't make a note of it - it may have been on ebay and now it's gone.

I have finished stitching all of the ornaments but I am not as certain about how I will finish them as I thought I was.  I should just start finishing them instead of puzzling over the several options that are running through my mind.  Finishing is not my favorite part of cross stitching so I tend to put it off until a deadline approaches that causes great stress (:   There was one ornament that I wasn't too excited about so I reversed the white dove as a substitute if I decide I don't want to use the one I don't care for very much.

I have changed the picture for Kentucky as I wasn't enchanted with the weather vane style horse. I used a free chart - you can CLICK HERE for the pdf file - I reversed the image and put 2 horses racing.  I am not sure that my stick horse picture is that much more desirable but I am ready to move on after spending so much time on this square.




This is what my new start will look like but this is one of the stamped kits (click the picture to go to the 123Stitch order page - if you don't mind working on stamped cross stitch kits).

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Progress on WIPs

This is a chart I ordered from Olenka's Stitches Designs a couple of years ago. If you send her an email (in her profile) she will tell you how to order her designs. Please check out her blog as her pictures show how very pretty her designs are.  This is going to be a biscornu some day.

I have 6 more ornaments to stitch and I believe I have finally decided how I am going to finish these...I won't know for sure until I actually give it a try, though











I had a visit from the frog for a while when I thought I had finished New York - I cut his visit short but it required making the apple box 1 row of stitches bigger. I am happy with it as it looks like it can actually hold the bounty of apples in it.




All in all, it's been a wonderful couple of weeks of stitching for me.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. [Proverbs 23:7]

Ornament Progress

Here is the status of the ornaments so far



These are being stitched 1 over 1 on white 22 count aida

Advent Milestone

I am ready to start the ornaments because the base is finished

Advent Calendar

It's been about a month but I was hoping for more progress on my Advent Calendar.
This is such a joy to stitch so I may be subconsciously dawdling.

Progress on Advent Calendar

Here's a picture of my progress on the advent calendar.

Advent Calendar

I have stitched about 1/4 of the Ruth J. Morehead Advent Calendar. There is a picture of it on Amazon here Amazon.

A very nice lady on the 123 Stitch message board helped me get it from ebay and I am enjoying this project very much.