January, February, March

 January - Protection
The house pattern comes from Better Homes and Gardens 2001 Cross Stitch Designs. So does the pattern for the writing. The ornament is stitched on 14-count Darice white plastic canvas.

February - Love
This Valentine-style heart pattern comes from Better Homes and Gardens 2001 Cross Stitch Designs. So does the pattern for the writing. The ornament is stitched on 14-count Darice white plastic canvas.

March - Good Wishes
This is a little bigger than some of my other ornaments, but the new bride went to Hawaii on her honeymoon so I thought it was just perfect. The hibiscus pattern comes from Tropical Flowers: A Designing Workbook (from the Hawaiian Designing Collection). The pattern for the writing comes from Better Homes and Gardens 2001 Cross Stitch Designs. The ornament is stitched on 14-count Darice white plastic canvas.

March ornament

Here is my March "Flower" ornament. The designs are from The Floss Box. These designs were freebies, but now I can not find them on the free pattern pages. I stitched on 16ct white aida with the listed DMC threads and put the small clear buttons in the center.

I'm not good at English so I do not often comment to other posts, sorry... but I really love and enjoy everyone's wonderful works! Many thanks!
Happy stitching and see you next time...

Yasuko (yskmtmr)

My March finish

I chose to stitch a lavendar humbug from a recent issue of World of Cross Stitching and topped with hand-dyed ribbon from Vikki Clayton. This is my first humbug, and I love lavendar, so I put a bit of lavendar in it to make it scented.

march ornament

here is my ornament for the month of March

it is from a pattern from a french designer Anne les petits croix.
now on to search for a bunny for April, enjoy.

March Links

There are several on the list ( right side), here some more

http://meriwanderer.blogspot.com/2010_01_31_archive.html#1584171347891108460
http://be-stitched.blogspot.com/2009/12/festive-snowflake.html
http://happythreads.com.au/2010/02/13/another-tiny-little-plant-and-blue-bird-to-cross-stitch/
http://symiote.over-blog.com/article-j-aime-le-printemps-44709784.html
http://aurytm.com/blog/2010/03/01/brides-tree-sal-march/
http://plumstreetsamplers.typepad.com/plum_street_samplers/2010/02/be-true.html
http://embroiderbee.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/post-valentine-freebie-persian-proverb-i/
http://www.lesgrillesdeliselotte.com/article-roses-brodees-parfum-d-amitie-45539321.html
http://www.lesgrillesdeliselotte.com/article-joyeux-anniversaire-a-moi-45342218.html
http://www.et-patati-et-petites-croix.fr/article-grille-marque-page-5-entre-deux-pages-45379819.html
http://crossmenot.blogspot.com/2010/02/purple-flowers.html
http://legrenierdezoe.canalblog.com/albums/grilles_gratuites/photos/30615201-gratuit_1.html
http://www.lesgrillesdeliselotte.com/categorie-11267843.html
http://be-stitched.blogspot.com/2010/01/im-in-garden.html

Have a Happy Stitchy Month!!

Aury

My March Flower Basket

Hello!
My March flower basket is ready! It is not a simple basket. I made the basket as a felt pincushion. I also designed it with some stitching, sequins and beads. So the result is a very nice and useful thing!
I though, If you make a hand to it, it may be a Christmas Tree decoration, but I think a pincushion is more useful for me, so let it be.
The instructions for pincushion can be found here and here.
Elena (Russia).

A new finish on my second set!

I finally finished my March ornament on my second set.

Designer: Brittercup from JCS 2008 ornament issue

Design: Poinsettia

Fabric: 28 ct. white linen

Threads: In the Reds by Thread Gatherer Silk 'n Colors, Sampler Threads Pine, WDW Curry (did not use beads)

A big catch up!

I've been very slow in my stitching. I'm so sorry. I am a bookkeeper and needless to say the last few months have been very busy preparing for tax season. While I don't prepare the actual end of year taxes myself, I do a ton of data entry and account verifications for my boss, so no rest for the weary. :-) As soon as tax week was over I had company fly in that weekend. They just left this morning. While she was here I was able to do quite a bit of stitching while watching movies and playing board games. So, I am finally up to date on my SAL!!!

Here are my results:

February

Title: Noel Heart freebie by Passione Ricamo (my take on the pattern)
Stitched on: 28 ct. ivory evenweave
Threads used: DMC & Green Leaves Light by Thread Gatherer Silk 'n Colors
Beads used: Mill Hill Antique Glass Beads Rich Red (03059) and Petite Glass Beads Gold (40557)

March

Title: Poinsettia Basket by Brightneedle (from Small Samplings booklet)
Stitched on: 28 ct. ivory linen
Threads used: DMC, Sable by Caron Collection Wildflowers, and In the Reds by Thread Gatherer Silk 'n Colors
Beads used: Mill Hill Frosted Glass Beads Buttercup (62041)

April

Title: Snow Bunny by Hob Nobb
Stitched on: 16 ct. Stardust Heatherfield
Threads used: DMC & WDW

Please forgive my lack of ironing on my pieces! :-)

I also started a second set for my nephew's wedding for next year. I have January and February finished. I am almost finished with March as well. Will post pictures for that soon.

June's March Ornament

March - Good Wishes

(Rosewood Manor - Best Wishes Ornaments)

Stitched with DMC on 32ct Antique White Murano

June

C's March Flowers

I finally finished this last night. Now I'm caught up again and back in the right order for the rotation.

This was a LNS freebie from Heart in Hand Needleart Designs. I accidently switched the light and medium pinks in my version. If anyone would like the chart and leftover threads (there's enough for everything except the browns), leave me a comment by May 1. I'll choose someone randomly if more than one of you are interested.

Louise's March Ornament

Here is my March ornament! It is called "Flower Basket" and is a free design from www.the-chart-shop.com It was done on Ice Blue 28 ct. Jobelan. I wasn't happy with the way the edges looked, so I made a cord from a varigated pearl cotton I had and glued it around the perimeter. Much better! It's what I call "making lemonade" from a lemon.

Teresa's March Ornament

Mason Jar with Violets

Kitchen Accents by Vicki Neil Getchell

Needleworks, Incorporated, 1981

Stitched on 18 count white aida with DMC threads

MARCH ORNAMENT FINISH

I finished the March ornament for the Bride's Tree Ornament SAL late last night. I still need to do Jan. This was done on 18 count Fiddlers and I did not stitch all of the chart. The chart is from the Prairie Schooler Designer Series "From the Heart".
Have a great day stitching. huggerz laurel

February Heart & March Flowers

A little bit late, I've finally finished the February Heart and the March Flowers:

The first one is based on a Ant of Sweden and the second on a Prarie Schooler chart freebies, both with small changes. I've worked with the same colours I've used in January.

My March Flower

For March I chose just the same pattern as mama joan ( I am sorry mama joan) and I did not want to post my picture straight after her post. Today I see Lee's post with a nice flower basket so I will show my picture.

The pattern is called "Peace" by Nikki Leeman, Country Cottage Needleworks, from Ornament Issue 2007 JCS Magazine. I also modified the design and made it smaller and stitched it one over one on 28 ct. Glass Blue Monaco. I like the boarder so I stitched it on the back as well and made some flower pins to dress up the cushion.

You can see more pictures of it in my blog http://olenkas-stitches.blogspot.com/.

Happy stitching to everybody!

March Ornament - A Little Late!

I'm a little late at posting my March ornament. March was kind of hectic between DS's Spring break from college, the Easter holiday, an extended family visit, and then a trip to Philadelphia to visit a college with my daughter. Oh...and sometime during the month I turned 50! So I'm sure you all understand!

Lee's March ornament

From Prairie Schooler Book No. 13

On 32 ct. Natural linen with DMC threads

March Ornament Finished

Here is my ornament for March. I am
so glad that I have made another deadline.
This SAL has kept me on task so far.
This design is from the 2007 Christmas Ornament
Magazine. It is a Country Cottage Needleworks design.
I left out part of the design to make it a bit smaller.

Good Wishes for March

Could I have waited any longer to get this March ornament finished? Don't think so ;-)

It was a fun one to work on. I have seen some really pretty ones that you all have done, and that makes me think this will not be the only set I'll make. Do you see that awful, nasty stain on the back piece? My 'new' iron spit some steam that was brown on it... I haven't done anything other than blot it to try to remove it. So sad !! But AT LEAST it wasn't the front; right?

catching up - February and March

For February, I've stitched a beautiful heart offered as a Valentine's design from Dragonfly Stitches. This is on a mystery linen using HDF Phlox silk.



For March, I've stitched Sampler Flowers 2 by Peripheria Designs.

My March Ornament

This is my March flower soon-to-be-an-ornament. The chart is from Prairie Schooler that I recently found linked on a list of freebies (there two others there also). I used 18 ct white Aida and most of the suggested floss colors.