What was stitched

I had decided at the beginning of October that I wanted to stitch all the Merry Cox Christmas Ornaments from the various JCS xmas ornie mags. I had been meaning to do them each year but it didn't happen. I didn't have the 2001 mag so when my sister Su came over to see us and go to The Show at Newcastle she brought me the magazine as she had two of them. I tried at this show to get the Gloriana silk threads but had no luck, I had tried different UK shops but no luck, I tried a lady who I know always stocks them but she didn't have 'Winter Woods'. I started the 2001 ornie after the 2004 one and as I only had a tiny bit of winter woods initially, I have ran out and got another ordered, otherwise...I would have had two ornies to show you. This one below is from the 2004 JCS ornie mag.




I changed it a bit as it was originally charted for Merry's grandaughter so the bottom section I put 25 and 12 for the date, I put the year in the top space and made my own free hand stitching for the Glad tidings trying to copy the style of the writing above it. I also added a holly bough and some trees and stars to the bottom section. I used a plain red silk to line the back and stitched it all together instead of glue as I feel it would stay put for longer that way ;) For the ribbon, I chose a dark red silk one I had, plus the fact I could not find a suitable green one anywhere, but I figured it picks out the tiny 1/1 holly berries quite nicely in real life. I have tried to show them more with this bigger picture below.




Altogether I do really like it, which is good, as I intend giving it for a gift to some-one. The pictures show the colour of my own coffee dyed 40ct really well, so you can get the idea of the 'real' shade alot better from these. I feel pleased as it is indeed home-made :-))))))

An update on the exchange stitching.....All stitching is completed for all 4 pieces the xmas one was posted on Tuesday the official mailing date. I will show what I made for that when it arrives to the recipient. The others are still waiting to be made into the various items, I still have plenty of time as the next posting date is 10th January. I will do them once the holidays start so I have more time in one long run, rather than a few minutes here and there which is what it feels like at the moment for me and probably everyone else :))

Have a great weekend everybody !!