The Treehouse

Cara's Birthday

This year it was my turn to buy for Cara's birthday which was last month. I decided to get her some threads for some of the charts on her to be stitched list. While new thread is lovely, I thought a little something handmade would be nice too. I settled on making a needle book with a few different types of needles inside. The construction is based on this one by Amy of the Nana Company blog.

The cover has a machine embroidered monogram -

I've used this monogram a few times now and it stitches up really nicely - I stitched it at 20% less than full size.

A  few pics from inside - I dusted off some alphabet stamps and some fabric ink and did a little stamping...it's been a while!

     

Then, I dusted off my card blanks and made a birthday card. I happened upon a cd of Joan Elliott oriental designs one day in my Amazon perusings so as both Cara and I are fans I thought it would be great to make a card using one of the designs. 

It took quite a while for it to stitch out but it turned out absolutely beautifully - I'll definitely be playing with the designs on that cd some more!

 

 

Christmas Ornament No. 3

I've remembered to take photos but not remembered to blog so here is a small finish from last month. This is the third of Joan Elliott's Christmas designs that I've stitched from the Cross Stitch Designs book-a-zine. I love this one - reminds me of Catherine :) I intend to put her in one of the little Framecraft brass frames for hanging on the Christmas tree. I'm just waiting on the ordering until I know how many I will need.

 

I used threads as charted and the fabric is antique white. I'm not overly keen on the colour of the Kreink so have bought a different gold to try for the next one.

Christmas Ornament No. 2

I've just finished the last little bit of backstitching on this 'soon to be' Christmas ornament. It's another of Joan Elliott's designs from the 365 Cross Stitch Designs Bookazine. In the book it was stitched all in gold but I wanted to use a bit more of the glittery fabric so I used green - Chives by The Gentle Art Samper Threads, it's one of my favourite greens...actually, there are a lot of those, green is my favourite colour! 

I should probably start thinking of some finishing ideas for these pretty soon - don't want to arrive at December having a stitched several and finished none! Quite excited about stitching my next choice, it reminds me of Catherine. I'm just stitching on these now and again in between other, longer projects - it's satisfying to have a finish now and again.