When I started on this year’s ornaments for the 12 in 2025 sal, I mentioned that I had a plan.
I’ve joined in with the sal for the last two years but haven’t stitched any ornaments that fit the colour scheme of my tree or room, so they usually go on a small tree in my sewing room.
This was last year’s tree.
This year I’ve decided that things are going to be different and planned to make a set that can go on my main tree for a change!
I always stitch Mill Hill ornaments for my Goddaughters children as part of the sal, which I will be doing again this year, but the other 9 are going to be from Joan Elliott’s chart, ‘Christmas Blue Ornaments chart.
My ornament is
Gold/Yellow and not blue at all, Lol!
I changed the DMC‘s to 3852, 3854, 19, 3855, 3823 and light gold metallic. I then added Antique Glass Beads (03021) from Mill Hill to replace the French knots.
For the finishing I used Lady Dot Creates ‘Daffodil’ Velveteen but it was I a little brighter than I wanted, so I soaked it coffee for a while to dull the colour and edged it with some gold cording.
I used a fat quarter of fabric I had in my stash for the back.
All nine of the ornaments are going to be finished in the same way.
While I had my finishing bits and bobs out, I decided to FFO my January ornament too, which was the Christmas tree from Modern Folk Embroidery.
I kept the finishing on this very simple, just adding some Chenille around the edge and attached some tiny gems to the decorations.
Happy Stitching!
Sue
I've never seen that blue ornaments chart before, Sue! Love the designs and it will be fun to see them done in your chosen colors. Your first one looks wonderful as does the little Modern Folk Embroidery finish. Hope you have a relaxing, stitch-filled weekend!
ReplyDeleteThank you Carol, I've stitched a few of Joan Elliott's designs in the past and usually find they look better stitched than they do on the charts. My tree is always Gold, Brown and Crystal, so I'm hoping that these will fit in perfectly! Happy Stitching!
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