The Advents are Finished and a New Year is on the Horizon

 I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas

After all that preparation, it’s hard to believe that it’s over and we are just two days away from a new year.

Christmas for me was a quiet one, but it gave me the time for some stitching and although there was no new start on Christmas Day, I did instead finish the two Advent Sals I had been working on since the start of December.

The first was the countdownsal2023 which I will frame.

The second was the Advent Tree Sal (2022) from em_bea_roidery on Etsy, using the 25 threads from the countdown sal and I finished it in a hoop.

Both sals were fun to stitch, but really do have to thank the team at Evertote, Kerri  from  Roxy Floss Co, and Jacob of Modern Folk Embrodery, for putting the countdown together for us, as well as the gift of the extra chart on Christmas Day, I can't wait to stitch it!

 

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Countdown Sal  2023

Designer -  Modern Folk Embroidery

Fabric – 36ct Turtle Dove – Roxy Floss Co / Evertote

Threads – Roxy Floss Co / Evertote

 

Advent Tree Sal

Designer -  – Em BeaRoidery (Etsy)

Fabric – 36ct Pearl Grey – Zweigart Linen

Threads – Roxy Floss Co / Evertote

My Mystery Daily Stitch

 

In my last post I said that I had been working on something else, alongside my Holiday Countdown Sal and since the last showing I’ve added two more beautiful colours of Roxy Floss  thread to it.

Anyway, going back to the other project, last year I saw that there was a free embroidery sal from @em_bra_roidery, on Instagram, but by the time I saw it, it was a little late to start.  

Beatrice does a free Sal every year but I thought the trees from last year would be the perfect way to show off the flosses used on the Holiday Countdown so far.

So, on the first of December I stitched the three bands of grass and have been stitching one little tree each day ever since.

I didn’t know if there would be Brown or White floss coming, so I went ahead and added them.  The brown is a Roxy Floss Belsnickel, which was in last year’s countdown and the White is Picket Fence from The Gentle Art.

Happy Stitching!

Sue 

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Prairie Schooler Santa’s & Snowmen

 I managed to get a good bit of stitching last week, despite being out and about for a couple of days.  I had a finish, a new start and I stitched on my Christmas Countdown Sal too.

The finish is the first of the Santa’s from Prairie Schooler ‘Santa’s & Snowmen’. 

All four of the designs I'm going to stitch need to be a little wider to fit in the tray I have for them, so I added a few extra snowflakes  down the side of this one. 

With that finished I started the second one straight away and 

that would have been finished too if I hadn't been working on my Holiday Countdown Sal at the same time.

This is where I was after day 16's stitching.

You can’t get away from the fact that Jacob from Modern Folk Embrodery has an amazing talent for designing and when you put that together with Roxy Floss, magic happens.

There is another little project that I have been stitching on daily too, and it's something intended to show off the daily floss colours.

Pop back to see my next post to find out what it might be.

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Countdown Sal  2023

Designer -  Modern Folk Embroidery

Fabric – 36ct Turtle Dove – Roxy Floss Co / Evertote

Threads – Roxy Floss Co / Evertote

 

Santas & Snowmen

Designer -  The Prairie Schooler

Fabric – 36ct Wren – Picture The Plus

Threads – DMC’s from stash

 

Celebrate 50 New Starts with  @pennysdaughtershares

1 – Christmas Cheer Santa – Mill Hill - 28/10/23 – finished 25/11/23

2 – Smell Me Feet – La –d-da (free chart) 3/11/23 –   finished 2/11/23

3 – Winter Woodland – Patricia Ann Designs – 14/11/23 – finished 16/11/23

4 – Oh Tannenbaum! Part 1 – Brenda Gervais – 15/11/23 – finished 30/11/23

5 – Vanilla Socks (Holly) -     18/11/23 – finished 25/11/23

6 – Reindeer Embroidery Kit – 26/11/23 – 30/11/23

7 –Wip -  Oh Tannenbaum! Part 2 – Brenda Gervais – 30/11/23

8 – Jingle All The Way – Beth Twist, Heartstring Samplery – 3/12/23 – finish 6/12/23

9 – Wip - Countdown Sal 2023 -  Evertote, Modern Folk Embroidery and Roxy Floss Co.  – 1/12/23 –

10 – Santas & Snowmen (1)  - The Prairie Schooler – 3/12/23 – 7/12/23

11 – Wip - Santas & Snowmen (2)  - The Prairie Schooler – 11/12/23 – 7/12/23

Christmas Countdown Sal 2023

 I’ve not shown my progress on my Countdown Sal fromEvertote, Roxy Floss Co, & Modern Folk Embrodery so far but as we are now eight days in, I thought it was about time I shared.

As much as I enjoyed last year’s band sampler, 

I’m enjoying this much more and I think it’s because the colours of the threads are so beautiful. 

Kerri has a knack for coming up such fun names and so far we have had Yule Be Pine, Cherry Blossom,  Fresh Cut, Frost & Found, Biscotti, Yonder, Mountain Range and day eight is a stunning deep burgundy called Sommelier.

So, here’s where we are at day seven and day eight is ready to go.

 

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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 Christmas Countdown  Sal 2023 

Fabric – 36ct Turtle Dove – Roxy Floss Co

Threads – Roxy Floss Co

Chart – Modern Folk Embroidery

 

0 Tannenbaum! – Brenda Gervais

 To say I love this stitch is a bit of an understatement because I’m finding it hard to put down.  Everything about it is just perfect!

I brought it already kitted, so it came with all the called for threads, but with Picture this Plus Heartland instead of the called for Legacy linen. I'm guessing that Legacy must be hard to come by hence the change,  but I’ve not used either before so can't compare the two.  What I do know is that I'll definitely be using Heartland again because it’s so pretty.

Anyway, last night I finished the first part of the project

and made a small start on the second.

During the afternoon I also managed to finish an embroidery kit that I had started.  There’s a bit of a story to this.

It’s a kit from Paraffle, a company that I have never heard of,  and it  was given to a friend of a friend as a gift, but she doesn't stitch.  My friend doesn't stitch either, so it was passed on to me to complete. 

  I thought it would be nice to stitch it and give it back to her finished, seeing as it was originally intended for her, so I made a start, but if I’m honest, I didn’t enjoy stitching it.   

The design is printed on to sticky backed fabric that you stitch through and when it’s finished, you wet it and it dissolves away. 

My problem was that my needle kept getting gummed up and it was so frustrating.    It’s far easier to stitch when the design had been transferred directly onto the fabric, so I don’t think I’ll be doing another one in a hurry.

Anyway, I persevered and got it finished and FFo’d.

As you know, last night I opened and stitched the first part of the holiday countdown and here’s what was in the first envelope.

We had the first part of the chart, which I can’t show you, a beautiful piece of 36ct Turtle Dove Linen, ‘Yule Be Pine’ floss, a floss ring, needle minder and a beautiful tree ornament.

And here’s my first evening of stitching.

See you for day two tomorrow.

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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 Christmas Countdown 2023 with 

Evertote,Roxy Floss Co, & Modern Folk Embrodery

 Fabric – 36ct Turtle Dove – Roxy Floss Co

Threads – Roxy Floss Co

Chart – Modern Folk Embroidery

 

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 Chart – 0 Tannenbaum! – Brenda Gervais

Fabric – 36ct Heartland – Picture This Plus

Threads – Called for – Weeks Dye Works, Classic Colorworks and Gentle Arts Sampler Threads

Happy December.

At last, December is here and we are on the countdown to the big day.

That means it’s the start of the new Holiday Countdown 2023 , a stitchy advent,  put together by Evertote , Modern Folk Embrodery and Roxy Floss Co

Day one is all ready to open and I've pulled out my Evertote project bag from a couple of years back to keep it all in. 

 This evening I’ll be stitching the first part.

December 1st also means I’m off to my first virtual  ‘Jingle Ball’…..please be gentle with me because I've never done anything as technical as this.

If you're going, I hope to 'see' you there.....if I can get in the door, that is and if you see my wandering around looking very lost, please save me and say hi,  Lol!

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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