Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Historische Stickmuster

At the end of my July round-up, I mentioned that I was so engrossed with stitching on this project that I carried on stitching beyond the two days I had in my plans and continued stitching until the end of the month.

At that point I was getting so close to a finish, so decided instead of putting it away again until the end the month,  I would keep going until it was done.

Just four days later I had my first finish for August and what’s more, the finish of my first project from Historische Stickmuster.

When it was done, I added my initials and the year amidst the snowflakes.

Here are all the details:- 

Design by  –                                 Historische Stickmuster

Fabric –                                        32ct unbleached Linen

Threads –                                     Soie d’Alge silks

Start Date -                                 25^th December 2025

Finish Date -                               4^th August 2026

Number of days stitched on -    42 days

At this time, I’m still not sure if I want to frame it or make it into a pillow for the chair in my sewing room, but whatever I decide, it will be done into for Christmas.

Happy  Stitching!

Sue 

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June Round Up!

Summer rolls on and I’m not one to complained, but I’m pleased that the weather has cooled down just a little.  

We hit 37.7C in some places in the South East, exceeding our June record and we are not used to those kind of temperatures.  I’m just happy that I don’t have to go out to work and am fortunate enough to have a patio and I nice big awning to sit under and stitch.

 

Which brings me to my stats for June:-

I had another productive month and I worked on 2 wip :- 'Ride the Waves'  and 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town'.

I had 5 new starts. :- 'A Stitch for all Seasons', 'Six Geese A-Laying', 'Build Sandcastles', 'Collect Sea Shells' and  'Make Memories'.

There were 5 finishes :- 'A Stitch for all Seasons', 'Ride the Waves', '6 Geese A-Laying',  'Build Sandcastles' and  'Collect Seashells'.

And a total of 8 FFo’s,- 5 of which were finishes from last month.:- 'A Stitch for all Seasons',  'Ride the Waves', 'Beach Rules', 'Soak up the Sun', 'Floral Etchings 2', 'Angel with Lantern', 'Patterned Pretties 4'  and  'Collect Sea Shells'.

As you can tell from the details above, I’m still working my way through ‘ Beach Rules’ from  Primrose Cottage,  and speaking of FFO’ing, I’m always keeping an eye out for interesting finishing pieces to use with the remaining panels.

I knew as soon as I saw this little frame in ‘The Range’,

that with a little bit of jiggling around with the chart, it would be perfect for my next panel, ‘Collect Sea Shells’.

I did a 90 degree flip, making sure that all the elements of the original are still in there and I added a seagull, stitched on perforated paper to hide ‘Home’.

So with ‘Build Sandcastles’ waiting to be FFO’d, I now have

 just two more panels to go and have already made a small start on ‘Make Memories’.

The wip I pulled out and continued to stitch on was ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’ from Historische Stickmuster  and is the project I always stitch on the 25^th and 26^th of the month.

This is where I left it

And this is where I am now.

I actually carried on stitching on this until the end of the month, so managed quite a bit of the top left side and I'm now almost 3/4 done.

Looking forward,  July’s stitching will as always consist of my ‘Christmas’ stitching and the second month of  ‘Cross Stitch Camp 2026’,  which involves stitching something patriotic, or something with the colours of your country’s flag.

There’s lots of red white and blue patriotic charts out there but very few with Union Jacks or the flag of St George, so in the end I decided to forget stitching something with an actual flag on it and just go with Red, White and Blue.

I’ve downloaded ‘July Garden’ from The Sub Rosa Design   and am ready to go!

 Happy Stitching!

Sue 

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Beach Rules

Designer – Primrose Cottage

Fabric – 36ct Hand Dyed Linen – Coffee Craft Fabrics

Threads – 

Classic Color Works

Black Coffee

Blue Corn - sub to How Do You Blue (Roxy Floss Co)

Caribbean Waters - sub to Take A Bough (Roxy Floss Co)

Cherry Cobbler

Deep Blue Sea - sub to Mountain Range (Roxy Floss Co)

Peanut Brittle - sub to Tahiti Orange (Classic Colorworks)

Sassy Brass - sub to Colonel Mustard (Roxy Floss Co)

Storm Lake Sunrise - sub to Oink(Roxy Floss Co)

Trail Dust

DMC

B5200

503  - sub to Whistler (Roxy Floss Co)

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Designed – Historische Stickmuster

Fabric – 32ct unbleached Linen

Threads – Soie d’Alge silks

 

April Round-Up!

 April just flew by, but I still managed to have a productive month of stitching. 

My stats show I stitched on 6 projects in all, working on 3 wips and 3 new starts and I ended up with 4 finishes and 2 FFO's.

The 3 wips were :-

Bluebird of Happiness - Cottage Garden Samplings

'Santa Claus is Coming to Town' Historische Stickmuster

and 'Patterned Pretties' - Jeannette Douglass Design.

This one ended up being one of my 4 finishes and will be fully finished into a pin pillow. 

The  3 new starts, brought the total of finishes to 4 for the month.

Four Calling Birds from Bothy Threads   '12 Days of Christmas'.

I love how this piece is coming together!

Quick Quaker Sal from Modern Folk Embroidery.

Jacob designed this chart to celebrate his 15 year anniversary of working with Caroline from Evertote and Kerri from Roxy Floss Co.

The final new start was 'Floral Etchings' from Heart in Hand, which you will see I have stitched as individual panels instead of all as one piece.

The reason for this was that around  7 years ago I purchased a large mirror for my hallway and they had this picture frame matched it. 

Ever since I've been on the lookout for the perfect design and I struck lucky when I came across Floral Etchings.  I purchased all four designs, with the intension of swapping them out each season.

At first I was going the stitch the chart as is and  discard the photo mount,  but in the end I decided to stitch them individually as you see above, which also saved wasting a lot of the linen and then  mounted them behind each of the apertures. 

 My final FFO was the month long 'Quick Quaker Sal' from Modern Folk Embroidery which I popped into a custom made from Picture Frames Express.

Plans for May might well change because I tend to be spontaneous with my stitching, but I'm going to try the May phenomenon that is known as 'Mania'.  

Stitchers perceive this in many different ways, from new starts every day, only work on wips, or focus on finishing,  but I'm going to try and have a new start on every weekend during the month, meaning a total of 5, although at the moment I have no idea which charts I 'll pick up.

As well as that, I still plan to do my 25th & 26th Christmas stitching as usual, and finish the next '12 days of Christmas' panel which will be '5 Gold Rings'.

So that's it for now...........I hear my needle calling, Lol.

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Bluebird of Happiness

Designer – Cottage Garden Samplings

Fabric – 36ct Powder Puff – Roxy Floss Co / Evertote

Threads –  Weeks Dye Works

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Designed – Historische Stickmuster

Fabric – 32ct unbleached Linen

Threads – Soie d’Alge silks

Patterned Pretties #4 - Kit
Designer – Jeannette Douglas Design
Fabric – 36ct Mystery Linen
Threads –NPI & ColorWorks Silks 

12 Days of Christmas

Designed – Bothy Threads - Kit

Fabric – 14ct Zweigart Aida - White

Threads – Standard Cotton, Pearl Cotton and Gold Thread

Quick Quaker

Design by  – Modern Folk Embroidery

Fabric – 32ct ‘Dune’ Hand Dyed Linen from Chromatic Alchemy

Threads – Hand Dyed Cotton from Roxy Floss Co

Frame - Express Picture Frames

Floral Etchings

Design by  – Heart in Hand

Fabric – 28ct 'Inca' - Fox & Rabit

Threads – Own Conversion - Roxy Floss Co, Anchor & DMC.

Four Calling Birds – Bothy Threads – 12 Days of Christmas

 On the fourth day of Christmas my truelove gave to me……..

Four Calling Birds.

and this prompted another letter from Emily to her sweetheart Edward:-

Dec 28
Dearest Edward,
What a surprise! Four calling birds arrived this morning.

They are very sweet, even if they do call rather loudly - they make telephoning almost impossible - but I expect they'll calm down when they get used to their new home.

Anyway, I'm very grateful, of course I am.
Love from Emily.

You'll notice there are some beads on this panel.

I continued to stich on 'Patterned Pretties' again

last week too  ………

and boy is that some intense stitching!

I have one final thing to share and that’s some photos from a day out I had last week........I do love a good day trip!

My cousin and I visited Arundel castle, down by the south coast, near Brighton, for their Tulip Festival and what a beautiful day we had.

We had heard reports about them being very worried about the unpredictable weather we have been having lately,  because the wind and heavy rain flattens the tulips, which are blooming about two earlier this year. 

We were very lucky though and it stayed dry but cold while we were walking around.

Just to be clear, it was very busy and there were loads of people there but with the aid of some AI editing, I was able to remove them from my photos, so please don't think we had the castle and grounds to ourselves, Lol!

 Happy Stitching!

Sue

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12 Days of Christmas

Designed – Bothy Threads - Kit

Fabric – 14ct Zweigart Aida - White

Threads – Standard Cotton, Pearl Cotton and Gold Thread

 

Patterned Pretties #4 - Kit
Designer – Jeanette Douglas
Fabric – 36ct Mystery Linen
Threads –NPI & ColorWorks Silks