The Snow Flower Diaries – Joyful World Sal – December

It’s hard to believe that we are at the start of December already and that means it’s time to share the final panel from the ‘ Joyful World Sal from Snow Flower Dairies.

I say last panel, but in my case I still have three more panels to stitch, not monthly ones but frames from Winter, Spring and Summer, but there’s not hurry to get those done, I can stitch them at me leisure.

What I did do last week was to fully finish the monthly panels, adding different trims for each season, so they are all ready to go when the time comes.

Thank you Maja, for sharing your lovely charts. It’s been a fun year long stitch-a-long and I’m looking forward to finding another to keep me busy stitching throughout next year. 

Happy  Stitching!

Sue

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Chart – Joyful World – December

Designer – The Snowflower Diaries – Maja Matyas

Fabric – 32ct Murano Evenweave – Beige

Threads – DMC (called for & some Anchor substitutes)

The Snow Flower Diaries – Joyful World Sal – November

Happy November everyone!

Earlier in the month I stitched the November panel of the Joyful World Sal from Snow Flower Dairies.  It doesn't really show up in the photo, but I gave the Peacocks tail a bit of sparkle by adding in some Glissengloss. 

Yesterday I FFO’d it onto mountboard and edged it with my Autumn choice of Lady Dot Creates, mini pompoms 

and it's now attached to my Autumn magnetic frame.

Just one more panel left to stitch for December and then this Sal from 2016 (not that I started stitching it then) will be done.  All I have left then will be three more frames for Winter, Spring and Summer.

Happy Stitching!

Sue

 

Chart – Joyful World – November

Designer – The Snowflower Diaries – Maja Matyas

Fabric – 32ct Murano Evenweave – Beige

Threads – DMC (called for & some Anchor substitutes)

Time to Finish the Job

I love my hobby and I’m sure that most of you love to stitch too, but what I’m not so keen on is the finishing of pieces.

Framing is fine, because I just take them to ‘Frames of London’, buy a ready-made frame or pick one up at a charity shop, but it’s the things that aren’t going into frames that give me the most grief, especially if they require me to get my sewing machine out.

Tuesday and Wednesday of this week I decided it was time to make a dent in the pile of things I have sitting here waiting to be FFO’d, or at least get as far as I could with some that are on-going projects

The first thing I FFO’d is ‘Waiting for the Harvest’ from ‘The Winds of Autumn’ book from Blackbird Designs.

 I had a chalkboard pumpkin that was perfect for this.

I used a rectangle of scrapbook paper and attached the piece onto mount board before decorating it with some buttons and flowers.

Next up it was the panels from two  Sal’s that I’m working on at the moment.

I made ten little hanging ornaments with the  Jeanette Douglas ‘Mini Bouquet Sal panels.  I still have two more panels for this to stitch, and when the December one is finished I’ll be able to show how they are completed.

I then went on to finish some more of the stitched panels of ‘The Joyful World Sal from The Snowflower Diaries. 

Again, I still have the November and December panels to stitch and then I’m going to do three more frames to change out in Winter, Spring and Summer, so I still have quite a bit of work to do on this one.

And Finally, I couldn’t put it off any longer and got the sewing machine out.

Back in January I started to stitch the ‘Little Sheep Virtues’ from Little House Needleworks and I was going to finish them as pillows, on 32ct linen, two over two. Then, as you have probable seen in a previous post, I changed my mind and decided to stitch them all in piece of fabric with ‘Sheep in the Meadow from Cottage Garden Samplings’ in the centre and changed the linen to 36ct and worked them 1one over two.

The two panels I had already stitched just sat there, but today I made them into two little pillows, with some wool panels I had in my stash.

I still have one or two more things that need fully finishing and I’m hoping that I can do those over the weekend.

 Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Joyful World Sal – Frame

My plan is to have the twelve panels of the Sal be interchangeable and have a stitched frame for each of the four seasons, so today I made a start on FFO’ing the autumn frame.

I found an 8” x 10” frame that fitted the stitched frame perfectly, so I covered some mount-board with batting and put a magnet in the centre, on the front before lacing the stitched frame over the top.

I then went on to FFO the October panel, again stretching it over mount-board and batting before gluing some ‘Lady Dot Creates, small pomp pom trim around the edge and covering the back with some sticky backed velvet.

 The final step was to glue a metal washer to the back 

and mounting it onto the frame.

Happy Stitching!

Sue

 

Chart – Joyful World – October & Frame

Designer – The Snowflower Diaries – Maja Matyas

Fabric – 32ct Murano Evenweave – Beige

Threads – DMC (called for & some Anchor substitutes)

 

 

Happy Stitching!

Sue

Joyful World Sal – October

 I finished the October panel from the 2016 Joyful World Sal, from the Snow Flower Diaries, just in the nick of time!

I also finished the Autumn border that will frame the September, October and November panels, as I change them out each month.

It was stitches on mystery 28ct fabric, 1 over two and I used Weeks Dye Works threads in Rust, Tiger’s Eye, Crimson, Red Rocks, Terra Cotta, Taffeta, Charcoal and DMC 327.

  Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Chart – Joyful World – October and Border

Designer – The Snowflower Diaries – Maja Matyas

Fabric – 32ct Murano Evenweave – Beige

Threads – DMC (called for & substitutes) Weeks Dye Works