24 - Helen Philipps Sampler Card

Helen Philipp's Design adapted to fit in an oval.

23 - Andree Langhorn Bear 3

22 - Andree Langhorn Bear 2

21 - Andree Langhorn Bear 1

20 - Lesley Teare Angel

She is part of an ABC with a different fairy for each letter.  I removed the letter, changed her hair to make it more suitable for this technique and used blackwork to fill her dress in.

19 - Joan Elliott Three Little Maids

These are from the Joan Elliott Oriental Booklet free with WOCS 177.  

I stitched them on scraps of 14 count aida - the middle one the aida had been washed and ironed and shrunk slightly, the left hand one the aida was landscape and the right hand one was portrait.  It just shows that the squares in aida are not necessarily square!

18 - Joan Elliott Three Little Maids

These are from the Joan Elliott Oriental Booklet free with WOCS 177.  

I stitched them on scraps of 14 count aida - the middle one the aida had been washed and ironed and shrunk slightly, the left hand one the aida was landscape and the right hand one was portrait.  It just shows that the squares in aida are not necessarily square!

17 - Joan Elliott Three Little Maids

These are from the Joan Elliott Oriental Booklet free with WOCS 177.  

I stitched them on scraps of 14 count aida - the middle one the aida had been washed and ironed and shrunk slightly, the left hand one the aida was landscape and the right hand one was portrait.  It just shows that the squares in aida are not necessarily square!

16 - Cherry Blossom Fairy

Finally, I have finished the Cherry Blossom Flower Fairy that was the cover kit with WOCS 176.  I have moaned so much about this kit elsewhere!  The threads were a nightmare to sort, so many shades of brown, beige and cream.  I had to compare and contrast with my DMC stash to get them all right in the end.

I made a couple of changes in the backstitch, grey for the wings and red for her dress.  I also coloured the aida in before I started stitching using a nice pale pink felt tip pen.  Then I backed her with pink card which gives a lovely pink hue to the fabric.  I shall experiment more with colouring aida scraps when I do some card making as it seems to work quite well.

The mount came free with the magazine, they actually charged people an extra £1 this issue but as a subscriber we get it all for the same price which is nice.

15 - Flower Pincushion

Cover Kit from Cross Stitcher 238

It isn't finished because I have sent it off to a friend so she can stuff it herself (easier to post flat!).  The stitching was nice and easy but I do NOT enjoy sewing these things together.  Especially the felt.  I find it very hard to keep my stitches nice and even.

14 - Large Wedding Sampler

Stitched on 28 count blue evenweave.

From a chart in Cross Stitcher magazine Aug 98.

13 - Primitive Needle By the Light of the Moon

Primitive Needle By the Light of the Moon

This was stitched as part of a FB tribute SAL to the designer Lisa Roswell who passed away in 2011.

I used various DMC and a Stef Francis variegated for the border.
The owl, basket and mushroom are all tweeded rather than variegated.

Stitched on 28 count Burnt Orange Jazlyn evenweave.
The frame is a plain raw pine coloured with black marker pen. 

12 - WOCS 175 Butterfly

Cover kit from WOCS issue 175

11 - Tor Rhuann Pi Day

 International Pi Day card - designed by Tor-Rhuann designs

I changed the design to a circle as it seemed more appropriate.

Stitched on 14count aida using a variegated thread.

10 - WOCS 174 Butterfly CS 237

The butterfly came from Cross Stitcher issue 237 and the card from WOCS issue 174

9 - Noah's Birth Sampler

Birth Sampler for my friend's son Noah.

Alphabet from Homes & Gardens book except for N, charted myself using the Little People Noah as inspiration.

Stitched on 28 count blue evenweave.

8 - Small Wedding Sampler

Stitched on 28 count blue evenweave.
Adapted from a chart in Cross Stitcher magazine Aug 98.

Small version of finish number 14

7 - CS 237 Felt Mirror Case with 2 Birds

Cover kit from Cross Stitcher issue 237

6 - WOCS 174 Ink Circles

The design came from Ink Circles, one of their freebies.

The card was the cover gift from WOCS 174

5 - Fizzy Moon Anniversary Card WOCS 173

Fizzy Moon Teddy Bear, cover kit with WOCS 173

Stitched on 14 count aida for our Anniversary.