Be prepared

Time to start Christmas crafting.

Firstly I've done a new text to hang under the Amazing Grace.  This time I've used pyrography.

And secondly I've made my Christmas cards.

Last year I didn't get organised an landed up buying them instead so this year I'm prepared - as long as I don't put them somewhere safe and lose them.

Embroidery Sampler

Oops, forgot to post again yesterday.

This week I finished an embroidery sampler I was working on.

About 9 years ago we did this sampler design as a workshop project at the embroidery group I belong to.  This year they redid it for new members and I thought I would like to do it again and see how differently it would come out as I worked it again.  I deliberately didn't look at the first one at all as I worked on the second, although of course I knew what colours I had used and chose a different pallette. 

This is the one from 9 years ago.

It is interesting to see the areas where I have worked in a completely different way, and also to see some areas where I have made exactly the same choice of stitch.  Also, the different colour pallette gives a completely different look.

Also working this I have found that I really like stem stitch used as a filling stitch.  The bottom flower on the new sampler is done with this technique and I really like how it has come out.

More of the same

Oops, forgot to post yesterday. More pyrography this week, and more to do, but some can't be posted until after Christmas.

The tree was just a practice as the disc has a crack in it, shame as it came out well.

New Pyrography

This week I've gone back to pyrography, making sets of coasters for my son-in-law's Christmas stall.

Hopefully there are many more to follow. Very pleased with how they've turned out so far.