Many designers are posting free charts on their blogs as a Christmas treat. I have several more of my favorites to show you so you can be sure to pack a a few supplies and treat yourself to some stitching as you travel or wait at home for Santa.
First, here is Judy Harper's lovely Christmas flower/four way bargello ornament. You start with a red Christmas rose and then fill out the design with bargello wave patterns. Lovely!
http://needle-crafts.blogspot.com/2008/12/four-way-bargello-ornament-or-egg.html
Laura Perin has posted links to two free Christmas quilt ornaments on her blog. They are beautiful! She is a terrific designer and these two squares show off her inventiveness with color and pattern very well.
http://two-handedstitcher.blogspot.com/2008/12/need-little-christmas.html
Finally, need a Christmas present for a stitching friend? Mary Corbet shows off a favorite and very easy to make tool from her stitching tool box--a needle roll. Very clever!
http://www.needlenthread.com/2008/12/keeping-my-embroidery-needles-all.html
Have fun making something special for the holidays. By the way, the Plum Pudding canvas above is by Joy Juarez and is on sale at eBay now for $145 with free shipping.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Plum-Pudding_W0QQitemZ190271421525QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item190271421525&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205|66%3A2|65%3A12|39%3A1|240%3A1318|301%3A1|293%3A7|294%3A50
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow
2 comments:
My mother (still living) made Plum Pudding every year. She would make it the year earlier, and then would keep it wrapped in brandy- soaked cloths during the year in the refrigerator. Then for Christmas Night she (and my dad when he was living) would warm up the Plum Pudding ... soak it once again ... and then flame it for the crowd to ooh and aah. (We had the lights off and the flaming was an exciting time.) To this day, I enjoy Plum Pudding and the Hard Sauce that she made ... and I even love Fruit Cake because my mom made a wonderful fruit cake.
It was fun to see someone create a Plum Pudding needlepoint canvas. I thought that it was an experience known by only a few. I hope that someone gets that canvas and has the memories that I have about Plum Pudding. Robin
What a memory! Plum pudding is not something I have any experience with but the entry of a flaming dish must have been awe-inspiring and the happy culmination of much prepration. Hope someone with memories half as good as yours takes the pudding home.
Jane, wondering if I should go buy a bit of fruitcake from the Monks near Chilly Hollow
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