A Custom Ornament Underway

Boots and Beads has a neat custom project underway based on a work motif personal to her and her job. It's not often we do custom work items as mostly it's pets, locations or school things we want to memorialize. I think this is really clever bow to New Orleans, the job and the traditions so important to Southern life.  Can't wait to see it finished and made up!
http://bootsandbeads.blogspot.com/2015/01/my-current-wip.html

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© Copyright December 12, 2015 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.

How to Make A Christmas Ornament in Four Easy Lessons

I know Christmas is past but I didn't have the time to post Mary Corbet's instructions on how to make an easy but colorful Christmas ornament during the week before or the week of Christmas. I already had too many fun things to post then. So I waited until after the holidays so we can start the new year with a new project for 2015. This doesn't have to be a Christmas ornament, after all. Perhaps your office bulletin board needs an ornament in the company logo colors? Or maybe you just want something decorative to hang on a lamp or door knob. Whatever your desires, Mary shows how to create your own embroidery ornament from start to finish here. At the very least you can use the assembly instructions to make up a round ornament you have already stitched.  Have fun--and Happy New Year!
http://www.needlenthread.com/2014/12/embroidered-christmas-ornament-part-1.html

http://www.needlenthread.com/2014/12/embroidered-christmas-ornament-from-stash-part-2.html

http://www.needlenthread.com/2014/12/hand-embroidered-christmas-ornament-part-3.html

http://www.needlenthread.com/2014/12/how-to-finish-an-embroidered-christmas-ornament.html

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
Blogging at http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com
and at http://chstitchguides.blogspot.com
© Copyright December 23, 2014 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.