Last Christmas Ornament for 2008

This past weekend was the Christmas ornament SAL weekend that I’ve been stitching with the lovely Leena all year – and I’m delighted to report that we’ve agreed to carry on for 2009! I’m really pleased about this because it’s so much nicer to stitch along with someone else, particularly when that someone is Leena, who I’ve really loved getting to know better – you are a real gem Leena :) So this past weekend was probably my last ornament SAL weekend with Leena for this year as the weekend that it falls on in December is during our trip home to BC for Christmas, and I’m not sure yet what I’ll be taking with me to stitch.

I’ve had my eye on this little Lizzie*Kate design for a while now, and have finally gotten around to stitching it – actually, it’s fair to say that I have had my eye on a vast number of Christmas ornaments that I plan to stitch as I’ve just measured my Christmas designs folder – it’s a whopping four inches thick. That’s vertical, people, as in a four-inch high stack of charts and designs that need to be stitched up. That’s the other reason that I love the weekend with Leena – because it ensures that I actually do something about actually stitching up all these Christmas designs that I so love rather than just admiring them and telling myself that eventually one day I will stitch them up :)

Okay, enough rambling, here is the photo of this weekend’s stitching:

Design: Wishing Ewe Joy – Lizzie*Kate (from Tiny Tidings IX)
Linen: 32ct Raw linen
Floss: as charted, with one substitution

And here's a photo I've forgotten to post before, it's the finished for for my sister this Christmas (shhhhh mum and dad, no telling!).




Happy stitching!