Christmas Joy

Design is from a website freebie, but I stitched the J, O and Y separately and made them into pincushions. I attached long ribbons on the back of the pincushions and knotted them around the wreath to secure. I added some other ornaments, such as bells, poinsettia, drums, holly ivy, etc. It turned out great. This is a special gift for my reverend in my church.

I made two more wreaths for other reverends. I used the Christmas theme pincushions that I made last year and didn’t use, and were just sitting around. These were also from website freebies but I don’t know where. I hope they like these wreaths.

Two Wreaths

I made two more wreaths for friends.

11th Wreath

I stitched "Joy", “NOEL”, "Love" and "Fa la la" on green aida and have made them into a wreath. Yes, it’s my 11th wreath, and I already gave it away. It’s very colourful and pretty.

Her Flower Garden SAL 2

6 parts of Sal from A Box of Chocolate is now completed.
I stitched 3 blocks, Fuchsia, Sunflower and Daisy this week.
I arranged them on a wreath, my 10th wreath, but it doesn’t look good somehow, due to all the variety of colours on each of the blocks.
It’s not easy to arrange them all together.

Maybe I’ll split them into two groups and make them into something else.

9th Wreath...

Designs are from here. There are 12 Primitive Ornament patterns, but I stitched only 8 of them on white colour fabric and dyed them with onion skins. I made these as pincushions and then made another wreath. This one is going to be for my brother’s family for next Christmas.

8th Wreath....

This design, Christmas Eve (?), I stitched as Black and White and made it into a wreath. What I planned was a nice black & white theme, but it wasn’t easy to arrange these two colours, so I added some extras, such as the red bird and red poinsettia, etc., and it turned out a little better.

Prairie Birds

The Prairie Schooler #24, I stitched only 8 of the 10 designs before I ran out of fabric, as I was using left-over fabric, and made a wreath in 2006. This was my 4th wreath.

Mini Wreath

I made these mini wreaths as small gifts for friends.

2006


2008

Starry Night

The Prairie Schooler #109, I stitched only 6 of the 7 designs and again, made a wreath, in 2006. This was my 6th wreath.

St. Nicholas

The Prairie Schooler #20, I stitched these in 2006 and made them into a Christmas Wreath. This was my 5th wreath.

I stitched everything except the white colour (Santa’s beard) on white fabric, as I didn’t have right fabric. Then I coloured the work-in-progress, by boiling in water with onion skins for about 10 minutes. Then I stitched Santa’s beard with white. They turned out good.

Noel Wreath

I chose two free patterns of Noel, but stitched on red fabric each word separately, and made a 7th wreath in 2008. I gave this one to my brother’s family as a Christmas gift and they loved it.

Monthly Project (Christmas Wreath)

This was my 2nd wreath, completed in 2004. It was a monthly project from a Korean web site. Every month one theme (something to ride, quilt, butterfly, etc…) was given by the owner of site. I chose a theme that was closest to a Christmas theme, to make a wreath. Somehow, that site was closed in the summer time, so I picked some other patterns to make 12. I don’t know why I was thinking that it had to be 12 … Anyways, I managed to finish.

Summer Sampler Wreath

The design, originally called “Summer Sampler”, is from an old UK magazine, and has 9 blocks in a criss-cross square design (picture below). However, I stitched the 9 blocks separately and sewed them individually to make a wreath. I changed some words too: “amo” (I don’t know what this word means) to “love”, in the heart design; and the Initial “MT” to “HOME”, in the house design. I had kept this wreath for 4 years, in my home, but recently gave it to my sister when she came to Canada this past fall.

12 Days of Christmas Wreath

Twelve days of Christmas designed by Robin Clark. I finished this wreath Dec/2003 for my daughter.