Getting Ready

Are you starting to get ready for all your Christmas and holiday season stitching?  I am!  I have quite a few sewing projects in the works. 
I am looking over all my metallic floss and seeing if I need to add more colors:

I am planning some embroidery projects...

and starting to stitch some embroidery projects.  I love this time of year.

Some Christmas Stitching

I just finished stitching this beautiful motif:

I used the back stitch as a filling stitch.  I really like the way this stitch worked as a fill:

I used three strands of cotton floss  {DMC #321} and everywhere you see gold glints, I added a few strands of gold blending filament {Kreinik Metallics #002HL}.  Now I have two more words to transfer and stitch - Peace and Noel.  I am trying to decide if I want to do all three in the red/gold or maybe each one in a different color combination.  Wouldn't these make a nice set of pillows for Christmas?

Victorian Christmas stitching

I wanted to share some stitching I recently finished.  These patterns are all from my Victorian Christmas embroidery pattern packet.

I love this Victorian era inspired lantern and:

lettering:

It looks so beautiful! I stitched this on a huge piece of cotton, not knowing exactly what I was going to do with it when finished.  I also have these patterns - Joy,  Peace,  and (not shown) Noel.  I think these would be perfect for a table runner/napkin combo!

Here are the colors I used for this stitching:

Victorian Christmas Embroidery Pattern!

I have a new embroidery pattern packet in my Etsy shop!  This one is full of gorgeous patterns for Christmas stitching projects.  All the patterns are in a Victorian era theme.  Here I am stitching some Victorian style lettering along with a lantern:

This is what the pattern packet looks like:

I will be sure to post my progress on this stitching!