Hello, I'm Yasuko from Kobe, Japan. "yskmtmr" is my nickname on the net.
I'm very glad to join here, thank you for letting me take part in!
I am a stay-at-home mother of 4 kids and love cross stitching.
Here is my January ornament "Gingerbread house". The design is from Les chroniques de Frimousse. I stitched on 16ct Nutmeg aida with my chosen DMC threads.
Doesn't it look yummy? :)
Happy stitching and see you next time...
Yasuko (yskmtmr)
Hello everyone,
My name is Carolyn & I'm excited about stitching these ornaments. I plan to start in Jan. and hopefully keep up with the months. I've been looking at all of yours and they are lovely - such an encouragement to get them done. Thanks for the inspiration!
Carolyn NC
Thanks for letting me join! I have stitched for quite a few years, but I'm so new to the blogging world like you wouldn't believe! I'm also spending FAR too much time "wandering in blogland" so nothing is getting done, gardening, housework, stitching. I do have a blog but keep forgetting where it is (don't laugh) so I will be back with more information later!
I'm off to the land of the demon thistles, also known as my back garden. We've had lots of rain recently and today is lovely and cool (90 yesterday, sorry, we left England before celsius came in) so a great opportunity to be outside.
gillie
Hello since I just got invited to join the SAL I hope it wil be ok to catch up- I wil try and get my 3 ornies done before the end of the month-
PAtti
http://community.webshots.com/user/pattidagg
http://albertastitcher.blogspot.com/
Hello, everyone. I just found and joined this SAL tonight. I've always loved the Bride's Tree ornaments (saw some lovely blown-glass ones as a child and always wanted some myself) so I'm thrilled to find this blog. I'd forgotten about the Rosewood Manor ornaments and they are very nice, but I think I'm going to stash-hunt for my first set of ornaments.
I was reading back in the blog, and when I surfed The Floss Box to see a house design that had been stitched, I found a biscornu pattern that could be interpreted as pinecones on trees (scroll down toward the bottom for "biscornu21"): http://blog.theflossbox.com/?page_id=289
Patricia (known on several stitching yahoo groups as Dr. P in NC)
Hello everyone!
Thank you Jennifer.
It's good to be here amongst stitching friends doing what we do best ... :)
I must confess Bride's Tree is a foreign concept to me until now. But it is a wholesome idea and quite symbolic.
They'll be no brides, no walking the aisles here just old good wishes :)
Barbara J
Hi,
My name is Joan and I live in Woodbury, Minnesota.
You can catch some of my work on my
blog: stitchingsquad.blogspot.com.
I heard about this SAL from one of my stitching buddy Jill.
I am excited to give this SAL a try.
Not sure yet what I will do with the ornaments,
but I like the idea of doing one a month.
Can't wait to see everyone else's work.
Joan
Hi everyone! I'm Sandy from North Carolina and I'm so excited to be included in the SAL. I will be stitching these for my sister and her husband this year for Christmas. I plan on covering a hat box in satin and lace to put the ornaments in. I probably won't get started until next Tuesday, but I picked fairly easy patterns so they won't take so long to stitch up. I look forward to seeing everyone's progress!
Sandy
I'm Chris from Massachusetts and I'm happy to be part of this SAL. I found a chart I want to stitch for the first ornament and can't wait to get started. I look forward to seeing photos of everyone's work.
I'm Barb from Texas and am thrilled to be part of this SAL. I'm spending today browsing through my charts to find a house for my first ornament. I am looking forward to seeing all the projects everyone stitches.
Hello, I am Jill from Vadnais Heights, Minnesota and I am very excited to join this SAL. I was already thinking of stitching ornaments throughout this year and this will keep me on task. I might even give the whole set as a gift! I have a pattern in mind already for January--I just have to find it.
Hi,
I'm Éva from Hungary, and I'm excited to be joining this SAL! I haven't decided yet what pattern to stitch. I really like Victoria Sampler, but I don't have the patterns, and no place in the on-line classes until end of february. Best Wishes Ornaments from Rosewood Manor is nice, too.
And I love finding patterns, too. I found a nice little house at http://www.leschroniquesdefrimousse.com/ for january:
I look forward to seeing your choices!
I found a fun house to stitch in my stash for January and on the "official" weekend of the SAL will be the time I turn it into an ornament...Finishing (framing or whatever) is what I tend to procrastinate so I am glad to be in the stitch along because I'll be motivated to finish one every month.
I am looking forward to participating in my first SAL! I plan to decide on a Jan design this weekend. I too hope to stitch from my stash. My niece is getting married in July and maybe I will make a set for her. Thanks for the invite!
It's 2008 and I'm ready to get started. I don't know that I will actually start today, but definitely this week!
For my first month I have picked "Christmas Eve" by Brightneedle. It is in the book Small Samplings. It was also given out as a freebie at needlework stores prior to the book being published. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of the piece to show you.
Can't wait to see what everyone else has picked.
Hi, my name is Danica (or Dani) and I live in Virginia. This will be my first SAL and I am looking forward to it. I plan on stitching a set of these for my husband and I (we've been married for almost 2 years). We have a small Christmas tree that these would be perfect for. I think I'm going to use the Something in Common designs that have been posted. I might work on doing a set for my sister at some point as well. I am really looking forward to this :)
I think this SAL is such a lovely idea, I am stitching ornaments for my DD and her boyfriend who will be setting up home together this year, and want to present them with them at Christmas.
I shall be stitching from my stash and picking designs I think they will like, appropriate to the theme, rather than from one designer.
At some point I will have to include a cat, as both are cat lovers!
Eager to start!
Clare
Hi everyone! I am excited to be doing this. I have the chart for these from Rosewood Manor and have been wanting to do them, now I will have the motivation from all of you to get them done in the coming year. My son has just gotten his first apartment and I was thinking I would make these and then I could give them to him for his tree. Still trying to decide on the fabric with each charted at 70x70. Don't want to make them too large that he wouldn't put them on his tree. I am leaning towards an evenweave and doing them over 1 so they would be smaller even then the size would still be about a 3 inch ornament. What is the "official" start date for these?
Hello all,
This is my first SAL. I'm also very new to blogging.
I'm planning to stitch my BT ornaments from my stash as much as possible. This will give me the opportunity to work on projects I've bought for myself over the years that I haven't really touched since. I do way too much obligation stitching.
I also like the idea of stitching from my stash because then my ornaments won't necessarily look like a matched set. Since we have a very eclectic tree, with ornaments from around the world, I like the idea of keeping the hodge-podge character going. I'll let you know which patterns I choose as I go along.
I pulled out my house pattern last night. It's a kit of the Liberty Building (Tudor style) in London. Unfortunately, the kit is missing the pattern. I'm hoping I can find a copy of the pattern, otherwise, I think I can probably make do with the picture in the kit.
This should be fun!
I have been in love with these ornaments since I saw a glass set in a catalog, but wanted to stitch a set. I found a few charts for the ornaments, but had not found the 'perfect' set that appealed to my heart. When I saw the Best Wishes chart, I knew this was it! Then I found Bride's Tree SAL blog, and couldn't wait to join. Thanks for inviting me to join the Bride's Tree SAL.