Ornaments

I put the finishing touches on Snowdon this evening.  It was about time; I started him at the end of January.  The stitching has been done for a long time but I was procrastinating about putting in the seaweed and the ornament thingies.  The chart called for Glissen Gloss for the seaweed but I didn't have any so I used some stuff from Rainbow Gallery that I had in my stash -- Arctic Rays, maybe?  Whatever it was, it was a PITA to work with.  But it's on, it's done, and he's kinda cute.

He is from Jemini Designs, from the 2008 JCS ornament issue, and he's stitched on 28-count "miracle mint" Lugana with DMC and GAST fibers, that green stuff and buttons from Just Another Button Company.

Having finished one ornament it was, of course, necessary to begin another.  This one is from the 2008 ornament issue as well -- Bluebird of Christmas Happiness, by M Designs.  Here's the picture from the magazine:

I'm using the called-for "crystal icon" linen from Picture This Plus (32 count) but I switched out the DMC fibers to some HDF silks that I had in my stash.  I don't know what the red is; some mystery silk, also from the stash.  I put in a couple of rows of stitching this evening, but not really enough to be worth taking a picture.

Maybe it won't take 7 months to get this one finished.