Sarah's 12 Days of Christmas Sampler - HELP PLEASE??

[Mabel Figworthy]

They're so detailed -- great!

But... how can you tell they're French?

I saw a Margaret Sherry version in a mag recently, and her three hens wore berets and carried baguettes under their wings .

[Sarah Gixxer]

He he, they're not noticeably French, are they? I was tempted to give them red, white and blue striped combs!

[charmagne_capalad]

This surely gets lovelier as it grows!

[Sarah Gixxer]

Day 4 - Calling Birds......


Has anyone noticed that 6 of the days have birds on them? I hadn't thought about it until I started stitching this. Anyway, 5 Gold Rings is next so I've something different to do!

[Mabel Figworthy]

You're really flying through this!

*just realises that what with all the birds she may be accused of a bad pun*

[Spark]

This pattern is so cute and you are making excellent progress!

[Rose]

These are going so fast. What is the finished size of the pattern? If you already said sorry to ask again

[irishstitcher]

Beautiful

[agi]

I simply love it! Now, I think I will be able to do it because Lisa is sending me the magazine - but will have to save it for next year, won't have time now.

[Sarah Gixxer]

Rose, the finished design is 18 x 14 inches.

Agi, I'm sure you'll love stitching this if you get time to do it next year - each box is like a little individual project. It's just the huge border I'm not looking forward to - full of holly with dozens of french knots! If I was you though, I would recommend not using Anchor Reflecta gold metallic thread where the pattern tells you and finding an alternative, because it's HORRIBLE to work with! I'm persevering because I've already done quite a lot with it, but I shan't be using it in the future.

[charmagne_capalad]

on finishing the 4th day....wow! this is really going so fast! ...the 5th one's gonna be posted soon

[StephanyNJC-UK]

Do beads instead of the pesky french knots!

[Sarah Gixxer]

Mmm, I'd love too - I've already done dozens of knots though so I suppose I'll have to continue in the same vein. There are going to be lots of gold beads on this though, when I've finished with the stitching. I doubt I'll have this done for this Christmas now - we're nearly into November already and even if I got the stitching done, no chance of getting it framed. Never mind, I'm enjoying doing it.

[kymbaker]

this is such a lovely design for Christmas and you are making great progress with it. I can't wait to see the finished article.

[nicgoss]

Wow What a speedy stitcher you are!!!

Love this and you've made great progress

[Sarah Gixxer]

Well, I had a week's break from this while I did some of my koi, but picked it up again tonight. This pic is Friday night's progress. We stayed up until 1am watching bad Halloween movies and me stitching, so I got lots done! I decided to do most of the outlines of the boxes so I can see better where I'm going......

[coffee_freak]

[Rose]

Looks really good.

[Sarah Gixxer]

Here's the next update on this - 5 days done now! There are some gaps in the rings which are spaces for adding gold beads.

[agi]

Really beautiful, Sarah!