WIP - Black And White

Hi, today I share two of my present WIPs with you.
One is WIP - "Black", CHS's Alphabet Sampler that I wanted to stitch one day for Sweetie Tass.
He is learning ABCs by himselves, so while he was in the hospital I decided to start this for him!


How he learns ABCs is very unusual, guess how?
"A" is for Audi, "B" is for BMW, "H" is for Honda, "M" is for Mazda, "N" is for Nissan, "S" is for Suzuki, "T" is for Toyota, "V" is Volks Wagen, etc... LOL!!
Everything is relating with car makers!
Moreover, learning from car name, like "M" is for Mini (Auntie Carol, don't worry! he never forgets your car!!), etc...


And also why I started this is while he was in the hospital, I wanted to ask my mum to bring something to stitch. But I couldn't tell where they are properly, but luckily I just remembered where this chart and Witchelt 35ct Lambswool are in my stash, and so she wouldn't need to look for many colour of threads if I do this, she just need to found #310, so this was very nice to start!

The last square where add stitchers full name, I stitched Yuko for Tass instead.
And another square to add year, I just stitched 20.., so I can finish this whenever in the near future!
I hope I can finish this before he goes to elementary school.

And another WIP - "White" is here AMAP's "NOEL Blanc".
I remember that I bought this chart when I started cross stitch, it was the first sight love, though there was no chance to stitch until now.
I remember that it was very hard to buy from French shop!
But this year I really wanted to stitch and finish this.

But the choice of fabric was very hard, I was going to stitch on 40ct Flax linen, but there are some one over one part, so I should have chosen another linen.
And I found this very beautiful grayish-purple linen that my friend Domy in France gave me.
This is 28ct and I realised it's at the very limit of margin, though I fell in love with this colour combination, so I hope it will go well at the end when I go for framing!

There are so many borders left that I hate, and there are some other Christmas designs that I want to stitch, so I should stitch and finish this quickly and want to stitch at least one more!

Thank you for your visit.
Take care!

[Black - first one]
Design : Alphabet Sampler © Carriage House Samplings
Fabric : 35ct Lambswool
Thread : DMC


[White - second one]
Design : NOEL Blanc © A Mon Ami Pierre
Fabric : Unknown
Thread : DMC

Three small motifs

I've remembered that I had three small frames in the closet which I've bought for a long time ago.
Then the nice idea suddenly came up in my mind!

I decided to stitch small motifs for those small frames.

I searched and found really nice designs for them.
I stitched with dark brown thread (forgot the DMC #...),
A bird is from free chart @ Echevette, and other two are also free chart from A Mon Ami Pierre.
I've chosen and extracted these three motifs from their charts.

Actually I've mistaken to center the fabric for the first one, so tried to add the lace design on the top, and it became much better than nothing, so... it means I should have added the "lace" for other two as well to unify! lol

These are very cute I think and they are my favourites now!
They are hanging on the post (pillar) in my house now!