Antique Christmas Trees TO Cindy

Happy New Year 2008, everyone!
I hope everyone will have a wonderful year with full of joy and happiness!

It was a few months ago, Cindy and I traded charts each other, but at then I've just sent A chart, but she has sent me wonderful stuffs include stitched gift...

So I felt really guilty and I promised to send presents to her for Christmas in return!

And this is what I've made for her for the last Christmas!
I've stitched this design twice before, one is mine and the other one has presented to my cousin.

I love this design, so I decided to stitch this again to Cindy, too.

Actually I wanted it to be framed, but it's fragile to send to foreign country, so I finished this as a flat fold easel this time! I trimmed around with gold twist code, and made tassel on the right top.

Actually it was the first time for me to make flat fold easel, so I felt relief when this was finished properly! :D I used dark green velvet for the around stitched piece, and it really suit well with gold code, I think!

This is the backing fabric which I used for this flat fold easel.
It's Christmassy and the colour of this fabric is really matches to the dark green velvet and the gold code.

Threads are over dyed threads and I think this is very beautiful.
This design is very small, but when you framed or make flat fold like this, it looks become quite gorgeous!

By the way, I've got an e-mail from Cindy and I've heard that she was so happy to receive what I've sent to her!
So it also made me very happy!!

"Antique Christmas Trees" © JBW designs
32ct Belfast Linen (Willow Green)

Christmas Present for "K"

I'm sorry, recently I haven't been posting anything at all...
It's quite hard and takes time for me to write in English, that's why...
Is it said English slump?? LOL

Well, here are the photos of my 2nd "Antique Christmas Trees" from JBW design.

I stitched this as a Birthday present to my cousin, as her Birthday is just a day before Christmas Eve! That's why I've chosen this design, this can be both Birthday and Christmas present for her.


Actually I wanted to make the same mount as my first "Antique Christmas Trees" ( the one I made before) , but the same dark green velvet was not left enough...
And moreover, there was no enough time to go shopping to buy suitable fabbies, so I had to look for the one from my fabrics stock...


But, I realised that I have not so many fabbies that will suit this design, I tried to check many fabbies and finally have chosen and decided this fabric...
I thought it's the most Christmas-like fabbie in my stock, that's why...
Uhmmm... I prefer the last one I have , sorry to my cousin (lol)


This time, I used snow flake charm for this design, between reindeers.

Actually I was quite not sure that she would like it or not, but she told me that she loved this so much, so I was very happy to heard of that!

© JBW design "Antique Christmas Trees"
32ct Belfast Linen

Antique Christmas Trees

For the Christmas of this year, I have chosen and decided to stitch this "Antique Christmas Trees" from JBW designs, because it seemed very small and simple so I thought it would be a better choice for the beginer!

Here are the photos of them which I have stitched!
The design is very simple as I wrote above, but, I think this is so cute as seeing the finished piece in the frame!
I made mount with dark green velvet by myself and it very suits well with gold frame which I bought at IKEA!

There was no IKEA in Japan, but recently two stores have just opened! And moreover, one has opened in our city, so we often go there for shopping, only buy small things, though!


 
Well, I added a gold tree charm between the reindeers, and rabbit's tail was stitched by french knots. It looks gorgeous in a gold frame, doesn't it?! I'm really satisfied about this result!

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JBW "Antique Christmas Trees"
Started : 2006/10/29
Finished : 2006/10/31