...inspiration! Sometimes, you see an idea or a chart online and it takes hold of your heart. You cannot seem to put the idea out of your mind. You are compelled to start the first stitch.
I find the online blogging world to be very inspiring. Often I am amazed at the beautiful designs that talented stitchers offer to us all. On Christmas eve, I found this free design on Danybrod's blog and could not get it out of my mind. I immediately thought it would look so nice stitched and placed together with this quilt I made last year. So I started stitching it on Christmas Day. I then remembered a frame I had in my stash and went to look for it. By great fortune, I had already started the design on a stitch count that made it perfect to fit this frame and stand. Today, I framed it ready to use in my January decorating. I like to decorate with a winter theme in January as a transition after the Christmas holidays.
While I was busy stitching, I decided to change the French text to English. I also changed the top line and a few of the snowflakes to make it fit the design. I am so pleased with the results!
Thread - DMC 3021 and 3032
~ Antoinette van Kleeff
"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."
~ John Ruskin
24 comments:
Right in time to see, day three.
You mean, you stitched this in 2 day's?? And I felt so proud I finished NOEL in time.. And please, please let me look in your frame stash!.. where do you keep them, or find them? And how large is your stash??
Oh that is lovely!!
Happy 2011,
Tanya
Beautiful and lovely, congratulations...
how beautiful! I must stitch this too! You are so fast with your cross stitching!!
This is a beautiful winter piece! The frame is perfect for it.
Look out Heidi, Saskia wants into your frame stash, lol.
This is so cute. I was talking to you as you were suffering with trying to see the tiny design. It came out great. The frame is perfect.
Love you, Mom
Don't you just love it when a frame you already have fits perfectly! It is stunning - I love the colors you used and your changes!
HOW LOVELY!!! And the frame is just perfect for it! Happy New Year...
A simple design, but such beauty. You Heidi are always an inspiration. Your work is beautiful and I love how you always tell us how you finished/framed your work.
I do come here often and NeedleNecessities. I hope you never close that blog, for its there when I need a little nudge to get stitching. Its on my sidebar and always will be.
blessings,
jilly
Love this design. What is the name of it and where can it be found? Your finishing is perfect.
This is a great design, and your frame set it off perfectly. In fact, I searched the Internet and found the design; it should be waiting for me in my printer tray.
Yo really did this design in two days, oh soooo quick! I love it and it was fortunate you had the frame already, so you could alternate the pattern slightly! (wonders of stash, even frame stash ;-) )
Merci Heidi !
Je te souhaite une belle fin d'année et une heureuse année 2011
This is so beautiful, this fame makes it perfect!
That is so beautiful, and you stitched it so quickly. I am off to hunt down the design right now!
Ik vind 'm prachtig en wat past die lijst er perfect bij.
Fijne dag
Heidi -hello my friend so lovely to see you back and what a simply lovely design ,I think I am going to hop skip and jump over to Danybrod and get that design as I need to stitch it.
Loved the snowball comment on my blog lol.
Hugs
So lovely. I love the muted colors.
Thanks for the direction to yet another wonderful source of inspiration, Heidi.
I love this little piece you've done.
Heidi, what a precious winter stitch. I just love it......maybe I will have to hop on over to Danybrod's blog and give it a try. The frame is as always just perfect. Thanks for sharing....hugs from CA.
That is just gorgeous, Heidi! Thanks for the link to the design on Dany's blog... I imagine that a lot of us are going to be stitching this one after seeing how lovely yours turned out :)
Heidi, would you mind if I copy your changes to the design?
I can't believe how quickly you stitched this up, Heidi and you have framed it beautifully.
Angela xx
I loved this design when I saw it in your header and am so happy to have the link to it - thank you! How very lovely your version is.
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