Reindeer Games from With Thy Needle and Thread by Brenda Gervais.

Victoria Sampler ornament

Finished With Thy Needle November Word Play

Little House Needleworks 2015 Peace ornament

Wicked Night by Giulia Manfredini of Giulia Punti Antichi



Just Cross Stitch magazine Oct 2015. I got the button from A Stitching Shop. Stitched on 30 ct Gold Weeks linen. I got the thread it called for with my button but decided to change it to GAST Carriage Black.

Shepherds Bush The Goblins.

Finished Shepherds Bush Scary Night.

Halloween Garden by The Primitive Needle



A Lisa Roswell design

Plum Street Olgas Tart

Finished October Word Play

Jeanette Douglas Pumpkin Patch box

Everything in its little box. 

Sampler front

Sampler back

Pincushion front

Pincushion back

Needlebook back

Needlebook front

Scissor keep back

Scissor keep front

Shepherds Bush September

September Word Play

With Thy Needle and Thread Designs August Word Play

After talking to Eileen Bennett of the Sampler House yesterday I realized I hadn't any of the samplers I have done of hers on my blog. So here are a couple

Home is Where You Hang Your Needlework

You can find her wonderful designs here The Sampler House

Band of Many Colors by Eileen Bennett

Band of Many Colors

The Sampler House Eileen Bennet Designs

Betsy Davis by the Scarlet Letter completed

top left

top right



bottom left



bottom right

Shepherds Bush August



Took a break from Betsy Davis sampler to work this little one up for the month.

Betsy Davis sampler fill in tip.



The fill in I used two strands. The borders and strawberry band are

alternating half stitches over one. If you look close you see the stitches run

the same direction on the same rows vertical and horizontal.

Easy to keep correct by just using the vertical threads.

So one direction up and one direction across on the same row

will help you keep correct. I went up the stitch going from

bottom left to top right then came back down next row going

top left to bottom right staying on the vertical threads only. 

Betsy Davis sampler update Full View



the colouring is dark. The fabric is actually a light natural 25 ct linen

Betsy Davis update



I didn't like the satin stitches for leaves around the Queen flowers. Frogged out and replaced with Queen stitches like other Balch samplers I've seen.  I took out some of the old leaves I did and redid them.

 



Far left tree has V and L  symbols and hard to distinguish on the chart.

The leaves are L and branches V

Everything complete except the filling in which is taking as long as the sampler.