My issue of Just Cross Stitch’s Annual Christmas Ornaments issue arrived on Friday (much joy and whooping followed). I know some people have expressed their disappointment with this issue of the magazine but I just love this year’s issue (I wonder if it just caters better for people like me with no specific taste!!).
Here’s a little list of my favourites (for when I’m stuck for something to stitch, hahaha):
- Hands to Work – Christmas Holly
- Designs by Cathy Jean – Fill with love
- Legacy Designs – Quaker Darning Sock 2007
- Nordic Needle – Nordic Star
- Lizzie Kate – Joy
- M designs – Noel in the tree
- Cherished Stitches – A colonial Christmas ornament
- The Workbasket – Christmas house
- Homespun Elegance – Heart of Joy
- Milady’s Needle – Christmas Blessings
- Knotted Tree Needleart – Santa
- Carriage House Samplings – Toy Shop Sign
- Erica Michaels Designs – Quiet night
- Brightneedle – 2007 Merry Xmas Pinkeep
- Blue Ribbon Designs – a wish for hope and peace
- Fancy Work – O Tannenbaum
- Shepherd’s Bush – Sweet Baby
- Little by Little – Merry and Bright
- Full Circle Designs – The Decorator
- SamSarah Design Studio – Winter Love
- monsterbubbles – Paris (I keep dreaming that one year we’ll have Christmas in Paris – hey, a girl can dream!)
- The Stitchworks – Jingles the penguin
- Kitty and Me – Christmas Blackwork Cat
- Glory Bee – Rudy
- Jemini Designs – Woodlands woodpecker (I’m really starting to appreciate her bird ornaments)
- Midsummer Night Designs – Christmas Angel
- The Sunflower Seed – A star, a star
- Prairie Moon – Joy
- Gentle pursuit – Thy works are good (finished differently)
- Rosewood Manor – Christmas lace snowflake
- Little House Needleworks – Snow Bunnies
- Ladybird Lane – Most wonderful time
So for me, a great issue with lots of fun stitching to look forward to. I have been looking through my back issues whilst waiting for this new issue to arrive and have been enjoying myself immensely – there are new discoveries in each issue and things I thought I’d never stitch for myself, I now think would be just the thing! Maturing taste, perhaps? Somehow I doubt it, frankly!!
On another note, I do find it disturbing that we have cooked something out of this issue before I have even finished my first ornament from it! We had the Ladybird Lane recipe for Sausage and peppers – Delicious!
Oh, and since my last entry, I went to a wedding. Lee-Anne (a girl I used to live with) married Ryan (a very lucky man) on Friday Afternoon. It was a lovely ceremony. The reception was fantastic, Joel and I had a fabulous time. Lee-Anne and Ryan planned it all and it went off wonderfully. Congratulations to Ryan and Lee-Anne! I wish you both much future happiness and joy.
