Christmas hanging polerbears

hello, so this is the last part of the wall hanging series with the last 3 sections, 

Again the beads in the last picture were my idea! so i was thinking about making them into Christmas decoration for the tree. however couldn't find a nice pattern to make them look nice, [tried with a plain bit of aida and scrap fabric] so thought i would turn them into a wall hanging instead.  

Christmas wall handing. reindeer

here is part two of this wall hanging featuring these cute reindeer. 

the idea of using sequins instead of cross stitch in the second pic was mind and i think it adds a little bit of sparkle to the overall design.  same with the beads in the last picture. 

the pattern all suggested that the pictures were stitched on white Aida and then filled in with colored stitches, however i decided to try the 3 different color Aida's to give the same effect. 

Christmas wall hanging - snowman.

Below are a couple close up pictures of a cross stitch project i

 completed in 2010 and show it proudly on the wall every Christmas, it was my first attempt at turning cross stitch into something else rather than just placed in frames.  it was also one of the first projects that i complete to keep for myself.

Each square measures around 5 inch's square and took me around 4 days each to do [whilst studying] 

check back in a few days for the next part of this wall hanging! 

first cross-stitch

this is the first ever cross stitch that i can remember actually doing as a gift for someone.  and that someone was my mother :-)

all i can remeber on what got me started was seeing a magazine with this design on and wanting to try and do it, went into a local craft shop and asked for everything i needed. if memory serves me right then i was given some needles for free to start me off.   

it took me ages to finish and kept stopping and coming back to it but eventually it was done and i had caught the cross stitch bug. 

good luck to everyone who is still working away at completing projects for your love ones this Christmas!

Disney #1

Here is one of my cross stitch completions, I started it on the first day of moving into halls on going to university and finished it on the last day of university, by pure fluke than anything else but it marks an important period of my life.  

Now don’t get me wrong, I didn’t spend 3 years just doing the one project, I complete several other items during this same period and this was an on going WIP, I think I got the majority of the stitching done within a few months and it was just the back stitching I had to do, which up till that point I hated doing, I have since found black work and love the effects so find back stitching a lot more enjoyable to do now! Really makes the pictures.  

some of the eagle eyed readers may be able to tell where i have gone 'off pattern'

Anyway, I;ve chosen this one as my first to share with you as this week I’m going on a charity trip to florida, so it seems fitting! ]have set the blog to post some things whilest away so please book mark my page or follow to stay up to date!