Off on Another Big Adventure!

I’m leaving this morning for a big stitching adventure in the UK.  I’m taking the canvas landscape class at the Royal School of Needlework and spending a week at the Bath Summer Textile School, taking two classes, one with Jean Littlejohn and Jan Beaney and one with Janet Bolton.  I’ll also be sight seeing in Oxford and London, with several stitching and textile exhibits on my itinerary.  I’ll be taking pictures and will post all about my trip when I return.  I hope all these guys aren't on my flight!

I can’t be sure of my internet availability while I’m gone, so I am scheduling posts to appear while I’m gone.  The past few months I have been secretly stitching ornaments, so I can post and write about one each day I am gone. Some will be for our tree and some are for gifts.  Here is my first ornament –

The Elf with Candle ornament

This little elf was part of a larger tablecloth pattern of elves and black cats from the Danish Handcraft Guild.  I used cotton floss on 28 count evenweave and made the cording from the same floss.