This year I was racking my brains trying to figure out what designs I wanted to stitch for my friends for our annual Christmas party. Looking through my stash of Christmas cross stitch magazines and patterns, I finally decided on Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery's Kawaii Winterland pattern, which is a collection of 25 small designs for Christmas.
I chose the yeti, Christmas pickle, snowman, and the hot chocolate cup to stitch up.
The great part about these designs are the fact that they are small enough to 'finish' on glass ornaments. I had bought some flat glass ornaments at Hobby Lobby.
After ironing the linen, I adhered fabric interfacing paper on the back of each stitched design, which helped to keep glue from ruining the stitching when I glued them to the glass ornaments. I used my Sizzix machine to cut a circle around each design.
I used cording around the edges of each design. For the inside of each ornament, I took Christmas wrapping ribbons, cut them into small pieces, and ran my scissors across them to make curls before putting them in the ornaments. I forgot to take a photo of the backs of the ornaments, but I used red, green, silver, and red/white striped ribbons.
To make sure that the ornament tops stayed on, I put a small bit of glue on the inside of the cap before putting them on the ornament.
I hope my friends like them! (I was tempted to keep them for myself!!!)
Until next time >___<
Those are cute! And what a great idea! LOL I never thought about mounting my stitching on a flat glass ornament. I may have to steal this idea! LOL
ReplyDeleteThese Christmas ornaments just look so great. Great finishing, too.
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