Tadaa -no more secrets anymore

I hate secrets and now there's none left! See the super top secret Xmas project "Letter to Santa" Advent Calendar. There's also smaller secret Xmas project...

 It all started with placing the right points.

Which needed to be stitched...

...and fastened to the base.

Before I had stitched the main picture of IceBergs and letter in TheWhirlWind.

It all is very YummY!

These two adorable reindeers are designed by Jenny Barton and you can find them at Cross Stitch Favourites magazine's special issue from the year 2007. It includes Rudolph Reindeer trio. I have stitched them all but here you can not see the first one where Rudolph holds his gift still unwrapped. I used loose end threads and stitched them on plastic canvas to create Chrismas tree decorations. During the years I've given them one by one as a gift to a special person.

WoollyChristmasWreath

I realized that I have not shown you the picture of the finished door decoration. It doesn't matter if the base looks weird. You can hide it well. I used wool to hide it. This wool was meant for felting but who says you can't use it in this way? I used the cinnamons first at apple soups and then washed and dried them again. They still smell like the cinnamon should. It is my own design and the idea was born according to it that I wanted to hide the base and use what I already had in my boxes. :)

 This is how it looked at Christmas 2013.

And this is how it looks after Christmas 2014 when one more elf moved in the house. The BarnElf came from The Stable.

Little bit of this and that

I have finally finished my top secret Xmas project. It needed approximately 250 hours of work. Just don't ask how I found the time. I have no idea. Even finishing it by sewing needed 3½ hours. But now it is all done, hidden and sent to Santa Claus. :)

Since that I have found something I inherit few years ago -meaning six napkins. There's cross stitch border and tiny picture on each. They all are similar. It is old design and I have no idea whose pattern it is. But now I have been sewing by hands the edges of them.

Today I designed one more picture to my "talisman" collection. It is a small project so perhaps I pick it up next. :)

I have baked for Christmas a lot sweet and salty. I also made some chocolate which I had to hide from me. Next days I'll spend walking a circle pretending I don't know where I put the chocolate box... 

Christmas Factory slows down

I have arrived to the point where I have only one gift to finish. That's a good point. But it makes me to think what on earth I shall do now. Should I stitch, knit, crochet, sew or perhaps do something else. Reading for hours would also be a good option. But still I need to decide which project to pick up next. I do have one on the list but should I do something smaller first... Still, I just can't be without doing something. A bit obsessed, I know. But all craftlovers know the feeling. I know there's many like me out there. :)

Advent Calendar time

I filled again old Advent Calendars. This year they include only chocolate, so if you are addicted to, don't look. And if you have not noticed to look at my link list take a look at it now. There's a link to DROPS Advent Calendar for the year 2013. Notice that you can change the language of the instructions.

Merry December to everybody!

 I would not mind to have one... or them all.This is over 15 years old project still used every year. It is designed by Maria Wavryn. It is from Marks&Kattens collection (Tavla 55689 "Tomtefar"). It is designed to be a wall decoration but I made it to be Advent Calendar.

It is time to enjoy about Advent Calendar treasures. This one is my own design. Not at all easy to stitch but for sure worth of it.

I added also a picture I made for a friend as a birthday gift. It is my own design but very useful idea, so be my guest and make yours. It is a craft bag. It is sized according to a yarn ball so that she can easily bring for example yarn and unfinished knit of mittens with her where ever she goes to. Carrying a craft with you is a good way to waste time when you need to wait for something somewhere. It makes the time to fly by so much faster. In this kind of design I like about the very usable idea. You can use the left over materials you have. You don't need to go shop to buy anything -no buttons, no zippers, just yarn and imagination. :)