With My Needle JCS Ornament Issue Designs (Adana)

These are the With My Needle JCS ornament issue designs from 2004-2005-2006. I have three of the five pieces in this series stitched as I still have the 2003 design and the additional design from 2006. These are a really quick stitch and I'm doing mine on Belfast linen with Threadgatherers Silk n Colors 'In The Reds'.

The pieces in the issues and that I've stitched are as follows:

2003 - A Needleworker's Pocket

2004 - Christmas Swan Needlebook (top left)

2005 - A Quaker Scissors Sheath (right side)

2006 - Quaker Pinkeep and Scissor Weight (scissor weight- bottom left)

The Lost Ornaments or how I spent my SAL weekend (Adana)

Amazing what you can find if you dig deep enough.

This Mary Garry Christmas Heart Pincushion (2000 JCS orn) was stitched in 2003 and I was all ready to finish it when it was lost. Yesterday it was found. (stitched with DMC floss)

Come Let Us Adore Him (Lizzie*Kate) was finished in the final days of 2002. It was unfinished when I went to San Diego in November, but I came home with a broken elbow. Finishing the stitching on this piece after 8 weeks off work and not stitching became my therapy. Before work this morning I pinned this piece and will lace and frame it tonight. (Stitched with overdyed floss)

Quarterly Ornament report

I've been bad. I've been stitching and not posting here and then yesterday found I couldn't, so I want to thank Nicki for the renewed invite she sent me (THANKS NICKI). I am trying to do an ornament a month all year and so far so good. As a non-serious stitcher, I'm inspired by all the talent I see here and with each ornament I see, I find myself saying "I want to stitch that one."

MARCH: Christmas Basket Ornament/Theron Traditions(JCS orn1999). One Anchor thread over two made this a major quickie.

FEBRUARY: Winter's Eve/Country Cottage Needleworks (JCSorn2006) Changes galore and I plan to stitch it two more times, all different. The trim on my own house is raspberry and all my moons are blue because I used to have a website called "Once in a Blue Moon"

JANUARY: Spruce Fob/Heart's Content Kit. I'm not sold on this being an ornament just yet, but we'll see.