Red And White (And With A Button)

This month's finish is an Aurelle biscornu, but I don't know which one and I can't find a link to it.
I'm determined to use up this piece of red aida and I just use white because it's such a lovely contrast and I never have to think hard about colours.
Both sides are the same but with the bottom lacking the giant motif at the centre.

Title	Unknown Aurelle Biscornu
Designer	Aurelle
Start date	November 2, 2014
Finish date	November 5, 2014
Total time	11 hours
Fabric	16 ct red aida
Floss	DMC B5200

February Smalls

Running a couple of days late, but here are my smalls for this month. Yep, smalls. I finished two.

The first is a bookmark from Pelin Tezer's Turkish Sampler (details here)

Turkish Sampler
25 ct White Lugana
My biscornu for the month is Aurelle's Biscornu #9:
This is what it looks unassembled. I didn't want to stitch the top again so I just picked out the corner motifs and stitched them in one strand.
I wasn't sure whether the red would work on that particular fabric but I like how it turned out.
I decided to bead in every stitch because I felt reckless. It was reckless because I'm very bad at guessing if I have enough beads and I always worry. This time I threw my hands up in the air and went for it anyway. I did worry at the end but as always it was pointless. I have plenty of beads left over.

Title	Biscornu #9
Designer	Aurelle
Start date	February 25, 2014
Finish date	February 27, 2014
Total time	7.25 hours
Fabric	32 ct Waterlily Linen
Floss	Crescent Colours Ruby Slipper
Beads	Mill Hill 3049

Now numbering seven

I decided over Thanksgiving that it had been forever since I'd had a finish (actually only the end of August) and that I needed to finish something. And since it looks like my goal of finishing Sleepy Hollow is a pipe dream I decided to stitch something small. And what is the single small finish that I have mastered?


Yep, another biscornu.


I stitched the #18 biscornu from Aurelle. The blog is French but the freebies are easy to find. The giant Index is your hint;)

I left out a few bits to make it fit onto the scrap of fabric I had.

It's on 32 count waterlily linen. The light pink/peach is Weeks Dye Works Peony and the dark is Crescent Colours Bandana. The beads are Mill Hill 40479. I went a little crazy with the beads and even stitched them to be oriented properly.


Start date October 10, 2010
Finish date October 11, 2010
Total time 7 hours

My collection as it now stands


Clockwise starting from the new one: #18, Bulgarian Motif, Baby Shamrock, my own puttering, Garden biscornu, Fall Dreams, and Love. And except for Baby Shamrock they're all freebies.