Taking My Own Sweet Time

Four years ago I made a "temporary" cover for my stitching journal. Today I finally made a new cover for it. I used Cool Christmas, which I also stitched four years ago. I really take my time finishing things lol
It was a bit of an adventure because I got the margins wrong, had to improvise and then got confused about the actual assembly. But all's well that ends well and this is so much cuter in person!

Overthinking Things

This is one design I knew I had to stitch as soon as I saw it making the rounds last year. Cool Christmas, found in the 2010 JCS Christmas preview. I'd never heard of the designer, Fresh Thread Studios before and they don't seem to have a home page, just a Facebook one...

I really like the non-traditional colours of this piece. But part of the overthinking is the realization that that sun is too big! There is no way a sun shining from behind a tree can be that big.


And those are some massive presents, specially the skinny ones since they're half the size of a tree. (Or the tree is really tiny, but when you take into consideration the size of the sun...)


But it still adds up to a cute finish.

Title	Cool Christmas
Designer	Fresh Threads Studio
Start date	March 27, 2011
Finish date	April 10, 2011
Total time	9 hours
Fabric	32 ct White lugana
Floss	DMC as charted, except for 3848 in place of 3812