Tis the Season

It is finally finished. Had started this in October of 2010 for Christmas 2010!!! Life just got in the way so it wasn't ready in time.

It is now done and I just love it.

The Cardinal is so beautiful and it was a delightful area to stitch, the leaves did drive me a bit crazy. Over all I loved stitching this design.

Wild Berry

These strawberry pincushions from the 'Joyeux Noel' book are just wonderful to stitch up and put together. These are 'thank you' gifts. I have several more to do as gifts for birthdays and thankyou's they work up quickly.

Two of the strawberries are already wrapped in a clear cellophane bag with a pretty cardboard and two hole punches for the ribbon tie.

I stuffed them with wool roving and then secured a curtain strip weight to the back seam to keep the strawberry from rolling over.

Roberta