This past weekend I got it together and went to the Glass Art Society conference that was being held in San Jose, CA. What an experience! I found myself surrounded by some of the best glass artists around. I saw demonstrations and lectures covering glass blowing, casting, and more glass blowing! I met some really super people and made connections that I hope will last forever. I also saw many people that I don’t get to see all that often…it was a good time. Next year their holding their conference in Corning, which is like Mecca to glass workers. They are the innovators and if we didn’t have Corning we would be living in a completely different world. Back to the conference…if you can go start thinking about it now. I know I am. So the other good thing about going to GAS is all of the information I’ve picked up. And the artists you all need to know about…lots of material for upcoming blogs. Whoo hoo!!
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Christmas Ornament Cross Stitch Patterns
The other day I shared some cross stitch patterns with ornaments on them, so this time around I wanted to share cross stitch patterns that you can use as ornaments. It would be fun to do a whole tree in your craft room with cross stitch ornaments, or just add a few to your tree or give them as gifts.
These little quilt inspired cross stitch patterns from Flamingo Toes look like ornaments and fit in 3-inch hoops, which are perfect for hanging on the tree or using to decorate a gift. I love the pastel colors on these but you can use more traditional Christmas colors if you like.
This cute Christmas tree from Lagodargetoshop uses a single color and fits in a 4-inch hoop, but you could make it smaller if you wanted by trimming the last ornaments and gifts from the sides, or just stitch the tree without any other embellishments. Either way it’s a cute addition to your holiday tree.
Stitched Modern has a super cute collection of retro Christmas ornament cross stitch patterns from designer Gera. This is a printed pattern that will be shipped to you. Each pattern is about 40 by 56 stitches, or 2.9 by 4 inches/7.4 by 10 cm on 14 count fabric. To work the whole set you’ll need 20 colors of floss.
These snowflake ornaments from Our Little Handmade Home are each about 2.5 inches/6.4 cm when stitched on 14 count fabric, and they use a single color of floss. They are pretty in red but you could also do white on a blue or black background, or whatever suits your other Christmas tree decorations!
From the description it sounds like this set of vintage style cross stitch characters is presented as one large chart, but the photo from Sampler Antique Stitch shows each of them stitched up as their own little ornament, so it gets included here. You’ll find Santa and snowmen in different poses in this cute collection.