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New Glass from Double Helix Glassworks!

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2415f677-ea03-41e2-9464-3b9c1aa3eabbI love love love silver glass! I know I’ve typed those words before. So Double Helix, everyone’s favorite silver glass maker is releasing new glass colors on Saturday, March 26. They’re calling one of them Chloe, a green glass that looks like mother of pearl when it’s worked. They’ve also got a new Aether…Aether 2. Read all about the differences here:

Original Aether was extremely labor intensive which was why it was priced at $60 pound and not available to re-sellers.  Aether 2 has solved the production issues so, we’re making it available to re-sellers and lowering the price to $50/pound.  It also has an improved viscosity curve.  Please, note that Aether 2 and Zephyr are not the same.  Aether 2 is a reactive clear and Zephyr is not.  Aether 2 will react with silver glasses and it does a better job of holding the luster under encasement.  To help distinguish the two clears, Aether 2 will be wrapped in white paper and Zephyr will be wrapped in brown.

And of course pick up some of the other yummy colors while you’re filling your shipping cart. Happy Beading!!

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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.