Cheryl's June Ornament

Spell of the Moon 

by Blackbird Designs

(pattern and fabric gifted by Jo)

Here is my finish for June.  I enjoyed stitching this so much!

Kaye's June Update..

This month for my free choice, I have stitched:

Haunted Love

T.A. Smith

from FB group - Pumpkin Seed Stitchers.

28 ct Almond Linen

Threads: DMC 310, WDW Fiesta and GAST Oatmeal.

I am particularly pleased with the ghosts, what do you think?

hugs, 

Jo's June Ornament

Free choice.  I always put a couple of free choice options in the themes so people can stitch their favourite thing without having to fit it in to a specific category.  But does anyone else find this one really difficult to make the decision?

I was just overwhelmed with choices!  So to narrow it down, I selected one magazine and said "choose a design from that".  The magazine was the Just Cross Stitch Hallowe'en preview issue from 2011.  The designer is Blue Ribbon Designs and the design is Boo Mansion:

 

Stitched on 32 count Twilight Blue linen

and scrapbooked with its companion piece Owls by Midnight:

Of course, as soon as I started stitching this one I realised that July's theme is Haunted Houses.  So now I have to find a different Haunted House for that one!

Frank N Stein

June's free choice is Frank N Stein from Pickle Barrel Designs.  The original pattern called for 3 separate pieces (head, body and legs) but that's too much finishing for me so I combined the 3 body parts into just one creepy monster.

Check out this link for the way the designer intended him to look.  He's in the upper right corner of the cover picture.

Carla's June Ornie

Still adorable!  This will be the Side B to the ornament I'm making and is my June "free" submission.

Pattern by HappyStitches4You that I found on Etsy.  The fabric is 14 ct crystal Haunted from Picture This Plus.

Noni's May Pumpkin

Hello!  Sorry I missed my April Tombstone deadline.... still waiting to finish stitching that one as I ran out of the required thread and I haven't managed to get around to placing an order yet....

I am here now to show you my May Pumpkin....  technically this is not a Halloween design but it still has a pumpkin or two!

See you at the end of June.... can't wait to see what everyone stitches for their free choices.
Hugs xx

May - Pumpkins

I love black bird!

http://makestuff-behappy.blogspot.com.br/2014/10/long-time-no-see-reg-nem-talalkoztunk.html

★ ★

Kaye's May stitch....

.... well, I didn't think I was going to get an ornie done by the end of the month, which is tomorrow.  But I made a concerted effort last night to get my Pumpkin ornie finished and here is the result:

"King of Halloween"

Freebie from 

La Comtesse de le point de croix

28 count Waterfall Blue Lugana 

(the photos do not do the colour justice - it is more a mint green)

Pumpkin: WDW Fiesta (my favourite colour for Halloween pumpkins)

Rest of design: various DMC threads

Anyway, that is this month for me - off to choose my June design.

hugs,  Kaye (Kitten Stitching)

April's March, April & May Halloween Stitches

So I am a little behind, but I finally have March, April and May stitches to share.

March's stitch is a piece from The Prairie Schooler.  It is from a leaflet from last year.  Unfortunately I don't remember the name of it.

April's stitch is also from The Prairie Schooler.  Again I don't have the leaflet in front of me, so I don't know the name of it.

Finally my May stitch is a free chart from Primitive Betty's.  Sorry the photo is sideways.  I love the pumpkin tree and I couldn't pass it up for this month's stitch,

Carla's April Ornie

"Happy Stitches 4 You" designed this cute little thing.  There is a second one that I'd like to stitch up to use as a backside to this one.

So simple but super cute!

Lili's May Ornament

Hi!
My May ornament!

Design by T.A. Smith Designs - Haunting Love.
(Free design on Pumpkin Seed Stitchers facebook group)

Fabric: 40 count Light Mocha Linen
Threads: DMC (310)

Hugs,
Lili
(my blog: Stitching Basket)

Rita's May 2015 ornament....pumpkins

This is part of a freebie by Primitive Betty stitched on 32 ct (over 2) lambswool linen using DMC 844, ecru, and GAST Burnt Orange. 

Cheryl's May Ornament

Boo!

by The Prairie Schooler

I'm not sure if I will finish stuffed or flat, so I haven't stitched the border yet.  Stitched on an unknown type of loosely woven 18 ct. beige colored fabric.   

It's a Jack-O-Balloon

I finished up part 2 of Fright Flight by stitching the pumpkin balloon.  TeeHee .... I guess her broom is out of order. It's the humor in patterns like this that make me enjoy Halloween stitching so much ...  makes me grin every time I look at it.

Pumpkins Galore!

This was a very Serendipitous finish for the month, Just Nan's Haunted Pumpkins Tree.  I received the chart from Mouse and the fabric from Shebafudge for my Birthday last year and started the design in October 2014.  I picked it up again for one day in the DUCJC this January and then worked it on fairly solidly though May, finishing it at the weekend.

Stitched on 28 count Chocolate Orange evenweave from Crafty Kitten.

Heart Charm supplied with chart,

Patty's April Ornament

Design by Nancy Boyarsky of Glory Bee
Pattern on page 57 of the October 2014 issue of JUST CROSS STITCH.

Fitz's April Finish

From the Just Cross Stich Halloween 2015 magazine.

Jo's May Ornament

Will you look at this, only the 1st of May and I have a finish already!  This is such a quick stitch, I ran it up this afternoon in just a couple of hours.

This is Just Nan's Poor Jack, one of her complimentary designs.  I think I downloaded it from the JCS website but I'm not 100% sure!  I stitched it on 32 count Lavender evenweave to match the other Just Nan spooky smalls.

(I have no idea why the spiders are wearing little orange top hats!)

And here's a bonus finish for last month's Tombstones.  This one is by Stitchers Anon and is based on Charles Dicken's book A Christmas Carol.  She also does the three Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.

Stitched over 1 on 28 count Platinum Cashel linen.

April Altered Altoid

I used my tombstone finish as an Altoid Tin-Topper. 

The center stone is from Drac-in-the-Box

JCS Halloween 2013

I made up the other two tombstones.

Jo's April Ornament

I did rather struggle to find a tombstone I liked this month!  I'm not a fan of stitching them on their own but couldn't find a suitable larger pattern with one in.  I'd already stitched La Comtesse one that Kaye did!

So here is my work-around, the letter N from the Primitive Hare's Hallowe'en Cubes:

And here the four I have stitched so far:

They are all stitched on the same 32 count Vintage Grain linen, just photographed in different lights.

And here is La Comtesse's Haunted Castle: