Winged creatures - AnneS

I'm playing catch-up after completing a large project with a tight deadline.  Here's my choice for January ... Eeek from the Bump in the Night chart by The Prairie Schooler.

Cheryl's February Candy Corn

Halloween Collage by Sharon Pope

Instead of stitching an ornament this month, I pulled out my "Halloween Collage" sampler and stitched 6 little pieces of candy corn. 

Here is what the entire sampler looks like:

You can find the chart in the Just Cross Stitch 2014 Halloween Issue.
Happy Stitching!

Stephanie's Candy Corn

"Treats" by Lizzie Kate, a super fun & fast stitch

I do wish the hand dyed thread (GAST Tomato) was a bit more variegated!  Oh, well...
~Stephanie / Ms. OhSewCrafty

January - Winged Creatures

Spiders and the Crow
Design by Pat Cherry and Peggy Tipton of Fern Ridge Collections
Just Cross Stitch 2016 Halloween Special Issue

Gwen: January Winged Creature

It seems Ana Christina and I were of the same mind. My winged 'creature' is a raven.

Lizzie Kate

Nevermore

Anchor 403

January - Winged Creatures

I don´t know if It is a "creature". But they are winged!

😕 confused

By the way, I love black birds!

free by Bettys

♥

Tamra's January Winged Creature

Hi All!

For the theme of Winged Creatures I decided on one of Prairie Schooler's Mini Cards.  Owl.

Have a happy stitchy month!

Tamra

Stephanie's Winged Creature

Hi, I'm Stephanie, aka Ms. OhSewcrafty on my blog, YouTube, and Instagram.  As it's my first time posting here (thank you, Jo, for the invite), here's a brief intro: I'm a longtime stitcher and crafter, jack of all trades.  January's stitch was super fun and it became apparent that I will love stitching Lizzie Kate's Boo Club, it is a nice break from my BAPs.  The bat silhouetted against the moon is pretty cute.  I am using a mix of overdyed threads (the ones that seemed variegated) and the DMC subs, on Dirty belfast linen.

Cheryl's January Winged Creatures

Instead of stitching an ornament this month, I stitched some bats on my "Halloween Pumpkin" from the 2012 Just CrossStitch Halloween Issue. 

I stitched all of the right-hand side border bats, only to discover that the last time I worked on it I had made a tiny mistake and was off by 2 threads.  If I had noticed, I would have only had to frog about 5 stitches and a little back stitching.  Instead, I had to frog out the entire row of bats ... yuk!   Well, I frogged them all out and restitched them. 

I hope your Halloween stitching isn't driving you batty!

Jo's January Stitching - Winged Creatures

Here we are for the first post of the New Year and I'm hoping to use one of my larger pieces each month.  It will be a little bit trickier this year as I haven't planned the themes around any of my stitching!

January is Winged Creatures - Owls, Bats, Crows, Ravens etc.

There are two tiny bats on Jardin Prive's Happy Hallowe'en Night:

Here is the whole piece so far:

There were also bats on my Dracula Book Cover by Dam Good Crafts:

Here is the whole piece so far:

Next month is Candy Canes and Food so I am not sure where I will go for that.  We shall see!

Themes for 2018

Slightly later than planned, but here is the post for the themes for next year.  Noni and one or two others are stitching the Lizzie*Kate Boo Club series which make perfect themes for us.  You can stitch-a-long with them or choose individual designs which fit the themes.

January - Winged Creatures

February - Candy Corn and Food

March - Black Cats

April - Spiders

May - Green Things

June - Creepy Trees

July - Pumpkins

August - Haunted Houses

September - Witches

October - Monsters

November - Ghosts

December - Free Choice

Here is Boo Club, in case you haven't seen it before:

Thanks to everyone who has been posting all year, I really love seeing your spooky stitching and hope you will continue into 2018!

December - Free Choice

This is the piece that I was working for September.  One of the pieces that got left behind when I visited my sister in Colorado.  I decided to finish it up for this month.  Happy Everything my friends!

From "Potions, Brews & Spells"
Designed by Louise Henderson of Cherished Stitches
2016 Just Cross Stitch Halloween Special Edition

November - Candy Corns / Food

It was fun to do these colorful vinyl doodles.  I'm not sure what I will do with them but they were fun.     

November - Candy Corns/Food

Halloween Cupcake by Kathy Franklin

★ ★ ★

October Pumpkin

Little House Needleworks

October

My selection this month will  most likely be to large to be an ornament. I made a few changes. l copied Priscilla's example and changed to a white picket fence. Also changed my bird to a black bird.

October - Pumpkins

One Color Pumpkin, Bent Creek.

I live in Brazil and we don't celebrate Halloween like in Canada or USA for example. But in schools of English has some party with students at school (inside school, never in the street). I LOVE to stitch Halloween patterns because I love Halloween! I had English class when I was younger and now I am studing again.

I don't have a costume to dressing up Halloween but I have a Halloween tree with many finisheds ornaments.

★ ★

October - Pumpkins

This was really fun and I'm looking forward to doing the witch hat and the cauldron.

Tribal Pumpkin 

White Willow Stitching

Happy Halloween everyone!

October 2017 - Happy Halloween

Hello!

More pumpkins!

Well, only two little pumpkins!

Finished into a project bag:

 Design: Barbara Ana Designs – Halloween, The Moon Laughs

Fabric/Threads: 36 count linen Peach’n Cream (hand dyed by me) / DMC floss

Thank you very much for your comment on my last post!

Happy Halloween!

Lili

October - Pumpkins: Lili

Hello!

I have only one pumpkin to show:

 The finished piece:

Design by The Prairie Schooler - All Hallows Eve (Book 180)
Fabric: 40 count Oil Green by xjudesign
Floss: DMC (White and 921), Weeks Dye Works Concord, and BarbaralCreations Black Tulip

See you next week for more pumpkins!

Happy stitching,

Lili

Spooky Words and Pumpkins

Each month during 2017 I will be stitching on the design Halloween Happiness by Sandra Cozzolino / Imaginating.  I have picked a portion of the chart that fits with the themes with the aim to get it all fully stitched by the end of 2017!

Halloween Happiness (Sandra Cozzolino)
Fabric: 28ct plain purple fabric
Threads: all DMC
Started: 1 January 2017
Finished: 1 October 2017

Yep! You are reading correctly... I have finished "Halloween Happiness"!  I had planned to finish this on Halloween night (ie put the very last stitch in / attach pumpkin button on the 31st October) but I was so close at the end of September that I just had to keep stitching....

I still need to work out if I am going to frame it or finish it as a flat fold... but I am happy to say it's done!  I really enjoyed stitching this piece and love so many different elements of it - the witch is still my favourite character though!

So now that all the spooky words and the pumpkins are done I need to try and think of something to stitch for November and December!  I think my December stitch will most likely be the start of next year's Halloween stitching... more info to come on that but as a hint think Lizzie Kate!

Til next time, happy spooky stitching!