Snowflakes

Christmas is coming and the staff at work have decided to decorate the ward already. The girls on night duty had a few quiet moments and started cutting snowflakes from templates you can download on the internet. The snowflakes looked a little dull in white due to all the white walls on the ward, Up against the desk (in grey-brown ) they look great and stand out, and they also look lovely on the windows but a bit of colour is required for the white walls
Hence I have hit my stash of paper and dragged out every blue sheet I can find. Last night I spent cutting (in between being sick) and produced this lot.
Enjoy!

Enter Christmas

They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, this being the case I must sincerely say that I do admire Geninne's work  at Geninnies art blog found here.
I was looking at resurrection fern blog found here (blog entry December 8th  2012) and saw  some of Gennies artwork on her friends wall, especially drawn in time for Christmas. It really caught my eye and was beautiful in its simplicity.: A lovely chalk drawn Christmas tree on a dark wall, simply beautiful. Well I had to create my own for my entry into my house, to greet all and sundry with the beginning of a Christmas theme as soon as you enter. I think my husband might flip as my whole lounge room is absolutely stuffed with Christmas. I've photographed it and if he really does object I'll just wash it off. We will have to wait and see'

Angels Heralding in Christmas- Angel Swag Stitchery

Hark the Herald  Angels Sing!

I think I'll name this Heralding In Christmas

Original stitchery by Monique Smith

My Christmas stitchery is almost finished

Ill finish the detail on the middle angels bodice tonight and the tail of the swag on the right hand side and then the  stitchery is done.

I've changed the dress slightly on the angels as I went , but I imagine your own work is always open to interpretation when it comes to sewing.

I still have to find out how to upload the pattern so that you can download it. Anybody know how? Would really appreciate help.
The pattern is A3 size but I have reduced it to A4 for easy of scanning
That's my original copied on to tracing paper. I used  old type writer carbon paper to trace it directly onto my white material, you could just as easily utilize a window as a light box

Now all I have to do is finish the stitchery and sew it up - pillow or Christmas Santa sack??

My son informs me that if you click on the image and then save it to your files you will be able to print this as a pattern (I scanned it crooked but you can turn it a little)