Items for sale

Hi! I'm selling some unused Gingher items and some used charts on Ecrater.  Please stop by and take a look, and feel free to spread the word!

Gingher Charlene

Gingher Tessa

Gingher Roberta

Gingher Mia

Gingher Ella

Gingher Nikki

Little House Needleworks - Acorn Hill

Bent Creek - Redbird Sampler

Carriage House Samplings - Hearts and Flowers

There are more items listed.

March

The Prairie Schooler, Inc.
From Book 13, A Prairie Year (out of print)
Stitched on 32 ct. Bucilla dirty linen with DMC floss as charted.

Ladybug, Ladybug

 

Diane Williams of Little House Needleworks

Stitched on 40 ct. Lakeside Linens vintage light exemplar with flosses charted

Happy Hearts Day

Sandra Cozzolino
Free design
Stitched on 14 ct. white Aida with DMC as charted.  Finished as a Valentine's box using a coffee can.

I'd like to thank everyone for all of the recent comments, and wish you all a very happy Valentine's Day!

Acorn Hill

  

Diane Williams of Little House Needleworks

Stitched on 32 ct. country mocha with Belle Soie as charted

Home of a Needleworker (Too!)

Diane Williams of Little House Needleworks

Stitched on 40 ct. Lakeside Linens vintage light exemplar with called-for floss except changed the body of the house and the thread on the spool to Gentle Arts Sampler Threads brandy and changed the bottom swirls to Crescent Colours weeping willow

Snow White

  

Diane Williams of Little House Needleworks

Stitched on 14 ct. Charles Craft Classic Reserve aspen Aida with DMC blanc.  The cloth is a lovely sage-y green, but in all my photographs it looks grey.

Snowflakes

Diane Williams of Little House Needleworks
Stitched on unknown 32 ct. linen with called-for Crescent Colours floss

The Counting House

Diane Williams of Little House Needleworks

Stitched on 26 ct. black Heatherfield using called for colors with the exception of substituting DMC 420 for Crescent Colors Roasted chestnut and DMC 3768 for the body of the house.  I also changed the order of the numbers to lead with 1 instead of 0.

Delft Sampler

Cross Stitch and Country Crafts magazine, January/February 1986 issue

Stitched on 14 ct. Aida with called-for DMC floss.  Modified to a memorial sampler honoring my maternal grandmother.  Replaced alphabets and numbers with personalization, and changed "Mother" to "Marmie" using lettering from the verse. This is much prettier and brighter in person.  I will try to get a better picture on a sunny day.

Home is Best

Primitive Bettys
Free design

Stitched on 40 ct. Lakeside Linens vintage light exemplar with unknown Anchor flosses from stash.  Hemstitched using this method, but I can no longer find the actual tutorial I used.

Red Birds for Peace

Belinda Karls-Nace of Blue Ribbon Designs
Freebie
Stitched on 32 ct. white MCG linen with DMC conversion.  The design is 56x56, but the linen is not evenly woven.  I substituted Mill Hill beads for the red stitches in the tree, and added sequins in place of the Smyrna crosses.  Hemstitched using a combination of this tutorial by Carol of iStitch and the stitch instructions from Intermediate Whitework by Teresa Wentzler.

Winter Sampler

 

Diane Williams of Little House Needleworks

Just Cross Stitch 2009 ornament issue

Stitched on 40 ct. Lakeside Linens vintage light exemplar with DMC as charted.  Hemstitched with DMC 842 and using a combination of this tutorial by Carol of iStitch and the stitch instructions from Intermediate Whitework by Teresa Wentzler.

Winter Wonderland

Mill Hill Buttons and Beads Winter Series (kit)
Stitched on provided 14 ct. light blue perforated paper with provided DMC floss and  Mill Hill beads and button

Bands of Many Colors

Progress as of 31 January

Eileen Bennett

Published in Just Cross Stitch magazine in seven parts starting with the September 1990 issue, design currently available for purchase from various online retailers and possibly from your LNS.  

Stitching on 40 ct. Lakeside Linens vintage light exemplar with DMC threads as charted, except 842 substituted for 739 to more closely match linen color.  Parts one and two completed, and part three started.  

My notes:  If you decide to stitch this from Just Cross Stitch, read ALL of the directions for ALL of the parts before starting, because there are more complete instructions for some of the stitches in later parts, including the note to use a color that matches your choice of linen in place of 739.  Also, this has A LOT of over one stitching (the stag, the verse, the thistle, some of the personalization), so bear that in mind when you choose your linen*.  

Started 14 January

*I chose my linen to fit a frame that I bought at a thrift store...

Bushel and a Peck

Lori Markovic of La-D-Da
Stitched on 32 ct. Lakeside Linens Vintage Pear with DMC

February

The Prairie Schooler, Inc.
From Book 13, A Prairie Year (out of print)
Stitched on 32 ct. Bucilla dirty linen with DMC floss as charted.

I plan to stitch one design from this booklet each month for the 2013 Ornament SAL, and finish all of them into ornaments once they are all stitched.

Hearts and Flowers

Kathy Barrick of Carriage House Samplings

Stitched on Fawn 40 ct. linen with DMC threads, one over two

I hurriedly framed this to get in on my wall in time for Valentine's Day 2013 (You can see by the date on the sampler how long ago I finished stitching it...) but I plan to get a mat professionally cut for it.

My Snips

My own design
Stitched on 40 ct. Lakeside Linens vintage light exemplar linen with Vikki Clayton Hand Dyed Fibers silk, 1 over 2.  Finished as a scissor fob filled with rice, shown with Gingher Sarah

1 - 2 Buckle My Shoe

Lori Markovic of La D Da
Freebie distributed by shops, now available on website (Click on FreeBees then scroll dooooowwwn)
Stitched on 32 ct. MCG natural linen with DMC ecru.

Hello Spring

Linda Ebright of Lizzie*Kate 

Free design

Stitched on 14 ct. yellow aida with Gentle Arts Sampler Threads in Spring Green, Blueberry, Bittersweet, and Burnt Orange.  Embellished with large pink beads from stash and mounted in a frame originally distributed by Target stores, purchased at Goodwill.

SAL Christmas

Jardin Prive
Free SAL design offered by The Thread Basket
Stitched on 26 ct. Zweigert Shannon cream linen (color discontinued) with DMC floss, 1 over 1

Mini biscornu

Emily Wilmarth of The Floss Box
Freebie, no longer available
Stitched on 32 ct. R&R Reproductions creek bed linen with DMC floss.  Finished as a scissor fob, shown with DMC clover cutter

Mini biscornu

Emily Wilmarth of The Floss Box
From Mini Biscornu Pack 2
Stitched on 32 ct. R&R Reproductions creek bed linen with Gloriana silk.  Finished as a scissor fob filled with emery powder (available from here), shown with Gingher Roberta

Biscornu 3

Kissy-Cross freebie
Stitched on 14 ct. baby blue aida with DMC floss.  Finished as a biscornu

Red Motifs

Carole Rodgers
Simply Cross Stitch, July/August 1994
Stitched on unknown linen with DMC floss.  Finished as a scissor fob filled with rice, shown with Gingher stork scissors

Mini biscornu

Emily Wilmarth of The Floss Box
From Mini Biscornu Pack 2
Stitched on unknown linen with DMC floss.  Finished as a biscornu scissor fob filled with emery powder (available from here), shown with Gingher Charlene

All You Need is Love

Needlebook front cover

Needlebook page 1

Needlebook page 5

The Drawn Thread freebie
Stitched on 32 ct. Silkweaver elegance linen with DMC substitutions as follows:
Gloriana Silk to DMC
Elizabethan Green to 319
Poinsettia to 3806
Antique Pink to 605
Forest to 320
Raspberry Parfait to 718
Rosewood to 915
Desert rose to 3836
(This is not a direct color conversion of Gloriana to DMC.  Colors were chosen based on personal preference, not closest match.)

Finished as a needlebook.  Pages for Petite 26, 28, 26, and Misc. in addition to those shown.

Mini biscornu

Emily Wilmarth of The Floss Box
Freebie designs, no longer available
Stitched on 14 ct. white aida with DMC floss.  Finished as a biscornu scissor fob, shown with Gingher Freedom

Biscornu

Dinky-Dyes
Design was a freebie with floss purchase circa 2008
Stitched on 28 ct. unknown linen with Dinky-Dyes silk in rainforest.  Finished as a biscornu

Good Things

Lizzie*Kate Snippet
Stitched on 40 ct. Lakeside Linens fawn linen using assorted overdyed cottons and silks from stash, 1 over 2.  Finished as a mattress pincushion

Untitled freebie

The Prairie Schooler freebie card (Currently available for purchase)
Stitched on 40 ct. Newcastle flax linen with assorted silks from stash, 1 over 2.  Finished as a pincushion jar lid

Untitled freebie

The Prairie Schooler freebie card (Currently available for purchase)
Stitched on 18 ct. baby pink aida with assorted silks from stash, 1 strand over 1 square.  Finished as scissor fob, shown with DMC Breast Cancer Awareness scissors

Alphabet pin block

M. Brouwer on Stitch-Creations
Freebie in four parts: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 with finishing tutorial
Stitched on mystery linen with DMC floss.  Finished as a pin block/pin cube.  I used plastic needlepoint canvas as a frame and one layer of batting between linen and frame, stuffed inside lightly with polyfil

Mini biscornu

Emily Wilmarth of The Floss Box (retired freebies)
Stitched on 14 ct. aida with DMC floss.  Finished as a biscornu scissor fob, shown with Gingher Bianca

Red Motifs

Carole Rodgers in Simply Cross Stitch magazine, July/August 1994
Stitched on 32 ct. Permin lambswool linen with DMC linen floss.  Finished as a triangle scissor case using this tutorial by Linda Björk Eiríksdóttir

Biscornu 446

Emily Wilmarth of The Floss Box, currently available in Biscornu Pack 19
Stitched on 40 ct. Lakeside Linens vintage light exemplar linen with unknown DMC colors.  Finished as a biscornu