Christmas Village Ornaments

Well, that's all the crosses done. I'm not going to do the backstitches etc. until either all six have their crosses done, or I can find a frame for it that's not going to interfere with previous embellishments (either a small enough scroll frame, or stretcher bars).

I am pleased with how the stitches look though. It takes longer, but I think it might be worth it, at least for certain patterns. I'm going to see how well it works on Elegance.

I'm probably going to put this set away for a bit, as I really only started it to test out the new pattern program.

Christmas Village Ornaments

Only 10 more to go!

I was thinking that I'd finish this one off (backstitching and everything) before doing the next one, but I'm not so sure about the squishing/pulling that might happen if/when those sections go inside the q-snap. So it's looking like I'll probably get the crosses of all six done first.

Christmas Village Ornaments

Getting close to that right side now. I really do like the way the stitches look done like this, but for bigger pieces I'm not sure I'd have enough needles to hold all that thread! This is only 84 stitches tall, but I had over 30 needles going at once at some points. I'm thinking I may be able to cut up bigger patterns into diagonal sections and still have the stitches looking good.

Christmas Village Ornaments

Half done. Santa's pretty much done, and so is the lady.

I realized after I was quite far in that the darkest yellow in the windows was supposed to be three strands instead of two. I didn't want to switch it up halfway through, so this panel is going to use two strands for that colour throughout. I may use three on the other panels though.

Christmas Village Ornaments

Got another 10 columns down. You can definitely see the building now, as well as Santa's sleigh and some bags of presents. I'm hoping to hit halfway this weekend, especially since Monday's a holiday.

Parking always looks so messy, but I swear there's a system there!

Christmas Village Ornaments

I wanted to try out my new program on something a little smaller than Elegance, but something that still had a bunch of colours.So I decided on the Dimensions Christmas Village Ornaments kit that I picked up from the thrift store a while ago.

So glad I did, I've already found a couple ways to improve the algorithm.

I'm really liking how the stitches are looking though. I'm getting exactly the look I'd hoped I would when I decided to try this technique. I'll have to be sure to get a picture of the back too; there's a bunch of confetti because of all the greens in the tree, but so far it's looking very neat on the back which is an added bonus.