Bird Watching Cross Stitch

I just finished 2 little 5x7 cross stitch samplers today. They are a Bucilla pattern I found at a garage sale. One of them is of an Eastern Bluebird with a nest of two young birds. The other is of a Painted Bunting sitting on a flowered branch with a bee. They are stitched on white 14 count Aida fabric.

I'll be selling them unmounted for now, so they should be mounted in a 5x7 frame without a mat or 9x11 with a mat.

Eastern Bluebird

Painted Bunting

My Backs

~Sarah

"Protect the Beautiful Places" Alphabet and Nature Embroidered Sampler

  "Protect the Beautiful Places"

This "Protect the Beautiful Places" Alphabet and Nature Embroidered Sampler is a finished Bucilla Stamped Cross Stitch Kit. It was designed by Nancy Rossi and Copyrighted in 1990. I bought this kit I don't know how many years ago at Ames and just got around to completing it this week.

This sampler is embroidered and cross stitched on printed white sailcloth. It has been washed to remove the printing, so all that is left is the stitching. The words on it are, "Let us protect the Beautiful Places." It has fish, flowers, trees, coral, Orca, Panda, Ducks and Geese in the pattern surrounding a forest scene. There are 9 numbers cross stitched on it and a full alphabet embroidered on the sampler. 

Without a mat, the frame should measure: 11" by 14". With a mat, the frame should be 15" by 18".  That is....when I get around to making a frame for it.

The Backside

I remembered to sign it, but not a lot of areas available.

Embroidered Alphabet

A Good thing to do!!!

~Sarah

Cross Stitch Birds Picture

Cross Stitch Birds Picture

   

This little embroidery artwork is of 2 little birds sitting in the reeds. The birds are stitched on a a natural looking 14 count Aida fabric. It is in a wood grained, gold trimmed frame that I found in a stack of older style frames.

It is 5"x7" unframed and the frame measures 6.25" x 8.25." This frame is a horizontal table top frame. It can easily be switched into a new frame to hang on the wall.


I actually stitched it a few years ago (when I stitched Ashlin's wolf), put it in a drawer and forgot about it. Now that I'm selling craft items again, I've been looking through several areas and boxes and uncovering things I've made and stored.

~Sarah

Another Filler: Nana's Cross Stitch Cardinal Lap Afghan 2004

For Christmas 2004, I decided to make a cross stitched afghan for my grandmother. She loves birds and cardinals, as do I, so I found a cute pattern to use. I bought a pre-made Bucilla afghan and stitched to versions of the cardinals and pine cones on every other square. I think it turned out well.

~Sarah