I've finally finished this year's Christmas ornaments. Unlike past years, I only designed one new one this year.
The Holly Wreath ornament is this year's new ornament and it will be on sale the rest of this month at my BeadPatternsBoutique shop. Check out my On Sale now category for it and other designs in my Shuffle Sale.
The Drum, Christmas Angel and Twin Snowflake are all from previous years. I've modified each angel and snowflake by changing colors here and there, so they all look a little different from the pattern (because I'm averse to doing the same thing twice).
My granddaughter will be hosting Thanksgiving this year. I hope it's a great success. I love family gatherings, but I'm reluctant to host them. I get exhausted just attending.
Now on to tedious everyday happenings. It's time to start learning the flat chenille stitch I mentioned in my last blog. , , and then there's the matter of keeping my vehicle running. I've been saying for a year if I have to put it in the shop one more time I'm just going to get rid of it. Maybe it's time to make good on that threat.
This weekend I just couldn't stay focused on beading and getting Christmas ornaments finished.
First I found a free kindle book on Tunisian Crochet. This is a stitch I learned as a girl known only to me as afghan stitch and I only learned the single and double crochet version. I never thought of it as crochet that could have various stitches just like regular crochet until I started looking through that book.
I did some research on the internet and came up with this site, Tunisian Crochet by Stitch Diva. I then remembered that I'd seen beaded Tunisian crochet and started looking for pictures. I found several, but they weren't free to copy. I finally found a pattern for the necklace above.
Not a complicated pattern but I thought about trying it. Then I remembered you have to string the beads onto the crochet thread first. . .not my forte so I gave that up.
Next I found an adult coloring book for free and downloaded it.
I've spent Sunday and Monday telling myself to put the colored pencils down and get back to beading. When I've finished the 17 ornaments for this year, maybe I'll get back to learning the intricacies of Tunisian crochet.
