Cross stitch card

 

This birthday card for Leslie was made from a free cross stitch
chart offered by Maria Brovko. She is a designer located in
Ukraine and has some very nice designs. I have used many of them.

Christmas cards and tuck-ins

 These are my 2025 Christmas cards for family and my forum friends.

Card made with picture of ornament 
I stitched in 2023.

I made these cross stitch ornaments
to tuck in with the forum friends'
Christmas cards. They are from Lesley
Teare's free 2024 Christmas sampler.

These are cards I sent to Emelie
and Leslie's families. They are
machine embroidery designs from OESD

I used the same Lesley Teare designs
to make a few puffy ornamentys
for Emelie.

CCS flatfols

I made this CCS kneeling Santa flatfold for my friend, Shirley, for her December birthday.

Cross stitch BD cards

 Here are a few cross stitch designs that I made into greeting cards.

Emelie’s BD card“Autumn morning”
free cross stitch pattern
designed by Maria Brovko

Shirley's BD card

Sonja's BD card
from EmmasArtandDesignCo 
(Etsy)

Valentin's BD card
from 2024 Emmas Art & Design Co.

Julia's 2026 BD card
JustCrossStitch Christmas 2025
(modified Winter Fox Sampler)

Crafting with grandchildren

 

Julia wanted to try cross stitching.
I set her up with an easy
blue and yellow flower. 

She also picked a small fox design to stitch.

 

Sonja wanted a dragon on '
her sweatshirt that said
"Books are ROARsome" 

    

We made quilted hearts for the
IFAQH.com project so
that they could make them
on their own at home.

Julia wanted a pincushion
like mine, so we made one. 

Julia bought a small pair of
scissors at Quilting Mayhen
but they didn't come
with a holder, so we made one.
We used a machine embroidery
design originally intended for a
hair clip.

The grandchildren love to make pillows.
Sonja decorated both sides of hers.

Here's Julia working on a pillow for Papa.

Julia made this pillow for Valentin.

Mother's Day cards

 Mother's Day cards

1.

The first two motifs are from a booklet
in CrossStitch Crazy magazine from
several years ago. 

 

 Leslie’s card – chart byFelli Garziano

Cross stitch birthday cards for Leslie and Iris  

(No picture of Iris’ card – Floral Animals by Durene Jones – Published in Cross Stitch Card Shop magazine … don’t know what issue.)

         

Rope trivet and card for my friend, Susan.
The card was made by a friend of mine.

Ornaments for Emelie

 

CCS Christmas sampler ornaments for Emelie (Lesley Teare 2024 Christmas Sampler). These were done early and sent home with Matthias in August to gift at Christmas.

Valentine's Day cards

2025 Valentine's Day cards for Leslie, Emelie and Shirley and families...just small designs by Debbie Draper.

Cross Stitch Birthstone Gnomes

The charts for these cute cross stitch gnomes were purchased on Etsy in 2023 from SodastitchDesign. They are a UFO from that year which I finally finished in 2025. I purchased the February, April, November and December gnomes to represent my four grandchildren. I made them into flatfolds and kept them for myself!

CCS Northern Lights Polar Bear

I ended up making two of these polar bear ornaments. Leslie's was stitched on 22ct. Zweigart Hardanger stitched 2 over 1 (I think), and I made my own with 14 ct. Aida stitched 3 over 1.

Leslie's

Mine

”Snome” ornaments for Iris and Sonja

These CCS "Snomes" were designed by Carolyn Manning and published in Just CrossStitch magazine - Christmas Ornaments 2018. Made for Iris and Sonja's 2024 ornaments.

for Sonja

for Iris

Sonja’s BD card

This CCS dragon card was for Sonja's 9th birthday. The design is "Magical Dragon" which I ordered from CrossStitchIsMyLife on Etsy. 

Birthday, Mother's Day and Thank you cards

April birthday cards (cross stitch) for Iris, Leslie, Susan, Kathy; and 3 Mother’s Day cards plus a thank you card (Kathy stitched the cross stitch motif and I made the card) for Mel who gave us so much CCS stash.

Birthday card for Iris

Cross stitch by Durene Jones

Inside of Iris' BD card

Birthday cards for Leslie and Kathy

Mother's Day card for Shirley

Mother's Day card for Leslie

Mother's Day card for Emelie

Thank you card from me
 and Kathy for Mel

Embellished Altoid Tins

Machine embroidery lid

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit 

CCS design by Durene Jones in 

Crossstitcher magazine

Precious Things tin 

for Iris' Birthday

CCS design by Durene Jones in 

Crossstitcher magazine

And this little tin for Valentin