The People Chose Winter

This SAL is all about what you want to see on the blog.  Each month I ask for suggestions for themes and then put them up to the members of the IHSW Group on FB to vote for their choice.  This is what they have chosen:

December - Winter

January - Lizzie*Kate

February - TBA

It's definitely felt Wintery around here over the last week, the bird bath has been frozen over a couple of times too.  A lot of Winter designs spill over into Christmas so I'm trying to focus this post on the less-festive side of things!

Which means snowflakes to cross stitch designers, the perfect chance to show off your sparkle with beads, metallics and shades of bluey whites.

My current daily stitch is a SAL from Stitchonomy where she releases a simple snowflake each day.  I have chosen to bead my flakes on a lovely dark blue opalescent fabric from a random eBay buy:

You can find the Facebook group here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/StitchonomySAL

It's a public group so you'll be able to see all the loveliness without joining. The design was free if you signed up before a certain date but will be available from her Etsy shop at the end of the SAL. https://www.etsy.com/nl/shop/Stitchonomy

She also has a Patreon account where you can sign up and get early access to the SALs plus a free daily small chart - https://www.patreon.com/posts/22270940

Regular readers will know I do love a series and the next three samplers are all from series.  The first is from an old issue of Cross Stitcher magazine from the 1990s:

The next is Just Nan's Winter Romance:

Followed by her Winter Typography:

I also stitched this little Drawn Thread design entitled Spot of Winter.  I have done two of the seasons, must do the other two and then fully finish them!

Mill Hill have some lovely Wintery charts, this one is Winter Wonderland:

Nora Corbett has a series of very sparkly Little Snowy buildings of which I have stitched one - Little Snowy Gray Cottage.  There is hardly any DMC in these, all Kreinik and Whisper:

Joan Elliott has a lovely Winter Fairy, but I have only stitched her hand!

That was part of a Birthday card I made for a friend featuring the hands from all four seasons.

I do have another Winter design in my "To Stitch" list; the fourth of Just Nan's Seasons in a Square series.  Hopefully it will be my "10 a Day" for 2020 (Maybe I should make that 20-a-day for 2020?)  Added bonus - Christine won't snigger every time I say Tena Day.

Now it's over to you.  All you have to do is make a post on the theme of Winter, mention The People's Choice SAL (you can copy the picture I used at the top of this post and in my side bar) and my blog. Please link up using the URL of the actual blog post, not the home page of your blog. I look forward to seeing what you all post.


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Finally, I need your suggestions for the next poll. Any thing, no matter how obscure, weird or random will go into the poll. Keep the theme suggestions to a single word or two - so you could have Cats, or Blue, or Holidays, or Warmth etc. Really anything which could be illustrated in cross stitch.

Looking forward to reading them all!