Another Biscornu

Here is the Sweetheart Tree Holiday Holly Biscornu, finished as an ornament with a beaded hanger:

Here’s a picture of the side that kind of shows with the other stitched face of the biscornu looks like:

I have to say, I didn’t like stitching this AT ALL….  I have vowed never ever use opalescent or any other sparkly fabric!  There were times that I just wanted to toss this and start again on some really nice 28 count  evenweave.  I don’t think the effect of the sparkly fabric was worth the headache of stitching on it.  NEVER AGAIN

So, I finally fnish and get to the finishing part of the project, thinking that this was the easy part, and either my beads were too small to fit over the end of the beading needle… or… the thread I used to sew the biscornu shut and attach the beads would get tangled on every other stitch!

However, I can say that I’m really happy with the way it looks now that its all finished.  🙂

I’ve been thinking about what I’m going to work on next… the choices are:

• Start Winter Getaway by M Designs
• Start Snowflakes by Little House Needleworks
• Work on my much neglected Alpine Seasons by Chatelaine

For the new starts, I have everything I need to start right away with no shopping required, which sounds appealing right now.  What do y’all think?

My First Biscornu!!!

I’m so excited!!!  I’ve wanted to try stitching and finishing a biscornu for quite some time now, but hadn’t really found any smallish square patterns that I wanted to stitch….   So in the Sweetheart Tree booth at Celebration of Needlework, I saw the Rhodes Butterfly Biscornu kit!

I had a lot of fun doing the finishing until Saturday night at about 8:00 when I ran out of the beads used along the edging… I was about 6 beads short. Hobby Lobby was already closed, and the two LNS in the area that I normally visit are closed on Sunday.

I finally remembered that Erica’s Craft and Sewing Center is normally open for a couple of hours on Sunday. I went there today and found that they had one pack of the beads left! I was surprised to find that they have lots and lots of Mill Hill Beads, considering that they are primarly a quilting store with a very small cross stitch section. Anyway, I got my beads and was able to finish up this afternoon.

I’m totally thrilled with it and after DBF did the appropriate amount of admiration for my handiwork, he commented that I should’ve stuffed it with catnip….  um no.

So, I’m totally ready to finish another one of these kits… I can choose from the Holly kit, the Shamrock kit, and the Cat Lover’s kit…..