I think I’ve finally got all my Christmas decorations up, it usually takes a couple of days to get them organised! In amongst the Christmas trees and the Father Christmases are my Christmas cross-stitch smalls.
Some years I hang them all on a tree but we’re a tree down (it spent too long inside last Christmas and never recovered!!) so I’ve displayed them all together on the sideboard.
Quite a few of these are Faby Reilly designs, the holly and the mistletoe humbugs are so pretty, there’s a couple of lovely ones from the Christie SAL she ran a couple of years ago, the red heart was a Valentine freebie last year and of course the Zoe box with the winter side facing out was a SAL from a couple of years ago.
The December small was only finished last month, about two years after I stitched the first ten months! The dachshund was a present for my daughter, she was rather keen on them at the time. The little gingerbread house was a kit from Nutmeg Designs in Reeth, I stitched it quite a few years ago. I think the mistletoe was a kit from Hobbycraft, it was originally hung on a card for my OH.
I’ve got quite a Christmas collection of smalls now, though I still have patterns for lots more – you can never have too many smalls!
thecraftycreek 
that’s a lovely display! I don’t know if I’m going to be able to get up the incentive for putting up décorations this year. Christmas is going to be such a non-event.
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it’ll make you feel better Claire! Mine certainly has.
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I think this year especially we need to make the effort, it’s been such a crap year and I find it does make me feel better, a bit of Christmas music and the box of decorations 🙂
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I felt that way at first, but I finally pulled out a few things, and then it was fun!
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It is lovely to see those Christmas small again. Not only is there the Christmas theme, but they are all so sweet and delicate. The Zoe box is a particular favourite.
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I’m stitching my first Faby that wasn’t in a magazine. I’m not keen on her charting symbols and their similarities, but I love the result.
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I find her charts easier in black and white, especially as I only have a black and white printer. You do get used to the symbols she uses and as you say, the result is definitely worth it!
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I’ve divided up into foxes threads in one column, and the leaves in another, and working on one thing at a time. Kind of sorted!
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You have a delightful collection of smalls for Christmas, Margaret!
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Gorgeous collection, I think the humbugs are my favourites
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Deck the halls with your delightful collection. Never enough smalls 🙂
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I love your collection! I never really know what to do with small patterns, so I stitch them and then they just sit there. I love how you make yours up into “smalls” — maybe I’ll try to actually make up something in 2021!
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All lovely as always.
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