Happy New Year

These are actually pieces from our perpetual calendar, but could also be finished as ornaments.

         HAPPY NEW YEAR

Merry Christmas

                                              #1025

Merry Christmas.......have a great holiday season!

Happy Chanukah

                                                       #823

Or Happy Hanukkah....either way, have a great holiday!

Gobbler Finished - Happy Thanksgiving

The last feather (lower left) was stitched in a modification of Double Stitch Variation.  On the large turkey, this stitch was very difficult to compensate. Since this is an intermediate canvas we changed the stitch slightly to an easier version and still got the same effect.

I added a little backstitching between the feathers to give him a more "quilted" look, but this is optional.
And....just to give him a little more "pop" I did one row of Turkey Work around the feather fan using Threadgatherer's ribbon.  Hopefully we'll have the stitch guide completed soon.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

P.S. Did you know that only the male (tom) turkey makes a gobbling sound?  The female makes a clicking noise. Thanks to the video on the gas pump at the Shell station for this interesting bit of trivia.

Two More Feathers and A Face

The next two feathers were stitched in Criss Cross Hungarian using Silk n Colors with Very Velvet for the dots, and Mosaic Square Modified in four different colors to look like a flower pattern.

I finally finished his face with a modified Sprats Head beak topped with a Buttonhole Bar stitched with silk  over red Very Velvet.  The wattle is a Byzantine variation, also in silk,  lightly padded with red Very Velvet.

One more feather, another wing, and a little background to go!

A Little More Turkey

I started stitching the fan of feathers behibd his head by back-stitching the black and red single lines.  The remaining diamond shapes were filled with Squared Herringbone stitches, and then the rest of the back-stitches were filled in with the same color.

Little Gobbler - A Wing and More Feathers

Moving right along, the wing is stitched in Milanese Stitch using alternate rows of solid color and overdyed floss.

The second tail feather is stitched in Mosaic Stitches with Smyrna Crosses using DMC floss and Planet Earth silk

Feather number three is a Victorian Step Variation stitched horizontally.  The "white" areas are actually overdyed floss, but the color variation doesn't show up too well in the photo.  The colored lines are irregularly spaced, but it is easy to get the correct spacing because the stitches are painted on the canvas.