A Snowy Night

A snowy scene with a Christmas Star was added 

to the crazy quilt stocking I am making for my son.

Click any photo for a larger view.

First, I used a strand of white and a strand of green thread to create snowy crossed buttonhole stitches trees. 

The trees were inspired by the work of Annelise, a member of the TAST Facebook Group. You may see the trees she made on her blog, here. My first attempt is here.

Next, using size 12 DMC B5200 perle cotton, I stem stitched a blanket of snow beneath the trees.

A large pearl bead and 2 smaller pearl beads created a snowman.

It was a little tall in comparison to the trees, so I placed it in the foreground to put it in better perspective.

More stem stitches were added beneath the snowman to make a little snowy hill.

A star bead went on next. Metallic sewing thread straight stitches were placed around the star.

Size 12 DMC B5200 was used to add French knot snowflakes.

I asked my husband's opinion and he agreed the snowy ground should be filled in.

Size 5 DMC B5200 perle cotton French knots were added to fill in the snowy hill for the snowman.

Size 8 Anchor white perle cotton was used to fill in the background blanket of snow with more stem stitches.

This completed the little scene.

Thank you so much for visiting!
-Renee



TAST stands for Take a Stitch Tuesday. It is a personal challenge hosted by Sharon B. of Pintangle to learn a new stitch each week. You may learn more about it here. A new session of TAST will begin in January 2018. It is a great way to learn new embroidery stitches and you may go at your own pace - no pressure!

This is Day 21 of the 31 Day Blog Writing Challenge hosted by www.muppin.com. Find more details and other participating blogs here.

Note: Edited 12/22/17 to add a link to see the inspiring trees Anneliese created.