December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow - F.O.

...well the December pillow is finished and on the porch...

...I took a few photos...this one without flash...it's kind of gloomy on the porch...

...and this one with flash...shows the silver of the star a little bit better...

...overall...I'm really happy with how it turned out...

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

~Have a lovely day!

December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow - Day TEN

...well...the crocheting is done...just need to finish the pillow and stuff it...

...I'm happy with how it turned out...and I like the slight variation in the blues...

~Have a lovely day!

December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow - Day NINE

...starting the final letters...Oh...

~Have a lovely day!

December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow - Day EIGHT

...Holy Night is finished...and you can see a little bit of the sparkle on the star...

~Have a lovely day!

December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow - Day SEVEN

...More of the letters done...

~Have a lovely day!

December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow - Day SIX

...just starting the letter of Holy Night...

~Have a lovely day!

December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow - Day FIVE

...just starting the star...I'm using one strand of white and some silver thread (sewing thread)...two strands...just held with the white...I thought some sparkle might be nice on the star...not sure it's really very visible though...

~Have a lovely day!

December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow - Day FOUR

...another 10 rows and the Nativity is complete...

~Have a lovely day!

December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow - Day THREE

...10 more rows...and the Nativity is almost complete....

~Have a lovely day!

December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow - Day TWO

...the Nativity scene is taking shape...and I've added more little balls of blue...you can see the slight variation in the 'stripes' of each row...

~Have a lovely day!

December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow - Day ONE

...just getting started with the first ten rows...and the bottom of the Nativity...you can see the small balls of light blue I'm juggling as I change colours each row...when those are used up I'll just attach another...

~Have a lovely day!

December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow

...my first thought as I looked at my stash of different colours of blue yarn...was to do a gradient from light at the bottom to dark at the top...with the graphic done is black...but after I got them all laid out in order I decided that I didn't want it to be that dark at the top...and I didn't think that there would be enough contrast between the black and the royal or navy blues...and I have a lot of small to medium sized balls of light (or baby) blue...so I decided just to use all of those up...alternating rows with each ball...

~Have a lovely day!

December OH HOLY NIGHT Porch Pillow

...Wow...I can't believe it is December and we are at the end of the project...

~Have a lovely day!

November GIVE THANKS Porch Pillow - F.O.

...and the November Give Thanks pillow is finished...

...and on the porch in plenty of time for Thanksgiving...

...I'm really happy with the colours...

...and I think it turned out great...

~Have a lovely day!

November GIVE THANKS Porch Pillow - Day TEN

...all done...

~Have a lovely day!

November GIVE THANKS Porch Pillow - Day NINE

...and...another 10 rows of GIVE...

~Have a lovely day!

November GIVE THANKS Porch Pillow - Day EIGHT

...another 10 rows of GIVE...

~Have a lovely day!

November GIVE THANKS Porch Pillow - Day SEVEN

...another 10 rows...and just starting the word GIVE...

~Have a lovely day!

November GIVE THANKS Porch Pillow - Day SIX

...another 10 rows...and Thanks is complete...

~Have a lovely day!

November GIVE THANKS Porch Pillow - Day FIVE

...another 10 rows...and Thanks is almost done...

~Have a lovely day!

November GIVE THANKS Porch Pillow - Day FOUR

...just 10 more rows of Thanks...

~Have a lovely day!

November GIVE THANKS Porch Pillow - Day THREE

...another 10 rows and the leaves are done...and just a couple of stitches of the Thanks...

~Have a lovely day!

November GIVE THANKS Porch Pillow - Day TWO

...another 10 rows and the laurel leaves at the bottom are almost done...\

~Have a lovely day!

November GIVE THANKS Porch Pillow - Day ONE

...I chose to use tan and black for this pattern...nice fall-ish colours...

...the first ten rows...just starting the leaves at the bottom...

~Have a lovely day!

November GIVE THANKS Pattern

...GIVE Thanks is the Pattern for November...

~Have a lovely day!

All the Monogram Letters

...I tried to create a linked image with all of the letters...click on your monogram letter and it should take you to the pattern for that letter...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter Z...Finally

..the Letter Z Monogram Pattern...

...I found out some interesting things about initials...that J, M, S, D, and C are the most common initials for first names, whereas S, B, H, M, and C are the most common initials for last names. In contrast, U, Q, and X are initials that do not appear often for either first or last names...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter Y

..the Letter Y Monogram Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter X

..the Letter X Monogram Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter W

..the Letter W Monogram Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter V

..the Letter V Monogram Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter U

...the Letter U Monogram Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter T

...the Letter T Monogram Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter S

...the Letter S Monogram Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter R

...the Letter R Monogram Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter Q

...the Letter Q Monogram Pattern...

...the capital Q is a very pretty letter...not often used though...I think it looks like a number 2...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter P

...the Letter P Monogram Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter O

...Letter O Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter N

...Letter N Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter M

...Letter M Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter L

Letter L Pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter K

...another very pretty letter...

...Letter K pattern...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Day TEN Progress

...and it's finished...

...I love how it turned out...

~Have a lovely day!

October Monogram Pillow - Letter J

...Letter J pattern...

~Have a lovely day!