Coming soon....Merry Christmas To Thee

Happy Saturday Everyone!
It's a hot one here in South Texas today! But we are patiently waiting for our first cool front due in tonight. Tomorrow will be a little crispier and fresher and will finally feel like autumn...at least for a few days!

I am so pleased to present my latest design called Merry Christmas To Thee. If you are like me, you like to stitch up something for dear friends as a keepsake that will remind them every time they see it of the friendship you have enjoyed over time. That was my inspiration for this pillow which can be stitch up quickly and beautifully finished. I am not a finisher!....so I asked my new friend, Faye Riggsbee, you probably know her as "The Carolina Stitcher" to finish my new design. What a beautiful job she did......



Took this photo with my ipad. It is even more beautiful in person! Thank you Faye. You did a beautiful job! The chart will be available at your LNS within the next couple of weeks. --
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New Design! New Design!

I can never wait to show a new design! It's like showing off a sweet new baby.

I decided to change my usual palette and work in lovely purples and lavenders. It was such fun. If you haven't noticed I'm into houses right now.




Working on my Christmas design now and enjoying a stormy afternoon here in Texas. Hope you are having a great weekend!
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Coming Soon

I'm looking forward to Autumn and Winter! Another month or so and will start to cool down here in South Texas. My mind keeps drifting to beautiful reds and greens of the holiday season. Today I put the last stitch in my latest design...I used a purple,lavender color scheme, not my usual palette of colors. For some reason I needed to get this purple phase out of my system. I am very pleased with the results and hope you will enjoy stitching it too. It will be released in a week or two.



So off to my computer to work on my holiday design! It's already in my head...I just have to get it on a chart, the hard part! If you've ever tried your hand at designing,you'll understand what I mean. Sometimes things change from head to paper!
Hoping you are enjoying your weekend. Happy Stitching!
FYI-Norden crafts will be giving away 3 Abby Rose Designs Charts on Wednesday. Go to their Facebook page for a chance to win!- Posted using BlogPress from my iPad

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Bless This Home

Bless this Home...the title of my new design.  If you enjoyed Home Is Where You Hang Your Needlework then you will like Bless This Home!  I designed it to be a companion piece to Home Is Where You Hang Your Needlework.  It is the same size and the color palette is similar.  It was stitched on Old Mill Java using Sampler Threads, Weeks Dye Works and Crescent Colours threads.

New Design should be released within the next week or two.

Hope you have a great week and Happy Stitching!

Gayle....Abby Rose Designs

Speak kindly

Norden  Crafts will be featuring my design "Speak Kindly" on Tuesday.  There will be a giveaway of three autographed charts.  For information on how to enter, you can go over to their Facebook page.

Speak kindly

I am out on my patio today enjoying the much needed rain.  The last month has been so dry it's good to hear the far off thunder and see those drops coming down.  Hopefully this will last for a couple of days.  Hope you are having a relaxing weekend.  Just put the last stitches in my new design last night.

It should be released in a couple of weeks.  Those of you who enjoyed stitching "Home Is Where You Hang Your Needlework" will enjoy stitching this one also.  It is a companion piece that has the same type of border.  Happy Stitching!            

Where has the Summer Gone?

It's hard to believe it is already August 5th! It seems like yesterday it was June! I'm not crazy about the heat because it does get hot here in Texas but I do love how things slow down a bit. Just enough to catch your breath until Fall and Winter and all that comes with those seasons!
This summer I have been busy designing, stitching models, and preparing for a trunk show.
I am now working on a companion piece to "Home is Where You Hang Your Needlework" which everyone seems to like according to the number of charts I have sent out to my distributors. I have included a peek...I'm still stitching the model so it will be a couple weeks before it's debut.





Last week I received the walnut crystals that I ordered. I haven't tried them yet. But I am preparing to coffee dye some linen so I will use them to age the linen a little more. I do love the look that you get from the crystals and I have noticed that several of the designers are using them now. So I will post later my results. Hope you have a great week full of stitching and fun!

Happy stitching!
Gayle
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Happy Monday!

The Norden Crafts contest to win a copy of my Angels Unaware is still going on today until 4 p.m. If you haven't had a chance to do so...you still have time. All you have to do is " like" and "share" my design. I think it is a wonderful thing they are doing...it gives you a chance to win and gives us, designers an opportunity to showcase our work.

Lately I've been asked how I come up with my designs. I guess everyone is interested in the process. For me, and I can't speak for other designers, but I would guess the process is similar, I either see a phrase or quote that I like and design according to the quote or Sometimes I

am in the mood to use certain colors, or I want to try something new....right now I am loving houses so I have to have a house in everything. I love the way the alphabet looks in a sampler so I most always use an alphabet. Angels unaware was the first time I did not use an alphabet and it was all I could do to keep myself from incorporating one into the design.

The other thing is .... I LOVE linen. I like the feel, the look, the smell, especially R&R's coffee dyed linen. I also sometimes age my linen a little more with coffee. I just ordered some walnut crystals to try. Can't wait until they arrive so I can test them out. Finally, I love color...when I was a kid....I am a child of the late 60's early 70's, ( I'll be 52 in a couple weeks.) I loved to color. I always had a new coloring book and I was so happy when my mom would take me down to the store for a fresh new box of 64 crayons. Oh happy day!!! My threads remind me of those crayons. My linen is my coloring book!

What am I working on now? I have a snippet of a reproduction, it's not an exact reproduction. I have taken some artistic liberties on this one. I have brightened the colors but the charting is exactly the same as the original.











Hope you have a great day!

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