Postcard progress

Yesterday I mostly worked on getting things ready for the class I'm teaching this weekend but I did have a few minutes to work on the postcards in the evening. I'm cutting the fabric scraps into wonky triangles.

Here's the basic design . I figured out a stitching path so that I can do all of the stitching continuously. Chris isn't overly enthusiastic about them but he's quite traditional about Christmas. I think they are pretty cute and they will probably get a couple of crystals added for a little sparkle.

Speaking of sparkle, after I stitched a few of them I wondered what they would look like stitched in silver metallic.

Ah ha! It turns out that they look much better with the silver metallic (left). I'll stitch the remaining 26 in silver but I will not toss out the first ones stitched in black. The recipients will not know the difference.

Now you know what I will be doing for the next few days. I like to do 3 designs every year and I think If I set a goal to make a set every 2 weeks that I'll have them all done by December 1 and that would be fantastic. Hopefully while I finish this batch I'll come up with some genius idea for the next batch.