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For this month, I’ve been thinking ahead to Christmas. When I stitch a large xstitch piece, I always keep the bands of aida that I trim off around the edges of a finished project before framing or finishing in any way. Which results in me having quite a few lengths of aida that are only very narrow, and not good for much other than stitching very small projects (or bookmarks, possibly). So for November, I am using up some of my aida scraps and getting ahead, making a few little decorations.
These bands are only approx 28 stitches across, so I found a nice little design only 20 x 20 stitches, and, while I have chosen a full skein on DMC 666 for the bright red, I’m using leftovers from my thread bags for the other colours. This design was in a freebie chart book (designs by Lucie Heaton) that came with a cross stitch magazine several moons ago.
I also had some wider strips I cut into squares.
And chose another design (by Durene Jones) from Cross Stitch Crazy issue 260.
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These are really sweet Claire – you’re very organised.
They are a cute design and lovely use of your scrap aida
love that.
You always make the best hand-made decorations!
aww thank you ^^ sadly I’m culling my xmas card list this year due to ever increasing cost of postage stamps.
Cute idea!
Those are great ideas for using up those Aida scraps!
Way to use up those scraps Claire! Bookmarks or stitch them down to a larger project as an added dimension border😊👍
They are lovely and what a Good idea.
What a great way to use up all of those scraps! They all look great!
super idea and very pretty.
Lovely use of your scraps, they look great
These look great, Claire. Are they all for cards?
for tree decorations, most likely, that can be used every year.
Love your small squares!
Lovely! Will you make cards or gift tags with them? They will make gifts very special.
I’ll be sticking to card, or sewing to felt, to make little tree decorations or gift tags ^^
Beautiful!
It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who saves these scraps for making little things. I like to make little motifs and attach them to greeting cards. Makes a nice little surprise. I usually make them such that they can be removed and hung on a tree, too. A lasting memory that way!