Gifted Gorgeousness January 2025

Gifted Gorgeousness is hosted each month by the lovely Jo at Serendipitous Stitching. On the 15th of each month we share our latest gifts. These can be gifts given or received, or any item made using fabric, threads, buttons, ribbon, chart, backing fabric that has been gifted. Thank you Jo for hosting GG again in 2025.

For my stitchy friends and my friends at scouts I made some gnomes. They were actually gifted gifts as they were made using felt and wool from my Mum, I still have a lot of felt so I am thinking of making more for next year's Christmas Market to raise Scout funds.

I was a gnome ... well a dwarf really. I'm my very young days, this was probably around 1970, I was in a dance show as one of Snow White's 7 dwarfs. I was so shy I took a while to go on stage. Everyone thought it was part of the show as I was playing the role of Bashful.

I saw this design by Faby Reilly and knew it would be perfect for my friends at Needlecraft Haven for Christmas. It's a lovely design that I will stitch in full but for gifts I stitched each character on plastic canvas.

To choose who had which character I used an online wheel spinner giving the characters in chart order left to right. I did take the Santa for me as I was the giver and he went on my tree at church. 

My Christmas gift parcel to the Needlecraft Haveners was a gnome, the Christmas Crew chart and a character with some Christmas colour thread, goodies and an upcycled card.

I received lovely gifts from my stitchy friends. Julie knitted a beautiful scarf and Mary gave me some lovely tea towels from France to remind us of our travels. I received a great bookmark kit from Gill, it's a Tudor rose designs and I'm looking forward to stitching it, and Christine sent a beautiful thread keeper. Candles, goodies and a lip balm keeper for my handbag were also gifted, thanks everyone I felt very spoilt.

Julie also sent me a bookmark chart ftom a kit she had stitched, along with the spare threads. I had some aida band in my stash so decided to stitch it up. I only needed a little bit of thread yo finish the blue edging and there was enough thread left to make a fringed edge. 

The final part of my first GG in 2025 is a gift to giveaway. Many years ago (probably over 20) I was a model stitcher for some designers. Millennia Designs was one and I received this gift from them but I have never stitched it. It has all the threads but they may need straightening after being stored so long.

I'm offering it as a giveaway - just say in your comment if you would like to be in the drawer. I'll use the wheel spinner at the end of February to choose the lucky winner.