Howdy-ho, friends! I hope your week is progressing wonderfully!
Remember last week, when I reviewed the custom wooden boxes for mounting embroidery, hand crafted by Mark Harris at Mythic Crafts?
Welllllll…. it’s time to spread the love a bit, with a give-away!
For the details, read on, read on!
Mark has generously offered one of his custom boxes for mounting embroidery for a give-away here on Needle ‘n Thread.
And you know me – I couldn’t resist the offer, since it’s a chance to pass along to one of you something that is not only beautiful, but useful, too.
The randomly drawn winner of today’s give-away can choose among the boxes on the Mythic Crafts website, with whichever customizations options (wood choice, corner choice, etc.) you wish, or, if you have a different size opening you need on your box (to accommodate a piece of needlework you’ve already completed), you can just let Mark know and he will work with you.
Mark said he’d also throw in a few surprise goodies – and who doesn’t like surprise goodies?
If you’d like to join in on today’s give-away, please adhere to the guidelines below.
Give-Away Guidelines
The location for leaving comments for this give-away has changed. You can read why here.
1. Leave a comment on this new article on Needle ‘n Thread. There’s a link directly to the comment form in the guidelines posted in the new article.
2. Make sure you leave a name and a working email address in the correct lines on the comment form. You do not need to leave a website address on the comment form, if you do not own and operate your own website. Do not leave your email address, mailing address, or phone number in the comment box itself, because this is viewable online, and you don’t want to end up with a bunch of junk mail, right?
3. In your comment, please answer the following question:
What style of embroidery are you working on at the moment, and do you have any “finishing” plans for it? (i.e. will it hang on a wall, will it decorate something else, is it part of a quilt, is it something you can make up into some specific item, will you put it on a box, is it part of a piece of clothing, and so on)
4. Leave your comment by 5:00 am central time (Kansas, USA), Saturday, September 16th. The winner will be randomly drawn from the eligible entries and announced that day. I’ll also contact the winner via email.
And that’s it! Go forth and leave your comment on this article, and you could soon be the proud owner of a gorgeous hand-crafted wooden box from Mythic Crafts to display your favorite embroidered masterpiece in all its glory!
Who doesn’t have something to put in such a beautiful box!! Currently I’m working on a stumpwork/goldwork piece with a central rose. The design is from a 17th century glove. This is going into a candle frame, so that when the candle is lit you will see all the gold glitter.
Hi Sharon! This sounds beautiful! What is a candle frame?
I just finished a needle painted lion following Trish Burr’s design and turned it into a book cover for my husband. I’m getting ready to begin another needle painting project and mounting it into one of those beautiful boxes would be the perfect finish for the project. Thank you for the chance to win.
I’m traveling the country in a camper with my 3 children for a year, so no embroidery in progress. But I was gifted a gold work kit that I’m studying up on for when we return home. It’s a small rose and I think I will mount it to hang in my bedroom!
Thanks for the giveaway! I’m still reading your posts to keep my textile juices running!
Carrie PlaneNut
Traveling around the country sounds like fun. Have you been able to stop at any quilt/embroidery shop in your travels? Wish I could pick up and take my home in Florida out of the way of Irma. Stay safe. What state are you in now. Thanks E
I am currently adapting a cross-stitch into a freestyle embroidery which I will probably frame and designing a new Goldwork Celtic Cross which would look gorgeous in this box lid!
Thanks for the chance to win
I have several project going (of course). One of those is a counted cross stitch unicorn from one of the UK magazines. I have plans to matte and frame it (in conjunction with my mom and her dad for a three way split of the custom framing costs). But as any in my family will attest, monograms are my specialty, and those boxes are absolutely lovely. If I got my hands on one, I would start another project.
My current project is a needlepoint of Santa flying across the sky to deliver presents – lots to do before I take it to my local framer so I can display it this Christmas.
Thanks to Mary and Mark for this opportunity.
Kathy
Currenty between projects. My next one will be a needlepoint pillow for my daughter with the words ‘be awesome’ on it.
I love these boxes! Right now I’m working on a “blackwork” challah cover (so the work is actually in blues). I’m planning on backing it with some nice smooth fabric and giving it to my cousin as a wedding present.
I’m very interested to hear about your challah cover – I have searched for good Jewish embroidery designs without a lot of success … any thoughts?
I am also looking for good Jewish embroidery designs and ideas. Would love to see a pic.
I am currently working on three samplers and a beaded Christmas ornament. As for mounting, all three samplers have a date with a framer so they can join their friends on my sampler wall. One thing that I love about beading is there is no finishing involved so that will be ready to hang on the tree at Christmas.
Thank you.
I am working on two pieces right now. A fairly large crazy quilt piece, about 36″x18″ which will. Be finished into a wall hanging for my son and an embroidery piece of the princess and the pea which I think will be framed for my granddaughter. If I win the box I think I will use ‘aru’s stitch sampler book and make an insert that has my initials.
I’m finishing up a cross-stitch project I began 10 years ago. It’s a Noah’s Ark sampler designed by Teresa Wentzler that I began years before I married and which languished in storage through three moves…and now I’m finishing it (hopefully!) in time for the arrival of my third baby!
I am stitching a series of bee themed accessories. There is a box lid, needle case, thread holder, pin cushion, pin keep, scissor holder and scissor fob. All the smaller pieces are stitched – now on to the bigger items! Wish me luck!
Hi – what a gorgeous and generous giveaway. I am working on a small sampler that I intended to use as the cover of a needle book but if I won this gorgeous box, it will fit nicely in the lid. The sampler is a design I put together borrowing from the Sampler & Antique Needlework magazines I own.
Thanks so much
I have several pieces I’m working on (who doesn’t?). My current favorites are cross stitched name samplers for my kids with letter motifs from Cross Stitch Crazy magazine. I plan to frame them separately so they can hang them on their walls.
I’m currently working on a belt embroidered with goldwork to go with a Renaissance costume I’m making. When I need to take a break from that, I have a cross stitch kit of Van Gogh’s Starry Night which will eventually be mounted into a frame and hang on my bedroom wall.
Hi, Mary,
I am working on a surface embroidery project for my niece to commemorate her wedding. I had originally planned to frame it, but now that I have learned about these keepsake boxes, I think a box would be nicer, and then she can keep mementoes of the wedding in it.
OMG What a fabulous giveaway! I swooned over the boxes the other day when you posted about them. So generous of Mark and you to conspire to share such goodies with us!
I’m currently working on my first goldwork piece; it’s almost done and I’m still mulling over how to finish it. I’ve put so much time into it, I’d love to finish it beautifully and think it would be ideally suited to one of the boxes. Otherwise I’ll probably frame it.
I am getting ‘back into’ embroidery after an absence of 35 years or so. Currently working on pieces I design myself (a shell, old architecture, fish) that are small and just on muslin. My main object being to gain a precise and even stitch! I doubt if these go anywhere—except perhaps in a box. Speaking of boxes- it is a future plan to make a covered/embroidered treasure box for all the grandkids. Hopefully I will gain the expertise to do so. Everyone needs a treasure box.
I’m currently working on a Mirabilia cross stitch pattern. I will probably frame it since it’s too large to do anything else with. 😀 Thanks for holding the give-a-way!
At the moment i am working on many things! Specifically small 4 inch flower hoops, some black work animals, embroidered landscapes and embroidered pendants. I love all kinds of embroidery but seem to especially get drawn back to flowers using various embroidered stitches.
I am currently working on a gold and silver works pattern sent to me here in Canada, from my family in Hungary. I have been using various types of gold and silver thread to give uniqueness and texture, and I hope to send it back to them finished soon in the hopes they enjoy it.
I have a current plan to embroider a picture of my cat who recently passed away at 21 years old, and I have been waiting to find the perfect container for her ashes, a monogrammed box such as the one you are giving away with an M for Murphey would be a life blessing and seems to be the most meaningful thing I could picture placing her ashes in to rest in peace. I have a photo of her in the sun beside me while I embroider on my back deck, her favorite thing to do.
I would be a grateful recipient of this beautiful box
Courtney
Luvvvv these boxes! Ty for a chance and for your wonderful website. You answer my questions all the time and you don’t even know it!!
I’m currently working on a very large sampler. Like huge! It must be framed so saving up for that! But. I have so many gorgy things planned that would fit on one of those boxes! I am not a sewer so the boxes are a great idea for my smalls just not that affordable so would be over the top thrilled to win. Ty for a chance and good luck to all!!!❤️
His work is beautiful. I would dearly love to have it and make something special to put in it. Right now I am working on a skyline of Chicago to give as a gift to friends with a condo on Michigan Avenue. So it will be too big. But I have a painted pansy kit that would be a something special to mount in this beautiful box.
Counted cross stitch, as always. I’ll frame the piece and hang it on my wall – and if I get really motivated this weekend, I’ll get back to the sampler I started last year for my nephew…who is now eight months old.
Hello! I am about to start a new project idea for me. My friend is a painter and keeps a watercolor journal. I have asked her for a copy of a page so I can try to replicate her artist journal page. I have a new beautiful embroidery stretch frame also that I will try for the first time. Then I hope to frame it, provided it turns out alright. I learned to embroider from my mother, who just turned 102 and until last year was still turning out blanket stitched dishtowels with a Mary Corbett pattern initial on each one. It seems to be a part of my DNA!
Thank you, Corrine McCarty
Robbinsdale, Minnesota
I’m working on a long bellpull style band sampler that I think I might just finish the top and bottom and use as a long table runner. I might not even finish the back of if, as I quite pleased with how neat it looks. I also have some needlepoint Christmas ornaments I’m doing.
I do, however, have a piece that would fit NICELY into the box! Thanks for the giveaway!
WOW! Thank you Mark! Someone is going to receive a beautiful box!!!!!
Currently I am working on a hardanger ring pillow for my son’s upcoming wedding and after the wedding I want to reclaim the pillow and frame the hardanger work for them. I am including their names and the date of the wedding.
I’m working on silk embroidery now and plan to assemble several small pieces into a book.
I just finished a wedding sampler banner for friends. The wide ribband hangs from a dowel and ends with a point that is hig lighted with a tassel. However the piece before this one was a 5 inch square mixed media piece that was put into a box
I am presently working on a sampler with my nine year old granddaughter who wants me to teach her how to do embroidery. It would be wonderful to display her piece on a box for a forever heirloom. Thanx for the opportunity to win.
What a wonderful giveaway.
The hand-crafted box itself would be the inspiration for the embroidery insert I created, were I to win. They are so beautiful that I would want each piece to enhance the other.
As for current embroideries – it’s an eclectic collection: abstract, figurative and in between. A couple are totally original. Several are inspired by works I admire. The goal for all is to learn new stitches and combinations of colors.
My current project is actually part of a large group project for my historical re-enactment group. We are re-creating our members’ heraldic coat of arms in small shield shapes to stitch on a larger tapestry piece.
I have several projects going…dragon monograms that wil be finished into wall hangings for my kiddos and beaded Christmas ornaments are the current priorities.
I am working on a large counted cross stitch piece that has embroidery incorporated into it. It a gift for my daughter and will be framed. I am pretty sure it won’t be completed in time for Christmas but should be done by her birthday.
I am working on a Christmas wool embroidery quilt.. I read your emails every day and save them so I can look up your stitches. your you tube videos are invaluable.. thank you
I’m very new to hand embroidery and have spent the last few weeks working on negative space monogram inspired by you :). I’ve loved learning new stitches and being brave with colour.
I am currently working on a piece of Brazilian embroidery and it would look spectacularly wonderful mounted on the top of one of these special boxes.
What a great giveaway! I am currently working on a wool applique/embroidery that is supposed to become the front of a tote bag.
I’m currently working on a cross-stitch scene of a cottage in winter — over single threads on 32 count linen! I actually bought a magnifier for this project! 😀 Thanks for the opportunity to win!!
Oh yes!!!! I have birds that need this box! Cardinals will be especially beautiful mounted in this way.
I love the box! thank you for this opportunity. I am currently working on a few cross stitch pieces and they are all pretty big. the bigger is HAED World travel bookshelf and I doubt i will frame jut because it is too huge. I have been playing with the idea of making it into a quilt or a wall hanging when it will be done in a few decades 🙂
I have nearly finished an interpretation of a Baillie-Scott design, originally the central panel of a screen in the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London. I am working it in silk on linen, using a variety of surface embroidery stitches. I’m intending it as a cushion.
I would love the opportunity of working a smaller Baillie Scott motif (maybe derived from his inlaid furniture) as an insert for a box lid, so this giveaway would be much, much appreciated!
I am working on a Christmas wool embroidery right now. It will be framed and is to match another one that will be for my grandson.
I am working on your Long and Short stitch Tutorial, some doodles of my own, and organizing my threads. I am having trouble coming up with finishing ideas for the small doodles, so this box would work out great for me. The work on the boxes is so beautiful.
I have just begun the goldwork pheasant from Inspirations magazine’s kit. He would fit amazingly into one of Mark’s beautiful boxes.
Carolyn
Currently I am working on a Gay Ann Rogers portrait of Eleanor of Aquitaine. It will be framed and hung up when it is done. I am also working on designing a piece (first time I have done this) that I can work on at Renaissance Faires. It will be a head covering called a Coif that will be covered in Elizabethan style flowers. I have not decided yet if I want to do it in blackwork or in vibrant colors.
Such beautiful boxes ~ a lovely giveaway. I have taken up embroidery recently so I’m practicing stitches by embroidering small designs on dress pockets that I’m sewing for my grand daughter.
I am currently doing free-form embroidery to embellish a wall quit – everything from distant fields, to flowers around houses, children playing, sheep, corn on the stalk, and more! I even did a small chicken on a barnyard 🙂 Love it, especially using so many different types and colors of thread!
Currently I am working a counted cross stitch piece for my daughter . She moved to NH, so this piece has the covered bridge in her town and is a fall scenes. I have done a companion piece same bridge and homes for the winter holidays. Next up will be a larger reproduction sampler for me.
Hi Mary and Mark,
Thanks for this opportunity to throw my hat into the ring.
I’m currently working on Amethyst Garden, a counted thread design by Kathy Rees that is designed to fit the top of a box. I’m hoping to complete it for a Christmas gift for my lovely daughter-in-law. One of Mark’s beautiful boxes would make this gift super special.
I love reading your blog, Mary. How is the fire screen coming along? I ordered it after I read about it in your blog.
harriet alonso
I am presently working on a Japanese Bunka embroidery of a geisha, much too large for the box. But, I have a beautiful goldwork flower kit that I have been anxious to stitch…my first attempt at goldwork! I just watched the video on Craftsy and am raring to go! Mark’s boxes are absolutely beautiful….how exciting it would be to win!
At the moment I am distracted by Hurricane Irma, readying our place tucked away in the NC mountains to receive storm refugees. But, I will have stitching for those moments when I can put my feet up. Most likely a Berlin work piece from an antique chart a friend gave me. I have a perfect piece for one of the beautiful boxes, given to me by a daughter in law. The boxes are exquisite!
Enjoy almost all types of embroidery – at the moment I am working on a counted sampler project which will likely be framed – when I get around to it!
Working on “Berry Picking Party” by Crabapple Hill Studio which offers lots of embroidery embedded in quilts.
What a lovely give away! I have two projects right now. A detailed cross stitch of an English Cocker Spaniel, a present from my daughter. She found one that looks like my dog, Brayden. This would look wonderful mounted on a w wood box.
My second project is a beginning needlepainting floral project. I thought of putting it in a pendant fitting to wear when finished
I am currently working on a heartsease design from a Jane Nicholas class. It is stumpwork, stitched on duchess silk. I am hoping to frame this, or it could be lovely in a box top!
I am a smocker. I am working on a beautiful smocked design that is made to go onto a box. I would so love to win this wooden box so I can show it off to my guild friends.
Hi Mary!
I love this opportunity! A big thanks to you both:)
I am just finishing up a textured embroidery class on Craftsy by Sue Spargo. It is currently being damp stretched using the method you taught me! I will then cut it back to a nice rectangle (things got a bit wonky without my use of a hoop), add some textured trim made from faux suede placemats, and finish it into a pillow case for our window seat. I hope to have photos added to my site soon enough.
Thanks again for all you’ve taught me!
-C
My current embroidery project is adding some embellishments to some of my bathroom towels. I like using them to try out new color combinations while adding some decorations to my bathroom at the same time.
I have a lot of projects currently in the works, but I am about to embark on a number of tiny projects that will be finished as pin-on buttons. I was gifted a blank one and now I want tons to give to friends, etc. I can’t wait!
I am working on Happily Ever After Cross Stitch by Frosted Pumpkin to hang on the wall but if I won this box I would be likely to try to mount some wool applique handwork on it, thanks for the chance!
I’m currently working on a small piece of crewel embroidery. Although I can planned to frame it, I think it would look so much better in some of the custom boxes.
Thank you for the chance to win! I am currently working on an embroidery piece that is fall themed with a scarecrow in a wheelbarrow with sunflower, pumpkins, cornstalks and crows by Bird Brain Designs. I plan to use it for a quilt label for a project I am working on in a quilt along that will finish up in December.
I am working on a Linda Driskell piece that combines Hardanger, surface embroidery, and pulled thread. When finished it will become a needlebook.
Beautiful boxes it will be hard to choose.
I love these boxes. I am currently working on a Jacobean embroidery in shades of blue and the plan is to have it mounted into a tray (glass top) and this will be a Christmas present for one of our daughters. It would be wonderful to have a box as my next project
Oh I am working on a Christmas stocking with a variety of surface embroidery stitches-stem, satin, lazy-daisy, French knots, applique, etc.!
Right now I’m working on what will become the front of a pillow. It’s a phrase (say yes to saying no) and I’m using split stitch to fill in the letters. This is a project I’m doing for a family friend who wants to give it to her sister, and honestly, it’s not calling to me. If it were a personal project I’d have let it go, but it’s a commitment I made and it will bring joy to others, so I’ll finish. I should just try to do 15 minutes a day and it’ll get done eventually. 🙂 Thank you Mary for inspiring and teaching me so much. And thank you & Mark for this awesome give-away.
I would love to be the proud owner of one of his boxes. After your initial post I checked his website. I am so impressed. They are truly gorgeous. I would love to put my late husband’s mementos in one with either our initials or my grandson’s initials on it and save it for our oldest grandson ( who just started college last week). My husband passed very suddenly, and much to early, while away from home on business in Washington DC last November. He and our grandson, Noah, were best buddies, and Noah was devastated. I would probably use one of Needle ‘N Threads embroidery designs for the initials.
I always have multiple embroidery projects in the works… Currently, trying to finish up the embroidery on an appliqued quilt I made for my newest granddaughter. Also, working on hexie crazy quilt blocks, finishing up a sampler and working with older granddaughter on a denim shirt she is embroidering.
I find your website so thought provoking and to me, entertaining. I love reading it and learning how to improve my work. I’m working on a lot of projects right now, one of which is a nearly completed nativity quilt which is all embroidered with back stitches and outline stitches. I also have inherited some vintage pieces in linen that are dresser scarves.
I had a box made for my first piece of crewel work and it looks brilliant. I am now working on a stumpwork embroidery of flowers and insects that will also be in need of a home
I am working on some cross stitch – actually two different pieces. One will end up being a Christmas Stocking. The other is a year of teacups and flowers – I will make small quilt pieces and assembly them on a stand so that I can flip them (like a calendar) to see each month. I an getting ready to work on some canvas pieces that would work well on one of these boxes. Have always wanted one – but couldn’t afford it. Thanks for the chance to win one.
Ronda
Love the wooden boxes. Would dearly love to own one but not in my budget right now. I am working on a Jacobean design using surface embroidery with a variegated thread. Evacuating today from South Florida USA where huge hurricane expected to hit soon. Already packed my stitching. Enjoy your emails so much Mary. Thank you kindly.
Thank you so much for this amazing giveaway. The boxes are gorgeous. I’m working on a reproduction of the Bayeux tapestry, namely a panel of Harold receiving a messenger I’ve been an embroiderer only for two and a half years but I’ve discovered it’s my calling and that’s mainly because of your site! I think to date I have over 100 completed pieces. I mount most of them in hoops because I can’t afford to have them framed professionally. I’m going to mount my ‘tapestry’ on a large board as per the instructions. I’ll hang it in my living room on a piece of blank wall that’s been bugging me.
I love the idea of mounting embroidery in a lovely box. Such a beautiful gift for someone.
Currently I am working on the completion of a Paris Market by Dimensions. I started it in August of 2016 and expect the completion to be about the end of this year!!!! I will be hanging it in my kitchen to brighten the wall! Would love to have a beautiful box from Mythical Crafts! I still do take time to do a smaller project in between the big one!
I am currently working on a gold work bumble bee and until I saw this box, I had no idea what to do with it! I had thought about making it into a needle book. It would be perfect on top of a box.
Currently, I’m working on small ornaments for the Make A Wish organization which are to be put around the necks of teddy bears for the kids who are getting their wishes. Such a fun project!
I am finishing a cross stitch / embroidery on perforated paper. I plan to finish it with paper and fabric on the back bound with buttons or flat beads so it can be mounted on the wall. I’m having lots of fun learning the limitations and freedom of perforated paper.
I have been sidelined with a broken ankle for the last 7 weeks and have gotten a lot of stitching done. Currently I am working on a sampler for our 50th anniversary next August.
Currently working on wool scissor case embroidered with wool thread.
I haven’t actually started it yet – I just got the instruction book – but my next project would be perfect for a box top! It’s a Group Correspondence Course from EGA called More Than a Rose. It’s surface embroidery with some goldwork in an historical style. And it’s only about 3×5″, so I think one of Mark’s boxes would display it beautifully!
Working on an embroidery from Faeries in my Garden. An embroidery folder for my own use. I just finished an embroidery about the 50th anniversary of the summer of love, a challenge through the San Francisco school of needle arts and design. Hopefully it will be on display there this month. I love your site and emails. Thank you!
I have several projects going! Two goldwork projects that will be framed unless they fit in that box! One large cross stitch project that will be framed, Several small cross stitch and surface embroidery projects and one large surface embroidery (don’t know yet how I will display these, however, they would look lovely on those boxes!) Oh, and the Christmas picture (crewel work) and that is ever ongoing. Will use this as a tree skirt or framed.
Thank you for all the inspiration!
Barabal D.
What a lovely giveaway! Thanks! I am currently starting an Embroidery Assoc of Canada correspondence course in canvaswork to make a 3-d candy dish! It looks yummy. A friend and I are starting it next week. (wish us luck!) More and more, as wall space becomes harder to find, I look for pieces that can be finished in un-framed ways: a box top is perfect!! … you could place candy in it, as well. 🙂
I love embroidered boxes and Mark’s creations are beautiful. At present I’m working on a tapestry shading panel which will be mounted on the replacement “bag” which hangs below a regency work table I’m restoring. Mark’s box would sit perfectly on the table top – I’m already imagining the companion embroidery design for it to match the work table panel!!
y’all create beautiful works of art
I would love to own one of them some day
Thank you for sharing
Take Care…You Matter
Blessings
mary
Lovely boxes.
I am currently working on a counted thread piece using multiple techniques to be finished as a stand alone 3-dimensional article. I have never finished in a box. This opportunity would be great.
My “embroidery” project right now is actually a beading project! I’m working on Rachael Kinnison’s Bath Arbor Basket. I just got back from the class in Bath, England at the Summer Textile School! It is designed to hang on the wall and I will have to find a very safe place to hang it so that my boys don’t shoot it accidentally with their Nerf guns!!
I love the look of the box with the embroidery. I am reminded of times gone by and of present day treasure storage. I usually have an embroidery or applique project on hand to work on in the evening. Now, I am working on a small wall hanging with applique hearts, an embroidery butterfly, dragonfly, and 2 other ‘ flies’. I make the decision of who it will be for after completion in case I am not happy with the outcome. In that case, it will be on my wall.
I would love an embroidery holder wooden box to sit beside me while I stitch.
I have several projects going at one time. One is red work using all different embroidery stitches and another one is a 25 linen count cross stitch.
Those boxes are absolutely gorgeous and I would love to be in with a chance to get my hands on one!
As it is only one of the things I’m currently working on would be suitable for such a box, and that is some goldwork I started at a dayclass with the Royal School of Needlework. I’m also working on a small combined appliqué/embroidery project which is likely to end up as a card (it’s meant to become a workshop when I’ve worked it all out in detail); it would be the right size for the box but much to ephemeral to be mounted in something so beautiful 🙂
The last of my current projects is a freestyle Tree of Life design which I’m in the process of getting just the way I want it, and for which I am doing trial bits in crewel wool at the moment (Pearsall’s lovely Heathway Merino crewel wool). It will eventually be worked in silk and will most likely end up framed, unless I can find a tray to mount it in, which I would much prefer. Sudberry have some lovely ones, but unfortunately with postage and import duties they are not even remotely within budget *sigh*
I’m working on four things at the moment–a traditional crewel piece that will become a cushion, a reproduction sampler to be framed, a goldwork piece to be mounted in the top of a box, and one of Amy Mitten’s Casket Toys for my (eventual) casket.
I have enjoyed counted cross stitch since I first learned as a new Army wife in the former West Germany in 1979. After all these years, I am ready for a change! I am following the wonderfully detailed instructions in your Stitch Sampler Alphabet to create the initial of my first grandchild. As you have shown, the embroidery would fit perfectly in Mark’s hand-crafted box and would become an heirloom for little Ella.
I’m currently working on three surface embroidery pieces, but the one I literally put down to read this article is a monogram from your Favorite Monograms ebook, to practice satin stitch and trial DMC’s Coton a Broder thread. I need more satin stitch practice, for sure 🙂 but the Coton a Broder is delightful to work with. If I’m so lucky as to win the box, I will probably embroider my daughter’s monogram, adding her favorite flowers of needle-painted apple blossoms and wild roses, to mount in the box lid as a gift to her. Needle painting, thanks to many lessons from your site, is MUCH easier than satin stitching!
Thanks to both you and Mark for the wonderful give-a-way! His boxes are beautiful. I’m currently working on an embroidered wool covered box designed by Deborah Tirico.
I am just about to complete a purse kit that I got on sale several years ago-18ct Aida in a small oval frame on a wooden weaved basket lid – I am going to add pockets to the lining & a padded lid inside for pins, etc & use it as a small sewing basket for my go- to supplies. I am learning some new stitches along the way! Thank you Mark for a wonderful giveaway, Susan
How wonderful. I have a beautiful silk and metal piece that needs a gorgeous frame. grapes and swirling good.
I am currently working on as many form of surface embroidary as possible. Trying to find what I love most and what works for my limitations.
My friend, Sherrie, does beautiful needlework. Her current passion is counted cross stitch. She would love one of these boxes. If my name is chosen, I would gift it to her. She is always kind enough to fill in the gaps of my project supplies.
Thank yous to Mary and Sherrie for their generosity.
I am currently working on the gold work Pheasant from “Inspirations” issue #93. I immediately thought this would be the perfect finish for the Pheasant when you first showed us Mark’s beautiful boxes. I have one of his slate frames; and it is such a pleasure to work with. I can only imagine how wonderful his boxes are. Thanks to both of you for this opportunity!
I’m working on cross-stitch bookmarks that I give to literacy programs. I recently finished a canvas piece designed by Lois Kirshner especially for our region in the Embroidery Guild of America . I plan to frame it, but now I think it would be great in one of the special boxes you reviewed.
I’m working on a Claire Murray cross stitch kit, based on one of her needlework patterns, of a Nantucket Lightship basket filled with flowers. It’s going to be matted and framed when finished, to hang in my bedroom. My previous project was a small Tudor Rose cross stitch kit which I bought at the Southwark Cathedral gift shop in London—it would be perfect for one of these beautiful Mythic Craft boxes!
Hello, Thank you for the chance to win a beautiful mounting box . That is a great prize. At this time, I am working on a Christmas wall hanging, I have the embroidery done on 2 already, I would like to have 3 of them done by Thanksgiving, as I am giving them to my grandchildren for the Christmas season. It is a DAYS TILL SANTA COMES, wall hanging. The child will write with chalk daily how many days till Santa comes on a cloud made from chalkboard fabric on this beautiful redwork wallhanging. I have a perfect project for that mounting box, so, I am very excited about this contest.
Again, thank you very much for the chance to win this great prize. Rosemary
Mark’s boxes are really a work of art. Right now, I am working on some fun hoop art pieces. I also have a crazy quilt piece and I just received the book that you recommended Mary, so I’ll be working on that too.
Carol b
I currently have several pieces in progress (which of us doesn’t ?), but he one I am truly concentrating upon is a cross-stitch of the word “Autumn” with the background & each letter of the word enhanced with items representative of the Season.
I am just recovering from hip replacement surgery and I thought if I was going to be “challenged” and/or laid up for the season, I would have a needlework remembrance of the event, LOL.
Ultimately, this piece will likely be framed & rotate through the several Seasonal pieces I display throughout the year.
For once, I’m working on something for myself. I’m making a needlebook designed by Jeanette Douglas.
What a beautiful box to keep treasures. Thank you for sharing.
I am just starting a needle painting project…a small but lovely Provence landscape in jewel tones. It could look quite nice mounted in a box! Thank you for such inspiring ideas for giveaways. I might never have known about Mythic Crafts without your recommendation and I enjoyed perusing the website. The quality of their handmade items looks great…you can tell they know what embroiderers are looking for.
Six weeks ago our beautiful granddaughter Rose O’Brien Rust was born. I am embroidering an “R” monogram. I had planned on framing it in an oval frame, but now am thinking of putting it on one of the boxes! Hopefully to be a treasure for a lifetime!
Wooden boxes to display needlework are the perfect display for your work. I would try a different stitch I haven’t attempted before to expand my range of stitches. My Xmas list will have a box on my wish list.
In my bag right now, so my “current” projects, are a biscornu that is a mix of cross stitch and other counted thread embroidery that is part of the EGA Stitch-a-long. It’s the August project and I’m still plugging along. So, it will be finished as a biscornu. The other current item is the alien schoolgirl samples from Ink Circles. It is all cross stitch and when done I’ll get it framed.
Oh – and I always have some needle tatting going. I’m currenly just making bookmarks for the sake of keeping my hands busy.
Currently I am working on a cross stitch design called “Moroccan Mares” by Mill Hill. They are designed by Laurel Butch. I have always admired he horse depictions and now I am finally working on one! I plan to make a wall hanging when it’s done.
Right now, I’m working on a canvas piece, and a crewel piece. The canvas piece will be framed, the crewel piece will , most likely be a pillow. I have a piece I just finished that would look real nice in a box lid.
Good morning! I have learned SO MUCH from your blog posts since I first came across it two years ago! Thank you, Mary! The project I am currently completing is Lucy Barter’s Craftsy class – Goldwork Sampler. I found out about it from your blog! I would like to frame it in a box with a piece of museum glass covering it because I want the detail to be perfectly viewable. It is difficult to find boxes that are deep enough to accommodate the ‘thickness’ of a completed goldwork piece. Thank you for sharing the info about Mark’s boxes and for offering a giveaway. 🙂
I am working on a Bargello Canvaswork project which I will make into a pillow. If I was to win the box I would find a Hardanger piece for the box top.
Thanks for the chance to win one of these lovely boxes. I’m currently cross stitching several (on number 3 now) 2 inch bouquet baskets to be made into gifts of pin keeps.
At the moment, I have just begum some canvas work from Northern Pines, a depiction of irises in front of a stained glass window. I has assumed that I would frame it for hanging on a wall, but now, even if I don’t win the drawing, I will have to consider if it could go on a box. Probably not; it would lose its arch shape and outline. But having such a beautiful box would just give me an excuse to pick a suitable piece next. I love boxes.
I am currently working on a crazy quilt – that will be a wall hanging – made from all of my husband’s ties that he stopped wearing when he retired 12 years ago. The squares are made and now the fun part – embroidering all those seams with the stitches that I am learning from Needle ‘n Thread! Thank you for this great site!
doing some bargello right now .. it’s going to be a big one so it will most likely be framed.
I have a huge appreciation for anything handcrafted and detailed- these boxes are exquisite as is Mary’s needlecraft beauties. Thank you for this opportunity!
I am working on a Brazilian embroidery piece. And had planned to frame it. The box is beautiful.
I am working on refurbishing some stoles for our pastors that I made 30 years ago.
I am always working on a hand embroidery project. Right now, I am working on Sharon Schamber’s BOM quilt which is applique and hand embroidery stitches. I am also working on a redwork pattern but doing it in blue. I love hand embroidery!
What a beautiful box!!!
Currently I’m doing surface embroidery. I’m traveling so I try and take easier car/hotel projects. I’ve done two Kathy Schmitz redwork projects that will eventually be made into a quilt. Also muslin pages with each page with a different embroidery stitch…part of a Humble Embroidery book SAL with Notforgotten Farms. And a Christmas stocking I’m embroidering for my daughter-it has a tree with ornaments I have on our tree at home. At home my projects are a GCC hardanger piece, a Alison Cole gold work piece, and a embroidery dish cloth as a charity piece for a church sale.
I know something I have would be perfect for that box…maybe the goldwork piece? That would be splendid!
Thank you to Mark at Mystic Crafts and you!
I am actually in the planning stage of my next embroidery project. I am planning to make an embroidery covered box in a medieval style worked in brick stitch. However, I have some UFOs with the embroidery finished and no plans made for display, one of which will be perfect in this box, I am sure.
Currently I am working on a Halloween project, that I plan on finishing as a bell pull. I have a perfect piece in mind, should I win the Treasure Box. Thanks for a chance to win a box.
I’m finishing a beautiful needle painting of a great tit. It would be enhanced by a gorgeous wooden box to keep embroidery threads in.
I’m currently stitching a five-part Christmas bell pull by The Cricket Collection. It will probably take me longer to put together than it is taking to stitch it. I can do most types of needlework but my sewing skills are almost non-existent.
Thank you Mark for the generous giveaway!!! I drooled over the boxes last week when Mary reviewed them. They are gorgeous!!! I am currently working on a dropcloth sampler. I only have a few more stems and a spiderweb to finish. I am doing a few samplers and have not decided what to do with them. I like the idea of a book but not sure if that’s the way I will go. I do know one would look fabulous on a box!! I downloaded Mary’s alphabet sampler the other day and plan to do my daughters initial. I’m going to have lots of time to embroider since I live in Florida. Thank you for the chance to win the beautiful box!
I am currently working on some cross stitch projects. I’m stitching an initial on 32 count linen, and I will be making some sachets for Christmas presents. They will each be a bit different . . . some will be little sacks and others will be small squares or rectangles. I already have several different fillings for them, so I can make them according to what I think the recipient will enjoy.
I love reading your blog, and I have used your tutorials many times.
I’m currently working on 3 projects: a cross stitch gift for a friend, which will be framed or put on a box, a fabric book of the variety of stitches as seen on Needle ‘n Thread. Those stitches are also being used on a crazy quilt /wall hanging with a tea theme.
I am currently working on a “yellow submarine” pattern to commemorate my husband’s retirement. In the wings waiting is a wedding gift for my son and his lovely fiancee. Instead of framing, it would be lovely on a Mythic box….Thank you for introducing me and others to this website!
Hi Mary – I’d like to participate in teh giveaway for the box.
Currently I am working on embellishing a printed-on-fabric image of a Russian icon. I am taking this course with this lady and she is teaching us how to embellish the different elements of the image and their symbolism. It includes beads, pearls, metal threads and even some cotton threads. It’s fascinating and I plan to hang it on the wall when I am done, of course!
Presently I am working on a machine knit sweater that I plan on adding embroidery up the cables.
I am currently working on a Christmas quilt which is regular embroidery with lots of satin stitches. I also have 4 stockings and a wall hanging that are needlepoint, which uses lots of embroidery type stitches. Too much to do, with so little time.
Hi, Mary,
Right now I’m focusing on a couple of cross stitch projects that will end up being framed. Because professional framing is expensive, however, I’m always looking for alternatives. The big thing in my circle of stitchers these days is making pillows and banners, which are both greats way to showcase a piece, if a little less formal. I love the idea of combining the “soft” needleart with the “hard” woodwork. And what a wonderful heirloom gift it would make for that special someone. As always, Mary, thanks for sharing your knowledge and the opportunity to snag one of those beautiful boxes.
Currently, I’m working on a mock-medieval “tapestry” (the saying begins “Behold the field”…, but the rest of it is not for polite company!!) for my brother’s birthday. It’s his favorite saying. It will probably be matted and framed. I’m really enjoying it!
Have to confess I am working on a counted cross stitch project right now for a friend, but will be starting the project for the Craftsy goldwork class very soon. Can’t wait to begin!
Starting a kit project called ‘Lavender and Lace’ . Ive been wanting to do this particular project for a long time as it reminds me of my childhood lilac bush which i loved so much. I live in Houston Texas and have extended visiting my daughter in NJ till things ‘dry out’ there. So having some extra time, I will treat myself to beautiful lilacs !
Thank you Mary and Mark for the giveaway. The boxes are so very beautiful.
I am on a monogrammed handkerchief spree — thanks to the Susan O’Connor book Monograms that you have recommended, I have learned satin outline stitch and love using it on fine batiste. If the handkerchief-making passion continues, my next big purchase will be the cambric linen you have discussed. Mary, you have brought me to every single component I am using. Many, many thanks!
I am currently working on a piece of Brazilian embroidery. I will mount it on foamcore as I hope to teach it at our annual seminar and anything else will be to awkward to pack. It will probably be framed or a stand up.
Not sure yet as there are so many possibilities – just though a book cover might be nice too.
I am currently working on a gold and stump work combined bee . I am still working on a doodle piece to try to figure out thread choices and wing options…..so still a work in progress. It will be part of a larger piece perhaps for hanging.???
I am working on two band samplers that will be finished as bell pulls. They are presents for my kids.
I love those boxes! One of too many projects is Woodlands Whimsey. Jan Vaine of Graham Cracker Collections is teaching at our local quilt store. It consists of all these adorable critters surrounded by all this wonderful embroidery using every stitch I know. Am learning lots. It will be a wall hanging that someone in the family will inherit. thank you for giving us this opportunity to win such neat prizes teaching tools you have produced. thanks again. E
What a lovely box. I have been working on small samplers, learning new stitches. Finishing is up in the air, to be decided. Several 5×5 to 8×8 pieces pressed waiting for inspiration to finish for holiday gifts. framing, attaching to clothing or pillows? this is an amazing gift! I’m not sure if I would give it away or stitch a new design and keep it!
Right now I’m working on some felt embroidery, a bunch of asparagus actually, that will be part of a table runner comprised of five different vegetables on a black background.
I am currently working on four main projects from silk embroidery to goldwork to Whitework Embroidery … two pieces will be pictures; two others are experiments for a larger project I have in mind.
What a wonderful giveaway!!! Such beautiful boxes.
I am currently working on an applique quilt and putting on the final touches before assembly – which means I am embroidering details on flowers and leaves to make them ‘pop’. An easy process really, but an enjoyable evening’s stitching.
Hi Mary,
I am working on a silk and goldwork stumpwork project currently that will be mounted in a walnut box with a 4 inch opening. I am embroidering the wedding date of the recipient in the center surrounded by a wreath of stumpwork grapes, currants, acorns and white roses (they are having an October wedding at a woodland nature preserve–she is carrying white roses as a bouquet). I would love the box–nice ones are so hard to find!
Thank you for this opportunity Mary and for all you do. Margaret
I continue to work on my crazy quilt that is made from fabrics, laces, threads, beads and embellishments that I’ve been collecting since my preteens. If I win this box I would design a crazy quilt block for it. Here’s hoping! Theresa Boock
Thread painting my second “Cat” from Trish Burrs design that is white work with color ..Katrina and Chloe will be framed and given to my daughter-in-law who loves cats.
What beautiful woodwork and then add a beautiful piece of embroidery! Currently I am working on a floral wall hanging. But one of the flowers would fit beautifully into that box.
I work in both hand and machine embroidery. In the machine realm I am working on wall hung framed and unframed elements.
In hand embroidery, I have just started a mixed technique piece, using punch needle, standard embroidery and beads on a digitally printed piece of muslin. It will be a wall piece.
I appreciate handmade wood project. My husband was a turner until his health won’t allow it. I do t have an embroidery project going currently but I am sure I would have a UFO I could finish.
I’m working on a picture of English birds in counted cross stitch. It’s go very slowly. I also have been working on embroidery dish towels. Thanks for the give away it’s lovely
I am working on some Madeira embroidery, and will be finishing it as a bodice into a little girl’s dress. The box is beautiful – would probably use it to store my DOVO scissors!
I am busy with a big needle painting project for the past few months. It is of a ring neck pheasant with a gun dog hovering in the background. This pheasant is not only a challenge in size (11.69 x 16.53 inches) but the colours are exquisite and I absolutely enjoyed embroidering it so far. The pheasant is really a perfect subject to embroider.The original painting is by my dear friend Roby Baer who lives in Redding CA. I will be visiting her next month and I am so excited. Once the project is finished it will be framed and it will get a special place in my home.
Lots of love Elza Bester Cape Town xxx
I am currently working on a white work piece designed by the amazing Jenny andin christe. It is so challenging but has opened a whole new type of embroidery for me. It’s designed to go in a box similar to the one advertised. Being Australian, I would be so proud to put a favourite piece into his stunning work.
I’m currently working on thread painting, with projects from Trish Burr books. I’m still learning, so I’m working through a few of her level 1-2 flower projects. I actually have no idea what to do with my finished pieces! I tend to focus more on the working part of the process, and by the time I’m done I’m ready to start the next project. So I have a box of several stitched pieces that I figured I’d get around to framing some day. If I won this lovely box giveaway, I’d have to really amp up my work and make something deserving of such a nice finish!
I am currently working on an 8″ by 10″ counted cross-stitch piece “Cat Lessons for People.” It is filled with cat sayings in printed letters and occasional cat ephemera! This is for my older son and dtr-in-law who have cats as their children, therefore they become my feline grandchildren–hah! I have several other presents in line to be worked on when this is finished. Thanks for this opportunity!
Carol
I am working on a quilt with crewel embroidery. I have embroidered 30 squares from Flowers for Elizabeth patterns. Also using fabric from the William and May collection. It has been quite an undertaking but has been worth it. It is for my very best and closest friend. . It is my first attempt at a quilt and its huge, california king. Although I have enjoyed making it (most of the time), will be glad when its done so I can start a project that I am very excited about, Inspirations Strawberry Fayre.
That sounds incredible! I am sure we would all love to see pictures of what you have done. You have a very lucky friend, I’m sure the quilt will be treasured for many many years.
I am working on a needlepoint stocking and using silk ribbon embroidery for the poinsettias and roses on the canvas.
Currently close to completing a free stitch postcard for my brother who is mad on running …..so lots of different interlinked circles to represent the various routes that he does with the outer areas in kantha stitch ( aka running stitch ). It has been really enjoyable to do, a small piece done with just my brother in mind, and he will appreciate it too.
Omg love the beautiful boxes! I’m working on a small needle painting kit that would be perfect for mounting on a box and would make a beautiful gift for my niece! I hadn’t really thought much yet about how I was going to finish but a box is the best idea ever!
What gorgeous boxes! Thanks so much for making one available for this give-away.
I’m currently working on a mystery block of the month stitch along, wool on wool applique. I’m guessing it will be a wall hanging – but it’s still a mystery!
What a generous offer. Mark must be someone special.
I am working on some chicken scratch which will be an apron. My grandmother had one she had made that I got when she died and I decided to copy it and give the apron to my daughter.
Thanks, Mary, for all the great advice and fun stuff you send in your emails.
I am currently working on a piece of traditional surface embroidery on a piece of white linen. It is a Christmas motif in reds and greens with some eyelets added for instance, which I have never done before. Mercifully, the design calls for it to be mounted in a hoop tied with a red bow on top, I guess for a bit of a homespun effect. I say mercifully because it isn’t a pill, (too many of those already) or an expensive frame. However, I have an amazing stumpwork rose that I finished several years ago that is perfect for that box. Pick Me! Pick Me!
I am working on a Hardanger piece–my first. Well, my second or third really because I’ve had to start over a few times. I hope to make a pillow out of it.
The boxes are beautiful–thanks for offering this giveaway.
I am working on a winnie the pooh piece for my soon to be born grandchild. I plan to finish it as a standup or place it in a box to hold keepsakes
WOW, how fun. I have a piece I am working on from SNAD. San Francisco Needlework and Design. That would be so fun.
I’m currently working on a stack of small things. Some cross stitch and some embroidery. Right now, my plans are for most of them to become ornaments or pin pillows. There’s a few that may become bookmarks. I’ll have to see how I feel when I finish them.
Wow, these boxes are gorgeous!
I’m working on a monochrome cross-stitch design in white, black, and shades of gray. I usually go for lots of color; this is different for me but I’m enjoying it. The finished design is not small, so it will be stretched and framed.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Perfect timing! I just happen to be working on a stumpwork piece intended to become a box top. However, finding the right box to match the golden sun, silk wrapped purl, and beaded embellishments is not easy. Thank you for offering this giveaway and telling folks about Mythic Crafts. Please send some wooden boxy love this way.
I am working on a quilted wall hanging with embroidery in the center. The design is by Kathy Schmitz. The pattern is “Bees in the Bowers”. It is absolutely adorable and will hang in my breakfast room. I went to the Mystic Crafts website on September 7 and was blown away by products created by Mark. I love the handmade wood boxes!
I am planning on making an illuminated initial or monogram for my kids! No finishing plans yet….a beautiful wooden box would be nice 😉 . Thanks for doing a giveaway!
Currently I’m working on a counted cross stitch scene of seashells. It’s my first time with “confetti” stitching with counted cross stitch. My plans are to make it into a wall hanging. But I could also make it into a pillow for my boat.
I am using traditional embroidery to make 2 click it bags for 2 friends.
One side is their name and the other side embroidered pictures of their hobbies.
They are turning out so cute. Names are finished and now I am working on
the pictures, one is a dog lover and the other will be a flower garden.
How exciting! I am experimenting with several different of your monogram styles, and while I was planning to do a simple frame, this would be even better!
Currently, I’ve been cross stitching some adorable pieces from Plum Street Samplers, that fit inside a 4″ Tart Tin. One of the patterns that I haven’t worked yet would fit nicely in the top of one of the beautiful wood boxes that are in the ‘give away’. It’s a pleasure to see the craftsmanship in the boxes and I hope to have one to put sewing supplies in. Thank you for the opportunity.
Isn’t it wonderful that there are such nice people in the world like you Mary and Mark. I am working on a square that will be linked into other squares created by members of my Embroidery Guild branch. This is to celebrate our 40th anniversary. As this is a ruby wedding 70% of the piece must be tones of red. I am doing a basket of roses in the style of Brazilian embroidery. Thank you both for this opportunity.
What a beautiful gift. If I am lucky enough to win, I would embroider my granddaughter’s initial as a keepsake for her!! Thank you for the opportunity!!
Presently I am working on a Punto Antico. It is a project course offered by the Embroidery Association of Canada. I find these project are a good way to keep me going & learn new stitches. There is a small piece which is for practicing our stitches. I was planning to use this on the cover of a box as a finishing project. The other piece is larger. I was therefore planning to use it as a nice table mat or put it on another large box which would contains my “special” embroidery threads.
Well take care. I like you post & find them very interesting. Keep up the good work.
I am actually currently working on your Coloris Kaleidoscope pattern, which I plan to turn into the center of a Dresden circle quilt pillow!
I’m laughing at your question. I have 4 small projects that I’ve completed stitching, but can’t seem to FINISH them out. I stitched a cute glow in the dark firefly jar for my son’s tree house (hooped, sort of). I have three sweet “kindred spirits” that I plan to hoop for my sisters and mom…but maybe framed in a box would be a sweet Christmas gift!? Lastly, I’m currently working on an advent calendar. I cross-stitched 25 squares to be made into pockets for treats and notes. Those have been completed and I’m working on hand embroidered design for the background fabric that will hang on the wall. But first, I suppose I need to find the background fabric and stitch the pockets to it. 🙂 Less than three months!
I am currently working on Roseworks Jade Dragon, but I am doing it in my own style and color choices, for framing and hanging on the wall.
I am also working on a globe like the Westcott schoolgirl globes, that will be a present for someone when finished I will mount it on a globe stand…maybe for an ostritch egg…
And, since idle hands…I am also working on Amy Mitten’s Russia and Fez pieces which I will probably make into pillows, which I have done with several of her pieces…although the fez piece, or part of it would look amazing in a box lid, it is done with very dark blue silk perl on a cream background.
That is quite a lovely box. Any of my embroidery projects would look wonderful with that box. Thank you for the opportunity to be in the drawing.
I am currently working on a cross stitch piece for fall. I would love to work on a monogram for the box top! The boxes are beautiful. Thanks for a chance to win.
I am currently making embroidered wool pin cushions. They are great pieces on which to practice stumpwork. I have picked up small finished boxes at the thrift store and attached the pincushions to the lid. Good little gifts for sewing friends. Now a really nice box would be awesome – and it would be a gift to me.
What style of embroidery are you working on at the moment, and do you have any “finishing” plans for it?
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I’m working on Laura Perin’s Blue Prairie Flowers Canvaswork. Due to the long length I think it will make a lovely bell pull. I bought a sewing machine three years ago to finish a stitching project, and have only used it once! This will give me a reason to take it out of the attic again.
The wooden boxes are just beautiful and would definitely be a piece of art to highlight embroidery. Currently I am working on monogramming dinner napkins to be passed down to my sons.
Hi! What a gorgeous box! I learned to cross stitch when I was young, but I’m still a beginner at the array of lovely stitches for hand embroidery. My current project is a simple one, from the book ‘Bags in Bloom’, flowers on a crimson wool. Obviously, it will become a handbag, hopefully of the quality to be used for upcoming holiday parties!
Thank you for the opportunity to win a box that becomes an heirloom piece!
Stacy
I am working on a wallhanging of my family from almost 40 years ago. We are moving into town and my husband just gave me a wallhanging that I did of our handprints in 1978. Our sons were 3 and 5 then…and now have families of their own. I am carefully washing it and adding embroidery to make it even more special. If it holds together, I hope to reframe it and put it on the wall to share all those wonderful memories.
Crewel design on my hoop. Hoping to frame
Hi Mary,
I was very much interested in your article about these boxes and they are so beautiful!! Fingers crossed!!
Currently, I am working on a counted cross stitch project (a colorful piece with Indian Peacock). It is almost there. Since I only sit down with it on weekends, I am hoping to finish it by this month end. And then it is definitely going on the wall in a frame. I am so excited it’s going to be ready soon!!
Manasi
Thank you, Mark and Mary, for this very generous and gorgeous give-away.
I am currently, as usual, working on a piece of Japanese embroidery. In fact I am currently working on three pieces all of which will go on the wall when finished; they are far to large to fit into a box. I am also working on a smaller piece of embroidery but I’m not sure what to call the technique I am using other than surface embroidery. It is a combination of techniques I have learnt, including Japanese embroidery and opus anglicanum (the silk shading part rather than the gold work part although there may eventually be some of that also. This is part of a group project and will be combined with other pieces to make a wall hanging.
I have a couple of raised work/gold work projects in my stash that I would mount in a box were I lucky enough to win one.
Carol-Anne
I am working on a christmas table runner, hopefully it will be finished for our x-mas supper
Hi Mary,
At the moment, I’m working on Gay Ann Rogers’ “Lady Edith” geometric design which I would love to use as an insert in the beautiful box you’re giving away!! Thank you once again for this fun give-away opportunity.
Best regards,
Sandra F.
I am currently working on finishing a project from a stitching retreat I attended. It’s called “Making Waves at Sturbridge.” It is a beautiful piece with waves covering most of the fabric. It really looks like the ocean waves coming into shore with variegated colors of blue going into white. I plan to frame it to hang on a wall. Don’t think it will fit into a box opening…. 🙁
At the moment I am working on a cross stitch witches hollow sampler. Also working on an UFO needlepoint piece. Eventually might finish one or the other….maybe.
Francys Duniven
I just completed a Mickey Mouse embroidery for my 3 year old grandson who wants it appliqued on his favorite blanket. He has waited for awhile as I first had to do a T-Rex embroidery for his 6 year old cousin, also for his favorite blanket. They are very interested in what my projects are and would certainly enjoy a treasure box.
I have been working on a piece of stumpwork (thanks to the classes from Craftsy that you have written about) that I am going to frame in a beautiful old frame my mother gave me (that her mother gave her). I am also becoming interested in canvas work that I want to do for a box I already have.
On another note, I have been following Mark Harris at Mythic Crafts on Facebook. I’m enjoying his posts on the progress of “the box for Mary Corbet”. It’s been fun.
I’m currently working on an embroidery piece to be added to a quilt . i do plan on starting my first goldwork piece in January!
Several projects on the go (!!??). One will be put on a knitting bag (yet to be made) and used as a silent auction item at my Knitters Retreat. One will be made into a pillow for DD. Third needs to be mounted in a box–it’s beautiful design by Anna Marie Winter all done in gorgeous silks.
Also planning to mount some of my “sample” or class items in fabric and make up padded hanger covers-that way they will be useable objects and not likely to be tossed when i leave this earth!
My current project is a Hardanger square done it soft blues. I had not decided whether to frame it or to make it a pillow centerpiece, but your lovely box suggestion would be wonderful. My next project is an embroidered table runner. This will be my first table runner ever and I am eagerly looking forward to working on it!
Right now I am working on a pillow called Jacobean Tangle from Hazel Blomkamps book Crewel Twists. I love these embroideries and I cannot wait finishing it. It is in light colours of pink and blue with green leafs and Brown stems.
I would really love to win the mounting box.
Hi! I am so excited about this giveaway! Though my current project will not fit in it, no way no how! I am currently working on a Crazy Quilt project, participating in the 2020 Challenge. And my project is a king sized bed quilt made of 7 inch Crazy patchwork hexie blocks and 3.5 inch triangles where all the seams will be unique hand stitched embroidery. No repeats and no other embellishments! So the finishing plans are that it is to be completed by the end of the year 2020, that’s part of the challenge, and it’s to go on mine and my husbands own personal bed. It’s a His n Hers quilt made of men’s suiting (that’s the His part) and bold thread pretty stitching (that’s the Her part!) that I have been imagining for a couple years and working out in my mind and this challenge gave me the push to get going!
I’m part of a group embroidering the story of the Battle of Stamford Bridge, in the style of the Bayeux Tapestry. We’re currently discussing just this topic – we will end up with 15 panels, each 1.2 metres long, which have to be in an atmosphere with controlled temperature, light and humidity. This also means we need a building to put them in….we’re working on that problem!
Hi Mary,
Today I am embroidering in stem stitch, 2 little illustrations that my 7 year old grand daughter asked for. They are on white high thread count cotton pillow case material for little pillows for her favorite dolls. She made sketches for me and even specified colors! One is a yellow butterfly with dark pink “flourishes” and the other is a brown acorn with red “flourishes.”
I was amazed at her sketches with the little curli-que “flourishes.”
Now her 3 year old sister wants a cat and a fish on her doll pillows in Rainbow Colors. It’s a very fun project. If I win the gorgeous wooden box, I want to needle paint embroider the beautiful pink peony that Laurence in Switzerland is having as a sew-along. Mary, I learned to love stem stitch while embroidering the hummingbirds in the secret garden project. Thank you for teaching me! Robin in New Mexico
Beautful craftmanship. Working on a cross stitch apron for a friend for Christmas. About half done.
Hi. I would love to receive the gorgeous hand-crafted wooden box from Mythic Crafts. I am currently busy with needle painting flowers for a king size quilt. It will probably take 2 to 3 years to complete. Long term. Lol. It keeps me busy.
I’m enjoying simple projects. Embellishing table runners, dresser scarves, pillow cases and hankies.
I have three projects going, that I will admit. I am making a tree skirt, it has penny fingers with Christmas drawings. The next is a wall hanging of a lovely Victorian house, a picket fence and a kitty out front. And the third is from aunt Martha’s, it’s each state in the us, with the state flower, bird and capital that will become an enormous quilt.
I am working on three Crazy Quilt blocks. I really wanted to make them into a quilt, but I am going to make them into a table runner. The reason why is I can get it done.
When I was in my 20’s I taught myself embroidery from mail order kits. Somewhere along the way I gravitated towards cross stitch which I stayed with for 40 years. My niece is partial to the look of crewel embroidery (she does not do needlework) and asked that I make something for the nursery wall. (She is expecting a baby girl in about a week.) I had trepidations about tackling a large piece but forged ahead. I just finished it yesterday and am happy to say the result is beautiful!
How wonderful of Mark Harris to donate one of his wonderful boxes! What a super gift!
My current embroidery project is a set of cross-stitched pillow cases featuring a watering can and vines with flowers. However, this weekend I plan to set that aside to stitch four sets of initialed dinner napkins for my sisters’ Christmas gifts. Each will be a set of four, and will be linen thread on linen napkins. I will use a different style initial for each sister, but this is the part that isn’t completely planned out. One idea was to use the same colour thread but a different style initial for each napkin. I’ll probably stay formal and use the same initial for each set. It may be decided on the day.
Thank you for another fun giveaway!
sue
I am currently working on perforated paper gingerbread people. These will be finished into ornaments with a felt backing. They are my travel project this year as you can never have too many Christmas tree ornaments and they are quick and easy to stitch in the airport or in a car.
The boxes you showed and reviewed are beautiful. They look magical, perfect for hiding the smallest of treasures. The insert makes it even better. What fun you can have creating the perfect piece to show off.
I’m currently working on Sue Spargo’s BOM, Fresh Cut. It will be a wall hanging.
I love this site, thank you for all your great information. I am working on a version of a prayer book cover you made and featured with a cross and a crown above it. I’m giving it to a friend in the form of a book cover for her new prayer book. 🙂
I’m working on a large Scottish inspired sampler of my own design, that incorporates several alphabets and verses from my favorite gospel, the gospel of St. John. Once done, I plan on framing it to hang on the wall. I’ll be taking from the design smaller sections and individual verses to make and place on a keepsake box, like the one in the giveaway, and make one for each of my children, truly keepsakes since they all will come from one “masterwork”. Each child will have their own individual piece of the sampler!
I am currently working on some Crazy Quilt blocks, a challenge in White-on-White. These are part of a round robin, so they will go back to their original patcher. Most of my embroidered work ends up in table runners, though a few pieces have gotten framed and a few been made into hussif’s. My dream, with slow slow progress, is to create an entire Crazy Quilt with the majority of the embellishment in stitches (as opposed to lace or buttons and such) with hand stitched motifs in the blocks
Working on a Crabapple Hill pattern of quilt blocks. The theme of it is a tea party. Just four more blocks to go. Already have the matching fabric ready to finish the quilt.
Hi, Mary! Giveaways are such fun! Thank you for having them!
I’m about to finish Rosalie Wakekfield’s Millefiori “WELCOME” in Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery. I have one fuchsia flower to replace that had to be removed as it got squished and couldn’t be salvaged, and the beading on the M and E to do, then I’ll frame it with some pretty matting and mount it in a long frame and hang it by my front door. It’s the cutest pattern – it has tiny bumble bees, birds, a snail, a kitty, a hummer, a couple little spiders, butterflies, and a plethora of flowers! It’s worked in shiny Z-twist rayon embroidery floss, and I like sparkly beads, so each flower has at least one bead. This is the third one I’ve made – the other two were gifts – this one’s MINE!
Hi Mary! I am working on the Home Sweet Home by Carolyn Pearce project. I have made the roof and the bottom so far. Now I am working on the smaller side panel with the strawberries and apple blossom. When the house is done, I will line it with a sweet Liberty floral print. At that point, I’ll decide if I want to make the pieces that go inside the house. I think it depends on how long the house takes. Thanks for having the contest. It would be so nice to win!
I have 3 things going at the moment- all of which were stalled for a little bit over the summer as they are at points that need concentration. Now that school started back up, things should go better! Here are my projects:
I am working on a rose wreath silk ribbon kit by Di Van Niekirk. I am thinking that I will turn it into a wedding record and frame it- hopefully I will get it done in time for our 15th anniversary next August.
I am also embroidering a piece of art felt I made as a sample piece- if it turns out well I plan on trying to mount it on some reclaimed wood or possibly some slate or something weird like that.
I have a caneveas folies kit that I embroided awhile back that I am in the process of finishing into a traveling pin cushion using a purse clasp- I transfered some of the elements to additional fabric and am adding a monogramed pocket. I was having a hard time figuring out the best order of assembly- I kept getting interrupted, so it was on the back burner.
I am currently working on a monogram using some needle weaving and trying my hand at long and short stitch for the first time. It is on linen and my plan is to frame it. The original intent was to hang it behind the head table for my wedding but as that is only a month away and the project is far from finished I think it will end up being an addition to our living room at some point in the future. 🙂
What a beautiful box!! It would be a treasure to have:)
Currently working on a multicolor lobster which will be a pillow, probably for my daughter.
Since we are about to evacuate from our home in SC, I will be checking my email regularly for good news!!
I can see my initial on that box and my keepsakes inside it. I want it!! Thanks for doing a give away.
We recently did covered boxes as a class project in our EGA chapter. I love boxes of all types and want to do another one, without some of the mistakes, of course. This one will have a small floral embroidery on the top.
I am currently working on some counted canvas pieces. I would like to fit them in a frame and put them on a wall where I can see them in the sunlight when I get up early in the morning.
Linda
Working on small wall hanging projects for Christmas gifts. The main feature is an embroidered Christmas feather tree.
I am just trying decide which nature embroidery to do from Kathy Schmitz’s “Stitches from the Garden.” Wouldn’t a nature embroidery look marvelous in a hand crafted wooden box!! If I am not the lucky winner, I will have to decide which box to buy for myself!
I am working on a piece designed by one of my friends, Melinda Sherbring. It uses gold and metal threads and is appropriately named “Full Metal Flowers”. Learning to handle metal threads is something I am adding to my repertoire.
I will frame the finished piece or put it on a box top.
These boxes are super I enjoy Mary’s website because so much applies to stumpwork and needlepoint..yes, needlepoint. Hope this does not disqualify me because after you have made a quilt and ornaments there are not many “heirlooms” to make for grandson. I could do his monogram, needlepoint his dog, a Nutcracker soldier for his community acting. I have embroiderd little animals on a doll quilt. I am working on my last grandchild needlepoint stocking and will finish it myself. Thanks to all of you for your inspirations for all of us “out there”
The handcrafted boxes and needlework are so beautiful. A treasured heirloom.
I think these boxes are beautiful and would love to win one. What a very nice thing for Mark to offer.. I am stitching a small fall hanging design
Ohhh…I drooled over Mark’s boxes when you posted about them earlier! I (and hundreds of other people) am now holding my breath in hopes the random name generator gods will look favorably upon me!
I am almost done with a cross stitch piece that I will be giving to a friend as a surprise. I am going to give it to her and then ask her how she wants it finished. So I have no idea yet how it will get finished.
I am practicing embroidering state flowers and animal outlines as individual items. My son and I are working on a large “Map of the West” project to complement the kit “Map of the East” my grandmother completed in 1937 which I now own. The practice bits could be mounted on a box and indeed may be the only part of the project that actually gets completed 🙂
Currently I’m working on two projects, one is a stumpwork piece that I’m not sure at this point how I will be mounting it, a project from an RSN course. The other is a new project, crewel embroidery for a pencil box.
Thank you for a wonderful give away. I love getting your post. If I don’t have time to read them I archive them for later.
What project am I not working on would be the right question for me. I tend to always have 6-8 going at one time. My favorite right now is a quilt, actually two. When I get tired of one I switch to the other. I think I will have them finished in about 4 years….
Love the boxes
Wow!who wouldn’t love one of these boxes. I have a small hardanger piece in mind for a box. And some other things, too.
I have 2 embroidery projects I’m working on and a cross stitch project for my new grandson that I have to get framed. Both embroidery projects are for quilts!
Currently, I am kitting all the supplies I will need for Alison Cole’s upcoming Rose Butterfly Cyber Class using Goldwork technique with silk and metal threads. What a wonderful opportunity to put my name in the drawing for one of Mythic Crafts beautifully crafted boxes. I just opened my own on-line store with Blog and was drooling over his boxes in which to showcase some of my creations. Thank you for offering this chance and to Mark Harris for his generosity.
I recently completed a series of Sashiko patterns and I’m making a table runner out of them. Trying to figure out what to do with the other ones I completed. Currently I am working to finish two needlepoint Christmas stockings for a couple of grandsons. Hope to have them done by Christmas. My next “adventure” is stump work. I’m having back surgery in a month and so I’ve signed up for a class on-line on stump work to help me pass the time I’m confined to the house. The boxes are beautiful I already checked them out after your article. Thank you for all the articles – I read them all and feel I am learning so much.
I am working on some stumpwork at present. While I have plans to frame it and hang it on the wall, a box would also be a lovely option.
I’m currently working on a stitch sampler. It’s been quite awhile since I’ve done any embroidery so I need some practice! I’ve been working different stitches and using your videos for help. They’re fabulous!! Thank you for offering such a great giveaway. If I’m lucky enough to win, I’ll definitely stitch something special for the box!
These boxes are stunning! When I saw them, I thought about my Tudor rose in silk and metal threads. It would look amazing.
At the moment I am stitching medieval creatures in Bayeux stitch. Two of them will be sewn into a bag and the others I’ll use as an example in my lecture about medieval embroidery.
Oh my Goodness, what an opportunity to win one of these gorgeous boxes! Thank you.
I am currently working on a counted cross stitch wedding sampler for my daughter’s wedding next July. When it’s finished, I’ll have it framed so that she can hang it in her new house. I previously made a similar one for my younger daughter when she got married 5 yrs. ago and she has hers hanging in her bedroom.
My current WIP is a set of little cowboys on quilt squares for my new grand-nephew. They’ll be finished into a quilt with a delightful, kitschy cowboy fabric.
If I were to win a box, I would enjoy working up a piece of embroidery to go in it!
I love these little boxes. Just right to embroider a beautiful initial ! Would look just great on my dresser!
Oops! Forgot to say what I was working on… I am currently working on a Christmas mouse ornament! He is so tiny. I can hardly see the holes in my material . It is crossed stitched and beaded with seed beads. I have two of them to do for Christmas and working hard to get them finished!
I have seldom inserted embroidered pieces in wooden boxes, because most of them are very expensive for the well made ones, or too cheap looking to bother inserting them. I have done some in the past, and given as gifts, which are still displayed and commented on. I have recently made quite a few pieces that I have not completed as I was thinking of pillow tops, but a lovely wooden box would be a much better idea. I probably would keep it for myself then.
I do mainly hand surface embroidery. LOVE your Email column !!
Those are beautiful boxes. Right now I’m working on the lid of a cabinet of curiosities (casket). The embroidery is 17th century – a combination of surface embroidery, stumpwork, petitpoint, slips – name it and it’s there.
Hi!
I am finishing up a piece of Hardanger for my mother’s 89th birthday. It is simple with beads instead of filling stitches (at her request). Then I need to start a Hardanger Wedding Sampler for my nephew & wife. Both of these pieces with be framed and hung.
I would really like to make a Hardanger piece for myself this year. I’ve given away everything but a pincushion so far! A small piece inset in a box would be so lovely.
Currently working on a U of Mich piece for friends for Christmas. It would look adorable in this box!!
Right now I’m working on the microstitchery “Sense of Hearing,” and I plan to do the matching piece and have a diptych on the wall. It is so fun!
I JUST found a lovely whitework pattern that is supposed to go in a box just like this. I’ve always wanted to try whitework, so…. 😉
I’m doing a sachet featured in Inspirations 94. A stocking stuffer for my daughter-in-law.
I am working on some embroidered Christmas designs to make into ornaments for the tree. Going to add cording around the edges and a ribbon to hang them.
Oh, what a wonderful, generous give-away! Thanks! I hate to admit it, but right now I’m between embroidery projects. Unless you count hand-quilting. But as soon as I finish that (sadly unembroidered) quilt, my next project is to use sashiko to work a bright orange koi on some black fabric. I’ll use it as part of a quilted wall-hanging.
I’m currently working on a cross stitch Christmas stocking which I hope to have done in time for this year. I would definitely find a piece to work on to fit in one of these beautiful boxes. Thanks for the offer.
Hi Mary, I so look forward to your mails! Right now I have just finished working on a canvas piece, something that I don’t normally do, but this one caught my eye. It’s a turtle, named Thurston, done with a variety of stitches in mostly Gumnut fibers (love these!) Now the challenge is to turn this into a 3-dimensional frame weight. The designer did not provide any finishing directions, so I am somewhat floundering. Hopefully some of the helpful ladies in my local Embroidery Guild chapter will be able to help me!
Love the boxes!!!!! I am working on an illuminated cross stitch letter, a celtic bell pull and a black work piece. Not all at the same time because I am waiting for some threads to arrive via post. I will be hanging the first two pieces on the wall and the last piece I am going to display on my fireplace mantel.
I’m doing Trish Burr’s magnolia thread painting and plan to hang it.
I’m working on a needle painting project from Trish Burr’s Color Embroiderybook – crocus flowers. It will be framed to hang on the wall.
I’m currently working on a pattern from Stitchventure. I’ve only ever finished one other thing and that one I ended of “framing” in a hoop. We’ll see how this one turns out 🙂
I have a great fondness for any wooden items and these boxes are the best craft items I have seen for a long while.
My embroidery piece at the moment is a group of six wildflowers started at Great Missenden Summer school at a Kay Dennis day class. I intend to ask my partner to frame it for me to display alongside the small strawberry piece and the Jacobean embroidery piece from Kay’s classes last year.
My main stitching project is The Old Scott, a reproduction of a Scottish sampler from Hands Across The Sea Company.
Thank you for this chance to take part in the draw.
I’m currently completing my first piece of canvas work which is of a wool rack. It is quite contemporary with lots of colour and I’ve learnt seven new stitches! I’m planning on making it into an emery filled pincushion.
Wow…what an awesome opportunity. The workmanship of the custom boxes are magnificent. I just finished designing my interpretation of an underwater scene and hope to get started on the embroidery as soon as cooler weather prevails and we are back in the safety zone from the Eagle Creek, Oregon fires.
Good morning,
I have just completed a petit point design called ‘Winter Walk’ by Gitta that reminds me of winter days walking home from school with my sisters. I plan on having it framed to hang and will be giving it to my daughter for Christmas.
My current project has been a year long one. Last Christmas I challenge my crazy quilting friends to make a block a month, in one color. I made the kits with fabric and foundation which I gave them. The only stipulation was they could only use colors that were in the fabrics given. Several of them were newbies, so I challenged them also to teach a class each month on their favorite technique. I have been amazed at the growth in their skills with each subsequent month. This Christmas I will take the blocks put each color in a bag and each of us will have a one color crazy quilt block made by each of our friends. I look forward to seeing the finished quilt.
I am currently working on a LHN piece called London Afternoon. This will be finished as a pillow for my oldest granddaughter who is infatuated with the city and hopes to someday accompany me on a visit. We’ll have to wait at least 4 years until Ben gets his voice back cuz hearing Ben chime is one of the highlights for me!
I’m working on Christmas ornaments at the moment. I’m so impressed I haven’t waited until the week after Thanksgiving…
Oh my stars, Mary! What a lovely giveaway. Is it unseemly for me to say I covet these boxes?! They’re gorgeous! I’m addicted to monograms, so I seem to always have some kind of monogram project in the works, and I have two people in mind who could be the recipient of a monogrammed box. Thank you so much for your wonderful giveaways!!
The wood boxes made by Mark Harris for Mythic Crafts are GORGEOUS!! I’m working on a stump work piece designed by Jane Nicholas. The stump work Pansy would look awesome in one of his boxes! Thank you for your generous give away!
Currently I am working on a small crazy quilted block that will be inserted into a greeting card. My last finished stitching was a counted cross stitch crow done all in black with other small critters inside the crow’s body. It’s sort of Halloween-ish, with a black cat and some pumpkins, and also a squirrel and smaller crows. I think my next project will be attempting to make my own black work pattern, inspired by the cross stitch crow.
Well I’m always working on multiple pieces at the same time, but I am just finishing up a Sashiko piece. It’s one of 6 and I think I will make a quilty blanket from them. I have many other pieces that I’ve finished that have no mounting or hoop yet. So there is always something for those fabulous boxes!
It being Thursday, I am working on a cross-stitch piece, requested by my husband, adapted from a theater program. It will be framed and hang on the wall.
I am working on a hardanger table mat at present. The style is modern with some colour but I am going to change some of the filling stitches to more adventurous ones as the dove’s eye is too ubiquitous for me.
Last Summer I made a beautiful ring cushion for my son’s wedding. The design was my own with mainly a large heart involving lots of bullion roses, stars and Japanese ribbon work along with a scattering of pearls. I would love to transfer it to a lovely keepsake box now . These boxes are so difficult to come by but make such a special treasure.
I am currently working on a piece of needlepoint/bargello depicting the waves of the ocean rolling into the sand of the beach. lots of graduated coloring from the light to the dark of the ocean. I would love to win the handcrafted wooden box. I finished a piece of Brazilian embroidery a couple of months ago and, in my mind, can see it mounted on the top of a wooden box. if I do not win, I plan to contact Mark anyway. keeping my fingers crossed!
At the moment, I am working on a set of 4 dish towels. I am using needlepainting techniques (so much long and short stitch!) to stitch different flowers on each. So far I have an anemone and a sunflower done with a rosebud underway!
I am working on Alison Cole’s Trilium, Jane Nicholas’ Copper Butterfly and a Gary Clarke piece. All are from classes that I took at the EGA National Seminar in Asheville last month. The Copper Butterfly would be beautiful on the top of one of Mark’s wonderful boxes.
I am working on a sampler.. a reproduction of an 1864 one to be framed and given to my grand daughter for her 5th birthday.
For a beautiful box I would stitch stitch a goldwork piece.
Thanks and happy stitching.
I’m currently working on a darling counted canvas Christmas ornament using a stitch guide by Amy Bunger. This box would be perfect as I am in the process of completing tops for boxes for each of my nieces and nephews. Everything from embroidery to counted canvas to cross stitch; customized color wise to each of their tastes. Hopefully they understand the love present in each stitch. If not, at the least they’ll remember that their Aunt thought of them fondly.
Gorgeous craftsmanship and I have the perfect insert. Thanks for sharing.
I am pretty hopeless at tracing designs on to fabric so I ordered a set of Trish Burr’s iron-on transfers. I plan to stitch ‘Katarina’ that I plan to put onto a book cover for my sister, a cat lover; then ‘Prancer’ for me! If I won the box, it would make a wonderful Christmas family heirloom!
Mary, thank you for so much inspiration and your really useful ‘How to’ videos, I really struggled trying to do cable plait stitch until I found it on your site. Thank you!
Carol Ann Howson, York. England.
Wow! What a beautiful container. I have this thing for containers…..boxes, tins, baskets, vases….I have a thing for them all. I’m currently working on a painted thread project that would be beautiful in one of these boxes. Or maybe the small bargello piece I’m designing, or maybe the Iowa sampler I have in the works. Too many options and not enough time. Typical stitched problem. Anyway, these are beautiful boxes!
At the moment I am working on one of Marty Bell’s country garden cross stitch pieces to be framed. But were I to have such a beautiful box to display, I would would insert a thread painting or goldwork design. I have many all lined up already and waiting.
Presently working on a Whitework with Colour design “Katarina” and enjoying every minute of this wonderful design. It is my third project in this type of embroidery and am pleased to say I am so very glad I gave it a try. It will be framed and be a wall hanging in my stitching room; right beside the other two.
Happy stitching!
What an opportunity! Those boxes are so beautiful, if I had the means I would get one for each of the embroidery gifts I make. Right now I’m working on another wedding gift. I love to embroider the first initials or last initial of couples with your Stitch Sampler Alphabet, but I customize the flowers and colors to match their wedding flowers and colors – or at least their favorite colors/flowers. This one has silk ribbon embroidered roses and sunflowers, and I’m just figuring out how to do all the stitch combinations with only two wedding colors 😀 Sadly I’m unable to mount them in anything really beautiful (just some basic shadow frames), but it would be remarkable to see one in one of the Mythic Craft boxes someday!
I have several embroidery projects going at the moment — a wool blanket that I started eons ago; a counted cross stitch etui project from Inspirations — that’s on hold because I have to reverse stitch a whole row of lettering because I mis-counted; and a very simple surface embroidered project for my church.
The wool blanket will eventually be bound — I haven’t decided whether to keep it or give it away. The etui is a little cube-shaped pin cushion. The church project is something we give infants (a little shirt shaped cloth with a dove and cross on it) for Christening. Its what I go to when I don’t want to think and the light isn’t that great.)
If I am blessed enough to win the box, I have a threadpainted bird (Trish Burr/Inspirations) that I will mount. (Along with many projects that still need to be stitched, I have lots of stitched projects that need to be “finished” somehow…. UFOs do tend to breed.)
I love these boxes! I am currently working on a huswif, trying to use all the surface embroidery styles I know. I am also working on monogramed jewelry rolls for my daughters and granddaughter as Christmas presents. I would love to make a jewelry box for myself with one of Mark’s lovely boxes!
I’m currently working on a counted needlepoint piece that will be an insert for a tote bag. I have several completed small pieces in a drawer however, that would fit beautifully into a lovely box.
I’m currently working on a 2 piece cross stitched pincushion from Hands on Designs, called Stitching by the Sea. It consists of a pincushion square and a little basket that it sits in. It’s been great fun because I’m using a completely different colour of fabric and so I’ve had to change lot of the floss colours.
Thanks so much for the chance to win this beautiful box!
I’m making an embroidered K for my granddaughter’s room to hang up. She just had her room updated since I used it and the her Mom.
I love working with silk thread for my hand embroidery. The long and short stitch is so beautiful for birds or flowers. I usually frame these. I had completed a set of four birds which were framed, but lost all my embroidery and cross stitched wall hangings due to the loss of my home in the Great Smoky Mountain fire in Gatlinburg, TN. in November 2016.
I am in the process of designing a wallhanging which will feature ribbon work, surface embroidery and beading. I will be stitching small floral arrangements in little vases and each arrangement will be on a hexagon-shaped background. The hexies will be stitched together in a rectangular arrangement, sandwiched and quilted and hung on the wall with a dowel through the sleeve on the back of the hanging.
I’m currently working on a Medieval inspired cross-stitch sampler by Teresa Wentzler. It’s big and it’s detailed, but when I finally get it done I’d like to frame it to hang on the wall. There are lots of elements that would look lovely in one of these wooden boxes though; they certainly appear to be well made!!
Wow – great giveaway! Would love to say I’m working on something that would be perfect for one of these beautiful boxes but, presently I’m working on a couture dress made of batik with beautiful beaded embroidery accents of the print. Thank you for the opportunity, Mary, and the generosity of Mythic Crafts!
Right now, I’m working on the final steps for a Christmas stocking for my great-niece. It’s one of the Shepherd’s Bush patterns and all that’s left to do is to put the fancy do-dads on it (beads, buttons, etc.). Then I’ll start the one for her brother (may not have it ready for his 1st Christmas!).
I’ve got several pieces completed but not finished that would be beautiful in one of Mark’s boxes!
Thank you for a chance to win one of these beautiful boxes. I spent quite a long time drooling over Mark’s website. And the box you featured even has one of my initials. Right now I’m working on embroidering sachet bags for Christmas gifts, and then finishing up a few embroidered ornaments. Little projects to keep me occupied until I decide on my next big project. And this box looks perfect to hold all my needles (oh, so many) and thimbles.
I am working on some Christmas wall hangings in red work that I plan to quilt.
I am currently working on a stumpwork project taught by Jan Kerton which would be perfect in one of the small boxes.
Working on Little House Needleworks House Rule and Needleworker. Going to finish them into a custom sign for my studio.
I am working on a cross stitch Christmas stocking for my son-in-law. This is the 6th one and they are almost all-over pattern on 10 to the inch linen. This one is particularly annoying because of a strange set of events. I use a magnifying glass on my embroidery frame to make the work easier. Twice this damn stocking has caught fire because the sun moved over the glass. Time one I caught the fire before it got too far, but the stocking was ruined. I was about one-third done and so I scrapped that version. Time two I was about 85% done and recognized the smell before it got too far, but there was a small hole. so I devised a way to undo part of the work cut off the fabric and then create a band to sew on in the rest of the pattern that I think I can flatten enough to carry off the design. I intend to put the burned part in-side the stocking inside the lining to stand as a testiment to my own stupidity. It should look great hanging on the mantle even if it has some hidden extra history.
I’m currently working on a cross stitch (Hands on Designs’ Block Party Buzz) which is a bee and hive themed design that finishes into a pin cushion. It is my first time stitching on a dark fabric, so it is taking awhile, but I love the way it looks.
The wood boxes are gorgeous. I have some Chatelaine smalls that I would rotate displaying on the box.
Oh how beautiful. I have started a punch needle and embroidery piece that needs this type of display.
Oulala, the things I could do with this amazing cute little box <3 !! Right now, I'm currently working on a cross stitch master peace that I found on Crafty. The name of the pattern is "Zelda stained glass". I'm doing it on a 14 count Aida. This will be a big peace . I'll frame it and put it on the wall. I've already work on it for more then 100 hour and I've done not even 10% yet !! Have a beautiful day 🙂
currently working on colour sampling with different thread combinations, on framed denim to be hung . the box is an amazing way to display my work.
Just finished a small bird and haven’t decided if I will frame it or make it into a wall hanging. Ready to start doing some funky embroidery on the collar of a white shirt I have…feeling inspired!
I am currently beading a needlepoint design that will be later framed and hung on a wall.
At the moment I’m working on a Just Nan cross stitch design, to be framed and hung in our hall.
I am currently working on a crewel piece from The Crewel Work Company which I plan to frame and hang in my family room. I also do some goldwork and stumpwork. Last year I took a wonderful class from Jenny Aidin-Christie and purchased an additional kit from her, a beautiful Pheasant in metal threads. It would look wonderful mounted in one of Mark’s boxes. I already have one of his slate frames–it’s beautifully made.
Hi, Mary! I always have several embroidery projects going at once. Today, I’m working on a baby cheetah cross stitch that is part of a guild outreach project. Other guild members are stitching animals, & they will all go into one quilt & be given to a hospitalized child. I’m also beading a Christmas angel on perfoirated paper that will become an ornament for a friend. After that, I’ll dig through my UFO pile to choose something else to finish. I have several stitched projects that do not yet have a finish; one of those would be perfect for Mark’s box. Thanks, Mark!
I’m working on some beautiful Di Van Niekerk stump work pieces but haven’t yet decided how to display it once finished. One of these gorgeous (and practical) boxes would be a beautiful idea. Thank you.
This has to be a really cool give away! I am presently working on a Trish Burr white work piece which would go beautifully on the lid of a special box! I had intended to make it up into a little hanging piece for a cupboard door but this idea can easily be changed and would make a beautiful box lid. Thanks for giving this opportunity to your avid followers.
Have a great weekend.
El x
I just finished a combined cross-stitch and embroidery piece for my granddaughter (3 years old). It was a sampler format. It took me 3 years to complete. Got it professionally framed and gave it to her in June. I love creating pieces to give away. I feel like I am giving a part of me to each recipient. I hope that I am the lucky winner of this free gift.
I am working on a goldwork piece based on my own designs, inspired by the Celtic artwork pre. 200AD. Ie no interlace but lots of spirals and trumpets. This will be an assessment piece for my diploma and I hadn’t thought how I might present it yet so the box is a brilliant idea. Fingers crossed,
Thanks so much for this chance! I have just finished a needlework piece because I have some beautiful Silken Pearl SP5 purplesfrom The Thread Gatherer I just had to use! So I have a 3 1/2 inch square finished waiting for either a frame or a wonderful box!!
Currently I’m working on some gifts for a Christmas group that I belong to. I’m doing monograms for my gift but have not decided how to finish them. I need to explore what to do. Shadow box, frame, or box? So many choices and as soon as they’re done, I’ll move on to finishing.
Urgently working on a needlepoint eyeglass case. It is prefinished so a quick project. I just need to add a lining to cover the back of my stitches.
I’m working on a wool table mat with multiple stitching to practice my stitching techniques!
Would love to win the beautiful box!!
I am working on “The Fold” from Shepherds Bush. It is cross-stitch – a round piece to place in a shaker box, and a set of smalls to go inside – needle roll, pin cushion, needle book, ruler keep and scissor fob. A mix of silk and cotton on 32 ct linen. I love finishing the small pieces with ribbon, nun stitched edging, etc. Keeps my hands busy on planes and keeps me sane too. My zen.
I’m exploring DMC’s Coloris floss with a cross stitched pumpkin design, a little project from our EGA meeting in August. I’m enjoying it, and the colors are pretty. Its a joy sometimes to put down the extra-fiddly work and do some simple, peaceful cross stitch with good old reliable DMC. When it’s completed I’m going to finish it as an easel-backed stand-up and give it to a friend who loves pumpkins.
I love the handmade boxes! I am working on a piece by Jeannette Douglas “Vimy Ridge” and also a canvas piece “Ahwahnee” by Lorene Salt. This is an EAC correspondence course with some of the members of the guild I belong to. No finishing plans yet.
I am working on miniature embroidered nativity pieces that are stuffed and weighted so they sit upright. It will be Christmas gift for a coworker and sister in Christ.
I needle felted a “painting” of sunflowers and want to add some embroidery details to petals and leaves. When I get brave enough to attempt it, we’ll see if it works. I could use a nice box to mount it in
Mary, Thank you for coordinating such a wonderful give-away! Mark, Thank you for the beautiful boxes.
I am currently working on the Tall Year Square counted embroidery piece featured in Inspirations, so won’t need a box to display that. However, I was in the Nordic Needle snowflake canvas work club several years ago, and have several pieces that would be just lovely mounted in one of these boxes. I have one that I already framed in a box opening and gave away as a gift. I have several more that I would love to keep for myself. Even better, with the ease of mounting, I could possibly even change the design seasonally.
Currently I am working on a linen towel with printed pumpkins in the center and a border of a vine with leaves and pumpkin blossoms. I am embellishing the border with a variety of stitches. The towel is a gift for my 90 year old mother in law. I downloaded and printed your book Stitch Sample Alphabet and really want to make the letter F!!! I enjoy just looking at the pages over and over… I have been wondering what to do with it when finished. Love the boxes and believe them to be a good value, but cannot afford one at this time. My late sister did woodwork and I know how much skill it takes. Fingers and toes are crossed my name is randomly chosen. The single letters looked perfect in them!
I’m new to Embroidery.
Have done a Red Work Santa Quilt, that was fun.
Right now I’m learning Brazilian embroidery.
It’s a small Flower pattern and I was just going to frame it.
The wonderful boxes would be a great idea.
I am working on some floral pieces that have Bible verses on them. They would look great on a box! I appreciate your “Needle ‘n Thread” blog. It is very informative and has given me inspiration. I think the boxes are beautiful.
I have under some stress this past week so I am working on some hardanger. This is my “mindless” work. I do have some stump work waiting for me to get to it. I am not sure what I want to do with the hardanger piece, maybe a beautiful box for one of my granddaughters.
I would love to win this beautiful box!!! I am currently working on a beautiful sampler, a Mexican sampler inspired pin keep, and several other items. I would love to put a fantastic piece of embroidery in the box. Thank you so much!!!
I am currently working on a small floral surface embroidery piece, with some needle painting. It is my first project with silk threads, and I plan to incorporate some small Goldwork bees. My finishing plans are nebulous at present, possibly a book cover. Although, now you mention it, a box top would be perfect!
What lovely boxes! Thank you, Mary for passing along the information.
At the moment I am just finishing up a small sampler filled with a variety of stitches. Long-armed cross, Rice, Holbein, Montenegrin to name a few. I enjoy changing colors from the original pattern. In this case I am trying a new silk thread, Planet Earth, In a lovely deep purple. To break this up some I am using a variegated silk with beiges with a hint of purple now and again. Beads are to be added. Originally my goal was monochromatic. Still is, with a slight twist.
The plan was to frame it but with this new information it would look lovely on a box.
At this moment I am working on an applique and beaded Christmas stocking. It will hang on the mantle at Christmas , then be stored away until the falling Christmas.
I am just about finished with a large canvas work that will be framed and hang with 2 others by the same designer. Started a quilt blanket embroidery about the 4 seasons with a variety of stitches and floss. Would like to make embroidery for a box since I swore to myself only to embroider things that have a practical purpose.
I am smocking a baby daygown for my friends daughter who is pregnant. This stitching gift for the new baby will be delivered by January. I am using Floche thread for the smocking. Floche is a dream to smock with! Thank you for offering this give a way.
I am working on The Elegant Sewing roll by Catherine Theron. Also some Christmas strawberries. I Love the Boxes and am sure that I could put it to use. Thank you.
Right now I am working on a printed motif in which I am just making up the stitches as I go. It is going to be an in the hoop wall hanging for one of my Step Daughters. I dabble in all sorts of hand embroidery it is so much fun and produces such fun and or beautiful works of art. Thank you.
I have been working on a wonderful piece designed by Jenny Adin Christy. It is her Goldwork Pheasent and it would look absolutely wonderful on the lid of a beautiful wooden box. Its like a small mosaic with gold thread, pearls and gymp. Stunning !
Thank you for giving us all a shot at winning!
Jackie.
My current projects are a Dimension’s Exotic Butterflies counted cross stitch which will be framed for my living room. My second project is my 15 min project, a Zenbroidery on which I’m teaching myself embroidery. The Zenbroidery will most likely be turned into a pillow for my “creative zone”.
Thanks for this wonderful give-a-way. It really is too good to be true.
I so enjoy the respite and peace that hand embroidery provides- it is my own personal escape from the hustle and bustle. Absolutely over the top and ambitious I am currently working the Casket Stitch Along led by Tricia at Thistle Threads and making it my own with alternate threads, added textures and modifications of stumpwork. So far so good and keeping pace, but so hard when there are so many other projects calling. Of course I would look to create the most beautiful fanciful embroidery should I will this box give-away- can already imagine a Fantastical Bug or Beetle on the surface- will cross my fingers 🙂
I’m working on a sampler from one of Hazel Blomkamp’s books. I’m going to mount it in a shadowbox frame to protect the highly dimensional elements.
First of all, I really enjoy, reading all of the tips and articles on the Needle n Thread website.
I am 68 years old and currently learning to do Hardanger embroidery. It is my first large project (larger than a coaster). It is a 24″ square with many rows of kloster blocks and then the patterns begin within the kloster blocks. It is quite intricate and time consuming, but I love a challenge and I believe I can do it. When I am finished with it I will display it proudly on my dining room table for everyone to admire.
I’ve loved following your posts on Mythic Crafts, and I follow them on facebook now! They do such beautiful work.
Right now I’m working on silk shading. It’s a technique I really want to improve in. I’m practicing on petals first, and then I’m going to silk shade a flower to frame or put in a box lid!
Currently cross stitching a birth sampler for my second great-grandchild. It will be professionally framed.
I love your website. You’ve taught me all the basics and have inspired me to learn all kinds of new stitches. Thank you for all your efforts. You’re pages are all over my Pinterest board!
Last night I finished a freehand art piece that I’ve been working on for two months. It is one square in a life quilt that I’m creating about my own life. It’ll be a piece I hand down to my children.
I love the idea of mounting hand embroidery on a box. Even if I don’t win this giveaway, I’ve put that on my list to create. I love the concept.
Thanks for all you do!
Linda
Man, would I LOVE to have one of these wonderful boxes. So much better than the commercially produced ones. I am currently doing a New Orleans horse and buggy cross stitch for my sister – was for her birthday last week, but didn’t finish it. Still hope for what, Halloween, Thanksgiving? Something anyway. I started it on one of those semi finished table throws that have all the raggedy edge trim. Didn’t think to bind the edges somehow and some of the trim has started to pull out. Finishing it in this box would solve all those problems. Please draw my name!!
I love your needle and thread website… I look forward to reading you newsletter… and get a lot of ideas from it…. I just finished an embroirdered quilt top using only straight stitches. But have discovered your article on embroirdered egg…. and have just finished my rendition of the purple flower you featured…. I did a thistle instead of a regular petals flower and was also able to incorporate some beadwork to my embroidery…. also another of your many wonderful articles…. thank you for such in depth articles…. they truly are a blessing
I’m caught again beginning another bag–“Northmore Hard Alfalfa Seed”–and adding some touches to some already, almost, finished. Still trying to decide how to embroider a trotting horse on a Purina feed sack. Smart Mark Harris to dangle those lovely boxes before your expert devotees. (My more fragile bags go on the wall and the sturdier cover pillows.)
I’m working on two things right now, both are counted cross stitch and will hang on the wall. Thanks so much for the chance on a lovely box. It would be so nice to win!
I am currently narrowing monogram designs for a box to hold miscellany that gathers together on top of the bedside table in my bedroom. One of these beautiful boxes would be just the thing. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
I am currently working on a needlepoint piece designed by Joan Thomasson, “Golden Irises”. I plan to frame it.
I am trying to learn Trish Burr needle painting after taking your great tutorial! I am not sure what to do with the finished project but this box would be fantastic! 😉
Wow, what a wonderful and generous gift. Someone will be very lucky. I am currently working on a wool embroidered hot water bottle cover for my daughter so she can have a little extra love from her mom when feeling low.
I currently have 3 pieces in progress. I am doing the Linen and Threads mystery sampler – which will be finished as a wall hanging. I am working on a small Ukrainian white work piece that was put together by my guild as a learning piece which I will probably make into a scissor fob. The third piece I am working on is a monogram for the initial V which will go into a box. However – should I be the lucky winner I would use the box to show off the silk and gold tudor rose piece that I am taking a class for at the San Francisco School of Needlework and Design in December.
I am currently working on a name tag in a free hand (anything but the kitchen sink) stule. I love it. I am new to needle work so this is a great way for me to try everything. Thank you. I would love to do celtic knot work for the box in jewel tones. Sigh…
Thank you Mark and Mary for this wonderful giveaway! I am currently working on a needlepoint Christmas ornament for my daughter. It is very festive and I am planning to try and finish it myself. It will be an oval shape (oh, how am I going to achieve that!) and have a glittery cord around the edges and ribbons curling from the bottom. I love the design so much that I could easily stitch it in different colors and pop it into Mark’s great box.
My current project is a beautiful little Scottish sampler, that will hang on the wall. I have several completed projects waiting to be box tops, including a lovely ribbon of canvaswork. What a fabulous opportunity, and the Mythic Crafts website is lovely. Thanks for the generous contests and giveaways, Mary! Good luck everyone.
I am currently working on beaded snowmen for Christmas ornaments. Thanks for the chance to win this beautiful wood box.
A lovely “off the wall” finishing option! Right now I am finishing up a stumpwork project from inspirations #82 to fit in a round wooden frame I had been given. AND on September 16 my daughter is getting married on the other side of the country so I have kitted up a blackwork project with only three colours to travel with.
Ooh, ooh – choose me, choose me! At our annual Willow Tree Sampler Guild retreat in August one of our more creative members showed how she uses needlework to cover wooden cigar box. The results were just lovely! This would be even better; I’ve gone to the website and drooled on the keyboard just dreaming about the possibilities! Thank you for the opportunity! Hugs!! Willa
One should definitely read ALL the instructions before submitting a comment. oops…sorry. I hope this will count. I am currently working on a Tammy Black from Scattered Seed Samplers, pin keep. When finished, I will add it to my big wooden bowl of pin keeps and needle rolls. Willa
I just finished a woodland scene project that will now become a pin cushion for my embroidery needles. It will be filled with silica sand that is suppose to sharpen the needles. Have another project in the works that is a tabletop centerpiece featuring pink and purple flox no a black wool background. I am just getting back into the embroidery that I loved as a child. Your tutorials have been invaluable to me as I am now 67 years young and no longer have mom or Grammy to show me. Love your blogs.
I’m working on a cross stitched picture which I hope to frame and hang in my sewing room, when (and if!) I ever finish.
I’m gearing up to work on the stunning nasturtium flowers from Inspirations Magazine . I haven’t decided yet about how to finish it, but the gorgeous box would certainly show it off.
Please enter my name for the Mythic Crafts custom box draw.
Thank you for the opportunity to enter this give-away contest.
I am currently working on a small cross-stitch project, Spring Mouse House by Just Nan, an adorable little stuffed mouse who lives in a small, polyhedron (3D pyramid) house embroidered on all sides in lovely violet shades.
After I inherited my great-grandmother’s 19th century wooden tea chest (with an inset glass top), I have been fascinated with wooden boxes. I would love to own one of Mark Harris’ custom wood boxes. I have long planned to work a floral monogram adapted from Elisabetta Ricami’s gorgeous surface embroidery, and think it would be perfect for mounting in the box top.
What a beautiful box! Mary, you have the best giveaways. Currently, I’m working on a sewing kit for my grandniece. I’m decorating it with all surface embroidery. One of the designs on it is the hedgehog from your “Lavender Honey & Other Little Things” book. Thanks again for the great giveaway,
Now I’m working on a rather bog goldwork and silk project. This is the second project of the series I began a year ago. I have an fb friend, who collects such things, and I think, I’m embroidering a present and a surprise for him.
I started an embroidered tablecovering about two years ago and it feels as though I will never finish! Of course, with a project of this scale, I have managed to slip in a few smaller projects just so that I didn’t get too bored with this massive project. I am still working out how I will finish the edges- choices include homemade fringe, decorative tassles on each corner, store-bought trim or simply a neatly hemmed edge.
These boxes are beautiful. I have always wanted to personalize a box like this, so I am grateful for the opportunity to enter the contest. Thanks!
I am currently working on two things. The first is I took a picture my mom loved of a dragon with butterfly wings, with some flowers and am embroidering it for her to put in a frame to hang up. The second thing I am working on is embroidering a business’s name onto a few t-shirts for my mom as well. My next project will be finally trying out this neat embroidery kit my in-laws gave me last November that has some stumpwork and such in it.
What a lovely gift. Something handmade is always better, than something made by machine. Thank You, Mark, for sparking our thoughts.
I am excited by starting a piece of embroidery found in Sheila Marshall’s, Elizabethan Needlework Accessories. It also includes good work and some beading. The piece will be the top of a box used to hold sewing items. (I read a blog where the author said of all her embroidery projects, this was the most useful. She had made it 10 years ago and it was still her favorite. I would use this box if selected!
My current embroidery WIP is in the painting style. I’m working on a painting canvas which will then become a wall hanging. I plan to give it as a gift after I frame it.
It would be an honor to mount one of my projects in one of these beautiful boxes! Thank you for the opportunity to win one. – BC
I’m a few days into my first crewel work piece. I started to follow a pattern and true to form, I’ve started adding my own tweaks to the design. It’s my first real crewel work. I initially planned to make a pillow cover when it was finished. I’m using my favorite colors and materials and loving working on it so much that I think I may have it stretched and framed instead.
Eek! This competition makes me a little excited! I have a thing for beautiful wooden boxes!
I’m currently working on a page for a fabric embroidery stitch book. I’m taking a break from the needle painting (long and short stitch) page and doing a buttonhole (aka tailor’s buttonhole) page. After finding out the difference between that and the blanket stitch, and which I prefer, i’m using it on different flowers, leaves and shapes to make an example for future reference. Then I can see what it works well on and what would be better with a different stitch, plus it’s good practice! I intend to bind the pages together with blanket stitch, then attach them to a multicoloured front cover.
If I won I would make a piece using needle painting and satin stitch (probably a monogram and flower).
Thanks for the chance to win!
I love boxes and these boxes are so beautifully made. I have been working on projects from Trish Burr’s needlepainting books and any one of the boxes would certainly enhance an embroidery. Thank you for the givaway.
What a beautiful box and a great gift idea to cherish for a long time.
Along with some stumpwork, which I’m just learning, I’ve been working on Carolyn Pearce’s Work Box. So far I’ve got the orange tree wall and the spring pea wall. When it’s all put together and filled with all the accessories, I’m giving it to one of my daughters – just not sure which one yet.
With my first grand-daughter planning to marry soon, I have been searching for a special gift that would go on forever and one of these boxes would be a treasure combined with one of the smaller pieces of traditional Japanese embroidery that are part of my stash. I have studied this wonderful heritage from Japan for 25 years and now at the age of 86 my hands are too stiff to continue this unique embroidery. I have a lovely piece called aubergine (eggplants) that would set off such a box. Thanks for the opportunity. Shirley
Right now my style of embroidery is playing with the little grandkids, lol, but when I have a few moments I am working on some fall redwork style simple pieces and some cross stitch. I am also working on some tiny hexagon projects. Some of the above will eventually go on walls, smaller pieces will become pincushions and needle books. If I win a box, it would be great for all the bits if I keep it for myself, and maybe have the tiny hexagon piece. If we decide it should be a keepsake box for a grandchild, it would have their initial. I’m already jealous of whoever wins! thank you for the chance, and a big thank you to Mythic Crafts!
I am working on a cross stitch pattern of dogs on a chambray shirt for my mom for Christmas. She loves dogs and will love this shirt! As for the box, I would put one of several beautiful embroidered pieces a friend who is no longer with us made for me a couple of years ago on it.
Love Mark’s site and his custom boxes! I am currently working on a large embroidered piece that is the second of two complimentary pieces. I have finished several small bird embroidery pieces though that would look beautiful in one of the boxes.
Thanks for the giveaway and your column!
I have several pieces that would fit in a box and look wonderful! I just finished Lorene Salt’s Autumn Kaleidoscope and it will eventually be framed. Now that’s done I’m going to turn my attention to a cross stitch Santa that will be framed (eventually) and a band sampler that will also be framed (eventually). The band sampler is the third in a trio so I’ll frame them at the same time so they match. Usually what happens though is I stretch the finished pieces and they end up in the closet for a long while until I can get them framed. But they have lots of company!
Thank you for the wonderful giveaway Mary and Mythic Crafts! Right now I’m working on a Whitework in Color design by Trish Burr with my EGA. I don’t know how I will finish it, I generally do counted work and am getting back to surface embroidery. How I finish it will be determined by how well it turns out! Mary in Billerica
I am only about one step above beginner so my current embroidery styles are working basic stitches and concentrating on evenly spaced, smooth stitches, whether it’s my backstitches or stem stitches. My French knots are getting better and more uniform. Most of my embroidery is currently on quilt sampler blocks, but I’m about to try quilting a finished top so I’ve been gearing up to do running stitches. Also, I will be transferring one of my daughter’s line drawings to a t-shirt and embroidering her artwork on it. I really appreciate your videos and have been using them for the last year and a half to learn how to embroider.
Who doesn’t love a beautifully made box to hold a precious treasure or two? I really like the way these boxes are designed to showcase our lovely hand work. I love working on crazy quilt blocks and this would be a great spot to show off the block.
Monogram! The letter “W” for grand daughter Willow. Outlining in stem stitch and will soon have to decide how it will be filled or embellished. Making it up as I go…….
I am currently doing some cross stitch projects, large and small. I like the smalls as they work up quickly and provide some completion gratification. The current small is an autumn leaf and a box top would be perfect for it when finished.
I have two embroidery projects in the last stages. The first one is red work fruit in Pink with a yellow background. I am using them as centers for a churn dash table runner. The other is Alex Anderson’s shadow work seasons. I am putting them together with a simple border for a table runner as well. I am currently taking an EMT Class that is not allowing much time for a new project. Although I am on the internet exploring new ideas.
Currently I am working on a gift for my cousin who is having twins!!!
An amazing design I combined with 2 patterns I traced off a beautiful photo in a book of patterns. That book was our great great grand mothers, she put it together with all her favorite patterns!! They are stained and worn. The 2 I combined are my cousins favorite. Since she is having twins I thought it would be perfect!
I plan on using our grand mothers frame also to frame the piece (Unless I win the prize).
Michelle B
Arkansas
I’m planning a counted cross stitch piece for my new born great niece.
Just recently found Needle ‘n Thread and signed up for your newsletter. Absolutely love your site and your newsletter. I also was taught embroidery when I was a child, many moons ago. As you can tell by my email name, embroidery is still my passion. Visited Mythic Crafts web site when you wrote about it. Mr. Harris’ wood boxes appear as though woodworking is his passion. The photographs of the boxes are all beautiful. I’d love to work my sister’s initials on linen and if I were to win a beautiful wooden box, give the piece of embroidery mounted within the box as another retirement gift. She retired from teaching after 43 years.
Right now I am working on two small canvas pilot pieces which incorporate vegetables growing in the ground. The “dirt” is composed of bands with delightful patterned stitches and colors. When they are complete I will likely frame them to hang in the kitchen or dining room
I am working on a cross stitch and will frame it when I finish as it is a large piece. I am also working one an Angel for someone else.
I would love to have this giveaway for my grand daughters bedroom for a picture I cross stitched fir them
I am working on a counted canvas piece designed by Kathy Rees. It is perfect for setting in a box top!
Hi, I’m embroidering my first real project. It’s a pair of lovebirds and I’m really pleased with it and myself so far. It’s surface embroidery and i’m also beading certain parts of it as I love beading on fabric. My original idea for when it’s finished is to use it as applique on a cushion or something similar, or it would look lovely on a box! It’s evolving as I go along. The boxes are gorgeous and I’d be honoured to have my work mounted on one
Hi Mary!
I have been in the planning stages of a small piece of embroidery for several years … in my head 🙂 It is to be one of your monogram patterns, done in silk ribbons and silk threads, all in tones of whites, ivory and champagne. The piece will be accented with lots of tiny, precious cultured pearls, and it is to be a gift for my friend, who is both a pearl dealer and a jewelry designer working in pearls and gems. I’ve had a great deal of trouble stitching real pearls, as the drill holes are very small, but have finally found a needle solution that works!!! and I’m ready to start. I was undecided on a finishing technique, until I saw Mark’s boxes and fireworks of delight went off in my head! Thank you both for such generosity 🙂
Right now I am working on a counted thread work piece that is loaded with eyelets. I am almost 3/4 of the way done with the eyelets and loving it!
I love, love, love wooden boxes and this one is beautiful. I’m hoping I’m lucky enough to win it. Thank you for having this drawing.
Currently I am working on a crewel kit from The Crewel Work Company. It is the level 1 Jacobean Sampler. I may mount it and frame or use for a pillow.
Im working two goldwork roses based on your Tudor Rose – one in white and one in red (York & Lancaster). It will be the front and back of a small journal book. I hope!
I am working on a quilt with redwork embroidered blocks as the focal point.
Hello Mary, I would like to order a needle minder from Mythic Crafts and I would like the ten percent discount given if you sign up for their email. However they seem to operate inside of Facebook only so I am unable to contact them I am not a member. Could you pass this along to them and perhaps they will contact me by email. Thank you and love your blog and your work is exquisite. Your embroidery boxes along with the boxes are works of art, beautiful.
I am currently working on a baby blanket for my 3rd grandson. My hope is to make a usable keepsake blanket for each of my grandchildren. I use the baby quilt tops from JD.
Love your newsletter
I’m working on my 3rd and final counted cross stitch European St Nicholas christmas stocking for my daughter. They will be completed as stocking with velvet backs and silk linings. Each one has over 200 dmc color changes.
I am currently working on a piece for my new and first grandchild. It will have her name, date of birth and a flowered border. I plan to frame it and it will be hung in her room (I hope) my momma and daddy.
I am not an expert embroiderer put I do love making flowers. How wonderful it would be to make her a matching piece for such a beautiful “box” to hold her special treasures.
After reading your newsletters, I have decided to learn how to do crewel. I’ve gotten books from the library, on-line and neighbors. I’ve picked a pattern and will locate the necessary threads, etc. This has been a fun experience and one that I hope that I can pass on to my grandchildren. A beautifully made box would really make the finished project a keepsake!
I love this site. You do a fantastic job of illustrating and sharing.
These boxes are absolutely lovely. I so hope I win!
I am currently working on a stump work scene. Love them and boxes are ideal for mounting them in the lids as pillows can lead to damage.
Thanks for the offer.
A beautiful box as I’m just a beginner I’m learning to do various stitches so doing some Red work at the moment.
I live in the UK so I didn’t see if it’s for US or international ,but either way I do enjoy reading the emails I get
I would love such a box. It would be done for my granddaughter for Christmas. She has been designing an initial with flowers that gramma could do for her.
My current embroidery project is an elephant cross-stitch pattern, downloaded from a Craftsy 3rd-party vendor. The elephant is divided into sections, with each section having different colors/stitches. Because elephants are a special interest of mine, the project will end up as a home decor item of some kind — haven’t decided yet exactly what!
Right now I’m working on a Halloween cross stitch and a sue spargo wool quilt with lots of embellishments. I would love to win a box that I could do something special for myself
I am currently working on a needlepoint Christmas ornament that depicts a golden retriever. I’ve just finished a piece that will be an insert for a mother-of-pearl box.
I’m currently stitching an orphan school Sampler all in red SoieDe Paris silks. A challenge in itself. I’ll frame it for sure. These boxes are breathtaking and to own one will surely be a blessing. Thx!!
Wow what a gift! I’m currently working on an embroidered kite . It will also have artwork, quilling , some quilting some embroidery some rag tying and cross stitich. It won’t fly out
Side but I’ll look great hanging in the corner of his room.
I am working on a 5″ x 5″ counted canvas piece. It is the center portion of a much larger pattern from DeeBee’s designs. I find myself preferring to do smaller pieces as the larger stretcher bars are becoming too awkward to handle. I just read that today is “Needlepoint Day” – did you know that?
I have no plans for finishing this project yet. A little too large for an ornament, perhaps in a beautiful box lid…..
Hi Mary,
I’m actually finishing the Trish Burr’s « Flowers in a teacup », which is a whitework in colour. I’ll frame it and give it to one of my sisters for her birthday (September 16th). So no, I won’t be able to put it on a box, even if I win it, but… I have plenty of other projects… sure I can find one that will fit.
Diane from Montréal in Québec
Thank you for the chance to win such a beautiful thing.
What a gorgeous wooden box. Thanks to everyone involved in this wonderful giveaway. Finding the perfect pattern to work on for this beautiful box.
I mainly work in cross stitch and I’m doing a lovely Celtic Heart Knot piece from Northern Expressions on 32 count pale pink linen. I’m using silk floss from Dinky dyes. It also has a lot of beading. At first I thought it whould just be a Valentines Day hanging, but it is too much work to put out of sight for 11 months a year. So I will probably frame it. I come from a long line of carpenters and the lovely wooden boxes call to me, so I would love it if the fates wanted me to win this. What a generous gift on Mark’s part; the craftsmanship is exquisite on the pieces. I will rejoice for the winner, even if it is not me. Just a little more if it is! I have wonderful monogram I have been wanting to try that I would feature in the box.
Mary,
Thanks to Mark for donating this beautiful box! I am currently working on a floral embroidery piece that will be mounted in a card with a fabric frame for a new baby.
Sheila Keeling
I’m currently working on a wreath pattern from the Flossbox in DMC floss. Also drawing up a design for a tote bag panel inspired by some pretty quilting fabric. But if I won this box I think it would be time to finally try some stumpwork.
Thank you, and Mythic, for the giveaway. The box looks beautiful.
Today I am doing Red Work-Dance by the Light of the Moon by Crabapple Hill. I just finished Panel 1 & starting Panel 2. I plan on this quilt to be finished & Quilted by the first of Nov 2017 for our Quilt Show in Mid Nov.
I’ve got three main projects at the moment, a long haul cross stitch that will end up framed in my great-nana’s hoop to give to my nana. Another that will end up hooped as a wedding present. And the last is a Cubs shirt I got that I’m embellishing with surface embroidery.
I’m working on Christmas stockings for two new grandchildren-both boys! It’s a tradition I started when my children were young. It’s a wonderful way to welcome little ones into the family!
I am working on a simple hooped wall hanging. I am going to start it as soon as the weather starts getting cooler. I have never made a design to put on a box before, but these boxes are beautiful!
Like many others I have multiple projects on the go. I am working on the Thistle Threads trinket box which has its own unique finishing method, Kathy Shaw’s Crazy Quilt hexagons in preparation for the 2020 Crazy Quilt challenge on Pintangle and an Alison Cole gold work butterfly that would look perfect in a box. Thanks for the opportunity.
I am currently designing a turquoise and copper canvaswork piece. I have been collecting turquoise and copper threads and metallic and will also use copper beads. I wanted this piece to reflect my Southwestern roots even though I live in Canada now. I grew up in Arizona where copper was extensively mined and turquoise is used in Navajo jewelry. At this point, I am planning to frame it and put it in my living room to join the Northwest Coast native art that’s already there.
I collect vintage cut steel beaded purses and have some that are absolutely beautiful. They are too heavy to mount and hang on a wall without damaging the threads, so displaying one in a custom box would be just the ticket!
What beautiful boxes and what perfect timing. I have been wanting to make keepsake/jewellery boxes for my children and this would be the perfect oncentive to get started. Most of the needlework that I do is cross stitch and counted canvas – pretty much all for framing. I love it but I am running out of wall space.
Thanks for another great contest.
Mieke
Thank you for all your generous giveaways! This is one of the best if not no. 1.
I am currently working on a UFO which needs to be finished by November. It is cross stitch, my favorite. It is a sampler in two parts, the first half of the alphabet is around two sides of one and the other half of the alphabet on the other. So they have to go together. Each is 8″ square. I usually frame or finish my own work and this will probably be a stand alone object.
I am working on what was a pillow case in abundant amounts of pistol stitch. In fact it has gotten so full that I think I will be framing it rather than just making it a pillow case.
What am I working on a present , well quite a few projects but the main one is a stumpwork embroidery picture of my daughter and her horse when she worked at a dude ranch in Arizona I am hoping to get it finished for Christmas I will have it stretched and framed. Then I will move on to a needlepoint picture of our previous dogs…five of them…
I’m currently working on a lovely wool sewing accessory case. The embroidery is free-style and I need to come up with interesting designs and motifs. I’m loving the results but thinking about what I’m going to do seems more challenging than actually doing the stitching.
Thanks, Sarah
The boxes are beautiful! I am currently working on the Inspirations Goldwork honeybee and a monogram from “Will Ewe Be Mine”. I plan to frame the honeybee and hope to design a bee skep with 3 small bees over it (after my family crest) to go along with it. I plan to give the current monogram framed as a gift. I would love to do another monogram for a box!
Oh, these are beautiful!
I am working on two cross-stitch pieces right now. One is a cricket reading on a hearth by The Cross-Eyed Cricket. I’m doing a couple of them for housewarming gifts. I’ve given away several of the over the years. They are framed to about 6″ by 8″ and can be tucked in a place near the hearth. One of them would look really lovely set into the lid of a wooden box, too! The other is a scene of the Mayflower landing at “Plimouth” Rock. It is in really wild colors–so I will probably gift it to someone, too. Mary, I’ve done cross-stitch for many years, but your blog is enticing me to go back to free embroidery!
What a beautiful way to display your needlework. I have really enjoyed the alphabet series and e-book. Thanks Mary for all of the teaching you share…you have no idea how much I learn from you even though I have been embroidering since I was 4. You have totally refined the well known stitches I make but the plus is all of the many other wonderful stitches I have learned through your posts. Bless you!
I like to needle paint but also willing to try other methods. Love your page read it every day.
Currently working on an original.
I am currently working on a piece from the Crewel Work Company. It is the replica of the Queen Mother’s bedspread pattern (a small piece). I am planning to use it as a wall hanging in my bedroom as the colors match the bedroom linens perfectly.
I am currently working on a few different embroidery projects. One is an embroidered duvet cover, an ambitious project that I work on a little here and there. Another is a set of quotations that I am embroidering, which I plan to put in frames and hang. I am also putting some new life into old curtains by embroidering them, although I haven’t quite decided on everything I want to put on them. I’m thinking floral with a vine trim, but I may decide to do something a bit more simple. And I’m currently embroidering several of my older, white and single color pillowcases and sheets, using some of my grandmother’s old designs. I’m also getting ready to embroider a denim purse and perhaps an old denim jacket, to give them new life. I just love to embroider! For this wooden box, I would embroider an S and perhaps somehow work a red rose into the design, or go with one or the other. And in the box would go all my special treasures!
I am about to start working on the Home Sweet Home workbox project which is a mixture of surface embroidery stitches and box construction techniques. I’ve gathered the materials together and am about to embark on the fabric and thread preparation. Box making in general really intrigues me so I am excited about the project … and also very interested in these beautiful wooden boxes. I’m seeing one with a panel of gold work embroidery in the lid … 🙂
Wow! Beautiful, quality craftsmanship. In the 21st century!
The embroidery pattern, from an out of date publication, in muted primary colors, is a clock face surrounded by a floral border. The finished size is about 5×7 inches. At the lower corners there are two stylized peacocks, facing each other. The valediction is “Let us do good, while there is time”. I plan to add some beading for highlights.
I have the clockworks, and have saved the pattern for years, through several downsize moves. I visualize the finished box upended, to display the clock-face, with the lid serving as a door. My grandmother gave me a chiming clock (downsized away) with the large wood case set up in this style. It made a nice “safe” for a bookshelf or mantel.
Thank you, Mary and Mark, for the inspiration you share with us!
Presently, I’m working on a spot sampler designed by Catherine Strickler. I will frame it and hang it with a collection of my stitched pieces.
I just completed a small piece designed by Hazel Bloomkamp that would fit nicely in a box top, would love to be the lucky winner.
Thank you for you weekly informative emails. I have learned a lot from them.
Eileen Hill
Like you, Mary, I have many WIPs, but at the moment I’m concentrating on gifts. The holiday season is upon us handcrafters! So right now, I’m working on a counted cross-stitch stocking for dear granddaughter and another counted cross-stitch piece to be framed for dear daughter. Actually, the piece for dear daughter might be perfect for one of those beautiful boxes… 🙂
Hi Mary
At the moment I am working on the Roseworks Jade Dragon but because I am Welsh, I am doing it in shades of red and bright colours, although staying true to the stitch recommendations. When it is finished, if I think it is good enough, I’ll get it framed and maybe donate it to my son to take to university to remind him of home.
I would love to win a box – a dear friend who loves crafts has a significant birthday next year and I would do some embroidery for her for this box as I know she would treasure it.
Thanks for the opportunity.
I’m working on 2 projects, one is in the shape of a pear that is divide in sections w different stitches in each section.
The other one is a smocked insert for a dress for my granddaughter.
I would love the box, I could display my pear in it.
I look forward each day to your blog.
Thanks, Joan
I just came back from taking a class with Jane Nicholas. I am finishing one of her wreaths and would love to put it in a box top to give to my sister for Christmas. She is a serious needlepointer but does no embroidery. She would love this from me.
Dsrcy
I am planning on stitching a silk monogram and a box would be the ideal way of displaying it.
I am currently style of embroidery on which I am working is crewel. It is an Elsa Williams crewel kit called Pomegranate. The colors are lovely as is the design and I have always been drawn to crewel work. When completed, I will mount it and frame it which I do myself. It is a gift for my sister so don’t tell! Thank you Mary for the opportunity to win one of these gorgeous boxes!
I just finished my first goldwork piece which would fit very nicely into one of those boxes. I have many pieces on the go, most of which will be framed so they can go under glass. One project is a cross stitch needle book pattern, so I’ll need to work out how to finish that once the stitching is done.
I am working on an embroidered version of the map from “The Hobbit”. I will probably have to frame it since it’s too small to be a wall hanging and too big to fit in the lid of the box!
Oh my, what a tempting prize!
I’m currently embellishing various printed fabrics with embroidery and making them into textile necklaces and brooches. Finally – a use for all those yummy fabrics!
Thank you and Mark for this wonderful give-away! I looked on Mark’s Etsy shop when you wrote about the slate frames and about the boxes. Gorgeous workmanship. I am currently working on Samplar Hare by La-D-Da. I changed up the threads from cotton to silk and sorta kinda matched the colors. I’ve re-charted the chart and will stitch the Hare twice more, using three of the same colors for consistency, and changing the others, so I can include the entire alphabet plus 1-2-3 on the three hares. I plan to finish them as stuffies and sit them in a woven bowl.
I am currently working on a needle painted bird, designed from a photograph taken by my husband while we were in Cuba for a family vacation. He has a blue breast, that would show up beautifully against that lovely dark wood! Alternatively, he will be framed and hung in a place of honour.
I am working on a stuffed animal. It is a panel print of a chicken that is meant to be stuffed. The printing is basic, so I am going over it with embroidery to jazz it up. I’m using beads and sequins for extra zing. It’s about a foot high and the same length and it will be decoration in my studio. Next up is a jacket embellished with both machine and hand embroidery.
When I saw these gorgeous boxes the other day in your email, I thought of all the people I could make initial boxes for! I just love them! What a thoughtful gift that will last their lifetime and someone elses’. Thank you for the opportunity to win one of these beauties. Gloria
I am currently on a Hardanger spree. I just completed Victoria Sampler’s “Butterfly Garden” which will be finished as a bellpull gift. Last week I mailed a birthday card to a six-year old girl which featured a Hardanger initial in a vinyl luggage tag on the cover. Next up in rotation could be a Hardanger insert for a box top!
My granddaughter just finished her college career and has her first nursing job at a big hospital. I am so proud of her. I’m embroidering a piece with her profile in black and the words “Ali Loves Nursing”. I can see the piece framed in that lovely box that she can keep forever. And she can remember her grandmother as well. It would be perfect!! Thanks for the opportunity.
I am working on some embroidered blocks presently that I plan to make into a quilt for the wall. I love the boxes, it makes me want to do one! Beautiful!
My late husband was a woodworker, concentrating on Windsor chairs. We both were intrigued by intricate box making and often spoke of, maybe some day, learning to make. Time ran out.
I do rather freestyle embroidery but I love flowers and often draw them and incorporate them in my needlework. I would love to make a small piece of work as an insert in a hand-crafted box to remember my husband and his love of wood and gardens.
I’m still (years later!) working on a king-sized quilt embellished with embroidery and beads. Much of the (hand-) quilting is done, but the beading and embroidery go on. And on. My friends (whose quilt it will be) come by to visit it every so often…..
What a wonderful giveaway. I am currently working on a quilt that has 12 embroidery blocks featuring bees and cats. I just finished a Round Robin embroidery piece using your free pattern Scrolly Medallion with a variegated 12 wt. thread in reds, oranges, yellow and white to represent a sun. It is so pretty.
Hi Mary, I am currently working on a cross stitch project to finish as a wall hanging. I am always looking for ways to finish and present small gift items. The wooden box would be a wonderful gift. Thanks.
I am working on a needle painting. I was planning to frame it when complete but now that I see these gorgeous boxes I may change me mind.
What a wonderful giveaway or gift. I am currently working on a piece of redwork which is my usual embroidery project. I haven’t progressed beyond redwork yet but I do enjoy the finished project. It’s a piece that will hang similar to a small quilt which I also do. The redwork piece has chickens, nesting boxes, and alphabet sampler on it. Different but it reminds me of my farm upbringing in Mississippi.
I am currently working on a goldwork butterfly with raised parts. I would love to put it on a box like this! Thank you for letting us know a source for quality woodworking.
Working on a piece depicting a sprig of green holly with red berries on a silver background. Started piece last month at the EGA Seminar in Asheville in class fought by Kay Stanis. The original piece was mounted on a box. I do not have a box but would do that if I had one. Technique is or nue’.
Think Mark’s boxes are beautiful. I love hand made things.
Currently working on a tea towel and a tablecloth in real life, but in my head I have oh, sixty two projects.
I love doing mixed stumpwork. I have just finished some brambles with the flowers and leaves in bobbin lace and I’m working on a dragonfly in raised and padded embroidery. It would be lovely to mount it in a box or a deep picture frame.
At present, working on a beautiful canvas piece of needlepoint from Carolyn Mitchell called “First Snow”. It uses an unusual Kreinik 3/8″ metallic trim with wire, not the easiest fiber to use, but interesting effect. Size is about 51/4th by 7, so would probably need a custom fit box but, Oh, wouldn’t it be lovely!
I’m currently working on a birth sampler for my grandniece. The piece includes counted thread, drawn thread, pulled thread, hemstitching, and Hardanger. The counted thread stitches include satin, backstitch, Rhodes, and herringbone. I plan to have the completed piece framed so that it can hand in her bedroom.
I do not have a stitched piece that could be used on the box. Should the box be given to me I would like to design a piece that would incorporate several bands from the birth sampler with the Rhodes butterfly as the focus of the piece.
I am working on a very large Golden Kite chart – Pierrot’s Embrace. It will be approx 36″ x 48″ when finished. I started in June 2010. 7 years and 3300 hours later, I am just over 80% done. When finished, it will be framed and hung on the wall in my entry way 🙂
Thanks for the chance to win a handcrafted wooden box!!
“What style of embroidery are you working on at the moment, and do you have any “finishing” plans for it?”
I’m currently working an embroidered strip of celtic knotwork in a very simple stem stitch. It’s supposed to be for a friend of mine to use as trim on an outfit, but I’m woefully behind the tentative asked-for date, so we’ll see if she still wants it or if she made other plans. I’m sure it’ll get used for *something* eventually 🙂
A box for mounting embroidery….Mounting embroidery…….what is mounting embroidery? What have mountains to do with embroidery? We have no mountains in The Netherlands! I had to look in the dictionary to find out what you were talking about, Mary! I am in between projects. I just finished a bigger piece called Amsterdam in changing”. And at the moment I am doing some abstract work, a try out. I transferred a picture on fabric with gel medium and now I am embroidering on it. I do not know how it wil work out!
I am currently embroidering squares for a quilt. I am used mainly the stem stitch with accents of satin stitch, french knot, daisy stitch and any other that strikes me at the time.
I am working on a pall with one of the designs from your religious motifs package. I hope to give it to our church as a “housewarming” present when we move to our new location. It has various stitches in it, from satin letters with a raised stem stitch frame to raised fishbone for leaves.
Hi Mary!
I’m currently working on a monogram and I hadn’t yet decided on my finishing of it. I do so love the embroidered box with the monogram on this post. It’s stunning!
Regardless of whether I win or not, I love the artistry at hand. Thank you so much for the generosity!
Kind Regards,
Catrina Byrge
Hi Mary, I’m currently embroidering a voided monogram for a friend which will be mounted in it’s wooden hoop frame which I’ve painted. I also have a piece of silk shading on the go from a class I took which would look stunning in the lid of a box. My husband and I both love wood and often admire handmade pieces at craft shows.
I am currently doing some crewel work on a denim jacket and am very excited about it!
Thanks for this great give a way
Joanna
I’m working on a kaleidoscope project that I intend on finishing as a Christmas stocking.
Hi Mary. Thanks for the chance of winning a gorgeous box from Mark’s collection – such a beautifully crafted object. I’m currently working on the CrazyQuilt2020 challenge (over on Sharon Boggon’s Pintangle blog). So learning all sorts of new embroidery stitches as I embellish my blocks. Using Needle’n’Thread as a fantastic tutorial resource too! Take care. Jean
Good morning; I am currently working on some roses in a needlepainting pattern from Trish Burr. I enjoy this as well as most forms of needlework and needlelace. I would be delighted to win a box from Mark. I will probably frame this otherwise, although I currently have 21!! pictures framed in our condo (I have given away at least this many to family and friends.)
Embroidery and needlelace are wonderful, absorbing hobbies . Thanks to you and your considerable efforts I feel connected to many others with a similar passion.
Keep well and thank you to you and Mark for this contest. Evelynne
I am presently working on a Lorna Bateman pin cushion. I love her work!
I would like to mount my daughter’s initials on it and give it to her as a wedding gift. It would be perfect for her to keep her precious items safe.
I am currently embroidering a silk duvet cover in various different stitches with silk thread itself of butterflies, it is a long term project that I pick up and put down as and when the mood takes me.
Being rescued by boat during Harvey, I grabbed a very small needpoint canvas, barely fit in my backpack. Making it for a good friend who helped me out.
I bet I know who that piece is for. She is the best. So glad you are making progress on clean up. You have been in my thoughts. I plan to be back in Houston by the end of the month.
At the moment I am working on 3pieces. A canvas work piece that, I think will be a cushion front, a couple of stitched postcards for a challenge and also embellishing a denim jacket for my grand daughter.
I am currently working with hand dyed Ribbon on a Victorian Rose Sampler. It is about
half done and I am very happy with it. I love ribbon embroidery and have many projects
that would love to live in a beautiful box.
I am presently working on a monogram from your e-book. I searched for years for a flowered M. Then once I got it, I have spent all this time looking at it. putting it on top of a box would be perfect. Thank you for a chance to win and thank you for the flowered M.
I have just finished a needle painting piece from Catherine Laurencon. It was a week workshop and i am sooo proud the way it turned out. Since I am running out of walls to display, i am going to make a hinged box out of cartonnage and the embroidery will be mounted as the lid of the box.
I am currently working on a small Christmas sampler. It is meant to hang on the wall.
I am currently working on a cross stitch primitive on a rabbit with a cart. It will be finished into a pillow for spring. The box is absolutely a work of art and it would need a special piece of needlework to put into it.
I am about to start a very small piece of crewel style embroidery, but using one strand of silk, of tulips which are my favourite flower. It will be the first time I have designed my own piece, which will be about 6″ x 4″. I had already been thinking of mounting it in a box, so this would be perfect for me!
I am stitching a repoduction sampler from the mid 1800’s hiscock antiques charted this small childs sampler with a zebra on the bottm 1/3 of the sampler. I would like to see this put onto a box so it is seen by everone. the pieces on the wall are not always seen as i have so many hangging.
I am currently working on a crazy quilt and embroidering some of the squares with different types of stitches. Plan to finish the quilt an embroider a leaf in each corner.
I am currently working on a counted cross stitch picture titled Pointers by Larry Martin. It will be hung in a frame.
I am currently working on a scene in counted cross stitch to honor my son who is currently deployed. I am hoping that I will complete it at the same time that he is once again safely home with us,
I am doing a counted cross stitch picture, called winter Friends. I will frame this one. My other project is a tablecloth with butterflies and leaves on it.
I’m currently finishing up a small cross stitch piece that will be made into a Christmas ornament. Once that is complete, I am going to get back to a gold work piece I started in a class. I’m not yet sure what I will do with the finished piece.
Many thanks to you and Mark for this giveaway. My fingers are crossed!!
Hi Mary, I’m working on a miniature French and Colonial knotted piece that replicates a life size hooked rug. It would look so awesome in its own display box!
I am finishing floral motif embroidery on a tablecloth that fortunately is already hemmed.
Currently I am working on a special design by my Japanese Embroidery sensai of 16 years. It is being stitched on black nishijin and the design is of a stylized white “mother” lily circle giving life to a baby lily circle connected by a gold stream of life-giving water. This piece will be framed for wall hanging. It gives me great pleasure to stitch something that was designed by my sensai.
But I do have a few smaller pieces on which the stitching has been completed but I have not yet decided how I want to finish them. And two are perfect for mounting in a beautiful box (couched silver snowflakes is my favorite). So of course, I would love to be the lucky winner of your random drawing. Thank you for everything you do for the world of those who love embroidery!
I’m currently working on three projects – a double running stitch band sampler from The Scarlet Letter which will be framed to hang on my wall, a charm quilt that will eventually have 10,000 different fabrics, and a tatted summer scarf using a variegated quilting thread.
Doris Marie
I am currently working on a wool embroidery quilt. i just completed Wooly Wisdom which is a quilt with various embroidered sheep. I have some Ribbon Embroidery that is complete not sure if it will be framed or placed on Memory box. The workmanship in Mythic Crafts is impeccable. beautiful craftmanship.
I am working on a door stop goose. The embroidery is on the main fabric and the body of the goose will be made and stuffed.
Love your blog been a needle worker for40 yrs. Thanks for a chance
I am currently working on a large cross stitch embroidery design I created. It’s a scaled-up, more elaborate version of a small cross stitch I found at an estate sale many years ago. The original stated simply, “this is my home, and I can do as I please”. It has always resonated with me, and so I made my design a little more elaborate, with Victorian-styled letters and an antique morning-glory border. When I’m done, it will be framed and hung in my house. Cheers!
Absolutely beautiful workmanship. I would love to win the box.
I’m currently trying to finish a Christmas wall quilt and planning my line up for gifting during the holiday. A beautiful display box would certainly fit into that plan. It’s always a good day when your email arrives.
I am currently working on a small embroidery, which would look just perfect in one of Mark’s absolutely gorgeous boxes! It is for my thesis Supervisors (there are two I’m working on at the same time), so I wanted it to be something special.
Wow! That’s a great giveaway! I was ogling Mark’s beautiful woodworking, so to get a chance to win one of his boxes would be fabulous. As usual, I’m working on several embroidery pieces: a CQ block for a wall hanging, a silk panel with dimensional embroidery which will hang, a Jacobean design of my own that might be just right for a pillow, and a small stumpwork piece that would be perfect for one of Mark’s boxes. Then there’s the blackwork piece, the wedding piece I’m doing for my daughter, and………… ;-)………
Love the boxes! I am working on a redwork Christmas embroidery that I will probably make into a small wall hanging.
I have followed Mary’s page for several years and learned much. The box is beautiful I would love to win it.
What beautiful boxes, the workmanship looks so fantastic what better way to set off a piece of needlework. I’m in the middle of Roseworks dragon which has been a challenge for me as I’ve not done anything like this before and once finished I shall have it framed. I’m also embroidering some birds taken from Trish Burrs miniatures book and mounted in a box like this would really make it special. I’ve recently completed 8 napkins and a very long table runner all embroidered with birds by Trish for my daughter and a box to go with it would be the icing on the cake
I am currently working on a goldwork piece for a friends wedding. I am doing two doves holding a ribbon with two wedding rings suspended from the ribbon. I normally source brass trinket boxes but the supplier has gone out of business so have been wondering how to mount it. These boxes would be ideal.
I am currently working on a lovely Blackwork butterfly. I don’t have specific finishing plans, but a box would be beautiful. Thank you for the chance to win one.
Ohhhh I have a gold work bat that would just adorn a beautiful box…..
I’m currently finishing a “Quaker Sewing Box”. The stitching is completed and the construction of the box is nearing completion. I’m also working on “Empire of the Sun” by Toni Gerdes. I plan to frame this piece. I do not have a finished piece that would be appropriate for the box but I do have something in mind.
I have been working on a surface Embroidery project from a pattern in “Inspirations” magazine. It has been rather slow going because summer has gotten in the way. It would look beautiful in one of the boxes.
I’m currently working on the second of three goldwork pieces that will be framed and hung together as a triptych. I already have a goldwork butterfly by Alison Cole that is finished, the second is Lucy Barter’s goldwork flower from the Craftsy class and the final piece will be a Japanese Landscape from Mary Brown’s book on goldwork. I would actually love to get one of Mark’s slate frames for the last piece as it’s bigger than the other two.
I am a fairly new embroiderer, and am experimenting by trying to mix and match some cottage garden flowers, my latest is a small basket of lavender flowers. When I have completed them I will either frame them in a series of small frames or joint them together for a small hanging.
I love special boxes to store special handwork tools and fibers. I love opening the boxes at bee meetings and listening to the and ohh’s and ahh’s and where did’s and how did’s. I love the way little girls look at the special boxes with wide eyed admiration, knowing that the projects taken on with those tools in those special boxes are not for every day and hoping one of the projects are for them. I love giving a special box to a young girl to encourage their interest in needle arts. The gift seems to motivate the girl to practice more and enhance the value of their creations. Though a plastic zip-lock is practical and serviceable, who would choose a zip-lock over a special box adorned with beautiful needlework?
The current project is an Italian drawn thread hand towel and a small sampler to match. The towel will be hemmed and hung on a fancy towel bar/stand. The sampler would look lovely in a box top.
Thank you Mystic Crafts for your generous offer.
Thank you Mary for your valuable and interesting stitching related information.
I’m actually working on three different cross stitch projects at the moment not any embroidery per se. The only one that has finishing options right now are the ones that will be ornaments the other two who knows LOL.
I am working on a small wall hanging with the theme of France. I am creating lavender stems using “of course” french knots for the floral part. I’m also envisioning a bicycle outside a cafe with many other flowers stitched around in the landscape and hanging pots too. It’s a project on the move as I am taking it wherever I have the opportunity to work on it.
I love these boxes. It’s just like cooking………..finishing up your needlework too is all in the presentation!
Thank you for all your wonderful information you give us….to educate us…to share in so many ways.
My friend of 59 years turns 60 soon so I’m working on a monogrammed 60 for her. This would be a great way of mounting this embroidery and making a special gift for her.
The embroidery I’m working on at the moment is a cross stitch one that will be turned into a small cosmetic bag-type bag eventually.
I have been working on surface embroidery of pansies in the corner of a linen/cotton handkerchief. Have a set of a dozen with eleven more waiting for an assortment of flowers.
I just completed a cross stitch portrait of my two great-grandchildren for my daughter. I am not usually a fan of cross stitch, but watching the portrait appear was fascinating. She loved the gift also. That has inspired me to do one of my late mother-in-law in shades of blacks and grays for my husband. It would fit beautifully on a box like that for him.
I have several counted cross-stitch projects going now, all for our church. My oldest sister taught me how to do ccs when I was 3 years old. I’m from Alaska. The finishing plans for the living room project is to put in coasters, and the bedroom and work projects are to put in frames
What a beautiful box! and the best part is the winner can have it custom-made to suit whatever project they are working on. I am currently working on Christmas ornaments – trying to get an early start – but I have other projects in mind that would look beautiful inside that box, should I win.
I’m currently working on a freestyle hanging basket full of geraniums, on a pillowcase. Using a variety of stitches – rope, chain, lazy daisy, buttonhole, fishbone, stem. It is part of a set for a (very late!) wedding present
I’m currently working on embroidering cushions for my sofa. It is surface embroidery (stalks of lavender) on linen using a recent pattern from Inspirations magazine. A few issues ago there was a beautiful surface embroidery of a pheasant mounted in a box which I just loved …but where to get a box? One of Marks boxes would be just perfect.
Hi Mary!
I am actually working on a Mountmellick piece right now. I followed your article links to some wonderful resources and I got hooked! I am doing a large wild floral design using very authentic Moutnmellick subjects like berries, wheat, thistles, etc. I am planning on matting and framing the finished piece. I know it would be a gorgeous pillow, but with six children I don’t think a white pillow would look great for too long. 🙂
Erin
Currently I am embroidering (with silk threads) Grey Bird by M. Suarez. When done I am considering having it made into a back panel for a jacket.
Within the next week I will be starting Melinda Sherbring’s “More Than A Rose”. I have not done this type of project before so I am really excited. It would look perfect to display in one of Mark’s boxes don’t you think?
Thank you Mark for your generous prize.
This box would be sure to delight anyone who receives it. Thank you.
This would be perfect! Right now I’m “working on” several things:
– nearly finished with a Tapis-Tree needlepoint sampler “Koquette Kitty” which will become a pillow and be donated to our church’s Spring Fling fundraiser for local charities,
– the Hungarian Harmony page of Jeannette Douglas’s “My Stitching Album” (I know, I know, this entire project sat untouched for probably six years before I finally got at it), which will be finished as a page in the ‘book’ when I’ve stitched all of them,
– a cross-stitch of an Ansel Adams photo (leaves on the forest floor) that I started but set aside after I realized I’d used the wrong thread for one of the symbols (If this is ever completed it will hang on the wall with other black & white images.),
– Carolyn Pearce’s “Home Sweet Home” needlework box, for which I’m still in the gathering supplies stage,
– Laura J Perin’s “Country Roads” petitpoint (I guess) “Country Roads, to be a gift for my cousin, whom I’ll ask to decide finishing once it’s done (Again in the gathering phase).
BUT……I’ve been drooling over the goldwork “Pheasant” from Inspirations issue 93! It’s pretty ambitious for one who’s yet to try goldwork, but I LOVE it and would HAVE TO finish it for a box lid as pictured in the magazine. I wrote Inspirations to ask about the box, and they referred me to the designer, who didn’t respond to my inquiry. A beautiful Mythic box would be JUST RIGHT. Oh, I hope I win this one!! Many thanks to you, Mary, and to Mark for this fantastic opportunity.
Wow! They are wonderful boxes. I’m working on two pieces at the moment. The first is a canvas stitch picture of 2 puffins and will be framed to hang on the wall. The second is my first piece of gold work which would look great on a box, but was designed to be a small cushion, it’s only 5″ square and as it was my first gold work piece I was thinking about framing it. Thank you for the chance to do something a bit special with it. D x
Number one these handmade boxes are really hard to find and I have had to order them in when I want them or find them.These boxes are beautiful. I’m working om a big needlework piece at the moment and it will have to be framed. But I have smaller pieces that would fit into one of those boxes nicely.
Thanks for the opportunity to win one Mary.I can only work on one piece of needle work at a time and completely finish it before I go to the next.Otherwise I would have UFO’s all over the place. Thanks again Mary
Hi Mary. What a wonderful give-away which would make a fantastic heirloom with an embroidered piece inserted. I’m currently working on a hardanger project, which is completely a new venture for me, having taught myself surface embroidery, cross stitch and ribbon work. I want to turn the hardanger into a ring pillow for a relative so will be very proud when I complete it and made the cuts in the exact places!!
Best wishes
Margaret
I would appreciate having this lovely box for the Japanese Beadwork project that I am just about finished with. It would be a perfect complement.
What a beautiful box!! I am currently working on a bag from Sublime Stitching with a boy and girl talking on the telephone! Thanks for the opportunity to win such a lovely gift!
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I love beautiful boxes and one of these would be a great addition to my collection. I am sure I could work an embroidery for what ever size I won (wishful thinking)
Regards
Beryl
What a brilliant give away this would be ideal to keep my stitching projects neat and tidy in my brand new conservatory. Love they lovely things you show on Needle n Thread always something interesting to learn in each post.
I am currently working on a some embroidery pieces on cotton tulle. They will be turned into the lace for the top of my wedding dress. My theme is sea creatures and I’m mixing real ones with some of the bizarre interpretations that were put on old maps. I’m just finishing up the drafting and design but I’ll have to get moving on the stitching very soon.
This site is a huge reason I’m even attempting it. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge and tips!
What a beautiful box. Right now I’m working on a cross stitch of Darth Vader for my 35 year old son. I will be framing it and giving it to him for a Birthday present in December.
I am working on a monogram for my childhood friend of 63 years. I hope to put it on a box that will be filled with some childhood memories. I am sure that would make her cry with happiness.
The boxes are just simply beautiful, who wouldn’t want one. Right now, I am working on an Elsa Williams Embroidery Kit…”Tea Room Floral”. It is rather large, plan to hang it on a wall. I also enjoy smaller projects, like something to put into one of those boxes.
Thanks for a chance to win.
I am currently working on a Trish Burr Little Bee eater. I had planned to put it in a frame, but one of the beautiful boxes would be wonderful!
Thank you!
I am working on a small crazy quilt to hang.
I’m working on the Bluebird Tweet by Just Nan. It meets two of my embroidery preferences, it’s a bird and small. Blue and cute are also big pluses. However, I just purchased the book of monograms, and that’s next up. I hadn’t planned a finish, so the box would make that decision easy!
I am working on a piece from your book, Needle Painting Embroidery, Wild Pansy, number 10 in your book Fresh Ideas for Beginners. It will be matted and framed, it is a Christmas gift for my good friend who just loves flowers.
I am planning om embroidering initials for both of my daughters-in-law for Christmas and would like to use one of the handcrafted boxes I saw on display on your Needle ‘N Thread email last week. The last several years I have given them hand made presents and they loved them. I would like to continue that tradition and those boxes are perfect for preserving those memories!
Hi Mary! Many many thanks for the wonderful inspiration you provide.
Re: the piece I am working on- I am doing a Trish Burr needle painting of a bird. I used to have a delightful friend, Dora the parrotlet, and had to give her up because my MS made it hard for me to look after her. I’d like to use Trish’s gorgeous pattern to practice for making a wee Dora, and she’d be perfect on one of the gorgeous boxes!
currently working on a cross stitch that will either be finished as a pillow or framed to wall mount, next up is goldwork… that would look wonderful in the box lid!
I’ve been working on a quilt to hang on the wall. It is a mix of fabric and wool. I thought it would be very simple wool appliqué and would have it done in no time. However, it turned out to be very time consuming. I can’t wait till it’s done, only 4 blocks to g0.
I have a finished needle punch finished that would look really nice on one of those beautiful boxes.
Hi — I’m currently working on O Christmas Tree by Wendy Williams — it’s a wool applique Christmas tree pattern that I have been embellishing with embroidery and beads. I actually meant to have this completed last Christmas, but I’m giving it the college try again for this year. It’ll be gorgeous when completed. It will be finished into a quilt and hung on the wall — at least that’s the plan — because there’s a tremendous amount of time and energy that has gone into it.
Actually, last night I was showing my 16-yr-old daughter one of her “keepsakes” — it’s a tiny little denim jacket that I had embellished for her when she was 4 or 5 years old. She wore it quite a bit — lost it at least twice — and I couldn’t bear to give it away like I did with most of her clothes. I hope someday her own daughter will wear it — there’s a lot of love in every little stitch.
I love boxes! So beautiful and so easily displayed anywhere.
I’m currently working on a miniature knot rug designed by Teresa Layman. I just love her designs!
I am planning on displaying it in a box. I have so many large pieces for framing and this is a small piece. Approximately 3×4.
I just love doing the miniature knot rugs. They are done all in French knots and colonial knots with one strand of floss and one wrap. They are my mandalas for finding that zen place. And they are very portable! So important to have portable stitching. You just never know when you will end up with a few minutes to put a stitch or few in.
I have several pieces that would look beautiful on this box. Such beautiful workmanship.
I am currently working on the EGA Correspondence course that is an Iris in surface embroidery and pulled work. Very interesting project, but way to big for these boxes. I plan to have it framed and hung on the wall.
I have some ideas in the works for designs that look very nice on top of boxes. The one I just finished had some detached leaves and was mounted on an antique box; looked wonderful! I enjoy all sorts of finishing techniques and try to match the type of embroidery to its final resting place.
I am working on a hummingbird by Trish Burr that would look great on a box!
Currently I am working on a cross-stitched afghan for my nephew and his wife. Second baby and a boy this time. Made a bunny afghan for their daughter and am making a teddy bear one for their son, due in November.
Before this, I was expanding into some of Trish Burr’s Whitework with color designs. I finished 2 of them, a hummingbird and a chickadee. Loved working on both of them and I think I have found a new love in my needlework. Trying these new things are the greatest!!!
I am ALWAYS looking for what I can “do” with my finished embroidery pieces!!!! I love this box idea!! Tight now I’m working on a few “series”, both cross stitch and surface embroidery, that I’m going to hang in frames. I’m also working on surface embroidery with a Sea theme which I will make into 3 pillows.
Hi!
I’m currently working on a crewel piece that will be a pillow once I finish it!
I am currently working on a cross stitch sampler. It will be framed and hung on my wall.
I am working on a series of australian birds, having recently been to Australia, in threadpainting. I am totally inspired by threadpainting and a beautiful bird would look amazing on a box lid or simply mounted and framed. I am amwzed at how lifelike this technique can be.
Currently working on a little kit which was going to be framed for me sewing room – but who knows if there is a lovely box to mount it on…
Well, I am working on several projects. One is a crazy quilt that I thought I would send off as postcards, but my daughter wants me to make into a wall hanging. I have a Mill Hill kit that I will finish as an ornament. And I am still working on Drawn Thread Sampler by Gay Ann Rogers. My mother wants it. She would like to stick it under glass in her kitchen. She has photos of kids and grand kids there and thinks it will make a nice background.
What a great giveaway. I’m currently working on a small stumpwork piece with a circle of flowers and embroidered initial in the center. I’m planning to mount it in a box like the ones created by Mike Harris.
The boxes do look like they are very good quality. I am currently working on several crewel pieces from The Needlework Company out of England, and I am seriously considering purchasing the firescreen as I have the crewel kit from the same company that would fit. Both my mother and I have crewel pieces and possibly some cross stitch pieces that could fit the smaller boxes. I hope he will possibly produce some larger boxes in the future.
I do lots of different embroidered styles but lateły raised – one of these boxes would be perfect to mount it!
I am embroidering on a quilt that will be a wall hanging for my son and daughter in law.
I am currently working on a cross stitch of a mother and child in sepia tones. It will be framed and given to my second great grand daughter.
I’m just about to start on a Jacobean embroidery – very excited as its my first one! What it will end up being is anyone’s guess
As always, I am on rotation. Very soon to start on some stumpwork pieces, the direction of which I am not yet sure about (could end up as jewellery and Christmas tree decorations). Also, a blackwork (with a touch of goldwork incorporated) piece that was intended for a special photo album I created for my mum. However, that one could look good on top of a box. Some of the other projects on rotation are massive samplers. I have never done a sampler before, as they have never appealed to me. But have recently discovered Long Dog samplers.
I am taking a break from my adventures in Hardanger and working on a cross stitch that will be finished into an autumn stocking.
I’d love to win! (Fingers crossed)
I have three projects in process – all of them Crewel embroidery. I am most focused on a design from The Crewel Work Company entitled “September Evening.” It is a Jacobean style, and although the size of the design is only 8.5 x 8.5 inches, it includes a squirrel, a stag, and a butterfly. I’m enjoying it immensely, and will frame it to hang over the fireplace when it’s complete. The next project in line – all set up and ready to go – is another Crewel Work Company design called “Secret Squirrel.” I love that title, and the design is precious! Only 4 x 4 inches, it would be the perfect project to mount in a beautiful box crafted by Mark.
At the moment i am working on the second of three feathers metalwork embroidery from the bluebirdembroidery.co.uk. The jay feather is ready. The owl is nearing the end. I will either put the 3 feathers in one mount with 3 holes in the passepartout or, now I have seen these boxes, in three different coloured wood boxes !
I’m working on a set of wool appliqués with embroidery. They will eventually be a quilt.
I am working on several things. One is going to be a quilted wall hanging. Another few will be hung on walls. One, a bunch of butterflies, is perfect for a box. I also have another that I’d love to put in a box. It’s for a friend who’s been going through a hard time.
I do mostly counted thread embroidery, but I have macular degeneration, so my eyes are only going to cooperate for a couple of more years. This makes me want to choose my projects carefully. Right now, I’m working on an Advent Calendar, using the Santas from Prairie Schooler. I had hoped to finish it in a year, but it looks like it will take two – I started on Christmas Eve 2016, with my choice for December 24th. Then I started with December 1, and am now on Dec. 7, so obviously, have a long way to go! When I’m finished, I plan to finish them all as ornaments with a Christmassy backing material. I’ll hang them all with the backs facing out on a felt Christmas “tree”, and turn them over one by one throughout December. I think they will look so great together, as I’m using the same color palette for all – especially the same green, red and gold.
What a treat it would be to have such a lovely box to showcase some hand embroidery! Thanks for the chance to win. I’m currently working on a set of 4 small winter scenes, doing counted cross stitch on 32 ct. linen.
I am currently working on the Sue Spargo wool appliqué with embroidery 2017 Block of the Month for July. When all the months are completed and sewn together, the result will be a wall hanging. I love Spargo’s contemporary folk art style and use of bright colors; plus, I have learned many new stitches and ways to combine them. Being a visual learner, I frequently use the Needle ‘N Thread videos as a supplement to Sue’s book Creative Stitching. While the Spargo is my current project, I have Lucy Barter’s Craftsy gold work project in my UFO box. I think it would be stunning in one of the Mythic Crafts’ boxes.
What a lovely thing for both of you to do – I hope whomever wins will truly appreciate this heirloom! I am currently working on an Autumn piece that will be mounted where it will be freestanding.
What a lovely box, and such a beautiful give-away! I’m currently working on a vintage embroidery project using designs reminiscent of the 30’s which I plan to work into a baby quilt with reproduction vintage fabric. It’s a fun and easy project! No pressure!!!
Currently working on a banding sampler with my stitching group! learning lots of stitches and designs Think my favorite has been a whitework section! Would love to make a whitework box topper with an initial!
I am currently working on a cross stitch piece by Little House Needleworks. This piece is for me and will hang either in my room or near my stitching area.
I’ve taken a class with Alison Cole, so am working on a stumpwork and goldwork piece. Because it’s so delicate, I expect that I will be framing it when I finish.
I just finished a flamingo to hang on the wall and I am about to do some embroidery on some tote bags to give as Christmas presents!
The boxes and your work are stunning. Thank you. I have finished embroidering four little doll faces for my nieces and granddaughters and I’ve been enthralled with learning about gold work embroidery… absolutely breathtaking.
I’m working on a surface embroidery project right now. I don’t know if that’s the right classification because it has some flat embroidery and some 3-d thingies…I wouldn’t really call it stumpwork. Anyway, it is to keep in my house. I give everything away, but this one is staying. Since I don’t really have many walls, a box would be the perfect way to finish it!
Right now I am working on needlepoint after attending the Needle Arts Mystery Retreat near Chicago this summer. When I actually finish the stitching, I plan to have it made into a pillow to use for patriotic holidays. I chose the red, white, and blue color way so it should work fine for those holidays.
Aloha, I love your blog entries. I’m currently working on some crazy quilt pillows, with monograms. including photo transfers of my mother’s old letters she wrote to her mother-in-law when she first got married! These pieces would also be great on a box top. Mahalo
Right now i’m embroidering christmas ornaments using the sardinian knot stitch technique.
I would love to use a sardinian knot stitch design for one of these
beautiful boxes!
I am embroidering a Crabapple Hill Pattern that is called the Salem Witches. It is 3 different panels that are embroidered. Within the embroidery I will use colored pencils to fill in. Quilted piecing finishes the borders. It is for a fairly good sized wallhanging.
What a lovely giveaway! I am currently working on a cross stitch scissor pocket having just made tiny thimble pocketbook with added beading for a neice to hold an “acorn or a stone” as her needs require being 3 yrs old. Redwork waiting to be srarted on towels. Pretty basic stuff lately. Always love to see glorious work you present. An heirloom box would be truly special gift to hand down.
I would love the box you are showing. I love pink, my last name starts with an R and the whole thing looks great! I realize that isn’t what is being given away. Currently I’m working on a quilt for our guest room and am otherwise overwhelmed. I did find a sweater at the thrift store the other day in goregous colors of orangy pink – kind of sherbet looking. Once I get brave enough to see if it fits, if it does, I will finish the corduory skirt I am working on and embroidery some flowers on the pocket using the gorgeous Watercolours varigated floss that I found at my local thrift store. What a score that was, 140+ skeins of never used floss/thread!
I am currently working on a Simplicity 1950 Vintage dress for my first grandchild. It has an embroidered bodice and hemline. When I’m finished with that, I will return to the cross stitch bread cloth with a wheat sheaf design from a 1980 craft magazine.
Hi Mary,
I’d love to receive one of these lovely boxes! I enjoy filling them with my needlework and making them into gifts. I’m currently working a a couple of needlepoint canvases – Fire and Ice designed by Toni Gerdes and Golden Iris by Joan Thomason. I was in Anaheim CA last week for the ANG National Seminar and took the iris class there. By the way, I am a graduate of Kansas State – I enjoy hearing about your life back in KS!
Diana
I’m embroidering a piece of fabric, echoing the design on it and I’m going to use it to make a coin purse.
I am currently working on a Halloween Punch Needle project that would look wonderful mounted on one of Mark’s gorgeous boxes! My alternative mounting plan is to work it into a small, hand quilted wall-hanging or candle mat. I’ve also got a completed Primitive Santa Punch Needle project, which I did poolside on vacation earlier this summer! It will also likely become a wall hanging!! I did have another idea, but it would be a more involved project: I absolutely love the handbags done by Japanese quilter, Yoko Saito, and I was thinking that a Halloween or Xmas purse, made of hand quilted cotton and homespun, perhaps with a bit of wool, would be a fun accessory!! I think punch needle embroider could stand up well to the wear of a handbag. Happy stitching everybody!!
Would be a treasured box!
I have several things going (as usual!): a counted cross-stitch Christmas project, a surface set of napkins, multiple wool applique/crazy stitch projects that will end up as quilts.
I am currently embroidering bookmarks, but these are very detailed & ornate! I am a huge fan of silk ribbon & beads. I have made 8 so far. Getting ready to do the finishing for each one. Will probably give as Christmas gifts.
I have a piece of Hardanger that I’ve been working on a couple years. When it’s done I plan to put it in a box like these.
I would love to have such a fine box, they’re so beautiful! My current embroidery project is actually on crazy quilt hexies. Were I to win this box I would make a heavily encrusted top for it, probably in blues my favorite color.
I am currently working on two cross stitches. Birth announcements for my two nephews! I hope I get them done by xmas time
At the moment I am working on Embroidery of small candles and shells on baptismal bibs for the babies baptized at my church.
Of the nine things I am actively stitching on (!!), three of them would find a happy home with that exquisite box. In fact, there is canvas piece that looks as if I had that box in mind when I decided to make it! Fingers crossed.
At the moment, I am working on several things! I have to complete the mounting of my piece of silk shading for the RSN certificate (I don’t want to look a hellebore in the face for a while after two weeks of re-creating one in stitch!); I’m at the start of ‘A Stitch In Time’ which is an altar frontal for the school chapel that I am encouraging all the students to add at least one stitch to; I’m in the middle of a blackwork portrait of my mother when she was young (a gift for my father) and right now, I am setting up something simple as a ‘pick up’ project for when I am just too tired to do anything after a day teaching English. .. I decided on a series of ’bouteh’ shapes worked in various styles and types of embroidery, which will be a sort of sampler: I love the shape and will be very interested to see how it looks in the various different styles of work..
At the moment I am working on a beach sampler. Love your boxes. Would love to have one to add a seashell to the front of it.
Hi Mary – Thanks for the giveaway.
I’m currently working on a stumpwork and needlelace water lily. The lily has 24 needlelace petals (on wire) and sits atop 2 lily pad leaves (made with fused green fabric and decorated with metallic thread. There is even a beaded stumpwork dragonfly. These pieces will sit atop a hexagonal table top mirror. I can’t wait to see how it turns out!
Judy BC
The Mythic Crafts boxes are absolutely stunning. I’d love to be challenged to develop a project for the insert. One on my current projects is to stitch the top and front panels for a box which I already own. The designs for the sides are still in my brain. The work is thread painting in silk floss on silk fabric.
My current project is the sampler ‘And they Sinned’ by Examplar Dames. I am not sure how I am going to finish it; it certainly would take a big box if that’s the route I choose, lol! I may end up framing, but will have to save my pennies. Thanks for the give-a-way opportunity.
Presently, I’m working on a crewel piece that will be finished as a decorative pillow for my bed. Should I be fortunate and “win” a display box, I plan to display a goldwork piece in it.
I am working on the small stump work Poppy project from the Craftsy Stump Work class. New techniques that I will put to use in Baltimore quilt blocks.
I’m currently working on a Danish counted cross stitch wreath of flowers which will be turned into a table topper when completed. The boxes shown are truly works of art.
What style of embroidery are you working on at the moment, and do you have any “finishing” plans for it? I am working on a autumn bell that I plan to hang
What a delightful treat! Rather amazing to have someone so talented now creating high QUALITY boxes for we embroidery enthusiasts. So what am I working on? Oh boy, so many! At the moment a large needlepoint portrait, an easy & fun cross stitch skeleton for my son for Halloween, and some petite point lions and tigers – oh my! And do I have a piece in mind for a box! A keepsake box done with initials for a friend, but I haven’t been able to find the right box, crafted with quality, until now!
These boxes look amazing, the craftsmanship and superb timbers used make them first class. I would love to stitch something to go in one of these boxes.
Right now I am working on multiple cross stitch projects, but mostly Village of Hawk Run Hollow. I plan on framing it, but who knows when. On 40 ct it is going to be huge! Hopefully my husband can make a frame or I can find one at a thrift store, otherwise it may just get draped over a small table for viewing…
Thank you for the great giveaway!!
My current project is a crewel valance that will cover a double window in my guest room. It has oriental motifs inspired from an oriental headboard and coral rug. An teal medallion centers the the valance with a large coral peony. Pale pink peach peony blossoms spray out from the center. On the outer edges are two Asian pine needle trees and pagodas. The valance will be finished with a lining and hung over the windows. Carolyn,Freehold
One of the pieces I’m working on at the moment is a monogrammed letter P on black satin using single strand silk. It is based on an idea from a friend of mine who became enamoured with the style after news of the Opus Anglicanum exhibition at the V&A came out. The actual P is being stitched in satin stitch and everything else is being stitched with split stitch. I had not thought what to do with it when finished. She turned hers into a scissor case. Mine will either be framed or put into a box, I think. Still not sure – I think I need to finish it first and then it will tell me what to do with it!
Hello – currently I am working on an Illuminated Name Plate piece designed by Alison Cole – it is a gift for my daughter. I do have several other pieces “on the go” one of which, a small stumpwork piece, will be mounted on a box. I love handmade boxes both the look and the feel. Thanks for the generous opportunity to win one!
I am taking a break from embellishing wool applique, which I have been working on steadily all summer, and am designing and stitching a ribbon embroidered Christmas Bouquet. This will be a sample that I’ll share with a group of lovely women in a beginner’s class at a local quilt shop. Most have never done ribbon work at all, but they have experience with embroidery on wool and know many of the basic stitches. I am not sure how I will frame it or otherwise finish it — I will suggest a number of options for the ladies in class. It would be positively wonderful in a beautiful box — and what a nice way to display it for my class!
I am working on a ‘bear” needlepoint (cross stitch) for my daughter that will be a zipper pouch for middle school!
I’m working on my first crazy quilt & as I’ve just started on the embroidery on the first section, I’m thinking it will be a throw for the back of the couch. The box will be used for all my odds & ends of finished embroidery blocks.
Thanks for this nice give away.
Oops, forgot to answer the question of what I would put in the box. I have a stumpwork project I never finished. I would get it done for the box.
I usually do colourful cross stitch patterns and I am branching out by starting two new techniques – one is freeform shaded black work and the other is a piece of zen embroidery I am learning different techniques for. Daunting but enjoyable.
I have been busy starting with a flurry of classes lately. I have a blackwork
piece, a stumpwork piece and a canvas piece all started and making time for each.
In between , I finished a canvas ornament for the EGA tree in our local library
at Christmas.
The blackwork and canvas pieces I will frame and the stumpwork piece would look
great in a boxtop.
That is one gorgeous box. I have been collecting boxes for years! It would be awesome to add this to my gang and put my Christmas cross stitch piece I’m working now, on it. Oh, then I could store hand made ornaments in it!
I’m currently working on embroidery over felted designs- I plan on either mounting them onto canvas or framing them in a deep shadowbox type frame, whichever would look best.
I just finished a pulled thread project on 32 count linen: Heart’s Delight from Inspirations Magazine Issue 94. The finished measurement is 5 5/8″ square. My husband and I have been discussing how to display it. He would like to mount and frame it, then hang it on the wall. I want to use it. Putting it in one of the beautiful wooden boxes from Mythic Crafts would be a fantastic way of displaying and preserving my handwork! Plus I could store other treasures in the box as well! Thank you for giving us the opportunity to win a beautiful handcrafted box to display our handwork!
Hi! I’m working on what may be my most challenging project yet –
what you would call a magnum opus! – a needle painting of a gulf fritillary butterfly (similar to a monarch) – I was thinking of framing it but oh a box would be perfect! Thank you for off
Oh Mary what a generous offer from Mark, he is such a talented artist I could only dream of having one of his boxes for my embroidery showcase, I would use it to store some of my special threads.
Right now I am working on a design from Trish Burr called Prancer, a beautiful reindeer in the whitework with color style. Wouldn’t he look sassy on the box display! Right now I am thinking of framing it once done!
I am also embroidering a christmas cushion for my sister. It reminds me of the post you had on embroidering fabric that has a flair of doodling or black and white drawing. I am keeping my fingers crossed
Right now, I am working on a cross stitch sampler using Quaker motifs – it is called Rose Quaker Sampler, and is done in shades of soft pink and tan and rose. It is a lovely piece, and I plan to frame it to hang on my wall. I can see using some beautiful stumpwork embroidery to decorate the top of one of those lovely wooden boxes!
I know Mark’s work, having purchased some frames for the boutique where I work, it is fabulous. Now, I am working on a blackwork piece and I would love to own one of his boxes… and well, that is just in time for my birthday. Thanks for doing this .
I am doing a goldwork letter P for a granddaughters 18th. Birthday and would love a box to mount it in. Gail.
Hi! I’m working on what may be my most challenging project yet –
what you might call my magnum opus! – a needle painting of a gulf fritillary butterfly (similar to a monarch) – I was thinking of framing it but oh a box would be perfect! Thank you for the chance to win such a lovely thing.
Magnificent. I rarely do small pieces, but I have a brand new Great-granddaughter, who needs a Treasure Box. I truly would love to win this.
Blessings,
Gloria
Silly me, I forgot to mention that I’m working on a 1 color cattle skull on perforated paper. It’s going to be a gift for my oldest son.
I am presently making my Xmas cards… Blackwork designs this year for most of them but also some fillography…(like string art but with fine threads sewn on cardstock)
Some years ago for my mother’s birthday I had embroidered a peony design around her name on a small piece of linen that I had in my stash but had been wondering how to mount it so that it would not just hang about in a nondescript frame….by pure chance I found a beautiful (unused) rosewood embroidery display box in a charity shop. … the glass opening was just right for the piece & my mum was thrilled…. she used it to keep “important” odds & ends on her dressing table until her death which sadly came all too soon….. I now have the box which still contains some of her “important” things….It will be passed on in the family….
Well, I am working on my first casket. Thanks to you Mary, I enrolled in Tricia Nguyen’s Cabinet of curiosities courses in 2105. In June I started the Harmony with Nature stumpwork course, using Tricia’s instructions to reproduce a casket based on 17th century techniques using the beautiful threads that she has sourced and made available.
I faced my nemesis – needlelace – head-0n and at the weekend I will be starting my stumpwork stag in needlelace – I’m excited and nervous at the same time!
Hi Mary!
I was just showing your blog and Mark Harris site to visiting friends from Seattle on the weekend. And now a giveaway! I am working on three Sue Spargo needle cases for our EGA auction and a sweet crewel work piece for my best friend for Christmas with the thought of putting it on a box top! It’s fate! Love your blog immensely!
I am finishing off a piece of schwalm which would look lovely in a wooden box.
I have also just completed a couple of cross stitch projects, 1. The Gingerbread Village from Country Cottage Needleworks and 2. The Garden Club Series from Blackbird Designs. I still have to decide how to finish them both off.
Next I want to try a piece of stumpwork – So many things to do and never enough time.
I am busy working on a Danish flower cross stitch. It is spring here and the design is bright and light like the season. I have had the kit tucked away for some years and I still love it. The Danish flower thread is lovely to use and each stitch is quite defined. The colours are clear yet muted. I am going to make it into a cushion and still deciding whether to back with flowery cotton or plain linen? Suggestions welcome!
Jenny Mayne
What a treat to see beautiful wood work being carried on! My father was a wonderful woodworker and I just wish he was alive today to create treasures to showcase my embroidery. It’s such a shame to see lovely handwork displayed badly so these beautiful boxes are a lovely option.
Hope this day brings you joy Mary and thanks for all you do for us.
For a while now I’ve been working on Elizabeth Almond’s Sublime Stitches blackwork sampler, and I still have quite a ways to go. As for finishing it, I’m still deciding between framing it, or making a wall hanging as its rather large. I tend to take on projects more for the stitching than the final piece, so finishing is always a bit on the back burner.
Love following your posts, Mary!
At the moment I am completing some blackwork. It is part of a project of “learning” that I am doing with the local U3A (university of the third age – for over 50s). We have been encouraged to experiment with design. So this is totally my work and is a very new experience for me. I’m not yet sure what I will do with the completed article …… I’m thinking maybe the centre of a tablecloth??? I am loving this way of working/learning.
Lesley
I am currently working on a needlepoint piece, but I have not yet decided how I will finish it.
I’m currently working on a table cloth. It’s going slow because it’s a big cloth and my seven month old doesn’t help very well. My finishing plans are to use it in a decorative table.
I’m working on a stumpwork cockatrice, by Alison Cole. It’s part of a series of four mythical animal. I’ve already stitched two of the animals (unicorn and dragon), and once I’ve finished the cockatrice and the fourth animal (gryphon) I’m going to get all four framed in a single frame.
I am working on a 1950’s tablecloth which I bought “accidentally” in an auction lot — accidentally because I hadn’t realised the preprinted tablecloth was there when I bid on the box. I am using stranded cotton and experimenting with shading the large flowers in different blues, using long and short stitch. The leaves have been outlined in chain stitch with satin stitch where they curl over. The tiny scrap of paper stapled to the cloth showed the design worked in oranges, but I am just not an orange gal! The picture is also too small to determine what stitches were originally intended, so there is a whole ‘nuther’ layer of decision making which I have enjoyed. I am pleased with the results so far…
I am currently sewing on seasonal redwork projects that will be finished with a quilted border and displayed on an iron stand next to my fireplace side. In addition, a small saying surrounded by berries and twigs which I will finish with autumn fabric and make into a book cover as a gift for my sister (she journals daily). I am new to your site and am looking forward to many many inspirational projects..just popping around the links has been a joy.
At the moment, I’m stitching a Charles Rennie Mackintosh rose on a Sweete bag. The design is by my wonderful teacher, Jenny Adin-Christie, and involves silk threads, silver threads, silver pearl purl and pearls. It will be made up as a bag as a present for my oldest friend’s 70th birthday.
Mark’s boxes look beautiful and I would love to have one. Thank you both, Mary and Mark, for the chance.
I am working on a piece of crewel embroidery. The subject is a shaded rose with leaves and a stem. It would fit beautifully into the top of those magnificent boxes. My other choice is to have it framed.
I’m working on Jane Nicholas’ Corncockle and Dragonfly stumpwork, from a class I took a couple of years ago and never finished. I was hoping to mount it in a box, so you sharing Mark’s boxes is very timely!
Thank you so much for your wonderful offer! Hope I’m the lucky person who wins this prize. I’m working on Home Sweet Home (very long term project) and a small sampler to hang on a very boring wall in my bathroom. I have a lovely needlepoint piece that I finished in my grand daughter’s favorite colors. I’ve been looking for a box to set it and this would be perfect! It will be the first piece I’ve done for her and she’s turning 14 in a month.
I’m always looking for different ways to finish off pieces, and I love the way a box finishes pieces!
I’m currently working on my RSN silk shading piece. It will be mounted in the traditional way, and I’m hoping to have a collection of all my RSN pieces framed so I can see my development and improvement over time.
Thanks for a great opportunity!
Ohh, what a wonderful giveaway – I was admiring these boxes when you first showed them!
I’m currently working on a large sampler of numerous different alphabets (last year’s Randje per week sampler). It’s all in dark red on cream linen and I am hoping to find a very lovely frame for it, probably in a dark wood, when it’s done – I’m hoping to have it finished in November.
But if I won a box I would probably put it aside to work on something for mounting in it! 😉
OH WOW! I was drooling over these boxes in that article. I really want to leave something of me for my daughters as a keepsake in the form of an embroidery, but although they would treasure it, having it mounted in the lid of that gorgeous box, would also give it a purpose, other than for display. When I saw those boxes, I immediately went to the Mythic Crafts website. Gorgeous boxes one and all.
I also looked around the net to see if I could get something similar in New Zealand, where I live. But nothing comes close.
I’m working on a three dimensional piece with a tree and heather. I have no idea what I’m going to do with it so a box would be awesome!
Funny you mention finishing. I just finished stitching a series of 6 Mill Hill Snowmen and I hope to “finish” them this weekend.
Also on the agenda this weekend is “finishing” a canvas box that is done except for the lining.
Lovely boxes.
At the moment I am crocheting a bedspread. It is cream wool and made with granny squares which I will join when I have made enough. I have calculated I need to make 400 squares! I worked out that if I do one square a day it should be ready in just over a year just in time for next winter here in Australia. So far I have done 60 squares, so I only have 340 to go!! I am really enjoying the challenge.
Wish I could work on one thing at a time but, like you Mary, I have several things going. I am ready to bead a small cross stitched sunflower project that I received as a gift at a wonderful retreat, then there is the name tag with some pulled work, oh, and the biscornu I am making for a friend, there is the wool wall hanging project waiting for the stitching embellishments, and so on. I do finish things but always need time to think through choices as I change my mind on things. So, I work on something else while I think. I just finished putting an embroidered bee on a quilted table topper which is now done and on the table. I took a look at the Mystic Crafts boxes the other day and put them on my Christmas/birthday list. Thanks for sharing your stitching with us. Janet Rock
At the moment I have 5 embroidery projects on the go, and a couple planned to start in the next month or so. A large monogram for the front of a Block Folder; 6 crazy Quilt blocks that I am using as a sampler for a wall hanging; a crazy quilt block for an online design course; a embroidered needle book and pin cushion; and the Lattice Sampler – I just tackled my first Battlement so needed a rest .
I’m embroidering some towels to give away as gifts. The one I simply love says this: If Friends Were Flowers, I’d Pick You……
And of course there are all sorts of beautiful flowers on the towel also. I remember the day when I was young and sassy. I VOWED I would never do any embroidery that was stamped on the fabric. But now that I’m in the last quarter of my life, anything goes! I hope I finish this last towel before I kick the bucket!
The boxes are lovely! I’ve got two main WIPs at the moment. One is a canvas work piece that will be mounted on a box. The other is a huge sampler that will be framed for the wall.
I’m currently working on a hardanger piece with no clear idea how I’ll finish it. It’s using variegated earthtones and an antique gold on green so it would be lovely in a box top.
I don’t often consider how I’ll use the pieces I work on before I stitch them. I guess that makes me more of a process person than a product person.
I just love Mark’ boxes! Like you, I have my hands into many different kinds of embroidery. I am working on a ribbon embroidery and stump work piece with a fairy that will go on a wall. I am also doing some Brazilian and some regular embroidery for a cq patch that could easily go on a box. I love your blog! I learn so many things I was not aware of.
I am currently working on a Christmas cross stitch project and was thinking about finishing it in a round Ornament for hanging on the Christmas tree. I have a floral project planned that would look great in the display box!
How, coincidental, I am working on a birthday plaid for my husband and plan to put it in a box top. These are certainly lovely boxes and my husband’s plaid would work on any of these lovely boxes.
Such a generous give away from Mark! I have two items in the works. One is a surface embroidery of an angel. I changed the wording to MOM because I’m stitching several designs to place in a quilt for Mom. I used the Spell it with Moda to piece I LOVE MOM and will surround it with blocks that depict things my Mom loves. I have a farm scene I’ll put her maiden name on and a modern home with her married name. there are some with roses, a baby (me) design, a post card congratulating her birth. I’ve modified most for her name. I bought fabric with red roses on white or black backgrounds. All the embroideries have DMC 310 red in them to go with the fabric. The other item is a cross stitch that is for a frame and the third will be a smaller Christmas design that could fit a box or very small frame that holds 4 x 6 inches. That’s why I love hand made crafts of any kind-you can change the colors or names to personalize them to what you love.
I am working on a piece for Jamboree that is all beige tones on linen and will be attached to a placard like “sandwich” board. Stitching and crafting together.
I am mexican, but i learned needlecrafts from my scottish maternal grandmother. Right now I am learning Itsmeñan embroidery, which comes from Oaxaca, as a way to learn more about my mexican roots
sorry, forgot to say that I will be using it for clothing
I am currently working on a Quaker sampler by Long Dog. I am stitching it over one on 32 count linen with a beautiful Wildflowers over dyed thread in southwest colors. It’s fun to sort of let the colors lay where they may. I have no current plans for finishing, but it could go on a large box. It’s not too big, perhaps 10×10.
I am working on a cross stitch pattern called “Warm Water Wash” which I plan to frame and hang in my laundry room.
To answer the question, I am working on several things right now. 1) finishing a Crazy Quilt wallhanging (uses lots of stitches and techniques); 2) a cross-stitch Hallowe’en thingy; 3) a Swedish chain stitched table runner; 4) a buttonhole stitch/cutwork tablecloth (a vintage find); 5) a stumpwork Craftsy class and 6) a few other things that I pick up and put down. There are not nearly enough hours in the day!
I always have a small piece of Hardanger working. These are Christmas ornaments but the big project is a table runner in Hardanger for my friend wedding in November.
I went on the Mark’s website and the pieces we’re beyond beautiful. I would love to have one for my very own
I’m currently travelling for 9 weeks so I have a small band sampler with me in one skein of variegated blue. It’s less than 3 inches wide but there is pattern for over a yard in length. I’m not sure that I want to make a bell pull of those dimensions, so I think I will split it in two and frame it side by side, slightly stepped.
Catherine from New Zealand
PS I’m a lacemaker and would love a box to put some lace initials on as a special birthday gift
I am currently designing a piece of hardanger in memory of one of my students who lost her battle with cancer a little over a year ago. It will be a Christmas gift to my hardanger students this year. I hadn’t decided whether to cut it out as a doily or mount it on a box. If I was fortunate enough to win the give away, I would have my final answer.
By the way, the boxes look absolutely incredible. Over the years, I have mounted many of my needlework pieces on boxes. They are always well received. Thank you once again for this wonderful opportunity.
I have recently been working on embroidered pillowcases (mostly pre-printed ones) but my next project will be a self designed monogrammed pillowcase (satin stitch) for each of my granddaughters.
I call these treasure chests. One of most beautiful ways to display or gift one’s treasured needlework.
Oh my goodness Mary, this is timely! I’m working on a medieval tapestry (to be hung, somehow), a huge Canada 150 stumpwork bouquet (that’s going to need a creative frame solution), but most importantly…a wedding memorial piece that *needs a box* to be mounted in!
Fingers crossed!!
I am currently working on a table cloth I found while going through my Mother’s possessions after she passed in 2014. I’ve been working on it off and on for three years – it is being stitched in satin and stem stitch and in one color floss. It will be beautiful on our dining table and bring wonderful memories of a wonderful Mother.
Would love to do the box top embroidery. I have a few treasures from my grandma to fill it up with. Thanks for the opportunity!
Am working on a Stumpwork Embroidery designed and taught by Jane Nicholas from Australia. My EGA chapter was fortunate enough to have her visit and teach on her way to EGA National Seminar. It will be mounted in a shadow box type frame.
I’m working on an initial for my new granddaughter! I just love all your articles and free lettering templates. It inspired me to do an heirloom piece for her to treasure for years to come. I hadn’t thought about how to finish it off. Pillow, wall hanging?
But I think the beautiful box is my answer!
Thank you for your inspiring newsletters and this opportunity for a free give away.
Among the many projects I am working on, the two major ones right now are a goldwork project from my EGA chapter and a reproduction of a late 18th century chair cushion, which I work on primarily at 1770 reenactments.
Unlike most of most of my work which I finish as soft pieces (no frame, sort of unquilted small wall quilts as they are not displayed and this is an easier way to store them and bring them to embroidery demonstrations) these two pieces will be framed.
I am guessing the goldwork will need to be matted as I have been leaving it in the hoop I am using and I am sure I will not be able to get the marks from it out. While I had planned on framing it and putting it on the wall -either in our studio or along the staircase, it would look great on a box.
The chair cushion when finished – sometime far in the future as I work on it as a demonstration – will end up framed in a period looking frame and will be displayed in our living room with other similar works.
I’m currently working on an Alison Cole butterfly and will either frame it or put it on a box
There’s a space on our wall, just waiting for me to finish the sampler based on Quaker school work. Mid denim-blue on natural linen. Odd to be working in one colour, but the design is fun. Hit the halfway mark yesterday. Progress.
I’m currently working on a couple of Elizabethan pieces – lots of gold, silk and unusual stitches. The monogram would look fantastic in one of these beautiful boxes.
Today I have been cross stitching a design by Just Nans. In the wings and waiting for more work is the Home Sweet Home sewing box. Next in line is a stump work, waiting for a box to fit. Mark seems to have something very suitable.
Thanks for this opportunity
I am currently working on a piece call Chatterbox. The pattern is in the needlework magazine “Inspirations. When I am finished it will be a handy orts pot, or what is a bag to fill with scraps of threads.
Currently I am working on some Brazilian Embroidery. Usually I have them framed but the thought of such a beautiful box to mount it on is exciting.
Hi Mary,
Many thanks to you and Mark for making this lovely treasure box available. I have just finished a surface embroidery on silk which was to be an album cover, but I miss measured and had to turn it into a top for a box, I am now starting another one for my dear friends 60th birthday and this box would be perfect.
Many thanks
Judy
I’ve been working on some 17th century style stump work lately. The very sort of thing usually mounted on boxes.
Mary, read your review and these boxes are so beautiful. There is nothing more beautiful than an item made by hand, especially since the maker pays such attention to detail. What a treasure.
I’m working on an embroidery piece depicting a Nativity scene. It is designed by a French company, Un Chat dans l’aiguille. Hopefully by Christmas it will be finished, and I’ll give it to my granddaughter. It wouldn’t work displayed in one of the beautiful Mystic Crafts boxes but I’m sure I could find a project in my stash that would! Thank you Mary, and Mark, for this opportunity.
Sheila Wilkie
Seattle, WA
I am currently working on a cross stitch of a bear pulling his sled with his Christmas tree on top. I had planned to frame it for a Christmas gift, but it might fit in the square box.. If not, I will find something special to put in any of the boxes. His work is so beautiful.
I am currently working one of Trish Burr’s whitework with colour animals. I love her designs, especially the color schemes. They are brilliant. I’m making this specific piece for my friend’s birthday. It will be mounted on a tote that she can use for papers that need grading.
I will probably start another whitework with color design after this one and it would be lovely to put that one on a box. I always have too much small stuff on my desk.
I am currently working on a bell pull that has some hardanger in it. I have had these lovely brass bell pull hangers for years and decided it was finally time to make something to hang in between them.
Ohhh, I am so excited about this giveaway, thank you so much for the chance to win! I can think of several ideas to put on one of these gorgeous boxes!
Currently I am working on two projects. One is a cross stitch Halloween piece, made on a piece of 18 count aida fabric that I dyed green, and am now doing a haunted house and spooky stuff that will eventually be framed.
The other project is an embroidery done on 28 count oatmeal linen. It is a small sampler, with a house as the focal point, and it will eventually hang on my door, with bells on the bottom to make a cheery sound whenever the door is opened.
Have a great weekend!
At the moment my longterm project is a hand embroidered quilt. But I am embroidering a pattern that i have had for many years from an old embroidery book. Choosing my own colours and stitches. This will be framed and hang on the wall when we get a new house. Love a box to put an embroidery in as at the moment we live in a caravan and space is limited. Thanks to you both for the giveaway.
I read your article about the wonderful wooden boxes made by Mark Harris and at the time thought how perfect one would be to showcase the piece of embroidery I am currently working on. It is a piece of Encrustation heavily embroidered with many raised shapes and hundreds of French Knots. I intended to frame it to hang on the wall but one of Mark’s boxes would be the perfect setting. My Grandfather was a talented wood craftsman and I have several of his inlaid boxes. To win a box made so beautifully by Mark would thrill me to pieces and it would take pride of place in my house along with my Grandfather’s treasures.
What a generous offer from Mark – the box is just beautiful.
Presently I am at the tail end of finishing a birth sampler; it is the Heirloom Birth Sampler from Victoria Sampler. I so loved working on this piece which had so many different embroidery stiches – satin, eyelets, hemstitching, hardanger and ribbon embroidery.
When finished, this piece will be framed and be a 1st birthday gift for my granddaughter. I’ve been really enjoying the hardanger part of this piece and think a smaller version would look lovely in Mark’s box.
Oh my! I have the perfect little piece to put in one of these boxes!
I’m currently working on 3 dimensional embroidery pieces from classes I took at EGA National last month, one is a butterfly stitched on silk organza that will be framed, one is s multimedia compact, and the last is a dogwood flower that will be a brooch. I just finished a Crewelwork Company piece called The Chelsea Sampler that I haven’t decided how to finish yet!
I would love a box like this for my current project, which is a needle lace Rockpool incorporating shells
Cross stitch which will be framed.
I am currently working on Silk Ribbon Embroidery of a cottage in which I painted the background with watercolors. I plan on using it as a wall hanging, but if I win the box it will surely go there!
I am working on a piece of stumpwork which would fit so well into one of Marks beautifully crafted boxes, I have perused his web site extensively and am in love with his work. Thank you both for the opportunity
I’m adding some floral embroidery with Pearl cotton on a jean jacket for my granddaughter. Thanks for the giveaway!
Hugs,
Gina
Hello Mary,
What a wonderful give-a-way! I am currently working on a Japanese Embroidery piece; however, I plan to start a goldwork piece soon that would fit perfect in one of Mark’s boxes!
Thanks, Mary!
At the moment I am working on a small crazy quilt block. It would be perfect showcased on the cover of one of those beautiful boxes. this is an exciting give away.
I am not currently doing any embroidery. I am finishing some quilts. Those beautiful boxes inspire me to get back to embroidery projects. Thank you for your inspiration and knowledge.
I am working on the restoration of a beautiful chasuble, embroidered with silk shading and goldwork, which is estimated to have been done in the 1920’s. It won’t fit in the box…but I have a monogram in the works that would! What a generous give-away offer – thank you so much for the opportunity.
I actually have a REALLY small project in the works right now. I’m working a Cross stitch bookmark. It will be for my mother, as most of my projects are in the end. She loves everything I make and it makes me happy to make her smile.
Currently I am finishing two pieces of embroidery. One incorporates monograms and the other is a variety of flowers. The monogram piece is destined to be incorporated into a medium size needle book. The flower piece will become a doll dress.
I am working on a blackwork piece – all the compensating at the edges is driving me insane. At this stage I think I am going to frame it, but my other thought was to turn it into a journal cover.
Right now I am working on a basket full of hand embroidered and hand knit items for my granddaughter to take to her apartment at university next fall. I have finished several things but I’m simultaneously embroidering a dish towel and a luncheon cloth at this moment. A labor of love! Maryann
What a lovely box. I’d love to win this keepsake box! Thanks.
Hi there! I am currently stitching the ‘Be Ye Thankful’ that you previously shared as a free pattern. I have used maroon floss for the ‘Be Ye Thankful words, stitched with the backstitch. For the dental-style border, I am using a harvest orange shade of floss with the stem stitch. I haven’t decided on the color(s) or stitch to use for the acorn corners. All this is being stitched on a piece of beige reclaimed cotton that I backed with iron-on stablizer. I plan to machine stitch the finished piece to a plain dish towel and give it to my best girl friend. Her birthday is in October so while the towel is going to just be a pre-Thanksgiving friend gift (and yes, it will definitely be completed), if I win the box, I will choose one that she would like because I think she’d be delighted with such a beautifully crafted keepsake box.
I have been collecting supplies for a while for Hazel Blomkamps projects. Quite a while lol. But life, the weather, and the Navy keep disrupting my plans to take a little time to get started. Soon I hope!
Hi,
I’m currently working on our (Canterbury Embroiderers) Guild 50th Anniversary Hussif. I have completed the embroidery – Assissi and Blackwork – and am up to the assembling stage. Though to go with it I am also making a scissor keeper and fob echoing the embroidery patterns on the Hussif.
I am also a lacemaker and I am sure one of those boxes would also be lovely and suitable for displaying a piece of lace.
Currently working on an Elsa Williams kit, Jack in the Pulpit.
I am working on shadow embroidery motifs in 3 inch squares to use in a cathedral windows coverlet. I don’t know how many I will need for a lap sized coverlet. A lot.
Currently I’m working on a small piece of cross stitch that will be framed when it’s finished. As of next week I’ll be back together with my friends at our Canadian Embroiderer’s Guild – London (Canada). I will be taking (and teaching) several different classes including projects such as molas, specialty stitch samplers, crazy quilting and blackwork.
I love the box. I’m currently working on a baby blanket sampler that will be given to my granddaughter.
Ida
Such beautiful boxes. I would absolutely love to own one and have the ideal stitched piece.
It’s an Old Fashioned Needlepoint Santa on 40ct. Silk.
Thanks Mary for offering this beautiful gift.
Teri
Just finished graduating from Gail Harker’s design courses. Now I am working on developing some stitch designs with a feel of an illuminated manuscript. Just in the designing stage but I’m developing it as a wall hanging for my church.
I am working on a guild challenge that is to have a clock, modern quilting and crazy quilting. I am doing beads, mirror, and charms as well as embroidery.
Right now I am working on a UFO also known as an unfinished object. It is an appliqué wall hanging/quilt. It is my first and never finished appliqué begun at least twenty years ago. Lost and forgotten, I found it during the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. It looked plain and sad, so I am in the process of jazzing it up with fancy stitches, names dates and of course Harvey!
I am working on Jenny Adin Christie’s Owl and Pussycat for my first grandchild who was born in June. I did a 3 day course with Jenny at Beating Around the Bush and purchased the frame so I will hang it on the nursery wall.
I am embroidering block 11 out of 12 for a quilt. It is a pattern from the 1930’s with appliqued flowers and the embroidery is bluebirds and baskets, I can’t wait to have it all done so I can sew the blocks together and begin hand quilting it.
The boxes are amazing! I would love to finish one of my other embroideries that way. Thanks for the chance!
I am honing my opus anglicanum skills, and they do need a little more tweaking! But I think something based on an illuminated manuscript would go well in one of tbese boxes.
Hi Mary,
At the moment I am working on a smallish crewel embroidery, a kit that I have had for several years. I intend to either mount it in a box cover, or perhaps a book cover. Not really certain yet. Your stitch tutorials have been invaluable for any of the stitches that I needed to learn–thank you very much for all your helpful advice. Best wishes.
I am currently working on teaching students beginning embroidery. We are working on just stem stitches. The designs we have chosen are houses — the first being the framework of their own house. I am hoping they will finish at least four of them which will then be framed. Thank you for the opportunity to enter this give-a-way.
Currently working on some mongraming some pillowcases for Christmas gifts. I am not sure what I would place in the box.Very lovely..Possible a mongram letter.Many thanks for the give a way.
Stitching a drawn and pulled thread sampler that could be made into a little sachet bag but I have other embroideries that would look fabulous mounted in the wooden box.
Very nice! I would love to win one!
Right now I’m working on Phase 1 of my Japanese Embroidery course. I plan to frame and hang it.
I just finished a stumpwork project by Jane Nicholas and I can’t wait to frame it!
I am currently working on some samples of Brazilian Embroidery. These will go into a binder.
Would love one of these beautiful boxes.
I have just received one of Mark’s beautiful slate frames and cannot speak highly enough of his beautiful workmanship. Oh how I would love to own one of his glorious boxes as well. Thank you Mary and Mark for a great give-away
Oops, pressed ‘send’ before finishing. So many options, so many projects. The one I most like is my own design of a slightly raised moth. I think it would look beautiful on the wood of the box.
I am currently completing a beautiful hand stitched and beaded dragon fly on hand dyed silk. I feel that the beauty of this will be further enhanced displayed on one of these exquisite boxes.
I am so happy to have found this site! I am currently working on a piece of embroidery of several pairs of Dutch wooden clogs that will be included in a art quilt inspired by my recent trip to the Netherlands.
Sure hope I win that beautiful box!!
Thanks for the lovely giveaway. I am working on a cross stitch ornament and I do have plans for attending because I have made one before.
I am currently working on a Monogram from Mary Corbett learning various stitches in the process. My current plans are to place the finished product in a shadow box.
I am doing some Halloween cross stitch! I enjoy doing “smalls” and the boxes are beautiful and would be perfect for a finish!
I have just finished a stitch sampler. It is just the right size to make into a book mark. I like geometric designs, or bargello, as a box top.
I have so many projects going right now that I can barely keep track of it all 🙂 I have ornaments I’m making for Christmas, pictures that will eventually need framing, pillows that will have to be sewn up and some I just don’t have any idea what to do with once finished. I had never thought of a “box”. What a wonderful way to display a handmade heirloom. So many possibilities….that extra something special for a wedding or a keepsake box for a newborn. My mind is reeling!!!
I am working on aida banded tea towels using assisi patterns. The tea towels are for my book club ladies. I am also working on an assisi monogram for my daughter and would go nicely on the lid of a box!
I am currently preparing bridal gifts for my daughter’s wedding. Everything white using monograms , small childhood portrait, and needle art of the bride and groom. I have six months to complete these projects. The wooden box would make a beautiful display piece. Thanks for the chance to win !!
Beth
I love your work and use of colour. I am working on a decorative pillow done in cross stitch. I chose colours that were pulled from my duvet cover. I debated a pattern with flowers but decided on doing a celtic design as the duvet is flowers. I’m using dmc 792,3845,3850,3886.
I’m not as daring as you to make up my own designs but will experiment with colour and thread.
I am currently working on an embroidered pillow of a Russian stacking doll. But, I have a hummingbird surface embroidery lined up next that would look gorgeous in one of these boxes. Love your page and tell all my friends about it.
What a wonderful, generous gift Mary and Mark. I am working on small Trish Burr designs for Christmas gifts. So far I’ve been putting them in glass paperweights. I’d gladly mount one in a fabulous wooden box 🙂
I am currently working on a blackwork project that will be framed once it is done. After this project, I’m going back to working on a hardanger doily that is well, a doily. 🙂
Thanks!!
I am currently working on several things but most urgent is a birthday gift for my daughter using Mary’s flowering alphabet pattern for M. This box would just be perfect to hold this piece for her 21st Birthday. I’m’ also working on a Dominican Third Order Shield piece that could be a wall hanging but would also be beautiful in a mystic box. Love your website Mary!
I am currently working on a whitework piece called White Iris, an EGA group correspondence course. I will probably use it as a wall hanging.
I love samplers and doing small projects of traditional white work and canvas work. I will be doing a workshop in Lefkara which would look wonderful in one of these beautiful boxes.
Although I have been doing counted cross stitch for years, your website has inspired me to branch out and learn surface embroidery and canvas work. I am currently practicing various outline stitches so that I can embroider a monogram. This box would be perfect for displaying that piece!
I completed a stumpwork from Jane Nicholas book (the one inspire by persian tiles) that fit perfectly on the box. Currently I am working on a cross stitch because my daugther want me to do this one for her new home.
I’m working on several things at once – as usual! – but specifically am trying to get finished a stumpwork squirrel piece designed by my lovely tutor friend Susan Casson-Porter (she of Modern Crewel fame!). Susie’s designs are always gorgeous, and this one is a workshop piece I started with her at Koala Convention in July. The squirrel has a turkey stitch bushy tail that is using up tons of thread, and I have had to stitch 19 detached green ivy leaves. I’m nearly finished – 2 leaves and the tail to finish, then there is the cutting out of the leaves and attaching all the elements to the background.
Ooops and I forgot to say, this piece will likely be framed – it’s too large to fit in to a box. I do enjoy stitching smaller pieces too, and have mounted stumpwork and Brazilian on to boxes over the years.
I am currently finishing “The Mermaid’s Sea Chest” designed by Lauren Sauer that I started in a class ten years ago. It is a constructed sea chest, natural linen outside, embroidered with appropriate “chest” design, “Over one” designs on each end, and lined with pink linen with a saying on the bottom and embroidered pockets on all sides. It will be a gorgeous piece when I am done. I am losing my eyesight, so have to work under the super magnifying “eye” on my light. Switching to canvas work and Hardanger when I am done. Would love the box for a Lizzie Kate saying for my great granddaughter. Thanks for all you teach us.
What a beautiful give away! Thank you!
Last month I worked on the Silk Shading module as part of the Certificate Program at the Royal School of Needlework. Today I learned that I had successfully completed the module (a silk shaded pansy). I know it would look just lovely in one of these stunning boxes!
Thank you again!
What an excellent “carrot” to propel a person to the finish line if there is a chance of a gorgeous box in which to display the completed embroidery! Always one to bite off more than she can chew, I am currently working on many projects from brilliant tutors in Goldwork, Elizabethan, stumpwork, crewel work, Japanese, Chinese, thread painting, as well as trying my own hand at designing just for fun! The piece that would enhance the glorious craftsmanship from Mark’s hands, would be Alison Cole’s Goldwork butterfly. Thank you Mary and Mark for the opportunity to dream of a beautiful finishing to the work. Dorothy.
I’m working on a Threedles piece that may fit into one of the box tops, which I would love. Also doing a crosstitch sampler. Thank you for the chance to win one of these treasures. Amy F.
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I am working on a Trish Burr little bird, thread painted.
It would be so nice in one of Marks boxes! Swoon!
I am following him on Facebook, his workmanship is incredible!
Thanks! Mary!
Hope you are feeling well!
Nora G
I’m currently working on a small wall hanging with 6 individual blocks with primitive wool flower motifs. I am using variations of 5 basic embroidery stitches (stem, chain, knots, backstitch, and blanket stitch) to enhance the wool motifs. Love your website!
Lovely box! I am working on a 50th anniversary cross stitch pattern for my parents that features roses and will be framed and given to them a month from now! After that I want to get a smaller one done to hang in their RV.
My current project is a small embroidery embellished wool appliqué wall hanging of a classy cat done in my own style.
This cat wouldn’t fit into one of the boxes but I would love to make another cat for a boxtop.
I am currently working on a small piece of surface embroidery that will be my contribution to a
Christmas ornament exchange in my stitching group. I am trying to incorporate as many different
textures and stitches as possible, one of which is short and long. Another project, a Tanya Berlin bluebird,
would look great in one of Mark Harris’s boxes!
I’m currently working on a series of stitcheries designed by Rosey Dekker using variegated threads by Cottage Garden Threads. One on these stitcheries would look lovely framed on top of one of these gorgeous boxes.
At the moment I’m working on several projects depending on where and time of day. During the afternoon, I’m in the process of attaching beads to The Sweetheart Tree “Blackberries on Gingham” biscornu; in the evenings in front of TV, I’m stitching biscornus for Christmas presents for stitching pals and when I’m at a stitching group, I’m stitching “Shepherds” by Diane Arthurs. I’ve already completed her “Three Kings” and “Bethlehem”.
I am currently working on a 11X12 wall hanging that will be framed and (hopefully) given as a Christmas present. However, that was my goal last year as well…
The smaller projects on the horizon are prayer book covers. Thanks for the inspiration, Mary!
Claudia
I am working on a surface embroidery kit and I may frame it when I’m finished since it is my first embroidery piece.
I would love to work a stumpwork piece for one of these boxes. Right now I am working a cross stitch Christmas piece with sheep. It will be framed.
Thank you for this give-away – it’s very generous.
At the moment I am working on Kathy’s reproduction of a scene from the Bayeux Tapestry which (if I ever finish it) will probably hang on a wall. It would however be no trouble to make something appropriate for a wooden box 🙂
What a fantastic wooden box. Right now I am working on a Christmas cross stitch for a gift. It will hopefully be placed on a wall for display each holiday season!
~Gin K.~
I am currently working on an owl beaded cross stitch. I am planning on making it into an ornament.
I am currently making fabric books. My daughter gave me a gift of a number of “cigarette silks”, little embroidered or painted silks that were given away with packets of cigs. over 100 yrs ago and they have become collectables. All the embroidered flowers have been turned into a linen book using these little silks as a centre piece with masses of hand embroidery around them. One is called “Little book of Flowers” With the back page being sewn a story about them. The painted art work is now being done with frames embroidered in silk thread . Its a very enjoyable project and seems a lovely way to preserve these little treasures. Thank you Mary, this little box would be a beautiful addition to my collection to keep the books.
Hi! I’m currently working on a piece of Hardanger. I plan to finish it as a tablerunner. I hope to sew several different colored ‘under-runners’ that will show through the open cutwork areas. The box is truly a work of art!
Working on JZC Design’s Christmas Light Santa and Candy Swirl Santa as ornaments for my grandbabies – so cute
I’m working on a Scarlet Quince cross stitch pattern while I wait for supplies for a Rosework dragon embroidery. When I eventually get them done they will be framed.
Hi, Mary. My thanks to both you and Mark for this amazing give-away! And thank you, too, for telling us about Mark’s handiwork and where to buy it.
My first love is crewel embroidery, but I’m currently working on a small, surface embroidery using cotton floss. It’s a practice piece in long and short stitch, soft shading. If it turns out well, I plan to mount it in the top of a round keepsake box and use it as a gift. Beth F
What lovely boxes. I am working on a piece of gold work that would fit beautifully. I love well done woodwork. I ave a quilt rack and a tray made from cherry by a friend of my late sister’s. They feel like silk and I treasure them so this box would me cherished.
I’m working on a goldwork butterfly that I think would fit beautifully on this gorgeous box. In addition I’m working on a silk surface embroidery of elizabethan flowers (will be a frame), a canvas elephant (will be framed)and a drawn thread white work lily (if things don’t improve it looks like will be practice). I don’t get bored, but it takes a long time to finish anything! Love your blog!!! Thanks for the inspiration!
I am working on Toni Gerdes Autumn 3-Ways and will finish it as a picture. Earlier this year I finished stitching an EGA chapter Norweave project that would look wonderful in a box. Thanks for the give-away.
I am working on a Christmas table runner. It is from a kit, so the edges are already finished. It is a combination of simple embroidery stitches and cross-stitching. I have a finished embroidery piece that would work beautifully in that box.
I am currently learning ( or trying to learn and play with) eco dying of fabric and papers. I want to use the new images that appear from dying to create with needle and thread a small picture/ collage /or whatever happens to a multi media piece of work. This I will frame in some way. Again it depends on the out come of what “happens”. The element of surprise, if you will.
Have to say this web site is most helpful for someone who is trying to learn by reading and tutorials…..no local classes available. Trial and error…..an adventure for sure. Thanks.
I Love Boxes of all kinds, lots of places to store little treasures. I’m working on a block each month challenge on CQI but got bogged down a couple months ago. Using pink shades for blocks with lots of buttons/lace/charms for embellishment. Originally intended to be representative of each month (Feb. hearts, Oct. fall, etc.)
I am presently working on surface embroidery, still learning all the different stitches and so on. I am embroidering a bird and it is to hang on a wall in my bedroom as a decoration, one of a collection of my favorite birds.
Well, I am currently working on a gold work project from Alison Cole. I am not positive how I will finish it yet, but a box would be a good plan.
Have not yet started anew project but just finished embroidery of 200 plus cherry blossoms on a quilt.
Just got back from American Needlepoint Convention in California. I am working on a piece from a class I took from Lois Kerisner. A great geometric. Plan to put it into a picture with magnet behind it. Stitch 5 more pieces and will be able to change the design around!!!!.Something new for me.the other class I took is a Halloween piece that will fit great into one of those great boxes!!
Thank you Mary and Dave for the giveaway.
I currently have some hardanger ornaments or our Christmas Tree. But I can always find something new for a box. 😀
I would love to do a needle painting flower or bird for my mother and frame it for her using the box. Thanks _ Kim
I’m currently working on a set of blackwork cuffs and collar to pop onto the smocked shirt I’ve just finished.
I’m working on a label to sew inside my daughter’s wedding dress. It’s a free style design that we came up with together. They’re getting married on the 28th and I expect to have it done over the weekend.
My current major project is a Japanese Bead Embroidery purse. I’m only three years in, but should have it done this month!
Thanks for the chance to win a lovely box! I just started a project with cotton floss, it will be a wreath that I hope to frame and hang in my bedroom.
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I am currently working with the Kansan Couture hook in a night dress for a luxury pret a porter brand that I freelance for.
The fabric is silk with cotton thread and lace appliqué.
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I’m just making embroidered dish towels right now … so that is easy to know how to finish!
Wanna win for my b’day today.
I do Brazilian embroidery and he certainly makes beautiful boxes. Thank you both for the giveaway.
One of the many things I am working on are counted cross stitch “birthday houses” for the ladies in our family. I have three finished and the last one half way there. I want to frame each one and give to each daughter and daughter-in-law on their birthdays. (But they would also be beautiful in a hand made box.)
I prefer counted work, on linen or canvas. Currently working on a pulled thread hand towel which will be hung in my spare bedroom.
I’m working on a Sue Spargo project with butterflies. The box is beautiful!
Thank you for the article as I must confess I didn’t know about Mark or Mystic Crafts until I read your piece.
I am currently working on a 17th century style stumpwork box. I’m all about boxes right now, so am tickled about this giveaway! In fact, I recently purchased one of Mark’s beautiful slate frames, so I know the quality will be beyond compare! I can only imagine how lovely one of his boxes must be.
I am currently practicing hand embroidered monograming because IhVe been tasked with the job of hand embroidering my future DIL initials, using your suggested floche floss in blue, onto her great grandmothers handkerchief. My future DIL will carry it with her as she walks down the aisle. Seeing this box made me think about mounting it on the lid after the wedding.
Thank you for the opportunity to win such a beautiful box…and for the education I have received reading your newsletter and blog.
I’m switching between two current projects. One is a cross stitch-along that will be an enormous 24 squares of classic Nintendo games that I’m planning on making into a wall hanging. The other is a hand embroidery that I’m trying to do for our 15 wedding anniversary that I designed which is very silly and isn’t going well. Being able to put it in one of those boxes would be perfect and totally save it! Thanks for doing this!
Im doing embroidery on dress..especially girls dresses…i love embroidery.
I’m always looking for ways to display hand embroidery and the hand crafted boxes seem like a superb answer. As a teacher I’m certain many of my students will be interested in this unique way to show off their expertise and also may want to use the boxes for embroidery gifts. Currently I’m working on several wool embroidery projects and patterns.
Mark’s work is beautiful! I’m working on an elizabethan style surface embroidery design that I’ve adapted to have New Zealand plants. I don’t have a plan for mounting it yet.
Only one project hmmmmm? Which one is the question. I have two quilts that I am working on. One is a navity quilt, and one is a family quilt. I have compled a needlepoint that I’m making a crazy quilt border for, and I will have it framed. I admired the boxes when I saw them earlier this week.
At present I have 3 projects on the go. The first is a Quaker style medallion sampler in cross stitch, which will be framed. The second is also a sampler but is a row by row, with each row a different embroidery stitch. I am doing this one in order to learn some new to me stitches. This will probably be framed. The third project is crazy patch blocks for a quilt. As I have never done crazy patch before I am being taken right out of my comfort zone!
I am pregnant and due a few days before the Annunciation. So, right now, I making an Annunciation scene with the Blessed Mother and St Gabriel the Archangel for the little one to treasure. Maybe frame it? Maybe make a baby blankie? Maybe a pillow for when baby is a little older? Don’t know yet! But, my-o-my would this box be a beautiful way to mount the scene, and definitely something for baby to treasure for life… especially if it’s a girl!
Love your blog!!! 🙂
Oh my goodness, those boxes are incredible. I have some small embroidered pieces that would look lovely with any of the boxes. Right now I am working on a wool and flannel 12 block quilt. Each block is embellished with embroidery and maybe some beads. The background flannel block is dark blue and the wools are bright and jewel tones.
I am currently working on two embroidery projects. The first is a Block of the month wool applique with lots of embellishment. It is going to be a wall hanging. The second project is Crazy Quilt embroidery. I am doing an on-line class to learn the techniques. I am planning on making a fabric book with my samples. I would love to win this beautiful box!
What an exciting and lovely giveaway. These boxes are beautiful! I just finished a pillowcase for my granddaughter and am about to start a couple of redwork pillow shams. I am having trouble finding transfers of the pattern I want to use. I’m looking for a pretty ‘good night’ and ‘good morning’ pattern.
Such a beautiful combination of craftsmanship and artistry. How I would cherish one.
I am currently working on embroidering Dresden plates that will be part of a quilt for my sister’s Christmas gift.
Dreaming of what I could stitch for that beautiful box 🙂
My newest project is a large hardanger table centerpiece, that has flowers all along the edge. I found gorgeous dark blue fabric and silver thread to create a nice contrast. I’m hoping to have it complete by Christmas for my grandma that taught me embroidery.
My newest embroidery project is hand-embroidered greeting cards. It is great fun & they are beautiful! It would be neat to get a box & insert one of the cards in the top!
Such gorgeous boxes and would surely love to win one! Thank you Mark and Mary for the chance to win! As always, I have several projects going on at once. I work on one, skip to another, then to another – sounds crazy, but it works for me. I have one rather large Redwork Christmas piece ongoing, a Blackwork Thanksgiving piece ongoing and at least two wool applique pieces that I am working on as well that has lots of embroidery stitches on it. So, I am never bored! LOL!
Thanks again –
Barbara in TN
Working on some samples of initials. Was going to us to mark some linens. Could be put on a box. Love mystic’s work, lovely.
My current embroidery project is part embroidery, part quilting project. I have finished a group of 20 redwork flower baskets, and the quilt that incorporates them is almost complete, just need to add one more border before quilting.
The boxes are beautiful!
Emma
I am working on a piece designed by Margaret Kinsey. I took her class at EGA National in Asheville, NC in August. It is a goldwork piece called “Pathways” It is stretching my skills! I plan to frame it, but it would look LOVELY in that box top!!
Lots of pieces that are crying out to be finished and mounted in one of those glorious boxes . At the moment I am trying to finally finish a hussif from a workshop using linen stitches done with Alison Snepp an embroiderer par excellence who really challenges you and has one working beyond what you thought you could do . Lots of fun !!! I really think one of Jane Nicholas’ stumpwork bugs would be rather fabulous on a lovely box. I can feel another workshop coming up . Many thanks to you Mary and Mark at Mythic Crafts for the opportunity for someone to win a box.
Chris M NSW Aust
Wow! What a wonderful and generous give-away! Thank you both!!! I’m working on a large cross stitch Christmas stocking that I’ll line and eventually fill at Christmas time.
Hi! What fun!
I am working on a Christmas Stocking for my soon to be daughter in law. The kit I am using is vintage. I found it online. It is a muslin background with a white Angel with wings and a flowing gown. I generally like the stitches they have suggested but some I am not in love with. I plan to not only add some color but also some of the fun stitches you have taught on your website. I’m fairly new to embroidery so I look forward to experimenting.
I am embroidering a witch for Halloween. It will be incorporated into a table runner.
This is a very generous gift from Mark Harris. His boxes are beautiful and to give one away? How very nice of him!
I currently have 3 projects in process. One is a set of 6 hand embroidery & applique panels on muslin which will be part of a quilt. The second is a counted cross-stitch on linen which will be the the panel on a “huswif” and needlebook. The third is a counted cross-stitch on Aida of Jane Austen from a sketch by her sister – it would look lovely on a wooden box.
I am working on an embroidered animal that will be 3d when it’s done!
I’m working on a simple design of daisy stitch flowers in a field. There are two sets on opposite ends of a 18inch x 12inch piece of linen. It will be fastened on a square hand basket, with the centre of the linen tied to the handles. I’m a historical interpreter and the cover will hide the modern things in my basket.
Part of my time as an interpreter is teaching embroidery.
How wonderful of Mark Harris to donate one of his beautiful boxes to you and for you to pass along this opportunity to your readers. I am currently finishing up a small needlepoint custom designed stitch and zip purse utilizing an embroidery stitch that truly saved the project.
I came across your blog and your detailed tutorials when I was searching for the right stitch to complete the project. (heavy chain stitch) I enjoyed blending the two techniques and look forward to your informative columns.
PS-I have two projects in my stash that would look lovely mounted within one of these beautiful boxes. Both sre small-one iz a detailed bumblebee. The other a single chrysanthemum. Gerry
I’ve been working on a gold work and silk rose design inspired by your design and instructions. This is my first project using these techniques. It is for a favor for a friend of mine to wear when doing rapier tournaments (i.e. The 3 Musketeers). I have other projects in the works as well. The embroidery boxes are lovely and would call for a special project. Thanks for all the great tips!
I’m working on an Easter canvaswork piece. I will probably frame this one to display on the wall for spring/Easter. However, I do like the reminder to think about alternatives to framing every piece of finished needlework — I need to remember to do something different like a box insert! Thanks for the reminder!
What style of embroidery are you working on at the moment, and do you have any “finishing” plans for it?
I just finished a Christmas mystery project. I will probably have it framed to hang on the wall. I have a finished initial that would fit the wooden box beautifully.
I seem to have so many projects on the go that I don’t know which to tell you about. I have loved doing an abstract peacock, but it has come to a sudden halt when I was overcome with illness. However, I believe that I will soon be stitching again!
Whether I win a box or not, I would like to say that they are exquisite, and any embroidery would look lovely in it.
Thanks for your kind and ladylike website, Mary. It has brought me many hours of joy.
I am working on a canvaswork piece, First Snow. It is all white except for a red/brown maple leaf. I plan to mount it in a box as a wedding present for a cousin who just get married. Winning this box would be perfect!
I just took a class in stumpwork and goldwork from Alison Cole, making he r “Wisteria” design. It will take me a w while to finish it, and then I’ll frame it. I’m also working on a Lorna Bateman pincushion, but I think that design might fit very nicely into the top of one of Mark’s boxes!
The boxes are beautiful!
I’m currently working on a cross stitch design to be donated to a person making quilts for the Orlando Pulse shooting victims and first responders.
The next piece I have ready to go is also crossstitch and I am planning it as a bell pull.
I have been playing with felt and embroidery to make some heart shaped tooth fairy bags. The front of the heart is decorative and I put a small pouch at the back to put the tooth in. It can be hung on a child’s doorknob. They are fun and quick to do and give me a chance to play with stitches and color.
The boxes are beautiful, I appreciate handcrafted items. Currently I am working on quilt blocks for a child’s quilt in surface embroidery. It’s fun use different on a variety of subjects for each block. Also I alternate working on tea towels for gifts. I have a piece ribbon embroidery, perfect for one of these wonderful boxes. Thank you for the opportunity.
Dianne
I am working on an old fashioned kitchen towel with a Disney character on it that I traced off a coloring page. It is going to be a Christmas gift. Yep! I am starting early this year! I love the boxes and if I win, I plan on making one of Mary’s initial patterns for it.
I am currently working on a tooth fairy pillow design “Teenie Tooth Fairy Pillow by The Sweetheart Tree. This is a pattern I have done once before for my older daughter and am not stitching for my younger daughter. I make two adjustments to the pattern according to my personal preference: 1. Each daughter chose a glorianna variegated Silk Dress (thread) that they wanted their fairy to be dressed in so I modified the colors accordingly. 2. Both toothfairy pillows are not finished as pillows. In fact I would like to finish them as a box top, but in a way that they can be removed from the box to be used for a tooth under the pillow.
I would like to win this one.
Thank you,
Katie P.
I am currently working on Urban Chickens with hand embellished stitches. Sue Spargo style. I am going to give the chicken wall hanging to my daughter in law for their farm house.
I just love your website!! I have shared your site with my appliqué/embroidery classes.
I am working on white work. It is part of an expected baby’s heirloom style day gown
I’m currently a king a stab at my first crazy quilt block. It is a very special piece to me because I included some of my very first tatted pieces on it. Originally I was going to make a quilt, but now I want to display it in a shadow box.
I have nearly finished “oh Christmas tree” by Lavender and Lace, A cross stitch with a Girl and boy in traditional clothes decorating a Christmas tree. I will frame it for sure to add to my Christmas collection.
Love your embroidery tutorials. Learning so much from you! What a beautiful box, would be a lovely addition to my quilt studio. Thanks Mark!
Hope I’m not too late ! Would love this a start to family heirloom. We came to U.S. with nothing, so this is wonderful way to start.
Always enjoy your blog and am so thankful for you talent and that you share with all of us!
I am working on a canvas work Victorian house and hope to finish it soon – am on the lacy border that surrounds the main piece, which is done. Would like to do a keepsake box featuring a lovely birth record design on the top, to give to the new grandchild my daughter is going to provide me with. Thank-you for the chance to win a gorgeous box to inspire me. Louise.
Forgot to add that I am working on my first crazy quilt block and have been learning so much from you tutorials! Thank you so much. The box is a beautiful keepsake, thanks for the opportunity to win such a treasure Mark!
I’m currently working on some small cross stitch portraits of the pets I’ve had in my life.
I have thought of several possible finishes but haven’t been able to decide on one yet.
The piece I’m currently working on is of my first pet, a black rabbit, and is close to 7x7cm worked on plain cotton with each stitch being around 1mm.
My current project is a quilted wall hanging. The blocks feature whimsical flowers (think hexagons on a popcicle stick) with embroidered and beaded embellishments on each. If I had one of those beautiful boxes I’d probably want to do something more elegant such as thread painting or goldwork.
I am currently working on last month’s EGA Facebook group design. It is a biscornu with pinecone theme. I have been working on small designs lately (bookmark for granddaughter). I have several large WIP and I am not going to start another large project until I make myself finish some things.
I have just recently found the time to pick up my needle work interest and explore sources to increase my skills. I have enjoyed cross stitch projects since I was in grade school making aphfans , samplers, & gifts for special occasions. The Needlenthread has been such an inspiration to me with such valuable resources for quality stitching projects. I am currently researching ecclesiastical patterns to design a stole for my sons ordination upon completion of his Masters of Divinity. Mary’s newsletter from Needlenthread has been a tremendous guide , teacher, & source of inspiration.
What an exciting giveaway! I’m currently working on a surface embroidery that will become a baby quilt. My sister is expecting the first girl in this generation in just a few weeks, so I’m going to be stitching all weekend!
I am working on Counted Cross Stitch and some Free Style Hand Embroidery right now.
I plan to give as gifts to my sisters 🙂
Would love to win this amazing giveaway… Thank you for the opportunity!
I am working on doing needle turn applique at the moment, but my next project is going to be doing redwork embroidery. I am planning on framing the applique, and making the embroidery into a cushion.
I want to start a monogram that would look lovely on this box!
Hi Mary,
I’m currently working on a Jenny McWhinney project from Inspirations magazine 93. It’s called “Chatterbox ” and is an Ort, it’s surface embroidery of Australian birds and will be paired with the needlebook. It’s a gift for my mum who is a quilter.
I am currently working on at least 6 different projects, but the one I am giving the most time to is my ‘1year of stitches’ project, which will be made into a cushion when it is complete. My walls are running out of space for framed works, so the box would be wonderful!
I am working on Jenny Adin-Christies whitework sampler ‘Cornfield’.
I think it requires framing but it has inspired me to work smaller pieces using the techniques and a piece could easily adorn one of those lovely boxes. Thank you.
I finished Dahlias by Canevas Folies today. My daughter who lives in Katy, Texas wants and is planning to have it framed. Her home survived the flood, so she may give it to one of her friends whose home flooded. Whatever she does with it I happy that she is okay. I am starting a beaded project from Stitchology. Happy stitching!
At the moment I am mostly working on my large periodic table project, it is a stitched version to the periodic table which is going to be framed and most likely plased in our living room. Besides that I have a heaven and earth cross stich chart (but worked with half stitches), I have yet to deside on a mounting method.
Such beautiful boxes and made so exquisitely! I’m currently working on some canvaswork to make a case for my sunglasses. I’d like to thank you too, Mary, as it’s your site that taught me about stripping threads! My work looks so, so much neater
I have a few projects in the works. Right now I’m spending most of my stitching time trying to finish a counted cross stitch nativity project before Christmas. I will finish each of the ten nativity figures separately, backing and stuffing them so they stand up.
Thank you for the opportunity to win one of these beautiful boxes! It would be the perfect excuse to buy one of the Inspirations kits I’ve been eyeing to mount in the lid!
Yippee!
I have a small silk ribbon embroidery group. We meet almost weekly. We choose a flowe from Ann Cox’s A To Z of Ribbon Embroidery Flowers. Each flower is in an appropriately 6×8 piece of silk. I plan to crazy quilt around each flower and make a guilted wall hanging. We just started on Fuscias. Ann Cox has 9 different ones to choose from. Each flower is a specific hybrid and they are all different.
I am currently working on a bread cloth with a red cross stitch border. I used the Legacy Linen based on your posts (thank you for the advice on how to iron the creases out by the way) and like one of your projects I did the hem-stitch hem first, so the cloth was complete before I started the cross-stitch.
It felt annoying at first to be taking so long doing nothing but counting and tacking, but once the hem was pressed and I was doing the hem-stitch it was lovely to be working with such a smaller piece of cloth, and it is much easier and more fun to do the cross stitch on the smaller size as well.
And it is nice knowing that when I finish the cross stitch, the projects is done, with no more finishing work needed!
What a beautiful way to display my stitching. I am working on a textured raised work done in wool and depicting Australian wild flowers.
I’m a recent convert to embroidery, and I have to say I’m absolutely loving it! My current work is a miniature cross stitch…a butterfly and flowers…intended to be a bookmark, but I may frame it instead, dependant on how it turns out!
I love Chinese brushwork, and would also dearly love to be proficient enough to try Chinese embroidery…one day!
I’m currently doing a silk shading project directly onto an old pea coat to cover up some moth damage. My aunt got the coat in 1968 when she was 12 years old, and she still wears it. Moths got into her closet and destroyed the left shoulder and other small areas, so she asked me to design some trailing ivy to work around the coat and hide the damage.
This box is just what I need to finish my latest project!
I should be so lucky to win!
I’m currently working on a goldwork piece for my mum’s priest and an embroidery
entitled”beautiful berries” to give as a gift, which would look fantastic on the box.
Thank you for the chance to win one of these beautiful boxes. Good luck to everyone.
Like many (I suspect), I am working on several pieces all goldwork or stumpwork related. Some will be framed but others are perfect for a box top – especially Jenny Adin-Christies Hampton Court kit.
Hallo Mary,
I have recently stitched a Jane Nicholas Roundel with Ladybird etc. and have been searching for a box to insert it in the lid. I was thrilled with your news about Mark’s beautiful boxes but I wanted to ask you if you would be happy to leave the embroidery uncovered by glass? Mine is stitched on white silk which would not take long to get dirty. Do you have any suggestions here? I have approached several craftsmen in the UK to no avail. The best answer I got was “why don’t you buy a cheap box frame at Ikea”. Thanks a lot!!
Always enjoy your news and views. Hope you are keeping well.
Best Wishes,
Alison
Thank you for this generous and lovely offer. I sew small items such as aprons, workbags, clothespin bags, and doll dresses. I am currently creating a series of workbags for carrying knitting or handwork projects–or great as a purse! I’ve added a panel to front or back, horizontal or vertical, that can feature a focus fabric, patchwork piece, or hand-embroidered design. For a knitting bag, I use stem stitch to embroider a script/cursive knitting phrase like “Cast on!” to inspire the craftsperson to begin a new project.
I am currently working on a Stumpwork design by Jane Nicholas. This design would look stunning mounted on one of Mark’s boxes.
I am currently stitching a Hardanger doily, designed by Margaret Garlick of Christchurch, NZ. The pattern was published in “New Zealand creative stitch and craft”, v. 6, no. 2; no year is shown – but from the ads I believe it’s 2000.
It’s a Christmas table centre piece – in red and gold thread and, I’m stitching it for the 3rd time: this one is for my daughter to display wherever she wants. The first one I stitched was a ‘learning’ piece for me and I still use it, but it was not quite as well stitched as I would want… the 2nd one went to a friend at Christmas …. this one will, hopefully, be the best of three….
Would love to search for the perfect centre piece to fit such a lovely box: Maybe, some Elizabethan? Reticello? Blackwork? Crewel? I’ve tried and loved doing all of them!
My current project is a Jacobean crewel piece, our EGA chapter’s August class. I’ll finish it to hang on a wall and it’ll be a present for one of my daughters to hang in her apartment. I’ve never done a box top but have seen some that other ladies in our chapter have done and know that it’s in my future.
The boxes are beautiful. Such quality and masterful artistry.
I’ve just finished Obe of your designs, the flowery new one, done in whitework on a handkerchief. To be honest I do not have an idea of what to do with it. The next project will be knitting a cardigan, not embroidery however. Still fun though.
A monogramme for a couple who is getting married in november. and I’m going to box frame it in dark wood finish. Thank you for being so generous, Mary.
I am currently working on an embellished blanket using a pattern from Inspirations.
Right now I’m working on an embroidered quilt of all the constellations of the northern hemisphere! I’m going to hang it on the wall when I’m done. I’m also working on an embroidered labyrinth that will be mounted in a hoop that will hang on the wall. Thanks for a wonderful giveaway! The boxes are so beautiful!
. I am working on a Crewel piece of various shades of Blue and Purple Pansies. I plan on making it into a pillow.
Thanks for the opportunity to win a beautiful box.
I’m working on a Brazilian Embroidery piece that I’m designing as I go. Hopefully it will become a small quilt with several blocks using Fall themed embroidery. I also am working on a small Brazilian Embroidery pattern that I bought when I attended Seminar last June. No plans yet on how to finish it but most of my work get made into usable items. The boxes are beautiful. Thanks for showing us.
I am currently working on “The Phoenix and Tree”, crewel work kit from the Crewel Work Company. It was intended to be made up into a cushion (pillow), but it would look wonderful set into a box top if I were lucky enough to win.
A crewel pillow top is nearing completion. I have worked several little pieces for wooden boxes, but they are not as fine as Mark’s, nor made in this country. Thank you Mary and Mark!
Currently finishing up stumpwork flowers designed by Jane Nicholas. I am on the hunt for antique miniature frames at local antique malls.
Currently, I am working on the Sue Spargo block of the month for this year! I also just finished a UFO from about 10 years ago. It is blue work and I had forgotten how soothing this type of needlework was to do. Sometimes plain and simple is the ticket! The box is beautiful and I would love to create a masterpiece to go in it. Here’s hoping you draw my name!
I am currently working on a wedding gift for my daughter. I am using all white fabric to produce a quilt, a small pillow with childhood photo reproduced in stitches, and monogrammed piece as well. I have six months to complete these. The wooden box you previewed would be a beautiful way to display a wedding keepsake. Thank you for the opportunity to be apart of this drawing.
Awesome giveaway! I’m currently working on a circle of French knots in a blue gradient, with beads, pearl buttons and shells. A friend has offered to make a porthole-style frame for it so it can be hung on the wall.
I just finished the cover to a new goldwork needlebook. As it will see a lot of use, it’s a simple crosshatch pattern, highlighted with gold spangles and pearls, and done on blue silk. But now the fun part is done, I have to sew it up! Thanks both of you for the chance to win a lovely box. 🙂
What a beautiful box. I have many projects in the works. Cleaning my sewing room always gets me in trouble – find way too many projects that I would like to start working on. Currently I am doing a needlepoint piece with maple leaves on it in honor of Canada’s 150th birthday. Finishing is yet to be decided. I do have a number of other pieces that have been finished for some time and I am sure one of them would fit in a box. Also going to work on memory boxes for the grandkids – something to put trinkets, etc relating to their growing up in.
I am currently working on a counted cross stitch piece that will be framed when finished. It is a heart shaped collection of autumn flowers, leaves, mushrooms, etc. with a large sunflower in the center. It will be about 20 inches high and 20 inches at it’s widest when complete. Thank you for the opportunity to win such a wonderful work of art!
thank you!
i’m working on a 3-D Hardanger bouquet 🙂
Right now the piece that I’m working on is a reproduction/interpretation (because it is not exact) of an 18th century Pennsylvania German pot holder. These were used at the table, not for dirty work over the fire, and are just lovely examples of 18th century needlework. I hope mine compares well to the original. I plan to go to the state collection and see them side by side! It will be finished by sewing a blue and white plaid linen backing and binding with linen bias around the edge. I find such satisfaction in finishing projects… the boxes are a wonderful way to feature small pieces of special needlework. Great idea!
Thank you for the opportunity to have such a beautiful piece of workmanship. I am presently working on a cross stitched piece for my brother and his wife for Christmas. It is a seascape scene with a light house for their winter home in FL.
I would love to have the box to give to my mom who is an avid quilter. I would embroider her initials to frame in the box.
Again thanks to you and Mark for the chance to get this piece.
What a beautiful box!
I am sort of between projects (more like UFOs). I do have a Mill Hill Celtic Santa Christmas ornament (XS & beads) that I need to finish. It will be (of course) made into an ornament. I do have several finished-but-not-mounted projects. I usually hang them on the wall.
I’m presently working on a canvas piece from the EGA Magazine. I will hang this because it’s too big for a box but I have a stitching roll (unrolled) which would be perfect for a box.
I always have a few projects going at one time 🙂 Currently I’m working on a goldwork piece that will turn into an evening bag when it’s done; a wall hanging in cotton with a fox and grapes theme; and a couple of monogrammed hankie gifts for friends.
I’m cross stitching a Mirabilla Fairy in a brighter color scheme. I discovered that a massive frame made by my Grandfather is mine, so she may go in there. Seeing how much space is taken up by frames, I’m trying to decide if I want to do a frame where I switch out the piece in it.
I am currently working on 3 quilts that are going to Alaska. I have been practicing the letters that Mary Corbet has been showing us on her site. WOW have I been pushed to a new level of stitching! I LOVE IT! aThe quilts have the child’s name on it in forrest pine letters. Thanks Mary for opening a new line to me of creative stitching. I like boxes. I have decorative boxes on my night stand, on my dresser and in my living room. But I think I would make this box with my initial and make it my personal “Treasure Box.”
My SIL has done so much for me over the last few years, I would probably make this for her. I am currently working on a crazy quilt for her with a lot of different kinds of embroidery. For this piece I would make her initial or a monogram with a beautiful silk background like what I am using in her quilt.
Thanks Mary for a fantastic giveaway.
I am currently working on an embroidered crazy quilted piece for a gift that I had thought about finishing as a book cover. If I won one of these gorgeous boxes, I might well change my plans!
I am currently embroidering your blooming tree in a smaller size on a small project bag to hold threads for a future project
Thank you
Barbara Flinchum
Mark makes beautiful pieces. I steered away from embroidery and cross stitch for a number of years as I didn’t find display pieces to encourage me to make the embroidery. I like usable pieces like boxes as I like working small embroidery. What a lovely offer by a talented craftsman
Jane Modjeski
I am currently doing a counted cross stitch project, but also embroidering blocks for a quilt. I have not decided how to finish the counted cross stitch project, but the blocks will go into a quilt.
I am currently working on a counted cross stitch Christmas stocking for my grandson, who turned one in August. I started it the beginning of April, thinking that would be plenty of time to have it completed before the holidays. While I have worked on it almost every single day since, it is taking a lot longer than I anticipated. Unfortunately, it will not be done this year. I am enjoying the project, and don’t want to rush it just to get it done. But I’m hoping it will be done for next Christmas.
The boxes are absolutely beautiful! Thanks for the opportunity to win one of them!
At the moment, I’m working on cross stitch pieces for my nephews and niece per the request of my mother-in-law who passed away 3 1/2 weeks ago. They’ll be mounted using bellpulls. It’s not necessarily what I would have chosen (I’ve been working on the Angel of Love (http://www.tiag.com/designs/LL-25.html) for the past few months), but I would do anything for her.
Ohhhhhh! I love boxes, especially wooden boxes.
I am currently working on a historical Alabama Constitution cross stitch for our Embroidery Guild. It is for our Bi-Centennial celebration in 2019. I am also completing a Brazilian embroidery piece and both of these pieces will be hanging on the wall in my home. The Alabama Constitution piece will hang on display during the bi-centennial.
I’m working on a set of contemporary-style teddy bear Christmas ornaments. It’s all very simple but very satisfying as I’ve made teddy bear ornaments every Christmas for my children for twenty years!
I am not working on any embroidery at this moment but I am sure to add something if I am the lucky winner.
These boxes are so beautiful! A great way to display small embroidery projects.
I am working on learning needle painting. I really enjoy doing monograms.
I am working on a cross-stitch mandala design by Ink Circles called Reflections of London. It features favorite London landmarks. Will be 7.5″ square when complete. Worked on 32 count Belfast linen with overdyed cotton floss. All in blue! The overdyed cotton has a subtle variation in hue. I haven’t worked out how to finish it yet, but a box would be lovely! I’m running out of wall space!
I’m working on several projects at the moment. I’m just about to finish Thistle Threads glittering men’s night cap. When all is complete it will be a stand alone piece. Other than that I may create a flat fold out of a cross stitch piece. For the box I would probably create a stumpwork piece
I am currently working on two embroidery projects. One is a set of pillowcases. The first is finished, now I have to do a second like unto it, and I am finding it difficult (not as interesting) to do the same pattern twice! I am also working on a crazy quilt pillow to use as a ring bearers pillow in my daughter’s wedding. It is all in shades of cream, ecru, white, etc and is turning out to be a great little project. I must admit, I probably should have spent more time in the planning rather than the dive in and do it stage, but it has been loads of fun to just go with what strikes my fancy! Thank you, Mary, for tons of ideas and inspiration.
Hi, Mary –
I’m embroidering motifs on a black knit dress, similar to the Alabama Chanin style. Your website is really useful for giving me ideas of which stitches work best to outline the armholes, neckband, and hem, and others that are better for scattering over the surface. Thanks! tmr
When I read your original review I was struck by the beauty of these boxes and wondered if any of my needlework would be worthy of placing on one. Meanwhile I began thread/needle painting embroidery and I can’t get enough of it. I just recently completed my most challenging piece, a chickadee sitting on a pine bough and I do believe he is not only worthy but would look wonderful on one of these works of art.
Thank you Mary for giving everyone an opportunity to win such a treasure.
I am currently working on a Heaven and Earth cross stitch piece which I plan on framing. I think I’m like other stitchers who are running out of wall space and looking for different ways to display our work. One of the beautiful boxes would be perfect
Currently I am working a needlepoint project of a Laura J. Perin design entitled “Little Duck Pond.” My hope is to have it finished a box top as a gift for my supervisor who is retiring soon.
I have just started your Kaleidoscope design and am enjoying doing it.
I would love one of those boxes, I am in the UK and they are not available here.
Beautiful boxes. You can’t go wrong with one of those. I’ve started my first needle painting project…A miniature design by Trish Burr. It would fit beautifully into one of those boxes. 🙂
I am currently working on a crewel piece, that I plan on turning into a pillow as s gift for my sister. But in the near future, I do have a small goldwork piece to finish that would be perfect for a beautiful box like this! Thank you!
Michele
Hello Mary,
I hope you are keeping well and thank you for this superb chance of owning one of Mark’s stunning boxes.
At the moment I am working on my Great, Great, Great Auntie Frances’s beaded embroidery which she started many years ago and the original beads have come with it. Amazing!
I remember her and her stories well when I was a child. She was a darling elderly Aunt born in 1864 and lived till a grand 109 years old! (1973)
I don’t know when she started it, but it has recently been handed down to me as I am the only one in the family who does embroidery. I think it is just over a hundred years old.
This is just one of the treasures I have inherited from her and it will have to have a wonderful old frame and be hung on a wall as it is quite large…and mighty heavy.
Thank you Mary and take care.
Karen.
Wow, Karen how awesome is that!?
I’m currently working on a crazy quilt bed scarf in pastels. The blocks are hexagons, which will be bordered by a soft green before being joined together. I am making use of my collection of vintage embroidery pieces “rescued” from thrift shops as well as my own embroidery, beads, buttons, ribbons, laces, etc., etc.
The idea of a lovely wooden box to display embroidery is a dream come true. My walls will not hold much more of my work and the pillows threaten to take over the world. A box is both useful and beautiful. Thanks to you and to Mythic Crafts for this offer.
At this time I am working on quite a few projects. Two of them will be finished as bell pulls. Another project will be a wall hanging, hope to have it under glass. Another is a set for a sewing basket with scissor fob, pincushion etc. I have an arm organizer that just needs the backing attached.
Currently I’m working on a counted x-stitch rug for a dollhouse. It’s a Native American design in black/white/red on 18 count Aeida. I work at the Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures in Tucson, AZ and have been a member of a club for 40 years. We’re having a big Showcase Show & Sale in October and I’m planning to offer the rug as a raffle or auction prize (if I finish it in time, otherwise I’ll offer it up next year). I’ve done x-stitch for 50 (since age 12) years and love combining two hobbies (x-stitch & dollhouses). I’m thinking I may have one of the more unique finishing processes!
I am currently working on one of Trish Burr’s needle paintings Provencal Landscape, and I plan to frame it and hang it and her Campagne Landscape in my newly remodeled kitchen. Mark’s boxes are lovely, and I would love to be faced with the problem of having to embroider something else to showcase on there. Thanks for the opportunity!
I am finishing up a few WIPs, and framing them myself. I love doing the cross-stitching and embroidery, but then dread doing the framing. I need some new stuff on my walls!
I am working on a cross-stitch project. Usually I lean away from counted embroideries, but I was lent a book of medieval and renaissance- era European cross-stitch patterns that caught my attention. I just love patterns from that era. For now, I’m simply cramming various motifs onto a spare piece of Aida, using some scrap wool threads, but I think there may ultimately be a tablecloth to be made using some of these motifs.
Thanks for the opportunity to win the beautiful box from this very skilled wood worker. I have seen his work elsewhere recently. I would probably put a Kathy Rees counted canvas piece in a box like that. thanks for the chance to win – Melody
My current piece is Ink Circles’ Pumpkin Tree from last years Just Cross Stitch Halloween issue. I think I am doing it as a free standing flat fold. That being said, I have a number of finished-but-not-finished pieces that would be wonderful in one of these boxes. Thanks for opportunity to win one! :>)
Gorgeous box! Fingers crossed!
Those boxes are beautiful!
Right now I’m trying desperately to finish some applique on a cloak that’s needed for next weekend. Before that I was working on a goldwork book cover.
I have been stitching this very large piece of Blackwork for
some time now and will probably, for the first time, frame it
and hang it on my studio wall. I have a lovely canvas work
piece that would look soooo nice on a Mark Harris box!
Since retiring I am looking to catch up on my stash and am currently working on an art nouveau Christmas cat to frame and hang. Would love to have a beautiful wood box (I collect wood working creations from local artisans ) to top with a project on my “to do” list from “Inspirations”.
Confession, projects I’m working currently, 2 different pieces of hardanger (angel & Christmas tree), counted canvas x 2, cross stitch x 3 and, and, and!!!! One to be tray insert, 2 pictures, and would love the box for the other!!!!! What a wonderful give-away. Also wonderful needle minders on the website!!!! Thank you too for this great newsletter, can’t even imagine how much work goes into it and still have time for so much wonderful stitching, you are truly talented!
I’m working on a monochrome sampler (blue on white linen) and a peacock on 40ct silk gauze. Both will be framed. I’m also beading ornaments for Christmas.
I am making a 50’s quilt for my mom. I have embroidered scenes along the borders of young ladies doing homemaking chores.
I am currently working on a couple of hand embroidery projects. One is a sampler that I will hang in my sewing room. It showcases 18 stitches. The other is a Crabapple Hill Studios quilt that incorporates coloring as well as embroidery. I just finished 10 kitchen towels to give as gifts.
These boxes are exquisite.
I’m working on a sampler that I’m turning in to a sewing machine cover. Would love the opportunity to find the perfect project for one of those gorgeous boxes!
simple line embroidery on pillow cases – will finish the raw edges with lace
I’m currently near the end of a sampler kit from Di van Niekerk from her Ribbon embroidery and Stumpwork book. Its been lots of fun and I plan to hang it. It has been a terrific way to learn ribbon embroidery and I have enjoyed learning stump work. My next project is Threadpainting from Margaret Lee’s foundation line called Summer Play with two koi and some lotus flowers. I can hardly wait. Although I have to admit I am a little intimidated by the whole project. If it turns out the way I hope it will be given as a gift to my sister to hang. For now, trying to get ready for Hurricane Irma that will be in my area Sunday with a roar. I love reading your blog. It makes me want to embroider so many different things. Thanks for the contest. The boxes look fantastic.
I am currently working on a Russian drawn thread piece that would look great in this box using a colored underliner. I like Whitework such as hardanger and Schwalm.
JoAnn E.
I am currently working on a beautiful Susan O’Connor piece. I was an absolute beginner in embroidery and she was coming to Dallas to teach a small group class. She welcomed me with open arms and guided me through the day. That was 3 years ago!! Well, I’m glad I waited to finish it because a beautiful box will be the perfect “frame” for this project.
Thank you for the giveaway Mary and Mark!
I’m about to start my first goldwork piece. Depending on how it turns out, I will be hanging it up on a wall. Thanks for another great giveaway!
Hi,
I’m doing a monogram, silk threads on silk fabric; go on guess where I got th monogram…yes, it’s one of yours. I’m trying to do both initials but it’s complicated because my sir name starts with “Mc”. I’m also doing a mystery SAL, designed in Australia, at the moment. I’ve restarted it 3 times to get it just right. Doing it on on 28 count Belfast evenweave. It’s my first SAL and I love it and the group of over 5,000 people from all over the world. I’m going to put it on the wall BUT I’m also going to make a copy on a cotton shopping bag and a small single band for the cover to a portable speaker. So I’m busy, busy, busy. Every day it’s a case of “fish or cut bait” and I’m surrounded with my equipment; magnifier, stand and a fishermans kit box full of vital things! Happy, happy me 🙂
I’m currently working on my crewelwork module for the RSN Certificate so this is a piece that, once finished, I will definitely be hanging with pride in my living room so that everyone can see it because I have put so much work into it!!!! Mind you, I’m also working on two cross stitches, some blackwork and playing with making embroidered clocks…….
I’m currently working on a needle roll. The pattern is from Sue Spargo, and it uses a whole variety of stitches that are new to me, i.e. the Drizzle Stitch. I love the challenge that these new stitches present to me! But if I were to win one of the lovely boxes, I would do one of Mary Corbet’s beautiful initials: A for the top.
Last night I finished a Jacobean Tree of Life. It will become an oblong pillow for my sofa. It was a blank canvas I got on a free table at our weekly sit & sew. Instead of using wool I decided to use it as a type of stitch sampler using mostly #5 and #8 pearl cotton. Some of the pearl cotton was variegated.
Today I began working on a counted cross stitch long stem rose and bud. This will be framed and given to a male friend who has always admired my embroidered greeting cards. So many creative ideas swirling around in my head. Just received my copy of Inspirations Magazine Issue #95 from The French Needle.
Mary, thank you for all your inspiration as well.
Currently I’m working on a small needlepoint piece which will be a pincushion. I’m also doing a piece of crewel which I’ll make into a cover for a tablet.
I love boxes and these are beautiful. I would have no trouble finding something to decorate one with.
I’m working on a Christmas Stocking ornament on canvas.
I am currently working on several projects, including a huge cross stitch which I will frame when finished, and some Sashiko that I started at a workshop this week which may end up on a box top if I should win one 🙂 – otherwise they may be turned into part of a cushion panel or coasters.
Thank you for the giveaway – you are so very generous.
Blessings
Maxine
What a generous giveaway! I’m working on a sampler right now, but just got a book of teeny tiny embroidery patterns and can’t wait to sink my needle into them
Hi Mary and Mark! Thank you for the great giveaway 🙂 The boxes are beautiful, and perfect for special heirloom gifts. Right now, I’m trying out simple smocking stitches on a gingham fabric as a informal sampler; I’m using bright floss colours so it’s very fun and funky looking, but I’m not sure how I’m going to finish it off yet 😉
First off the wooden boxes are BEAUTIFUL! OMGosh…I am an art quilter but I use embroidery stitches in my pieces vs hand quilting! I also incorporate beading in a lot of my work as well. Your web site has provided me so many ideas for adding different stitches to my quilts! Thanks for that! And thanks for giving us an opportunity to win a box!
I would love to displace a stump work project in the box!
I am working on embroidering a linen runner in the Arts and Crafts style. I am almost finished with the embroidery and getting ready to start the hem stitch border, which is new for me. It is a beautiful kit designed by Ann Chaves, and I got it when I attended her workshop.
The box is very wonderful; thank you for the opportunity to win it.
Currently I have a few projects going. I just finished a chicken scratch tea towel, and am almost finished adding some embroidered touches on a dress I made for my Goddaughter. Love your website!
I am making an embroidery of a beautiful tree for a friend with Cancer. I just finished one for a man who has Cancer, with a fun frog. They are both fellow Christians from our church here in St. Peters, MO. Now we have a third person with cancer so I will have to hurry to make a third one. It gives me much joy to give away something that is special for them.
Grateful for His love, Betty Jarrell
I am starting the Lilac-Breasted Roller featured in Inspirations #95
Hi Mary,
What a spectacular piece of craftsmanship. I am afraid to mention the many pieces of embroidery I’m working on right now for fear the Stash Police will arrive at my door!
Last Christmas I had an inspiration. I have a daughter-in-law who’s an artist. The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in NYC published a series of her paintings called “Skylines” as a book of postcards & they sold out twice. Well, it’s difficult for me to come up with ideas for gifts for her & I had this “Eureka!” moment when I thought: why not turn one of the postcards into a needlework translation! I thought I could then mount it into a box & she could use it for earrings. To be truthful, there are moments I have wondered what I was thinking when I decided to do this. It is by far the most difficult piece I’ve ever done & I should have had it transferred rather then trying it free-hand. It may only be 4″x 6″ but the work is going exquisitely slowly. I am focusing on the idea of its being completed & adorning a box…
This isn’t the kind of thing you can share with just anyone, especially if they’re not into needlework, so thanks for being the listening ear. I’ve learned so much from your newsletter-it’s really expanded my world.
Thank you
I have a few that are WIPs. One is a counted cross stitched geisha. It is intended to be framed and hung. I would make something new if I had one of these boxes.
I have a few projects going – a painted canvas menorah, a painted canvas character for serenity and a counted project of Queen Elizabeth by Gay Ann Rogers.
I’m working on some beginner’s stumpwork, sprigs of rosemary and lavender (the latter using drizzle stitch that I learned right here). Once the embroidery is done the pieces will be stitched into sachets for herbs/scented salts and tied with ribbon, for a friend.
I’m currently working on a crewel embroidery project from crewel intentions by Hazel Blomkamp. It is supposed to be a footstool cover so I also purchased the matched wooden footstool from Sudberry House when I started the project a year and a half ago.
Guess what? Now the project is just nearly halfway done. So I realized a project this time consuming should be treated differently. I shall have it framed and hang on the wall…I think.
WOW!
A chance to win one of Mark’s beautiful boxes? Count me in. Right now I am working on a wonderful stumpwork piece of a Tiger Lily from a cyber class of Alison Cole. I can’t wait to finish this piece to see if I have a talent for this type of embroidery. Thank you for these fabulous give-a-way opportunities. Susan
I am doing surface embroidery and putting it on buttons. But I can do a larger project if I win a box. This is fun. Thank you.
At this time I am working with embellishing a wool appliqué sampler with embroidery. I am using and trying out a variety of threads in a limited color pallet. The sampler is small and is a suggested project from a Craftsy class. I will be quilting the project when it is complete. My objective with this project is to learn new stitches.
Hi Mary,
I love receiving your emails and keep them in a folder so that I can refer back to them. I am currently working on “antique” nursery rhymes for 2 baby quilts. Both of my sons are expecting babies! They are not revealing the sex, so the quilt making has been challenging. I would love to embroider one of the future baby’s names and create a very special “treasure” box. Then once a month or so, send a “treasure” to the parents to “slip” into the box as a surprise. I sure hope I win, then I would only have to buy one of the boxes so I can keep things fair! Thanks for the opportunity! Jennie
I am currently working on a set of Christmas tree ornaments. I have completed a quilt with appliqué and embroidery on it this year and it won first place in quilt show I entered it in!
Right now I’m trying to get a head start on Christmas gifts. I’m working on monograms for my mother, sister, and niece and my husband is planning to make some homemade wood frames for them. Your blog and e-books have been a wonderful inspiration!
What beautiful boxes!
I’m working on embroidering a photo of my mom’s flower garden. I originally started working from sketches, then realized the project was far too complex, so I ironed a photo onto some fabric and I’m embellishing it with various freestyle surface and ribbon embroidery stitches. The plan is to frame it in a shadow box so as not to crush the 3-D ribbon stitching.
Still working on my 1″ flower squares for my Cathedral Window Quilt and a cross stitch of an American Flag quilt on a front porch swing… but changing the swing and house colors so it looks like my house and swing! Planning on doing a
second “Summer Comes Calling” of song birds and bird house in a cherry tree as I don’t think it will survive Irma in my home on Fort Myers Beach. Please pray for my neighbors who were not able to evacuate.
Have just been working on simple cross stitch card designs. I don’t seem to stitch as much when the weather is nice.
After a long period away from embroidery, I have embarked upon a tapestry cushion front for my granddaughter in a patchwork style with lots of puppies on it. I am able to send it back to the manufacturer upon completion to have it made up into…. a cushion!
Iam working on an antique cutwork pattern combined with a schwalm pattern. (Sort of a franken design, I couldn’t decide, & well, you know!) It is supposed to be part of an heirloom christening gown, buuuuutttt, I might just keep it!
I’m very fortunate to be working on a Trish Burr white work with colour project and for the moment am uncertain how to display it. How gorgeous would it, or a similar piece be in this lovely box?! Did I mention that apart from embroidery I’m also slightly obsessed with boxes. This would be a wonderful addition to the collection. Thanks again for the opportunity Mary.
Hi Mary,
As usual, it’s a gorgeous give-away you’re offering us. How welcome it would be.
A year or so ago, I had embroidered a row of thistles on a toaster cover and I was very pleased with the result. When I saw ‘Chatterbox’ by Jenny McWhinney in issue 93 of Inspirations, I thought it was just the right thing for a cover for my mixer. We live in a very dusty area, and it’s a good idea to have a cover for electrical apparatus you use all the time and that stays on the counter in the kitchen.
By the way, I love Jenny Mcwhinney and have embroidered quite a few of her designs over the years: ‘Des Fleurs pour Grand Mere’ etc.
My current project is a wedding sampler with a twist. Embroidery stitch background with stumpwork in the middle. It will have to be in a box frame to allow for the raised work. The finished piece is for our daughter and her husband to hang on a wall.
I have broken my shoulder and so can’t embroider at all :0(
4 weeks in i can finally thread a needle and do a little (very slow) cross stitch. It is destined to be framed for my nephew. I have loads of embroidery finishes and wips that i haven’t decided how to finish yet
I am currently working on a small needle book and a mill hill kit of a haunted library which will be mounted in a small shadow box frame.
What a nice give away! I’m almost finished a “Wild Rose” needle painting from Trish Burr”s book ,”Needle Painting Embroidery”. I always like to have a use for my embroidery and this is on a runner for a table in our living room.
I really enjoy your blog and tutorial Mary. You are a great teacher and an indispencable resource for me. Thank You.
Louise Baxter
One project I am stitching on daily is a wedding sampler for my niece. She is getting married in May 2018 & I wanted to make sure that it was completed & ready before then. I never thought of mounting it on a box, a wedding box. Someplace special to hold mementos of their special day.
I must say these boxes look beautifully made by Mark. I would love to try one.
At the current time I am working on a cross stitch ornament that I will make into a small stocking for hanging on the tree. Each year I make one for each family member, trying to pick something I think they will really enjoy.
I also am working on a piece for my sister, it involves cross stitch, Smyrna stitch, eyelet stitch, four corner stitch and cross stitch. It is a “Remember Me” piece and I would love to win a box to put it on. I could then place some items in the box for her.
Thank you for a chance to be entered in the drawing.
Judy
I am working on a silk shading project – a cosmos. I would love to mount this in one of these lovely boxes.
Thank you, Mary, for this opportunity. And thank you for the wonderful resource that this website is.
I am currently working on an 11 x 4 inch mini sampler for my grandson’s high school graduation. It will be mounted in a box. I also plan to include a ballpoint pen and pencil set in the gift.
I can’t find the info needed to unsubscribe from your site. I don’t want 157 comments in my box about what other people think of your give always. PLEASE TAKE ME OFF YOUR SITE or tell me how to do it.
I would love to have this beautiful box, love handmade items. Currently working on a piece that I will probably frame.
I’ve never done blackwork, so I am looking for a pattern to try. The boxes are so lovely, this project will be used for a box. I stitched a box cover for my husband many years ago. He still has the box on his bureau. It is something that can become a family heirloom.
I am presently just starting back into doing some Hardanger which I haven’t done for years and am soooo enjoying it. I have “big” plans for more. LOL. That Hardanger bug has bitten. I am doing a stitch-a-long with a lady from Canada which got me going again and am just loving it. Would love to have one of these boxes to decorate with a piece of Hardanger! What a treasure that would be.
Thanks for the chance to both Mary and Mark. Crossing my fingers, but not holding my breath! 😉
I have just evacuated from Savannah to Raleigh because of Irma. One of the hard decisions was what stitching project to bring. I choose a patriotic heart by GayAnn Rogers. I would love to put it into one of these gorgeous boxes.
Now onto stitching!!!
Carol Diver
I’m currently working on squares for a Christmas wall hanging for my adorable great-grandson. It’s a pattern called “Baby’s First Christmas” from an old Q”uilt Life” magazine. There are 4 squares…santa, a snowman, a Christmas tree, and a reindeer. Love the box!!!
Love them, have one similar that has a needle work flower with raised petals
( took a class from Shay Pendray at our Needlework Guild several years ago.
I am working on several different types of needlework right now. Cross stitch, Rozashi, , counted thread… I am running out of room on my walls so I am looking to put things into boxes or trays or other things that don’t have to be hung on the walls.
Currently I am working on an original design that will incorporate my embroidery and bits of vintage embroidery, which I collect–and revere. I plan to display it in a 12-inch by 12-inch shadow-box frame, which will protect the embroidery but keep it from being squished by the glass.
If I were lucky enough to win the display box, I would probably use it to showcase one of my beautifully embroidered, vintage monograms.
I am working on Mellerstain firescreen. I haven’t worked with wool before and I love it. Thought it would be difficult to switch from cotton but it was OK.
Surprise surprise I plan to make a firescreen.
Great give away, Mary! And many thanks to Mark as well. Such a beautiful box!
I recently took a linen and hem stitching course in Williamsburg, VA and right now I’m finishing a delicate handkerchief we started. I plan on monogramming it and then….blow my nose into it???? Ewww, but that’s its plans, plain and simple 😀
Couldn’t pause to sign up til I finished a Fish-themed appliqué Family Tree baby quilt I will hand deliver to niece at her brother’s Indianapolis wedding today. Her new baby was born on Eclipse Day adding to the 37 names represented on this gift. That lets me continue embroidery embellishment with pearl cotton on elegantly costumed tortoises, frogs, and cardinals quilt border panels to finish for September due first granddaughter of friends (my 8th quilt this 2017 for babies), so the wonderful wooden box would more likely be the elegant finish for heirloom embroidery I design from California where I live for my recently engaged niece in Oregon.
I am working on my Bloom Wildflower embroidery kit. There are different types of flowers which include peonies, hydrangeas, heathers, poppies, roses, ranunculus, & star Flowers. I am using a reverse split stitch, satin stitch,a stem stitch, lazy Daisy, straight stitch, back stitch, seed stitch, & woven wheel stitch. When I am finished with this I will gladly frame this work and put it on the wall at my job. Because my co workers say this is so pretty and it’s taking me forever to finish.
I just finished Jane Nicholas’s Corncockle and dragon fly stumpwork. I was planning on framing it , but if the box fits it would be lovely there also!
Please enter me for the drawing the box is lovely . Love the DMC coloris thread.
I love these boxes. I really enjoy the products and tips given on Mary’s website.
Thanks – love stitching!
Kathryn
I am working on a small stump work piece by Jane Nicolas of a California Poppy and Bee. The piece would look wonderful in a round box. Thank you for sharing all these wonderful people and resources with us.
I am currently stitching a cloth that I hand-dyed using cochineal. The background fabric is a taupe color & the cochineal yielded beautiful bright reds, burgandys & purples. My goal is to enhance the dyed pattern with stitching. I am having fun with this & will be excited to see the result. I am planning to hang it as a wall hanging.
Working on Christmas ornaments, I know it is still lovely outside but I usually think about it in December and start around the 23rd. So this year I am starting just on time. Would love this box, not sure what will go on top yet.
Mary, I love your reviews on your blog. You always feature wonderful subjects, such as the lovely boxes from Mystic Crafts. I thank you very much for offering this give-away by such a talented craftsman. It is beautiful and inspires me to mounts something special in it. Thanks again. Linda
Dear Mary,
Sadly, I am not working on any embroidery at the moment as work has got in the way. But Christmas is coming and hopefully things will slow down a bit and I can indulge a little in the pleasures of embroidery. I hope to continue with small items for a needlework basket.
Mark’s boxes are absolutely beautiful and superbly finished. I think a monogram would look beautiful displayed on the box lid.
Thank you!
Have just finished 2 pieces, both on congress cloth and counted work in such a variety of stitches!! One is a Bible cover for our 180 year old family Bible. The other is a front panel for an evening bag. Have just started piece no. 3 which will be a sewing roll.
Would love to do a piece for a beautiful box!!
Since I have joined you my stitching has improved and grown immensely. Thank you Mary
Hi Mary, amongst others, I am currently working on a 3-D beaded project, a Karen Torrisi design of an Undersea Landscape. The only finishing idea I have for it is to put it on a box!
I have just finished a Nicola Jarvis Strawberry Thief (just the bird section…) which will, eventually, be made up into a cushion.
Hi Mary and Mark, Thank you for this give-away, it will be a fabulous gift for the winner! Right now, I am working surface embroidery on Christmas theme: stars, Christmas tree and pointsettias. I prepare some linen napkins for Christmas receptions. And I try different threads for this project!…
Marie-Josee
Hi Mary
I am currently working on a sashiko panel that I plan to make into a wall hanging. I’ll also be able to use it as a table runner when I want to put something else that I’ve made onto the wall.
Regards
Delia
I’m not doing any embroidery at the present time as I’ve been knitting mostly. I do look at my WIPs and embroidery thread stash pretty often though! The most recent embroidery project, hanging on my design wall waiting for more progress, is a colorful random sampler. I’m thinking of embroidering a nice border on it and making it into a wall hanging.
Hello Mary: I am currently working on a beaded embroidery mandala of my own design, and I am putting some little flowers and animals on a little pink bag for my granddaughter’s 6th birthday. The boxes are lovely. Joy
Hi Mary,
I am working on my own Blackwork design inspired by an historic diaper pattern. It will be made up into a cushion when it is finished.
I enjoy being able to do the finishing myself, it adds another dimension to a project.
Thank you and Mark for the opportunity to enter such a fabulous competition.
Chris
I am currently working on a series of embroidered redwork squares that I am planning to use in a red and white quilt. I am also working on a small crazy quilt with hand and machine embroidered embellishments, beads, buttons and charms.
I am stitching an Ort Bag featured in An Inspirations magazine called Chatterbox. I am really enjoying stitching all the different birds. Jenny McWhinney is an outstanding creator of embroidery patterns.
I have 2 projects almost complete. One is a combination of appliqué, silk shading, and goldwork, where the gold is applied over carpet felt, I’ve never done this style before, but the raised effect is wonderful, even though it’s difficult to place the needle accurately through the felt. The other piece is a stumpwork design of toadstools and brambles, with lovely blackberries made of bullion knots and beads. As both of these pieces have a lot of raised work I am planning to put them in box frames. Should I be lucky enough to win the beautiful box, then I can change my plans and put one of them on that.
I am working on lots of UFO’s at the moment…..a long-term project wedding commemoration for my parents with pictures and a few swatches of fabric from thebride and bridesmaid dresses which my grandmother (now passed) had made which will either be framed or quilted into a hanging, some simple stitcheries which are portable when filling time waiting at sport & appointments which will be bookcovers or little bag fronts, and a bullion stitch sampler (also portable) which I havent decided how to finish – it may just remain in my sewing basket as a reference. The most pressing thing in the UFO box at the moment is a pink stumpwork dragonfly – not my usual colours – I am not a pink person, but a lady in our sewing circle is fighting cancer and the symbol at her chemo centre is a pink dragonfly so I am doing this for her as a surprise … it will need to be framed or maybe would be nice in a little keepsake box if I am lucky enough to be a winner!!
Hello! Currently, I’m working on traditional surface embroidery, but not on fabric. I’m stitching old photographs that I found at the flea market. I’m going to frame them and expose them with a fictional story for each one them.
You all have a glorious Sunday!
For some time now I have been working projects in a rotation. I stitch mainly counted thread – historical designs. I am currently working on 3 needlecases and one sampler band for framing. I am now to the point where I change the original designs. For instance, on a Catherine Theron needlecase I have removed the alphabet and designed something different for this area. I often take the elements from other charts and then may have to adapt the motif to fit the space. I frequently change the stitch suggestion. I like cross stitch, but other stitches will add texture and interest.
Sure makes a project take longer to complete, but quite satisfying to personalize it.
Thank you for offering this nice “prize” it is a fun way to hear from other stitchers.
These boxes are so beautiful! Thanks for offering such a generous giveaway.
My daughter’s birthday is coming up this week and every year I stitch her something small and pop it into her lunch bag as a special something to open at school. Tomorrow I plan to start stitching a Tardis as she loves Doctor Who. I’ll make it into a small bag for a cloak/scarf fastener I bought her at a medieval festival in Italy over the summer holidays.
Hi Mary, thanks for hosting the give a way, I am currently working on a Hedebo piece, my first one and learning as I go, just love the linen thread and it will be a table mat when done.
That is so sweet of Mark – and of you, too! Currently I’m working on a small but sweet project – I’m embroidering my bridesmaid’s names into their dresses (which I also made). After that, I was thinking of starting a goldwork monogram with my new initials – this box would be the perfect place to mount it!
I’m about to start on a “cipher” stitched with trailing stitch on a rich blue silk dupioni. I’m sure it would look lovely on one of these boxes.
A wooden box for embroidery can become a heirloom itself. I made one for my daughter over 15 years ago with a daughter saying. She has since given it to her daughter. Is it time for another one?
What a wonderful giveaway – these boxes are gorgeous!
I’m currently working on a counted thread 17th century band sampler reproduction (Jane Turner – 1668) and the many stitches in the sampler are really stretching and adding to my stitching skills (thank goodness for your video on trellis stitch!). The sampler will definitely be framed, and I think this time I’ll pay a professional to mount and frame it rather than doing it myself.
Hand embroidering a owl on the back of denim shirt for 4 year old grandson that is obsessed with owls. Have a ways to go until finished.
I’m currently working on a redwork project. The red thread on white linen is perfect for a design to celebrate Canada’s 150th birthday. The design will be mounted or framed. It will be sent to the Embroidery Association of Canada’s seminar next year (in Prince Edward Island.)
Thank you Mary and Mythic Crafts for the opportunity to win such a lovely box.
I’m am working on an Elizabethan style embroidery which will become the cover of a little holder for my crochet hooks. I am treating this as a learning piece as I have not done much needlelace before.
What beautiful boxes made by Mythic Crafts! Currently, I am working in cross stitch, which is my favorite right now. My finishing plans are to frame it for a wall. Unfortunately, I think it is too big for a box by Mythic Crafts, but I am sure I could find something to fit in a smaller one if I happen to win! Thank you for the opportunity.
I am working on a needlepainting project at the moment which I’m absolutely loving. It is called Flowers for a Friend and is small but I would prefer to frame .it I do have a completed embroidery of a poppy by Trish Burr which is stunning and ideal to fit in a beautiful box lid.
I am working on a needle painting bird ~ a goldfinch. It is the first of my own designs. I am unsure of how I will finish, but it would look gorgeous in the box lid!
I am currently working on a cross stitch project for a keepsake box for my Mom. I have seen their wooden boxes and they are beautiful!!
Right now I’m working on a Challenge for the San Francisco School of Needlework. It’s a mixed media self-portrait. All of this is way out of my comfort zone. So the piece itself has paper mache, embroidery, beading, quilting, and some painting and eco-dyeing. Now the rub is how the heck to put my design altogether? I’ve decided to sew the entire thing into a doll. I’ve just about finished embroidering the first part.
Self portraits are very tricky. When I look in the mirror, that’s not how I see myself.
So, I’m incredibly bogged down in the “Who Am I”. As Michael T. Clare said, “It’s an enigma, wrapped in a conundrum, inside a roiling set of contradictions…..”
Thanks Mary.
I’m working on two items at the moment. I’m working on a cross-stitch of my alma mater, which I’m thinking of turning into an ornament. If it turns out okay, I’ll make a second one for my sister, we went to the same school. The other item I’m working on is embroidering a bull with wings. This is eventually going to be a priest’s stole, and the embroidered bull will be at the bottom on both sides. Right now I’m working on side one. I’m making slow but steady progress and will finish it, hopefully within the next year. I’ve got many things on the list of Things to Make, though, so I’m sure one of my projects would work with the wooden box.