Matryioshka Biscornu Finished

This is stitched on white Monaco fabric. It is a freebie design. The reverse side has the same design.

"For The Birds" Received

I received this pretty bird-themed biscornu from Ina. She enclosed a pretty card of greeting and wrapped everything in the sea urchin fabric. Isn't it a fine piece of stitching? It is accented with tiny green seed beads.

The reverse is here:

I added it to my basket of biscornus.

Bramble Biscornu

This is a biscornu that I stitched. The chart is from Jane Ile's "Cross Stitch from A Country Garden."

Free "Maple Leaf Biscornu" Chart

I designed this biscornu because I wanted to stitch one with maple leaves only and I could not find one in any of my cross stitch books. I hope you can download the pattern OK.

I stitched mine on 28ct. linen with variegated thread.

My March Biscornu

This is my biscornu for March for the Basket of Biscornu SAL. It is a tiny biscornu (DMC variegated floss on linen) that I fashioned into a fob.

The pattern is #180 from Plate 19, "Celtic Charted Designs," by Co Spinhoven (Dover Publications).

My Icelandic Biscornu

This is a biscornu that I stitched as my January goal for the "Basket of Biscornu" blog. The goal is to stitch one biscornu each month of the year, so that at the end of 2009 each of us will have completed a dozen biscornus--enough to fill a display basket. I didn't have a button so I put four glass seed beads in the centers. The top and bottom are the same.

The pattern is the inner square from "Icelandic Biscornu," from The Gift of Stitching digital magazine. I chose to make mine in shades of blue, on a white Lugana background.

Biscornu Exchange

My biscornu is 3/4 embroidered. My granddaughter likes the design so much that she asked for one, only in different colors. I told her she'll be surprised when she sees how it gets assembled. It's for the Hooked on Exchanging
biscornu exchange.