Ornaments!

 Most of these ornaments were stitched many years ago when I was a member of a cross stitch Yahoo group.  We would each kit up one ornament and send it to everyone in the group.  There was no pressure to get them stitched.  We all made them at our own pace.  I think I have gotten most of them stitched by now.  Two weeks ago I found nine ornaments that were stitched, but not finished.  This week I worked at getting them finished.

A couple of these were freebies.  Some of them were from Just Cross Stitch's ornament issues.  I know the pirate is from Sue Hillis and Mary and Joseph are from Shepherd's Bush.  Other than that, I don't have any information on who designed them or where the pattern came from.  

My family has way more ornaments than we need, so I am going to give 8 of them away, 4 each to my good friend's 2 girls.  They are young women now. out of college with their own apartments and their own Christmas trees. I made them each a simple fabric box to store the ornaments in. 

Both boxes have the same fabric lining.  

I am keeping Joy for myself since it wouldn't be fair to give one girl 4 and the other 5.