JCS Ornament Issue

I rec'd mine late last week. I've bookmarked 4 designs I hope to one day stitch. I can't remember which designers, but one is the advent wreath w/ purple candles, one's of the manger with "loose" straw, one is a sampler- or hardanger-type with lots of green, can't remember the

4th one at the moment.

Joan

Is this the "real" one, or the one I've been seeing on the store stands that says "Ornament Preview Issue"? 'Cause I have to admit, I haven't seen anything in that one that makes me wanna stitch it! Tegan

Mine came in the mail on Monday. I'm not overwhelmed, but I haven't had a chance to examine it in detail yet.

Sara

Ornament Preview issue is the regular issue of JCS but they added a few ornaments to it. It is not the ornie issue! I thought it was too at first but as soon as I got it home and looked I realized that it was the normal September issue of the magazine. Beverly B

Sara wrote: > Mine came in the mail on Monday. I'm not overwhelmed, but I haven't

You know, that's the feeling I get every year. I'm underwhelmed at first glance, then I look through carefully and say, "I like that one" and "I like THAT one", and before you know it, I have a whole bunch that I want to do!

sue

Got my copy last night and not impressed with some ornaments and loved others. I liked the "house ornaments". The only drawback is that a lot of the designers used specialty threads. I love those threads but since there is not a LNS handy, I have to mail order and it makes the ornament so expensive. Usually I just follow the pattern and use my leftover stash to keep the cost down.

I have always considered patterns a springboard to be changed. I'll leave stuff out, I'll change colors, I'll add Kreinik where there is none...

I got the cover......the PO sent me a regrets-it-was-damaged note. Called the subscription dept who told me they'd put another copy in the mail but I probably won't get it till November.

I have a question. I have a two year subscription to JCS. Will I automatically get the Ornament issue, or should I go out and buy it?

Suzanne Ottawa, > I got the cover......the PO sent me a regrets-it-was-damaged

I've been a subscriber for many (at least ten) years. The Ornament issue is NOT included with the subscription. I've never even seen one.

Got my issue Saturday and found easily 20+ that I'd like to do. Maybe

2007 will be the *Year of the Ornaments* for me! Has anyone tried any of the recipes found in these issues (any year, not just this one) or do you consider that more "fluff" to make the issue bigger?

Carolyn

Tw> My LNS just called, and my reserved copy is available. Hopefully I can

Some of the recipes sound good, but since I don't do holiday dinners any more, I haven't tried them.

I'm not sure it's "fluff" to make the issue bigger, but to help each designer fill up her page without writing a longer essay. I always find it intriguing to see what other people cook for special occasions.

In my family, Christmas Eve dinner was a German dish that's most easily explained as wonton soup, with extra-large wontons. Traditionally, "7 makes a meal". You get 3, with broth. Then you get 2, without broth, and put some salads (a standard lettuce salad and a cucumber salad, and whatever else the hostess was in the mood for) in the bowl next to them. Then you get 2 more, your choice "with or without", whether you prefer more broth or more salad. Mind you, this is seven 3-3.5" square "ravioli", each with a good-sized dollop of ground meat filling (nearly golf-ball size), plus the broth and the salads, so seven of them is a goodly amount of food.

I got lucky and didn't have to buy mine :-)! Since I did the finishing for Poetta's **darling** Santa design (

)so she sent me a copy. Aren't I the lucky one!!! I was VERY pleased to see that the chart, etc. is in a nice, conspicuous place in the magazine, too. There ARE several really cute designs this year that are tempting. I doubt if I will stitch them, but they ARE worth thinking about :-)! CiaoMeow >^;;^<PAX, Tia Mary

Mine hasn't come yet, but is part of a special order package from Susan Greening Davis. I ordered the "kit" to make her cute little cookie plate with the tiny gingerbread cookie buttons in it. The autographed magazine will come with it.

There's a design by DebBees Designs that I really want to stitch. While traveling through Conway, Arkansas, I stopped at the stitching shop. When checking out at the register, I hoisted my purse up onto the counter. Then noticed it landed on something. Pulled the item out from under and saw Debbie Rowley's stitched ornament model. (If you're reading this Debbie, I'm so sorry!) It was very pretty.

That being said, I just loved browsing through a friends copy! Still trying to pick others that are a "must stitch".

Lin