Raspberry Christmas

Given that Christmas in Australia is in summer season, we tend to have different connotations for what Christmas is like compared to those in the northern hemisphere. There’s certainly no snow! Here, we often have hot Christmas days, where a barbeque, salads and a swim are much more likely than a hot Christmas roast and pudding. Dessert is more likely to consist of a fruit platter.

On Friday afternoon I had had enough of “proper” work. I just wanted to do some embroidery, and so I pulled out some fabric and thread and an old Christmas ornament pattern of mine and reinterpreted it with a contemporary Christmas colour scheme.
Raspberries are a summer fruit, and so this Christmas ornament celebrates a summery Christmas, with raspberry colours, rather than the usual red. The thread used for the kloster blocks is a DMC Color Variations pearl cotton, so is easily obtainable. All the other threads are also DMC threads.

While the traditional Christmas-coloured version of this pattern has been available for a while, I thought that some might like this new Raspberry Christmas ornament, so I now have the details of this new colour scheme to the pattern as well. You can purchase the pattern for the Hardanger Christmas ornament from the Vetty Creations website.