Falling Leaves by DMC

This free pattern by DMC is small and perfect for using a variety of variegated floss colors!  It's charted to showcase a few of the new DMC Variations threads, but you can easily select from your stash of "fancy floss" to create your own look.  I stitched mine on 40ct silk gauze with 1 over 1 half stitches using some Colour & Cotton threads.

Original pattern, which can be found on the DMC China website, or inside the box of DMC Color Variations Amazon Collection.

My conversion:
Leaves:
Colour & Cotton Rust Orange
Colour & Cotton Eat Your Greens
Colour & Cotton Antique Gold
Swirls:
Colour & Cotton Flagstone

Joy by Stitchrovia

While this design is absolutely lovely as a Christmas piece, I wanted to create a year-round piece to gift my mom, who's name is Joy.  In order to accomplish that, I adjusted every color to reflect my mom's favorites.  After some trial and error, and restitching some areas, I arrived at a color combination that I was happy with!

Here is the original, which can be found at https://www.etsy.com/listing/455939594/christmas-joy-cross-stitch-pattern:

And here is my conversion stitched 1 strand over 1 thread of 28 count white Monaco evenweave:

Letters:
Outline - DMC 995
Top inside color - DMC 3843
Middle inside color - DMC 996
Bottom inside color - DMC 3842

Birds:
Bodies - DMC 3943
Wings - DMC 995
Eyes & Beaks - DMC 3842
Spots on Wings - DMC 3822

Berries:
Dark - DMC 3733
Medium - DMC 3832
Light - DMC 3831
Very Light - DMC 3354

Flowers:
Center - DMC 3821
Inner Layer - DMC 3842
Middle Layer - DMC 996
Outer Rim - DMC 995

Leaves:
Dark - DMC 3815
Medium - DMC 3816
Light - DMC 3817

Bells:
Main color - DMC 3822
Rim - DMC 3821
Inside - DMC 3862
Ball - DMC 3822

Swirls:
Main swirls & dots - DMC 3862
Sprigs & branches - DMC 3864

Pears: 3821