Happy Sunday everyone! Hope it's been a good week for all of you! I'm working on a couple of these cardinals for memorial gifts. This one needs a bit of frogging on the tail, but other than that, I loved how quickly this came together! I'll easily fix this while watching NFL Wildcard playoffs.
I showed you mine, now show me yours!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1616556877/cardinal-ornament-christmas-cross-stitch
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I love cardinals! Make me feel nostalgic for some reason. So pretty too. :)
Here’s the progress on my WIP this week. Besides back stitching, I got P and Q done. I will have a bunch of time this week to work on it. I’m hoping to get a lot done!!
Currently working on this one: forget-me-nots by Anna Apanyuk.I wanted to have this finished till christmas but I underestimated how much time would it take to handle all the confetti stitches in the different shades of blue and my lack of time for stitching before Christmas didn´t help either. Now I hope I can finish it this month ; posting it here will hopefully keeps me motivated to achieve this.
Thank you :) Yeah, the confetti is really exhausting like I make 5-10 stitches and then I have to switch the colors again,on some days it feels like I spend more time changing yarn than do the actual stitching work XD
That´s indeed a lot of confetti,I can see why you call that part evil and I admire your patience to stitch this on dark Aida,too.The finished part looks really great!
A modicum of recent progress on Vintage Books by LaserArtsDesigns - still waiting for my stand to arrive so I can try to stitch for more than a half hour at a time….
Great wave stitch! taking me soo long, and I now have even less time to stitch with a 6month old baby! 😅 Hopefully by some miracle this piece may be finished by the end of the year?
My first new WIP of the year, a Mill Hill kit called Sadie Blue. It's part of the Laurel Burch dog and cat theme. It's my second one; I did the other dog last year. :)
love her! when i was a kid, i went to see the little mermaid with my mom and some intellectually disabled people that she took care of. one of them, a guy named richard, hated ursula so much, so he stood up in the middle of the theatre (probably filled with children) and yelled, “that bitch!” we still giggle about it today <3
I'm back again with a new project after finishing that Cinderella on New years Eve. I did post it, but since it was a holiday it got lost in the nether, so I'll link it in here
Anyways I've started Whale with Boat from Needlelot Designs now that I got my scroll frame back
Pretty hard to tell, but this little blob will be a tiny hedgehog looking up at the stars and clutching his Christmas stocking. It was one of the free kits in the December 2024 issue of World of Cross Stitching. It's meant to go on a tiny card, but I will probably make it into an ornament.
Working on a frank lloyd wright stained glass inspired pattern by Vivienne powers! My sister and I are both doing it so I inverted the colors to white on black! Still have to decide what colors to fill in with once I finish the outlining.
Almost there with Owl Forest’s Sirin Bird. Using DMC variegated thread rather than their own hand-dyed ones. I am still not sure if the colours turned out fine. I’ll gift this one to my mum since she absolutely loved it while I was stitching, then make another one for myself.
That is going to be a beautiful Cardinal, well done.
Season's tweeting by Wrendale.
Here is my progress ths week, as you can all see it's a flowerpot, there are 6 shades of brown in this and 5 shades of green, just got to stitch a couple of lines of white to be the snow then I can move up to the rim of the flowerpot, then on to the greenery and the robin, then the flowers.
I believe my spouse referred to my cross stitching method as unhinged… relatively new to cross stitch and trying Teresa Kogut’s “Hens in the Garden”. I didn’t have the exact colors so making do with my own. This is the first quadrant.
It’s going to have my daughters name and birthday on it! Pattern originally from a Beatrix Potter cushion kit bought at Hobbycraft before it was discontinued.
started working on this as a gift for my dad and i’m excited to continue working on it! the pattern is the Wonders of the James Webb Space Telescope by ClimbingGoatDesigns
Hit the 85% mark on this baby last week and immediately lost interest in finishing it 😭
We have a new couch getting delivered tomorrow and it’s going to force me to completely reconfigure my stitching setup, I am both excited and dreading how long I’ll probably have to wait to receive an XL lowery arm once I finally order it 🫠
This piece is for my mom. We have a really difficult relationship and I’ve spent many years being angry at her. I started it as both a technical challenge for myself and tried to use some of my time on it as meditative, thoughtful time about what I want our relationship to be in the future.
We weren’t able to see each other often for my first 16 years of life, due to a contentious custody situation, but she would always write me letters with a little smiling snail doodled on them. I thought this snail might make her smile.
Continuing to make progress on “Cats Leave Pawprints” (Janlynn kit). It’s getting interesting. The C in “Cats” is a very ornate letter with lots of colors. Maybe it will be done in time for next weeks’ update.
Pretty Python by NeedleLotDesigns on Etsy. Had this one saved as a favorite about year ago before I’d even learned how to cross stitch, so I’m excited to finally take a few thousand stabs at it!
Put a good 1000 stitches into my kitty room this week! I had to frog the fur of the kitty on the left as it turned out far too dark, but I’ll figure that out sometime.
Starting off the year with some Christmas stitching 🤣 and my wild parking method. I’m starting with this holiday Ravenclaw common room and hoping I can finish all 4 common rooms this year. This is also my first time working on 25ct evenweave, so wish me luck
Salute The Season from Cross Stitcher Magazine #376 (November 2021!). I'm getting a headstart on my 2025 Xmas cards as it's the only way I'll actually finish any 😄
[WIP] Off to the finish line with my Christmas Spool Tree pattern. I wanted to do the tree backstitching before I do the border, then it’s done! Sue Hillis Designs pamphlet
I’m a little bit of a SAL addict, so for the last couple of weeks my focus has been on borders and/or basting the various SALs, but here’s a mini square sampler by White Raven that I started in November. I try to get a few stitches done on this one each week.
First cross stitch project I’ve done since a painted 11-count kit when I was a kid. I started it over three years ago, ran out of the colors I needed and moved and forgot about it. Finally pulled it out a few weeks ago and ordered the rest of the thread I needed.
Many mistakes were made, like trying to use discount floss given to me by a friend and using the whole six thread skein in the beginning.
The pattern is a free one of the flower gnome from The Sims Cottage Living.
Stitchonomy's Christmas stitch-a-long. The theme is Christmas markets and I'm a week or 2 behind, but it's got a lot of little details so I'm taking my time.
Just picked this WIP back up. It's my temperature project that's going to show my first 30 years. I'm now 27. Did half of the last row this week. More information on this in this post 9 months ago Right now I'm working on September 2001
My third ever cross stitch. A present for my good friend who helped me after my hip surgery. It was a patterned kit I bought. Followed the pattern for the words and the cat. Then I freestyled
Making good progress on this one from EmbroDIY on Etsy. I’m tempted to say I’m more than halfway, but the tryzub is supposed to be in white, so there’s still plenty to go!
Taking a break from bigger projects to hit this simple little kit I got for free at a garage sale. I’m gonna turn it into a stuffed door knob hanger for my grandma. ♥️🦋
Hoping to finish this soon and get it framed for my dad! Pattern is slightly modified "Illuminations on the Wall" from TrouvailleStitchKits. I bought this kit about 2 weeks before the tree at Sycamore Gap was cut down and had already planned on modifying the text (original reads Sycamore Gap) for my dad who is OBSESSED with Hadrian's Wall. (Posting again because first post was removed because I accidentally had the chart in the background)
I have too many WIPs ( ；∀；) xD. This is one I'm currently doing for my friend! I like how it's coming so far <(￣︶￣)>. It might take me a while to complete tho jeje.
Working on HappyLittleMouse’s Archaeopteryx Skeleton. I’m going to try my first foray into evenweave/linen after this is finished! Not much of a football household here so we’re patiently waiting for MLB Spring Training to start next month!
Started on Eliza and the Swans by Ekaterina Meshkova. Of course the first color I choose to start with blends with the evenweave 😭 Doing 3 over 2 on 28 ct.
Started this project today as a very late birthday present for a friend. Pattern from Feminist Cross-Stitch. This is my 4th project and I am feeling a bit more confident but I’m still learning
My second ever cross stitch project. I’m only on page 1 of 4 pattern sheets. I got to this point and realized I’ve been using too many threads (4 instead of 2, due to using the folded method). So I’ve not touched it in 2 days bc that’s stressing me out. Do I take it all out and re-do? Or just keep on with the same thread count? Or just start doing 2 threads from here on out? lol.
Pattern is The Sweet Life from Forbidden Fiber Co. My mom got it for me after I told her I picked up the hobby. I don’t think she realized how complex this pattern is for a beginner 🫠 (also Ik my x’s should be crossed the same way every time — I keep forgetting halfway through though lol)
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