Another month’s worth of progress! And i’m finally done with one of the colors! it is the strawberries which i actually started last and have the least number of stitches, but you have to take your wins somewhere. I am 72% done according to my tacking program, and i think it will be about 6 more weeks of work ..read more

photography is wild. in person i can’t really see the difference between that dusty blue and green but it is so clear in the photo?? also i’m finally done frogging! Was actually done a couple of hours after my last update but i wanted to see how far i could get in a month. i’m almost done re-stitching all the sections i had to frog, but i’m most excited to be almost half way done. pattern by Vivsters on etsy ..read more

Not a lot of progress over the last two weeks as i was traveling, but I’m almost done frogging! and my pattern tracker says i’m about 20% done. It doesn’t feel like 20% though because i have to fill in so much of that background blue. I’m saving the dark blue until last so that i can stitch without a pattern when i need to. Though, i’m going to have to start working on the bottom so i can roll the pattern up in my scroll frame ..read more

made some progress on the stitching and frogging! Still have that bit in the corner but i’m not fussed about getting it done as it will be awhile until i’m stitching that high up again. Pattern on ETSY by Vivsters ..read more

I loved the design for the William Morris cross stitch i made for my mom so much that i decided to stitch the whole thing (ETSY link by Vivsters) Unfortunately I miss counted and i have to frog the entire area circled in red. Normally i would just work around it but the pattern is completely symmetrical so it would be super noticeable. Also i don’t have a deadline for this so i can do the frogging as nice mindless work between stitching new sections ..read more

I love William Morris’s Strawberry theif so i wanted to stitch one up for my mom’s Christmas ornament. I bought the pattern on ETSY from Vivsters. Then i cropped the pattern down to fit in a 3 inch hoop ..read more

The Christmas ornament i made for my nephew as he is a giant bruins fan. pattern is from bracelet book: https://friendship-bracelets.net/patterns/alpha/33739 ..read more

One of my best friends loves Paddington and has asked for a second Paddington cross stitch for her b-day and i made it in time! (first Paddington here). Pattern is from I got the pattern from Storybook Favorites in Cross Stitch ..read more

I made this card for my mother’s 70th birthday! i couldn’t find a font that was large and decorative that had numbers too, so this is a modified Z and a O. Pattern is from this historical pattern archive: http://patternmakercharts.blogspot.com/2011/05/sajou-no-364.html ..read more

I think i’ve been cross-stitching for over 25 years at this point and i just wanted to chart my journey and make a couple of notes about the latest step i’ve taken (no longer caring about the back being perfectly neat). I’m not saying everyone’s journey needs to be like mine, but i just want to share somethings that i’ve only discovered in the last year as i’m wondering if i just missed it being commonly available knowledge or if my sharing what i’ve learned will be helpful to others. So the rest of this post below the read more will be about ways to make stitches look neater, but will lead t ..read more