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[dchenes]

Hello all! I jumped ship from LJ and washed up on DW, and since I have an "embroidery" tag (by which I meant cross stitch) in my own journal, I thought I would join up here too. I'm glad this community is here, because almost everyone else I know who used to do cross stitch has given it up for knitting.

I've been stitching for sixteen years now and have shockingly few pictures of what I've done (I keep giving finished ones away), but this is what I'm currently working on: Heaven and Earth Designs Cheshire Cat. I'm doing it on black linen because doing it on white (as suggested) struck me as a really bad idea. Doing it on black isn't really a splendid idea either, but as long as I have a strong enough light behind it, it works.

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[moonvoice]

Oh what a stunning chart. I love working on black (are you working on Aida or linen?) but man I always end up regretting it a few times halfway through. I have a black simple piece I'm working atm (just a simple Dimensions one from memory) and they have black sections of thread and it's like... okay then, fine, FINE. :D

[dchenes]

It's on 28-count linen, over one thread (I'm that much of a masochist). But it's coming out gorgeous.