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I finished the "Drink and know things" cross stitch! The gift exchange is tomorrow. This should be fun.

The wine picture was from a Maria Diaz design called "Vineyard Holiday" in The World of Cross Stitching (sorry, don't know which issue). There were some fields and a house but I took those out to make room for the text.

The font was from a book, Better Homes and Gardens 2001 Cross Stitch Designs.

The thread shades are an unholy alliance of DMC and whatever Anchor I had lying around, plus a last-minute substitution of DMC 2 for the highlights in the glass.

I am really pleased with how it turned out.

dianec42

I am working on a silly piece for the upcoming office gift exchange. It's a Maria Diaz design called "Vineyard Holiday" from a recent issue of The World of Cross Stitching. (Sorry I don't know which issue.)

I am leaving out the fields and house in the background. In the resulting space I'll put these words:

To Do Today:
__ Drink
__ Know things

Here's my progress so far:
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I'm not at all happy with the green highlights in the glass. It would look fine with green fields behind it but as things stand it doesn't really make sense. I'm thinking of pulling out the green and replacing it with a very pale sky blue. Colour choices (existing green and proposed blue) are below the cut:
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What do you think?

the_other_sandy

Pattern by Mari McDonald of Whispered by the Wind. Fabric (18 ct. aida) by Picture This Plus.

I had wanted to have this done by Halloween, but real life had other plans for me.

Current Mood: accomplished

mewbirb

current progress on Dimensions "Windflowers". There are going to be three flowers there. I WAS NOT QUITE EXPECTING THIS LEVEL OF DIFFICULTY WHEN I GOT THIS KIT

the_other_sandy

Have a chibi human Derek Hale to go with chibi werewolf Derek Hale.

Pattern by YijiCrafts on Etsy (aka YijiTumbles on Tumblr) based on her own adorable fan art. I would link to the pattern, but her Etsy shop is on hiatus and I can’t get to it.

I've had this done except for the eyes since February. What happened was that for some reason one of the colors for his eyes instantly turned the same color as his skin as soon as I added the last stitch. It looked kind of weird, so I proceeded to rip out and redo his eyes. And then again. And then again in different colors so many times I’m surprised I didn’t wear a hole in my aida.

This is what I finally settled on. I’m not 100% in love with it, but I’ve tried so many colors that I think this is as good as it’s going to get. In any event, I’m ready to work on something else now.

Current Mood: accomplished

angrboda

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Well, my afternoon plans just fell through due to illness (not me) and it's a bit grey and rainy outside. Good day to get some more allotment work done!

glinda

So, often in Winter I don't do very much, if any, cross-stitch due to the whole lack of light thing. Preferring instead to knit in winter and cross-stitch in Summer. However, this year I have actually been doing a fair amount of stitching, but due to the whole lack of light issue, I've not really been photographing my progress. But this is where I'd got to in late October. (I reckoned in my last post that I would have at least a little fairy to show off by the next week...and I did...I just never posted.)

( and here we are in January )

Current Mood: accomplished

mitsuru_sempai

Finished "Serenity and Endymion" last week)))

the_other_sandy

Pattern by VickieDesigns on Etsy. I would normally link to the pattern, but her shop is on hiatus.

I swapped out the original red (DMC 349) for DMC 321 because I like my reds a little bolder.

Current Mood: accomplished

glinda

I knew I'd missed a couple of weeks of checking in but I hadn't realised it was nearly a month. Anyway things are starting to take shape! I'm starting to be able to see where other parts of the design will fit in. The places where the leaves will slot in for example. And I finally, finally got to actually put some purple in - when I picked this design all those years ago, I was under the impression there'd be a lot more purple involved than there actually is...

I am actually a little further on with the design than this picture shows, but not by very much. I started in on some pink, but I haven't got very far yet. Hopefully next week's post will have some actually fairy in it!

the_other_sandy

Mini Wetterhorn

Pattern by Tereena Clarke of Artecy Cross Stitch based on a painting by Joseph Anton Koch.

Stitch parking level 2: achievement unlocked. I can't tell you how many times I went to park a thread and found another thread already parked there. I think I properly fixed everything I caught, but goodness only knows if this looks anything like it was supposed to.

I can’t decide if I’m ready to level up to the pattern I’m dying to make, or if I should do one more slightly harder pattern first before working my way up to that. My end goal is a massive HAED pattern with 234 colors.

The second picture is a distance shot because this pattern was done in the pointillist style, so the farther away you stand, the more detailed it looks.

Current Mood: accomplished

ilyena_sylph

I started on working on tiny Yule-things for ornaments to use as gifts for my assorted cousins. This is the current one!

glinda

This week was a good week for the project, I managed to get lots done. Helped in no small part by having the day off on Friday and having decided to binge listen to a podcast series while I was at it. Unsurprisingly, around five solid hours of cross-stitching does make an impact on a project.

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glinda

I haven't made a sizeable cross-stitch project in ages, so I was looking for one to do and came across a very old project. Back when I first got into cross-stitch in my early teens I found a pattern for a flowerfairy that I wanted to make. It was a little overambitious for my age and patience level. (Not least because, I didn't realise when I bought it that it was just the pattern so I had to track down all the many individual shades of thread for it.) Anyways, a couple of years ago I got tired of it sitting in a box taunting me whenever I came across it, went through my thread collection and gathered all the threads for it that I had and took advantage of a craft store closing down to get the rest of the shades I needed and bagged them up so they were all together for when I next wanted a big project to work on.

Fast forward to this summer when I was looking for a bit of a challenge, I came across the fairy and decided that its time had come. I've been working away at it steadily for the last month or so but I keep meaning to and then forgetting to take photos of my progress along the way to keep me motivated, but I finally did today so I'm going to try to get back into posting weekly update posts as I've found them really motivating for large projects in the past.

( rather bigger than my usual fair )

angrboda

My job has been pretty awful and stressful since spring and I'm only just now getting back in a crafty place again. I just didn't have the brain capacity for very much before.

However, Project Christmas Stockings is taking off! I'll be using this tutorial, with some modification to do with personalisation. I've got all the materials I need and have started on the names. I initially thought I'd replace a bit of the stocking cuff with the embroidered aida, but then a couple of things happened (I blundered with the placement when making the start on the first one, and have discovered a stubborn stain on the aida for another part), so rather than starting all over, I've decided to just cut the aida smaller and applique it onto the cuff instead. And after I thought about that for a bit, I think I actually like that idea better than my original (although much easier) idea.

I'm using this varicoloured floss for the names, which I've never worked with before. The effect is quite good! I had wanted a redder red, but this was the reddest I could get. It's not too bad though. I do feel like the strands must be finer, because I'm not getting nearly as good coverage as with regular floss even railroading to the best of my ability. They don't seem to be with the naked eye, but there's definitely a difference from other things I've worked on the same cloth. Can anybody confirm or deny? (ETA forgot to say I always use DMC floss)

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zaluzianskya

Can we share patterns here? Because I made one! (Please re-upload to your own host if sharing.)

This font comes from a really cute mobile and 3DS game called Fairune, an action/puzzle RPG in the vein of The Legend of Zelda. It's free on mobile and I highly recommend it.

(I say "pattern", but I really just sized the text up and put a grid on it. But it's a cute pixel font and I thought some others might have use for it!)

Included: Capital and lowercase roman letters, Arabic numerals, hiragana, katakana, and punctuation.

ghislaine

Hi, fellow stitchers,

I have a huge weakness for cross-stitch magazines! I discovered them about ten years ago in Barnes and Noble. Many of them there are published in the U.K., and I am in the U.S., so the price can be rather high. I have still purchased several over the years. Recently I found them on Magzter for my iPad for about a fourth of the newsstand price, and I just bought the August 2017 issue of Cross Stitch Crazy. CSC is definitely my favorite, since Quick and Easy Cross Stitch was discontinued years ago. Plus, the overseas magazines in the newsstand often come sporadically, and past their season. I love my e-copy of the magazine, and I can print out the patterns from my iPad as I use them.

Does anyone else buy the cross stitch magazines, either on the newsstand or online? I was just curious about your experiences with them, and your favorite magazine, if you have one!

Current Mood: worried

ghislaine

I have not completed any projects this summer (yet), but these are from last summer:
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Current Mood: happy

tarnera

Okay I found those bookmarks so here's the image heavy post I promised last time.

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dchenes

The office-inspired piece for the data scientists reminded me that I did one too.

We had a consultant visit last November, and over the course of two days he said "Less is more" about twelve times. In context it was good advice, and I said we should have it tattooed on various people. My boss said I should embroider it so we could hang it on the wall and tell people to refer to it. So one night I went home and dug out some scrap linen, and now my boss's office door says Less Is More. I debated whether to put it in a really ornate frame, just to be silly.
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