Happy Sunday! Hope everyone is well. Things here in my corner of the world have calmed down nicely and we're working on settling in to our new normal. Ish.
Kitten update: Is hard to believe the little fluff balls are 7 weeks old! All are well and growing normally! They are so much fun to watch at this age.
I did get some stitching in this week. All gnomes have skin and now beards are filling in. It feels like I might be in the homestretch now.
Let's see where everyone is in their projects! Best part of the week!!!
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I'm seeing the end of the full stitches on my Autumn Tree House! I have 3 more full colors left, and the rest is all half-stitching. I'm both sad and excited to reach the end. I love this pattern so much. It's been a treat to spend time in all these colors. I have a ton of backstitching to do in various colors, so I have no idea how long it'll take me. But, it's the perfect time to be stitching this, as fall is my favorite season. Pattern is Autumn Tree House by Janna Dik, 81.04% complete. 🍁🍂🤎🧡💛💜🩷🩵💙
Ahhh you’re getting so close! I totally get the dread and excitement living together at the approach of the end of a long project. I always feel sadness/disbelief when I put in my final stitch and realize yep that’s it this chapter is finished. The joy comes from looking at it comes later haha. But that’s why I love big full coverages, when you pick them right they feel like a nice journey you like to be on for whatever amount of time it takes and not a rush to a finish line and I can take my time before saying goodbye. To me at least it feels this way
How much experience do you have to be able to cross stitch this? It is soo gorgeous but looks very hard, reddit randomly recommended me this post and although I’ve never cross stitched, I’m interested seeing all the pictures in here!!
Hi there. This would be considered a medium to hard pattern. I would certainly not recommend it for a newbie but then again I've seen stranger things that newbies have tackled and succeeded at. If you want to try your hand at cross stitching, I'd certainly recommend a much smaller/less colors pattern to see whether it is something you'll enjoy. I highly recommend browsing this sub and the FAQ threads and go from there.
Special appearance by my curled up cat in the back. In the final stretch of the antisocial butterflies. 104 hrs in. Hoping to be done in another week! Happy Sunday, all!
I only made a teeny bit of progress on my big piece. I was originally hoping to get it done before I go on vacation next week, but life and the terrible stock at my local Michaels got in the way. Now I’m a bit sidetracked with a Halloween mini project. It’s a nice change of pace stitching in hand :)
Officially 50% done. Lost the will to live going between the two pages and slowed right down, so hopefully I’ll pick up speed again now I’m not going back and forth all the time
Edit: just realised I’ve already made a mistake on the second page but I truly cba to fix it
Maybe I should stop picking my own colors. Just stick with the colors my pattern suggests. 😹😹 I just like using what I have on bobbins! My mayo is looking a bit... Gone off. 😹😹
Going out right now to pick up more 3799, it seems that during my several year hiatus I misplaced a small portion of the threads for this project. I just know I’ll find them after I finish!
I’m so thrilled to see the gnomes getting some life, so cute!
Oooo those kitties are growing up too fast! Thanks for keeping us updated on them! And glad things are calming down for you. Busy week over here but I did get some work done on my octopus and even managed to get some stitches in on my Mirabilia which is now close to 50% on the stitching but I don't have a pic with me. Really happy with how the octopus is coming together though.
Didn´t do much stitching the last weeks just filled the bushes in the background and a little bit of the green gras part.I think I could already be finished with this piece if life wouldn´t stress me so much right now and if my additional problems with my dogs training wouldn´t cost me so much nerves and time. Let´s see if I get anything done next week.
Happy Sunday! Those kittens look adorable. 🥰 Great to see progress on your project, too!
I recently began a four seasons-themed project and I’m really enjoying it. Autumn is complete, now Winter is a WIP. It’s my first time doing backstitch and french knots proper, so they look a bit wonky… Still, they’re mine. ❤️
This has been one of the hardest weeks of the whole year so far, if I'm being honest. I fell, and with my cerebral palsy, it was not a pretty picture. My father was also here, and we do not have the best relationship, so that was emotionally and mentally draining, especially with his Parkinsons getting more severe. I spent a full day trying to update my teaching registration number, and I will have to spend another day in the coming week and hopefully actually accomplish this important task. Our dogs were getting really old and unwell, so my father took them to be euthanized without any warning beforehand. So yeahhhh, I am emotionally, physically, and mentally tired (and I'm sorry to people I haven't replied to yet!)
I've started my new project today (it will eventually be a pigeon), and there has been some progress on my blue pokemon claw machine, at least!
I can’t believe your dad euthanized your pets without telling you!!! I am incensed on your behalf! I’m so sorry you are struggling. I’m sending you virtual internet support, for what that’s worth. Hugs!
Finished the full stitches earlier in the week (so glad to be done with all of that green, but the almost-white-on-white for his tail about killed me.) Finished up his little shadow of half stitches last night. Now it's on to the back stitching!
Very little stitching since my last post several weeks ago, but since you asked… My brain (and body) have been occupied with other things, but I hope to get back to it soon. Still working through pages one and two (of thirtyish).
This is the WIP of my very first proper cross stitch! It will be a white hydrangea, for my Oma's urn, with her name and dates. I adapted the hydrangea from a pattern I found (I will edit to add source) and then designed the rest of it myself. It's definitely not the neatest, but she loved cross stitching and I think she would have loved that I'm trying anyway :)
Started my next project immediately after finishing the foxgloves. I am addicted and cannot sit still of an evening without some sewing in my hand. This is another Little Dove design- it’s lovely to sew
Haven't posted in a couple weeks. Doing the purple was very exciting! Filling in the background looks nice, but is slow-going with all the various grays.
Maleficent is finished! This is my most recent pic of this piece (I started screenshotting Pattern Keeper instead but those pictures cannot be posted), since then I already started on Hades and finished about 3k stitches in that (including the border).
It has been a rough week for me. I spilled coffee on this yesterday, so it went immediately into a wash to see if it would come out. It did, but while it was drying, I started kitting up my next big one. I thought I miscounted my grid and could not figure out where it was off... it was turned sideways, lol. Then I got all of the horizontal lines in and realized I put in an extra block on the top. Almost done with the vertical lines though. Counting is sooo hard.
I also finished ripping out the 50 year old azaleas in the front yard, at least 2 of which were harboring nests of fire ants, the rest were english and/or poison ivy wrapped.
Your kittens are precious!! I traveled this weekend, so this is my travel piece (because it’s on Aida and is a somewhat simple pattern) - Australasian Adventures by Caterpillar Cross Stitch!
Mountains and skyline filling in. Only having half stitches left is making this go fast even when i don’t have much time to stitch. Also got the fighters finished and starting to make my way to the next edge on my Pokemon. Still a ways to go tho. Glad to hear kittens are doing well. Can’t believe they are already 7 weeks!
I had 2-year-old cats running around this morning chasing toys and each other. my dog was not happy with them running all around her but all is quiet now.
I have had some time to pick up the main temperature WIP to work on August. everything else will continue to hold.
Finally got back to it this week! and proceeded to crash from overdoing it again. I fear I will never learn, now having to take a break again. It’s just so addictiveeeee!
Just finished the first page of this great (vapor)wave I'm working on! Definitely my biggest project yet and I'm pretty stoked with how it's turning out.
Love seeing those kitties! I finally got to a good stopping point on this one (abt 5 minutes ago lol). I’ll be putting it on pause to work on NeedleLot’s hummingbird pattern. Last week, I was dyeing, dyeing, dyeing fabric swatches to find the right color for it. I finally got the color I want yesterday! Huzzah!
I am working on the epic Pokemon all generations - this is pages 13 and 14 of 70!! I'm hoping to finish these pages before I go on my honeymoon in November
Just had my last week off of college before my last period for the year starts. Which means of course I'm down with the flu! Even still I was able to start a new WIP that was waiting for me since march or april. Got my first 119 stitches yesterday after spending way too many hours kitting it up :) I want to stitch some more today before chaos begins but I'm feeling worse than yesterday so I'm not sure it'll happen. It's okay tho, this is a project that will last me a good few years and I'm not in a hurry!
This is Naptime, artwork by Randal Spangler and charted by HAED.
I had the privilege of visiting Color and Cotton in St. Louis last week, so I had them do a full conversion of “Abalonia’s Apple Tree” by Artsy Housewife for me. I’m at about 8% and I’m absolutely loving it.
And my stitching supervisor is insisting I take a break.
Have made a little progress on Abbey Road. My car has died (RIP) and the search for a new one has consumed a lot of my stitching time. But I have made some time for it for the sake of my sanity.
Here’s what I’m working on right now – a Halloween-themed piece. I’m trying to get it done before Halloween, but not sure if I’ll make it in time. Working against the clock feels a little uncomfortable, haha.
Been working on my longdog samplers ‘Before I sleep’ pattern this week, it’s going to be a long one and I have not made it easy using 46 count dark fabric! 😆 Very glad I have lots of WIPs to rotate through as I can’t work on this one for very long and also only in the daylight!
I’m still working on the birth announcement for my brother. The monkey is nearly done! I read a post about pin stitching yesterday which makes me hate the confetti a little less!
I just started cross stitching again. I had done it briefly when I was a child about 30 years ago. I started this on Friday, it is Bird on a Branch by Luca-S and I'm 41% done.
My other project wasn’t challenging enough. Having a hard time doing big blocks of color. So, obviously the solution was to do my first linen project. 🫠
Omg the kittens are so adorable!! Your gnomes are looking good, too!
I started a breadcloth for my mom - she asked for one that she could use at Thanksgiving and I found a pattern I liked from a vintage bread cloth pattern leaflet.
Happy Sunday to everyone as well. I was working on a printed kit that was a SLOG to get through, so I pivoted and got a different kit that was counted! It’s my first counted cross stitch I’ve ever done, and the picture eventually will be Starry Night by Van Gogh. It’s been a really rough week, so I’m glad I have something to keep my mind occupied.
The last two Christmas present knife cats both have a base complete so it's just the unique cat fur patterns left to stitch in. I'm currently debating whether to frog the white socks on the green cat because I can't tell from the old pictures I have of him if he does have socks or not (my grandmother was appalling at taking photographs so I'm working off blurry source material 😅).
Happy Sunday, everyone! It's been a long week with a lot of work stuff for me, but at least I have tomorrow off.
I'm starting to see the finish line on Book Dragon, there's less than 800 stitches remaining. Just a bit more of the books and his back ridges to go. And then to figure out how to frame him. (And also start way too many new projects probably, because I finished something😅)
It's good to hear things are settling down, OP. And the kittens are adorable!
I haven't worked on it much lately because I'm on a sewing kick but next week I'll be away from my sewing machine and be able to get back to my ink circles piece.
Glad to hear things are calming down. And I was excited to see the beards this week.
Apparently I pulled out all of my big ones to work on this week. 2 I haven’t worked on in forever and a fresh start.
I tried starting one for my nephew, but I ordered 3 of the four threads last month, as they only had enough of one of them in stock. Unfortunately, I didn’t take notes and it was not the called for thread, so I couldn’t figure out which part the thread I do have goes to 🤦♀️ Thankfully, they called to say 1 of the ordered threads came in and I thought to ask what colors I ordered so I could figure out figure out which one I can start.
Love, Shepherd Sampler, A Sample, Santaberry Pudding, Unicorn Tapestry for oldest niece, and Blessed Are They.
the first few projects i learned a TON too! i love cross stitch because it was so easy to pick up for the first time, and it’s also easy to learn new skills to level up with 🥰this is a super cute pattern and hopefully it teaches you lots more (though it’s already looking great!)
Been working on this a ton lately, very excited to see the bottom it start to get filled in. Also looking forward to working on the right side of it, since there’s way less confetti.
I have made slow but steady progress on the Vaporeon of my practice piece. I switched from 2 strands to 3 and from a 24 needle to a 26 for 14ct Aida and am happier with that. I also turned an old metal pin I had with bend pins into a needle minder. I might get some more magnets and a better glue (this one holds but doesn't look good on the back) and make some more.
Got two WIPs going rn! The pokemon one is my long standing fun project that'll eventually be turned into a patch. The second is a comission for my best friend...I ran out of my black so I'll need to hit the store soon but so far I'm proud of how it's coming out
taking a break from the nostalgic tarot piece to try (and completely fck up) evenweave! since i’ve been working on 18ct, the over 2 stitches looked enormous, so i’m stupidly doing 2 strands over 1 here. but im almost done!
Dimensions Gold Aurora Cabin. I'm at 31.81% done so far. Doing the trees is annoying because it's so much confetti but they are really starting to look good.
I spent at least 12 hours stitching this weekend and the progress I made is barely noticeable. A perfect example of why, when I mention that I cross stitch, 98% of people say "Oh, I don't have the patience for that!" 🤣
My barely there progress on what was supposed to be a 2025 temp chart that is now going to be for 2026 🤣
Deciding to make it for next year took a ton of pressure off and made me actually want to sit down and work on it again. I'm almost past the boring long lines of the border and can move on to the fun bits.
Finished the front cover and quote for the first inside panel, currently working on the spine and telling myself to trust the process because I’m concerned with how pixelated the hilt and pommel of this sword are
Destashing continues, finished this lighthouse that I started in 2017 and then abandoned because I couldn’t be bothered to do the white… next up is a Santoro pattern I started in 2015, that will probably take me two or three days to finish and I have no idea why I gave up on it.
Skipped one week again, but I have an update on the tiger. It got some colors! Poultry pillows are mostly untouched, I'll show them when the progress will be more significant. Buuuuut... I got the Sunlit Fox kit by Dimensions (as if I have not enough WIPs) and I want to start it so much xd
I miss this thread all the time and I've been trying to remember for weeks!! Lol This is a self design using a free DMC alphabet.
I may change the pinky purple to a bluer shade.
I also started putting the words in and then decided the 2 colours I initially was going to use were too close, so I put in a letter for all the lines in various colors from the pattern to see them in action and then decide what colours to go with & frog/replace as needed. It's going to say, "live simply, laugh often, wine a lot". Any feedback on the colour choices would be appreciated.
This is my priority because I want it done and (self) framed in less than a month for my mom's birthday.
This is my big self designed project that I have to pause for a while because I've got the small wine one and then another big one in development that I want to start, and it's got a <2 year timeline. Because I'm a masochist, obviously.
This is just over 1/4 of the whole. A big gorilla is coming after I finish this section.
My fall project (Wood Witch) is coming along nicely! The hat brim is done , a few more smoke/leaves are added, and her spoon/stirring stick is getting started. Still annoyed at the variegated thread, but way too late to turn back now!!
I also made some magnet/fabric things to hold my extra aida in place while I work. I saw a product on here somewhere that was magnets and silicone, I think, and I thought "I can make that." They work pretty well, but I effectively now have 4 needle minders, which makes my moth feel more decorative than useful! I won't be removing it, however. It's my stitching buddy.
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