| | This is a community to share your cross stitch works with other interested people. We're also here to help with any embroidery questions you have! The moderators for this community are ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif?v=92.2) bekscilla (previously bekki_n), cathouse_blues and emohdee - please be aware that you can contact any of us by emailing bekki_n and cathouse_blues at livejournal dot com and siran underscore drauka at yahoo dot com Although this community is dedicated to cross-stitch, please don't feel that you have to stick to cross stitch! Other types of embroidery or similar crafts are welcomed. Please however, go to the LJ FAQ for all Livejournal questions. ************ There are only a few rules here: Cut Tag any pictures, don't advertise things and don't share copyrighted material. All pictures must be cut tagged. Pictures of your work are welcomed and encouraged, however we do ask that you use lj cut tags ( go to the FAQ and livejournal specific tags section for help). Don't advertise things includes advertising your auctions. If you want to advertise a community, use LJ's official page at . If you'd like to organise a swap, please feel free and if you're giving stuff away, please only request payment for postage. Failure to follow these rules will result in your post being removed. Don't share copyright material: Most, though not all, kits, charts and patterns have a statement reading something like "permission granted to copy/photocopy for personal use." "Personal use" means so you can write on it, mark it up, use highlighter, whatever – usually so you don't damage the original – but it does not mean you can give away or sell photocopies, scans, electronic files or other copies of the product for someone else's "personal use". It's fine to post an image of the product (behind an lj-cut), or a link on where to find it, but please do not post that you will share a chart or pattern, nor links to "sharing sites". The moderators will remove such posts or comments, and those who post them will receive a warning the first time. Repeated offense will result in banning from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif?v=92.2) cross_stitch. NOTE: Please be kind to your fellow members who may be under eighteen or who may read the community at work and restrict your icons to a "G" rating. If you have any question about where your icon might fall, please feel free to contact a moderator. ************ If you have any questions about the community, feel free to email me, and put cross-stitch community as the subject. If you'd like to see any of the tags used by the community, and what has been posted under them, click hereTips!The lovely pw_pw has offered to make charts from any image that you have. See this post for more information A tip from buffalogal: Got a dimensions kit, and run out of a colour? Go to dimensions-crafts and request the colour you need. Or, if you want to convert your dimensions colours to DMC, innocentxv suggests this siteFrom midnightsangelc: How to make a pillow for a different way of finishing your work Thanks to l8ntmthrnr: Some tips on using metallic thread, or blending filamentFrom hanael: Framing tipsFrom tersa: Tips on travelling with your sewing, in the US (check the comments for links to British rules) - also try Transporting Knitting Needles & Needlepoint (in the USA) located hereThanks to l8ntmthrnr: A fantastic site for all kinds of x-stitch tips is here (Thanks galyndean for the updated again link) Thanks to closetblonde: Unsure what your pattern will look like on different materials? Check here to see how it'll look!
| After 2+ years, it's finally done. Two down, two to go. Design: The Evening Star Designer/Source: Alphonse Maria Mucha (original artist) from ArtofStitching.com Website: www.artofstitching.com Fabric: 22 ct. Hardanger Color: white Floss: DMC, chart-indicated Started: 07 (or 17th?) Jan 2010 Finished: 28 May 2012 Size: 5" x 7" Goofs: I like to call them "the colors are so dark and close, no one will notice" customizations... Purpose: for me. Notes: this is the (former) freebie size that is now part of a miniature-set for purchase. Companion piece to The Moon. ( ''And I turned away to thee, Proud Evening Star, In thy glory afar...'' ~ Edgar Allen Poe )I think I need a break for a bit from 22ct Muchas, lol. I'm thinking something nautical. | |
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| Hi all,
I know, I must have asked it before and forgotten all about it, so now (shamefacedly) I must ask again.
Any good online stores for cross-stitch supplies in New Zealand? Or is it cheap and fast enough from the big international sites? Nothing fancy: just Aida and DMC. Alternatively, any good stores in Christchurch area?
I always loved cross-stitch, but after moving here I find myself in serious need of its terapeutic effects :) | |
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| I found this site the other day - I can't believe I never thought look for something like this before! - and have been busy wandering through people's projects, and thinking "like this, very jealous of that, how have you got the patience to do the other??" for everthing. A bit about myself: I've been stitching for about 25 years, I think. I know the first completed project I have is a little cushion with butterflies on it, and that's from Textiles class in Year 9 (Form 3, or about 14-15 years old). I look at it now and shudder a little inside - mostly because all the crosses go in opposite directions! I do all sorts of stuff, whatever takes my fancy I guess. I loathe backstitching, but appreciate the fact that it can make a pitcure come to life, so will struggle on through with many muttered complaints. I was searching through my stash the other day, and have come to the conclusion that I will need to live to about 500 to finish all the projects I want to do - and I'm always finding new things to do! I'm currently "between" projects, I finished a birth sampler on the weekend, and am about to put half-a-dozen kits in a bag and "lucky-dip" to find out what I'm doing next... Possibilities are Michael Powell bookmark (x2), Sarah Kay "Picnic Lea", Lilliput Lane "Harebell Cottage", and Margaret Sherry "Stitch in Time" (plus a multitude of freebie kits from magazines, which I find are good for the sense of accomplishment when I'm struggling with a large project). (apologies in advance if I've mucked up the pictures-cut, I'm still getting used to things like this) ( Birth Sampler )( Clockwork Faerie )( Eeyore bookmark ) | |
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| Remember the good old days when Walmart carried all the DMC skeins a girl could ask for? And then those dark days back in '07ish when they started phasing out all their stitchery? Well, have I got good news for you!! I saw on the HAED BB that people were starting to notice some stitching goodies in Walmart, so I decided to check it out.
Walmart has very recently started carrying a limited selection of DMC threads, and smaller cross stitch kits. It may not be a full selection of floss colors, but I imagine that the most common sellers are well represented... Where I am (NJ), the skeins are selling @.30 a piece. That's between .5 and .9 less than buying from Michaels, Jo-Ann's, or AC Moore!
As far as kits go, it's mostly mini bucillas, and janlynns. Quick stitches. Nothing big, nothing too fancy, but it made my heart feel happy to see it there.
There are also some small packs of Aida. Mostly 14 ct, but one rack of 18ct. There were some embroidery needles, but I don't think any of them were exclusive to x stitch. Lots of goodies to pick through!
Just FYI. :) I'm heading to a Super Walmart tomorrow, to see if their floss selection is better. Will keep you posted. <3 <3
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| Begun on May 8th, 2011, put aside for November through January. Completed 5/26/12. This is one year of my life! :) There's one gigantic picture under the cut. ( Read more... )- Mood:ecstatic
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| After much procrastinating, I have finally finished Teresa Wentzler's Egyptian Sampler! ( Picture! ) | |
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| Eclipse by Fire Wing Designs. WIP as of May 20. Not quite in focus, but taken without flash and colours are pretty close, better than with flash. 4 dragons done, 4 more to go! ( Photo behind the cut ) | |
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| When someone posts a quote I really like on LJ or DW: ( Read more... ) | |
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| This is the last time my Southern Social will be a WIP! I have done nothing else since Friday afternoon. No eating, no sleeping...just stitching. I'm almost desperate to start something new. God willing, I will be finished next weekend. Pray for me. I am in backstitch Hell! ( Pics!! )Photobucket doesn't really let you blow the image up enough to see the back stitching, so you can see a super-sized image here. I'm currently struggling with the apex of the roof. You can see the huge back stitches under the round window. It's not straight across, but not really enough of a slant to make it easy to gradually lower the line. If I make smaller stitches, it doesn't come out right. Bigger stitches, and they won't lay flat. Any ideas? I tried couching, but that also doesn't look right. I think I'll try ONE more time, at the very end, and if it doesn't come out the way I want, I'll just pack it up and not worry about it, you know? The house literally has me in Hell! I can't wait until it's over! My needles are so hard to pick up! This is the last time I save the back stitching for the end! EDIT: As I said, I tried one. more. time. It worked! I think threatening to throw it into a burning trash heap helped! lol! I put in the last backstitch at 11:20. I'm going to check over it one more time, but I'm pretty sure it's done. Now to just finish the top left corner... Thank God it's mostly half stitches. I really enjoyed this design. I did! I'll enjoy it even more when it's in a frame, on the wall!! It will be done by the weekend. | |
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| Today is not only just my usual stitching update day, but it's also the day of a partial solar eclipse! I love when things work out like that. Here is what it looked like last week. ( Read more... ) | |
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| So I had a surprise baby announcement to complete recently, for friends who adopted a baby girl. Their son, Max, was the recipient of my very first baby announcement (Wild Ones alphabet), and I knew I wasn't going to have time to do something so complicated for this little girl. As it turns out, the pattern I chose had some beadwork involved, and I haven't done beadwork before, so I figure it stands up well. ( Baby Announcement, Flapper Style )Having finished this announcement, it's on to the next one. Two more, and then I get to go back to stitching Erised. HURRAH. | |
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| This isn't exactly cross stitch, but it's related. This is a picture a friend of mine made for me. Anyone who has had a dreaded case of the frogs will appreciate it. :) ( Read more... ) | |
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| Had to share. I have finnally bought my fabric. 28 count Mystic Seas. It is very pretty. I will post a picture of supplies as soon as I get it. - Mood:happy
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| My soon-to-be-former roommate's mom, who has been like a second mom to me since I've been out here, is very fond of tea sets. So when I found Marie Barber's "A Cozy Tea" in my Just CrossStitch Feb '05 issue, I had to make it for her for Christmas. Alas, it kept making me want to claw my eyes out - tan/brown toile on cream Hardanger lol - and therefore took me until yesterday to finally finish stitching. Sadly, I kept pushing to get it finished and never stopped to take progress pics, but here are some finished ones for you all! Also, at the end are a couple Mother's Day cards and a birthday card that I did in the past week. ( Here be pics! ) | |
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| Does anyone know where I can find some small, kid-friendly, simple/beginner, printable (preferably free) cross stitch patterns for my friend's daughter? She's about 8 years old and wants to learn to cross stitch. I think I've seen some somewhere online, but I'm having a brain fart and can't remember where. Thanks in advance! | |
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| Does anyone know of any stores that sell cross-stitch patterns in Montana? I'm going to be on a road trip in a couple of weeks, and was hoping to maybe find some nifty new patterns while I'm there. - Mood:curious
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| Here is the latest update in my Dance of the Total Eclipse. This is what it looked like two weeks ago (I didn't post last Sunday, since I hadn't done a lot of work) ( Read more... ) | |
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| Hey all! I'm still more or less alive, although I have next to nothing to show for my stitching absence. I think I hit the 'wall' a few weeks back and just couldn't seem to focus at all. I was actually beginning to worry that I was loosing my interest in stitching altogether, which would be bad news as there isn't much else for me to occupy my days with. I decide to try starting another pattern that I had lined up, this one a commission from my aunt and see if a change of pace might help me get back into the swing of things. ( This way please )Thanks for looking! | |
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| Recently I picked up a "Cross Stitcher" magazine and fell in love with the baby sampler in there. I stitched it up even though I'm not totally sure who it will be for. (So it does not have any name or stats...obviously!) :) Picture under the cut! ( Read more... ) | |
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| I finally finished my Heirloom Christmas Sampler and have just sent it off to the framer. Dance of joy! I had a bit of trouble with the tree embellishments, especially the silk ribbon roses. I must have tried about 50 times to do the "twirled rose" but couldn't get it so I did a spider-web rose and it looks okay. I also added a bit of slightly shiny dark red fabric behind the hardanger hearts and the drawn thread areas. Hopefully, I will post one more time about it in the summer when I find out if I've won a ribbon at the fair or not. :) Also worked up a cute little design by Lynne Nicoletti, "A Robin's Christmas". Not a fan of aida but it worked well with the project, which works up into a little envelope. ( Christmas in May ) | |
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| So my parental units visited me this weekend, which meant I could visit my NSLNS (which is moving a few miles closer to me, yay!) whereupon I had a little S.E.X. My newest purchases: I've been craving Christmas stuff lately, go figure. 12 Days is going to be a birthday present, so I won't get it or its fabric until November, but that's okay; I've got several WIPs that are drifting toward UFO territory that I can, and ought to, work on in the meantime. The point is when I got home I serged my new fabric so it wouldn't fray. In the process, I had to remove the information sticker that was on the fabric for Santa's Sleigh, since it was too close to the edge and would have been serged down otherwise. The sticker has the fabric type/brand, count, size, cost, and my NSLNS's logo. Instead of stapling it back to the fabric once it was serged, I stapled it to a 3x5 card and wrote down what I got it for. I have lots of projects that I've already stitched that I wish I could remember what I stitched it on, and if I'd thought of this when I resumed stitching I would be able to check. Darnit. (I think I'll also start full pages of lists of things on fabrics that are basic: 22/28/32count natural/white/self-dyed linen/evenweave/hardanger.) Oh, and if anyone's developing a cell phone app for tracking flosses, they might want to consider adding Kreiniks and Mill Hill beads to it if they haven't already. I don't have a phone that runs apps, but one such would have been useful as I know I re-purchased Kreiniks that I already had and thus didn't need. :/ - Mood:happy
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| I'm helping start a cross stitch group here in Auckland, New Zealand. We're all young 30-somethingers with a couple in their 20s, and a few in their early 40s. Cross stitch is unfortunately considered rather unfashionable here in NZ and we want a name for the group that isn't boring/tame/meh.
Please help me come up with a list of awesome names for a cross stitching group? :)
My own endevours aren't really exciting me.
And if you're an Aucklander and want to join the group, let me know!
Thankyou! - Mood:excited
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| It's been three weeks since I updated, and boy is it a big one! The closer I get to the finish, the heavier that needle is.... Pic heavy because there's a backside photo in there too! ( Read more... )If you decide to give the pin stitch a try, post pics! A good tutorial can be found here. I'll be having a root canal tomorrow. It's my first, and God willing, my last. I'm so nervous! Stitch a little stitch for me, and send good thoughts my way! :) - Mood:peaceful
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| Woohoo page 12 is done and I'm a third of the way through! ( Here we go ) | |
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| these are not my stitchies, rather they are the my "other sister" Lisa Rae's (there's three of us- me, Amy, and Lisa Rae who stitch. I'm the Master, they're the Padawans...) anyway- I did some framing for her and I just have to show them off... especially the cluck-clucks. Lisa Rae did an awesome job. ( make withe the clickity, chickity! )Thanks for looking!! | |
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| I finished my Air Force motivation thing!~ *grins* It took 5 weeks and 2 days and I'm still not sure how to frame/finish it. The stitching is 11"X 13.5" and the fabric is 13.5"X 17" Bad cell picture, but I'm really proud of it and it turned out AMAZING! ( Bad picture under here ) | |
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| Hi, ladies - we're going to be in Northwestern Indiana (Valparaiso area) in two weeks; I was wondering if anyone knows of any good cross-stitch shops there I should visit? We'll also be in Milwaukee briefly, but I'm not sure I'll have time for anything that isn't downtown or very easily accessible from the downtown area. Thanks! | |
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| Not even two weeks. But to be fair, this week I have been so sick, I'm not sleeping well but I have insane focus. So I finished it :D Last week. ( Read more... )- Mood:sick
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