Today we moved to level 2 but I’m not going to dwell on that 🙂 I’m going to focus on my stuff instead. Do a wee round up of projects completed over the past few months 🙂 I really do want to get back into the habit of this 🙂
My first grandbaby was born about this time last year. I made this for her room 🙂 Its a free pattern from a wonderful artist. If you want to follow her she is on Facebook as Cross stitch patterns by Maria Brovko https://www.facebook.com/groups/CutePatternsByMaria/
My brother turned 40 & got married on the same night. This was my present to them. I just love it! The colours are stunning when you see it in real life. It’s an Etsy pattern and I will make it again one day for my own home 🙂 https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/518613247/when-life-gives-you-lemons-cross-stitch
Sorry if this offends anyone. A very good friend of mine got diagnosed with cervical cancer early last year. It was very very aggressive and she only had a small chance of survival but she did it. I made this for her during that time. Again it was an Etsy pattern https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/464519735/cross-stitch-pattern-fuck-cancer-raise?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=fuck+cancer&ref=sr_gallery-1-30&organic_search_click=1
I do very intense full coverage cross stitches most of the time. They are extremely time consuming with most of them taking at least 3 years to stitch. They are also very fatiguing to stitch. Due to this, every so often I need a wee break which I am currently doing now. I’ve found a wonderful designer called The Witchy Stitcher and she does some awesome gothic horror works with fairly simple designs. I’m not usually a huge fan of the simple designs but I love hers. I stumbled on her by accident when one of my stitching groups were talking about something called the Universal Monsters SAL (Stitch A Long) which was about to start and featured, that’s right, the old school Universal movie monsters. I joined up and loved it! Had a absolute ball stitching it and when finished it went to live with my cousins 5 year old boy who also loves it 🙂
I had that much fun stitching this that I promptly signed up for the next one featuring more modern movie monsters, Chopping Mall. I’ve very nearly finished this one 🙂
I’m only doing snapshots of this one at the moment as its more fun for the big reveal at the end 😉 If your interested this link will take you to both SAL’s 🙂 https://www.thewitchystitcher.com/sals
Last, but not least, where I got to with Warm My Heart before I needed a wee break. This is about halfway done now.
So many teeny tiny stitches haha 🙂
Till next time xxx
A Handmade Life 