A place for me to track my embroidery projects past and present.
Below are some of my previous cross-stitch projects - many done whilst I was undergoing cancer treatment. Recently I've been branching out into other types of embroidery, but cross-stitch is where I started.
I first picked up kits in Hobbycraft to give me something to do in the evenings (when I wasn't - or sometimes even when I was at theatre rehearsals). Bookmarks, pincushions and the like. I found most of the designs fairly boring but I enjoyed working them.
Next I moved on to bigger pieces with more interesting designs - many from the wonderful Bothy Threads, including the great Dictionary of... set:
After that I realised I had a full on stitching obsession and got a subscription to CrossStitcher Magazine to give me more designs to work and choose from. I first got the subscription just before Christmas...
I kept projects going on and off out of the magazine, as well as picking up kits here and there - especially wedding samplers for friends (which I didn't have the forethought to photograph). I also started adapting patterns.
This is one of my favourite projects so far - I started it the night before I went for major surgery, and helped me through my recovery - stitching apparently being pretty good physio after having a mastectomy...
This was a pattern from CrossStitcher, but can also be found as a canvaswork piece in Adventures in Needlework (a lovely book by Jessica Aldred and Emily Peacock). I changed the colours to match in with the decor of our house. Later I made a foot cushion for my husband by adapting the font to spell out his name, using xStitcher software to design the additional letters I needed.
And one more of my older projects - this is a pattern by What Delilah Did - who I first saw doing a pattern in CrossSticher (the Libelulle - which I have also done but not yet finished into a cushion) - The Bee. I really enjoyed doing a single colour pattern (although the libellule in all silver was hard work - I still can't get the hang of metallic threads).
Finished off with leftover silk from a pair of curtains I made with my Mum. The evenweave I got as plain white from Willow Fabrics, and then dyed using Dylon in the washing machine.
So those are some of my older cross stitch projects, the next few posts will be my more recent projects I've been working on as I expand my embroidery skills.
Below are some of my previous cross-stitch projects - many done whilst I was undergoing cancer treatment. Recently I've been branching out into other types of embroidery, but cross-stitch is where I started.
I first picked up kits in Hobbycraft to give me something to do in the evenings (when I wasn't - or sometimes even when I was at theatre rehearsals). Bookmarks, pincushions and the like. I found most of the designs fairly boring but I enjoyed working them.
Next I moved on to bigger pieces with more interesting designs - many from the wonderful Bothy Threads, including the great Dictionary of... set:
After that I realised I had a full on stitching obsession and got a subscription to CrossStitcher Magazine to give me more designs to work and choose from. I first got the subscription just before Christmas...
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| Although this is mistletoe, the cushion lives on our bed all year long |
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| Sadly not moose, but deer |
This is one of my favourite projects so far - I started it the night before I went for major surgery, and helped me through my recovery - stitching apparently being pretty good physio after having a mastectomy...
This was a pattern from CrossStitcher, but can also be found as a canvaswork piece in Adventures in Needlework (a lovely book by Jessica Aldred and Emily Peacock). I changed the colours to match in with the decor of our house. Later I made a foot cushion for my husband by adapting the font to spell out his name, using xStitcher software to design the additional letters I needed.
And one more of my older projects - this is a pattern by What Delilah Did - who I first saw doing a pattern in CrossSticher (the Libelulle - which I have also done but not yet finished into a cushion) - The Bee. I really enjoyed doing a single colour pattern (although the libellule in all silver was hard work - I still can't get the hang of metallic threads).
So those are some of my older cross stitch projects, the next few posts will be my more recent projects I've been working on as I expand my embroidery skills.
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