#cross stitch

[ifatfirstyoudontfricassee]

8/13/26

Some Ediacarin Biota

[anim-soul]

Garden cottage Cross stitch

This is my first completed Cross Stitch Corner kit. It took me about 4 months to finish.

I totally fell in love with the watercolor look. It looks even better in the picture 🥰

A little review to the kit:

I buy kits from the cross stitch corner website for a couple of years, but I never before did one of their own brand kits.

The pattern is amazing and looks just like on the picture in the kit, even though that one is not a picture of an actual cross stitch but just pixel art, so I was a little bit afraid, that the colors wouldn't actually look good. But I was wrong, they look amazing 🤩

The thread is DMC and they even wrote the actual number next to the color. If you were to run out, you'd know which one to reorder. The thread never once ripped, which is amazing seeing as ...

The fabric was incredibly coarse and stiff as a board. Even after weeks of working with it, it didn't really soften any. But they have secured the edges, so it wouldn't lose threads, which is a huge plus.

The prize is amazing for such a huge and beautiful project. Definitely worth it.

Coming to my one big negative: the chart. For once, it is printed on glossy paper. Meaning, if you were to sit in the sun, or work under a light (Which you will most likely do during cross stitch) the glares are really bad😞. Next, the chart is printed on both sides of the glossy paper, meaning you have to keep turning it around and around once you reach the end of page one. Lastly, they used symbols within colored squares. The colors resemble the thread color, so a blue square on the chart means a blue cross. Not so bad at first glance, but as you might see, there are like a hundred different shades of blue in this and lots of them are nearly identical. No big deal, you might think. There is also a symbol. But several times, they used rather similar symbols in really similar colors. For example: both 1 and ! are light blue. p and q are azure and P and R are dark blue. Most of the time, those colors lie next to each other, too 😰

So yeah. Amazing pattern for an amazing prize using real great materials. But please someone. Do something about that chart. I have two more kits of that brand in my stash. Slightly worried for my eyes, but giddy to start on them one of these days 💙💙💙

[velerifan]

Small pattern of Summer lady 🌞🌊

[crossmystitches]

An X-Files stitch for a former roommate! This was a blast to stitch and was my first time using hand-dyed aida.

Pattern by CrossStitchFoxy.

[lpstitches]

page 3 Gyarados done! only Lapras left on this page

[stclements]

[sturdy-nerdy-stitchery]

Here's something recent I'm working on. I'm going to that out-of-state wedding at the end of the month and because money is tight, I was trying to think what I could do for a wedding gift.

And then I remembered I had some cross stitch towels that a neighbor had given me. And I have the floss. And I'm a cross stitch designer. I think the newlywed couple needs some monogrammed towels.

I was going well until I NOTICED I WAS OFF BY 10 FUCKING ROWS! And I was off by 10 fucking rows when I was doing the name"Alexandra". I frogged the name out and fixed it.

I'm going to leave the dachshund half finished. I'm already working on the other dachshund that's measured just right. I'm going to work on the groom towel. And when it's all done, I'll decide if I want to frog out the dog or not.

I have until the 26th to figure this out.

Until then, you can show your support by remembering that I have an Etsy site and I'm running a back to school sale

75% off all cross stitch patterns in my shop! Link in bio, Or just click down below

https://www.etsy.com/shop/SturdyNerdyStitchery

If you want to help show more support but you don't want to buy patterns, check out my Kofi page. You can also find all the free patterns there. Just don't complain about them. You're getting them for free unless you honestly feel so bad for these patterns that you need to toss a little money their way for what you think they're worth.

Which probably isn't much but some people might consider them a work of art. A work of genius art.

Just don't complain when you're stitching it. You got it for free. What more do you want. Link below

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