Feb 24
Made this cross stitch piece years ago. Finally decided I wanted to display it so it's now on the parlour door in our new house.
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Made this cross stitch piece years ago. Finally decided I wanted to display it so it's now on the parlour door in our new house.
For the record, reknit darning is simple in principle but amazingly fiddly in practice.
Cross stitch thrifting challenge: old magazine-cover kits where the pattern was in the magazine and not in the kit, and is thus long gone. (In this case, Cross Stitch Collection #32...)
Reconstructing the pattern from the cover photo isn't always possible, but sometimes it is! Here's the rough version (with a few mistakes) and the final, cleaned up and with the random centre letter replaced with a little heart because I felt like it:
And here's the finished piece!
Pretty happy with that, all things considered. ^_^
Bought one of those build-it-yourself book nook kits and added some vintage Little Guys from my stash to make it look lived in. ❤️ (Kit: Rolife "Silent Corner Study", if anyone wants their own. I've fallen completely in love with these tbh, they're like jigsaw puzzles only better.)
I haven't posted anything here for a bit because there's been a lot going on in the first part of this year and I haven't had much time for crafting lately, but I've been on vacation staying with my best friend and I got a couple of little cross stitch kits done from my stash:
Top one is Lanarte life style collection #34363, designer Marjolein Bastin; second is an old National Trust kit, designer Marion Thorpe, "Snowdrops at Anglesey Abbey". Not decided yet how I'm going to finish these, but they were fun to do.
Amigurumi mushroom, attempt #1. Pattern mine. Still trying to figure out how to make the gill section work the way I want but this is a cute starting point so I'll take it. [Ricorumi dk cotton yarn, 3mm crochet hook.]
Cross stitch winter scene, from the free kit in Cross Stitcher magazine #416. As usual, I end up finishing leftover Christmas projects well into spring but that's fine, I can add it to the decoration box for next year...
Little birds on a birthday card for my dad. From a kit; Cross Stitcher magazine #408.