#riolis

[vole-mon-amour]

Look at this fat fluffy birdie!

Details are under the cut.

March 12. I'm sick, so just a bit of stitching. It's 3 strands of acrylic wool and the stitches do NOT look to my standard. :/ Well, I bought this kit to try to stitch with wool, so now I know I dislike it. Might as well try to re-stitch it with the regular embroidery floss and see how it looks.

BTW, I switched the fabric from Aida 14 to Lugana 27. A different color, too, so I don't have to do the French knots.

March 15. Forgot to take a Pic without any backstitch.

Finished it in 2 days (March 12,March 15). My first Riolis kit and probably my last, at least with "wool" thread. It's unraveling, it tangles, it's uncomfortable to work with, and I didn't like the pattern itself.

It's cute but it's also very meh. (UPD March 16: It's actually quite nice as a finished and hooped result, I just didn't like the process at all.) I wanted to try the wool thread and I did. Not a fan. 3 strands of regular embroidery floss is bad enough but wool? And the way it looks on fabric? Nope.

Oh, and I also did white stitches in 2 strands instead of 1 (and somewhere in 3 strands) because all I could see was the fabric under those stitches. I saw some people switching the fabric to 30-32 count Murano and those people are correct. I have no idea why the kit has Aida 14. Stuff like this works way better on evenweave.

[mathysphere]

RIOLIS blackwork kits no. 2055 ("Orange Mood") and no. 1946 ("The Lightness of Spring")

[somediyprojects]

Riolis: Lilacs After the Rain stitched by firstlemonpie.

“My first cross stitch project finished - go big or go home, right? Took about 6 month on and off and I’m hooked!”

[rethdis-love]

March - August.

I made this!♥ Fuchsia is love♥

[briannabug]

June Noon kit from Riolis

[sylvanfreckles]

Excuse the glare, I was trying to keep my reflection out.

Individual pictures below. I have two more to put up, but they needed to be cleaned before framing.

I might go back and mat around the fox, I'm not sure I like all the empty canvas. We'll see.

[anovapluto]

[alice-apsx]

“In this bright future you can't forget your past.”   - Bob Marley

third pic

photo by @alice-apsx​​