Crosstitch

Cross Stitch Supply

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Continuing the theme of my cross stitch supply, I will show you a wonderful Heritage Crafts kit named “Little Sew and Sew!” by Peter Underhill. The kit consists of 14 count cream Zweigart fabric, two charts with and without backstitch and instruction, John James needle, and DMC stranded cotton. Approximately design size is 6,5″ x 7,5″ or 18 x 19,5 cm. I got this kit as a gift from my daughter, and I love looking at it. Why don’t I cross-stitch it? I think I like to put off the pleasure for later, imagining how beautiful the already embroidered picture will look. I agree that it sounds weird, but I have a few kits that I like to bring out and look at them, go through the threads, smooth out the fabric, wonder if I should replace Aida with evenweave and then put it back. That’s just how I am.

Quaker Ball

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Lakesideneedlecraft Quaker Ball Sal bu Durene Jones pattern in progress: beautiful batterfly with flowers.

As you can see, I wrap a hoop so that it does not slip and I can achieve the right tension of evenweave. I usually wrap it with a simple bandage, but you can do it with any thin fabric you like.

New Cross Stitch Pattern

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New Sedge Warbler cross stitch pattern from our little summer birds series. The sedge warbler is a small, quite plump, warbler with a striking broad creamy stripe above its eye and greyish brown legs. It is a summer visitor, and winters in Africa, south of the Sahara Desert.

This is what the download files look like.

Review

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I am glad to show you one more review of our digital product – the Red Dachshund cross stitch pattern. Thank you, Suzanne, for these kind words; we appreciate the review very much. It is said in my country that there are dogs and there are dachshunds. It seems that a dachshund is not a dog at all but a state of mind. Dachshund owners, do you agree with this?

New Frog Pattern

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We have a new cross stitch pattern – the Red-backed Poison Dart Frog, a terrestrial frog, gets its common name from the splash of colour across its back that can vary from scarlet red to fiery orange. Less than an inch (2.5 centimetres) in length, this colourful frog is small enough to be included in the group of frogs called “thumbnails.” Primarily a ground dweller in lowland areas of the upper Amazon of Peru and Ecuador, it does occasionally climb trees. Its poison is moderately toxic (from https://www.aquariumofpacific.org/onlinelearningcenter/species/red_backed_poison_dart_frog)