Coffee Admirers is done. I definitely still hate French knots. (And I totally cheated and used Colonial knots.) Back stitching wasn’t too bad, though I did take a break in the middle of it to power through some knitting, because it is definitely more boring than the cross stitch sections. I guess this spells the […]

The actual cross stitching for Coffee Admirers is done – there’s a fair amount of back stitching to go, and I do get a kick out how much that makes a difference in a back stitch heavy pattern. (Heck, I got a kick out of how much taking a picture worked to up the contrast

I get the biggest kick out of how big this pattern is compared to the actual product. The translation of the name of this is Coffee Admirers. I suspect it’s losing something in the translation from Russian. (It’s really not the best translation, but I don’t say that to cast shade. It’s a really well

First craft project of the year is done! This is Owl Forest’s Fly Agarics. It’s a fun project. Looking back at the picture on the site, the one big difference is that it’s designed to use some hand dyed variegated floss. I like the substitution colors that were given, but that variegation does look pretty

Things just look so much better when you’re stitching on fabric that actually shows off the main contrasting color! This is the Fly Agarics pattern from Owl Forest (furthering my current obsession with Russian designers). It’s nice to have a stitching project going again – I was leaning pretty heavily into the knitting to see

So here’s the danger of just blindly using fabric because you have it and you figure, why buy more? Do you see the Ecru colored stitches in amongst the top of those orange stitches? Of course you don’t – Ecru is pretty much the same color as the fabric! And those really need to be

Here are the two Punochka cross stitch patterns, completed. The second one is called Mushroom Umbrellas. I do have them both in the frames I was trying to fill, but the light this time of year is not conducive to taking good pictures of glass without ridiculous reflections. So someday I’ll get a picture once

I have two small square frames that I used to have sun and moon cross stitches I’d done a while ago in. I decided I’d really like to refresh those, so I found two patterns I liked in the Punochka shop in Etsy. This is the Halloween Moth. I’m doing the other pattern on the

I have two fairly small square frames that I had old sun and moon cross stitch patterns I’d done ages ago in, and I wanted to refresh those. I found two patterns I liked in Punochka’s Etsy shop (Russians really do have fantastic embroidery patterns). This is the Halloween moth – started it on Monday.

So in the little interlude as I wait for yarn for the Seaspray, I finished off this little cross stitch piece. I’m going to turn it into an ornament, because it just really seems the most appropriate way to commemorate this past year plus. (And we were too close to the move last year to