Cross Stitch and Craft Cafe 2023 - come join us!

nmm

Coxy, i'm the same its hard going from crochet to cross stitch, my friends are shocked at how slow cross stitch is, haha.

Latest seascape update, i'm pleased it was mostly large chunks of colour

Madquilter59

Thanks for the welcome have put dictionary of gardens aside as I have just stitched this for a great-granddaughter.

Madquilter59

Wow some lovely finishesx

nmm

Lovely madquilter, congrats on the new arrival

Drawingaline

Work in progress. Almost a quarter completed. Remembering how much i hate the satin threads.

nmm

Really vibrant colours drawingaline, i hate black aida only used it once for a tiger and i had to stitch the black stripes!!! How do you find using your hoop? i switched to R&R Clip frames and never looked back, now using the lap frame version.

Charly27

Congratulations Madquilter. Lovely finish.
DAL colours are stunning. I have a project to be stitched on black, hoping to do it in the summer when it’s easier on the eyes maybe!
I’m still working on Cactus, cactus 5 just needs light green stripes and the pot infilled white. It was a prickly subject with constant frogging!
Then I have the RH border and stitch the middle. 

Hope you are all well.

Drawingaline

nmm said:

Really vibrant colours drawingaline, i hate black aida only used it once for a tiger and i had to stitch the black stripes!!! How do you find using your hoop? i switched to R&R Clip frames and never looked back, now using the lap frame version.

I never used to even use a hoop! Only bought one when I started doing larger projects. I have a range of them, but only ever seem to use the same one. Will have to look at the clip frames. 

Looking at that picture makes me realise how messy some of my stitches are. And the satin threads go really fluffy. 

nmm

I think photos can make things look worse than they are irl, i didn't notice anything wrong with it

My latest seascape update, got more of the boat masts and wires done.

Charly27

I agree with Nmm couldn’t see anything wrong. Good progress with the seascape. Cactus update- so close!