r/CrossStitch

When my dad passed away in 2023, I was beyond devastated. As a healthy distraction from the heartache, I picked up cross stitch. Although he never got to see my progress with this new hobby, I know he would have enjoyed all my projects! This year on his birthday, I gifted him one I knew he would love.

Just also want to thank this lovely community for being so kind and helpful :)

Pattern is from Pigeon Coop Designs 🍁

Not going to lie, I bought it because my mucky mind thought it looked like something else, so I am really open to ANY suggestions

Pattern: https://totoostitch.com/products/cinderella-mandala-cross-stitch-pdf

Been a busy week with my boss retiring and finally getting to celebrate the better half's birthday. The over 1 stitching is coming along nicely. It doesn't look like I've made much progress in terms of size, but I've gotten in about 2k stitches.

This is my first time working with silks. They are so nice to use. They pull so smoothly and lay much nicer naturally than cotton, but probably not something to use all the time given the price difference. I'm getting used to the petite braid metallic as well, but the blending filament used to backstitch the birbs gives me fits. I strip away the 2 tiny bits and just use the single wide strand since I'm not actually blending it.

If the weather holds this weekend & my husband feels up to it, we'll be putting in a flower bed which means less stitching time again. One of the few times in rooting for some rain.

Finally got around to take a semi decent picture of this, took around three months to finish

I have done 2/3 of this large stitch, rolled my piece up to do the last top bit and the sides are flabby on both sides - this has not been an issue before. I have tried rerolling it multiple times to see if I could switch some tension and I even bought clips (second pic) which are useless this time around, as my aida is too close to the edges.

Does anyone have an old granny trick or is there something else I can buy? I despise stitching on aida that isn’t taut.

Pattern Source: Purchased on Amazon

I’ll spam you with these cuteness 🫣🤪😁 But how I stop stitching it? No way! 🤷‍♀️ This is definitely not the last one. Who do you think is coming next?

Pattern from Creepy Cross Stitch by Lindsay Swearingen

Finally finished this one. 10 cats in total (+ 2 bonus cats on last pic).

This is a kit Семплер Котовасия by М П Студия (no translation, sorry). I just didn't use traditional canvas and stitched a pattern on the t-shirt.

Had some problems: need to use several pieces of canvas and they didn't want to stay in place together, also canvas tore in one place and all crosses around the hole are just very untidy. But in the end I am satisfied with the result.

Pattern: Kram z Robotkami

A year ago today I picked up my first cross stitch at a thrift store for $1.99, I’d done a lot of diamond painting in the past so I figured why not. I am disabled so getting out of bed and doing diamond painting was not feasible some days. By the end of these little mushrooms I was completely hooked! A craft that I can make in bed, create beautiful things, AND give me a sense of accomplishment? Count me in! (Although I will say the project on slide 12 tested my sanity I will never do another pattern from this seller ever again🫩)

I have been shown so much kindness on this sub for the last year and I just wanted to extend my deepest gratitude. On bad pain days y’all’s comments made me smile, and I can’t thank you enough for that💖

Here’s to many more years of stitching! 🥳🤩

Finished this one! I added back stitch that the pattern didn’t require just to help break up some of the elements.

Now I need to figure out what the next project will be!

Pattern: https://ottawacreatives.ca/products/are-dolphins-aliens-cross-stitch-pattern-pdf

A fun little vintage kit. I obviously made the stove too wide 🫣

First time posting here.
The fabric was white and I dyed it with various ty dye colors just randomly until i got this color. I really like how the color turned out!
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This is a pattern from The Witchy Stitcher. I got it from the Patreon but it’s available on her website at thewitchystitcher.com

Finally finished Extraordinary Birds by Lola Crow! Haven’t started the Museum SAL yet, but I might!! This was my biggest project to date and I did really enjoy it but lost steam at the end. That peacock was hefty!

Finally finished the head and the neck is nearly complete.

Rekindling my cross-stich hobby. Still a beginner and had to learn a lot especially how to make the back neater.

I started this back in september when I had the itch to come back to this beautiful hobby.

I found this pattern from this other post and since I LOVE Miku, I had to give it a try

The original pattern is from Cross Stitch Quest and this is the source.

I took the advice to keep all the stitches in the same direction and I railroad almost all the stitches too but I think the result is nowhere as neat as to the original one (maybe the quality of the floss can also be the cause).

It took a lot of time and patience and I almost quit a few times because of the floss twisting too often, i had to swap some of the colours and a lot more issues with it but I'm glad I could finish it.