I am really excited for my friend Akshay, who has taken the plunge and published his first cross stitch design under the company name Smitten by Stitches. It's currently available for sale at Fox & Rabbit while Akshay works on creating a few more designs with an eye to opening an Etsy shop in the future. Some people are doing a blessings sampler SAL, though I didn't discover it in time to participate since it's supposed to be started and finished in January. I love playing with one color designs, so last Friday I pulled some floss and fabric that I thought would look good together:
Of course, then I had to stitch enough of it to see how they all came together, and I am pretty happy with the result so far:
Aside from the Threadworx floss, the remaining colors are from Cottage Garden Threads, specifically their Daydream collection. While I've had some of their threads for a while now, this is my first time using them and I am really enjoying them; they have a nice feel, and I like the rapid color changes in the variegated skein. I'm looking forward to playing more with this design this week, though Merry Merry will most likely be my main focus.
I spent Saturday and Sunday stitching on Merry Merry, though not a lot on Sunday because the urge struck to work on cleaning up my craft room (i.e. organizing WIPs and putting stash away that had been piling up over the past six months or so), so I spent several hours doing that. I'm making good progress on her though, and it's almost time to extend the Qsnaps:
I'm stitching mine on 32ct fabric, so it's possible the treasure might fit on 28ct, but if it doesn't fit I would suggest eliminating that bugle bead to the lower right of it, or using the smaller version.
I'm planning to fill in more green on her dress this week, attach some more beads to the finished area, then extend the Qsnaps and maybe start some of the white underskirt--I have a feeling that's going to be less fun to work on than the rest of her, so I might try to intersperse that with parts of the rest of the dress.
Hope everyone has a great stitchy week!
It's a pretty design.love your colors.
ReplyDeleteMerry is looking great!
Marilyn
Thanks Marilyn!
DeleteThat quaker is going to be so pretty! And of course Merry is gorgeous. I've never stitched one of those but I've been eyeing her, thinking of a color conversion.
ReplyDeleteWould love to see your conversion if it happens, you have such a wonderful eye for color.
DeleteOh, I'm happy for your friend dor taking that plunge and will key an eye out for their future work!
ReplyDeleteMerry Merry looks great, so nice and cheery and all that bling!
Thanks Leonore, it's exciting to see a friend starting out. And yes, lots of bling--one of my favorite things about Mirabilia designs!
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