My kit from Jardin Privé has arrived – it was very quick. I am super keen to get started, there is a sheep and a chook!
I do have to finish my Gingerbread House, and my Cinnamon Stars first.
Category Archives: Cross Stitch
Project Update
I have been working on some of my projects.
- Gingerbread House (Top Left) – I have almost finished one section of the roof and then its just the other roof section. I am only working on this at my stitching group, so it’s months from completion.
- Cinnamon Stars (Top right) – I have worked on this for a few hours this week. While watching the movie version of Brideshead Revisited and a new SBS series Vigil. I was watching Vonna’s floss tube yesterday and she mentioned that she only ever uses size 22 needles (regardless of the linen count), so I thought I would give that a go.
- I have joined A Bee in the Bonnet’s Golden Honey Sock club, so the yarn (bottom left) is for the first pattern. I have since made it into a ball and started knitting the swatch.
- More progress on covering the joins of Miss A’s quilt. It’s physical hard to man-handle the quilt through the machine.
There will be no new projects until some of these are finished.
Lowery – Table Clamp
I have added the table clamp to my lowery purchases. I wanted the extender bar for the stand and decided to combine postage. My plan is to use it for my stitching classes. It’s very sturdy, holds everything very still and doesn’t sag under the weight of my magnifier.
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New workstand – Lowery
I have splurged and bought myself a new embroidery workstand – it’s a Lowery in stainless steel. I had considered them in the past, but thought they were too expensive and I made do with different table stands (but none of those were ideal). This is great. It’s so sturdy, my clip on magnifier doesn’t make it sag and I can sit on the couch and watch TV while stitching.
I am very happy with my purchase (which I got from JK’s cross stitching supplies – brilliant service). Now I am considering the table clamp for my friday morning stitching class.
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2022 – A Review
I worked on some big projects this year; Miss P’s blanket and the Cinnamon Stars cross stitch.
I finished
- Halloween Cat – I am thinking about making it into a cushion
- Shorty socks – my sock knitting really fell off because I have been working on Miss P’s blanket
- Project Bag – for all of those socks I am planning on knitting!
- Drawstring Christmas bags – for my friends’ christmas presents
So next year I would like to finish my
- Cinnamon Stars cross stitch
- My covid knitting project (it’s the doll second from the left in the bottom row)
- Miss P’s blanket
- Gingerbread Cross stitch house
- Dictionary of Stitches Sampler
- Miss A’s quilt (not shown)
And then I would like to start my
- Scout shawl – I have a kit
- Knit some socks!
- Start my embroidery keepsake book thing (I have been collecting supplies and special things)
- Royal School of Needlework Jacobean Course – my kit should arrive soon.
I think that’s enough projects planned.
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Cross Stitch – Cinnamon Stars
I have returned to my stitching class; every friday I join some lovely ladies and stitch for three hours. It’s the only time in the week that I get to sit for any length of time.
I have plans to make a cloth, memory book; a page for everything that is special to me. I shall attach all my special trims and fabrics. I have bought a lovely hemp/silk fabric to use as the base.
However, that project is still in the planning and collecting resources stage, so I am working on my Cinnamon Stars cross stitch. I find the process very relaxing, almost meditative (I have to concentrate a bit too much for it to be meditative – all that counting).
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Cinnamon Stars
I have been working on my Cinnamon Stars cross stitch. It’s going quite well, slow but steady progress.
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Halloween Cat Is Finished
I finished my Halloween Cat cross stitch (from Satsuma Street). I started in June 2018, so that took quite a while to finish!
Next up Cinnamon Stars from Plum Street Samplers.
I have purchased all of the ‘called for’ threads (the weeks dye works and gentle arts ones) and I am using 32 count linen in a grey shade
I bought this fabric at a craft fair and it had no information apart from count and size.
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Update – Mid Jan 2022
I have been working on a few of my projects. Miss P’s blanket is progressing (slowly), I switched to Knit Pro Zing needles and it has been much nicer.
I am on to the second sock of my Christmas socks, turned the heel, so now it’s just the gusset, the foot and the toe (I am maybe a third of the way through)
And finally my Halloween Cat cross stitch is very close to being finished – I just need to finish off the last cat and do the back stitching (there’s not much of that – whiskers and mouth).
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2021 in Review
This year I concentrated (almost exclusively) on Miss A’s blanket. So, apart from that, I really didn’t finish much.
One pair of socks, a chicken (and a duck), and I worked on A’s quilt and my halloween cross stitch.
Next year I will be working on Miss P’s blanket, so once again not much will get done.