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[dragonlady7]

I wish I could cross stitch.

Actually I might buy a kit and learn how to do it-- it would be cute to have that to work on at Pennsic, right?
Sadly, the kit I need is probably this one.

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[lenine2.livejournal.com]

I have that book and a couple of people on my f-list will confirm it, since I made them stuff. In fact... Look! (http://lenine2.livejournal.com/71860.html)

You could make one of those in an hour. Cross stitch is easy.

[greenworldgirl.livejournal.com]

I love cross stitching! And yes it is easy if you are following a pattern. And if you are doing dense patterns. I'm trying to do one now where I am making up a very open pattern and it is kicking my butt. I will count out a stitch a million times and still end up wrong. My sister makes some really cute patterns though.

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

This (http://crisscrossrow.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=MB3T&Category_Code=MB) is what I've been working on for the past couple of years. It's a lot of fun to do. Not a lot of white space between stitches, and a lot of color changes, which I like. Best of all, no backstitching!

I think this is one of the two most challenging things I've done, only because it's so big.

There's something therapeutic about making all of those little Xs.

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

That's a gorgeous sampler. I stiched this one (http://www.mirabilia.com/crossIndex2.html) ("Savannah's Curtsy," the one in the upper right corner) when we bought our house and it's by the front door. I got into knitting a couple years ago and haven't stitched in a while.

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

I am totally in awe of you. I have one Mirabilia pattern that I started and had to give up on. I will never pick it up again. Too much shading, huge expanses of the same color, half-stitches, ugh! The designs are beautiful, but take a lot of dedication.

Can you take a picture of it? I couldn't find it on that site. (I love the 2007 cherub, btw.)

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

Here's a picture of it. It's not the best photo ever, but it gives you an idea:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeneralee/2622814746/)

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Oh that's beautiful!!

It looks like it was hard to do.

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

It's not that hard, just kind of fiddly. Cross stitch is like doing paint-by-numbers with colored thread.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

That's a crazy pattern! Holy cow there's so much in it!!

My grandmother is the One in her family that Likes Old Stuff. A while back somebody said "Here, you should have this, it's old," and gave her a folded-up hunk of fabric. Grandma unfolded it.
It was the sampler of a great-great-great and maybe some more greats -aunt, whose name is documented in Gram's genealogical research. "Betsy Ogsbury, born October 1799, aged 9 years."
I have some photos of it-- it's mildly damaged, and a little faded, but still lovely, all in shades of pink and green.

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

Please please post photo?

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

My mom has always cross-stitched. I think I vaguely remember doing it too when I was tiny, but of course I don't recall doing anything constructive with it. i think she was just trying to keep me busy at an event.

Dense patterns.... I will keep that in mind.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

> Cross stitch is easy
Hmmmm....
Hey, I think I remember you saying that you'd gotten that book. I knew I'd seen it linked to before.
Wow you get more cool by the moment. ;)

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

I'm cool? Hah, thanks! That compliment will get my through my family party today. ("OK, my aunt just criticized my hair, but I won't let it get to me, because Bridget thinks I'm cool.")

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Hey man. I don't give that kind of praise lightly.

You gotta use your innate certainty of your own smug superiority to get yourself through these kinds of situations. Sometimes it's the only thing that keeps me going.


Just posted an entry with the photos of the sampler, and another old sampler Gram has on her wall too. I don't know the date of the other one but I'm remembering it as being early-to-mid nineteenth century.

[gasslight.livejournal.com]

DO EEEET!

[jennnlee.livejournal.com]

Cross stitch is much easier than it looks. You definitely should give it a shot. I made this one (http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/kits/bite.html) as a Christmas present for my dad a few years back, as that's his favorite thing to say. He hung it in his cubicle at the Department of Defense until they asked him to take it down. Now that he's retired, it hangs on the wall inside his RV. I'm so proud. I also have this pattern (http://www.subversivecrossstitch.com/kits/HH3.html) to do at some point. I already bought some fabric that's shot through with glittery silver threads to make it even more festive.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

They made him take it down? That's so lame!

My mom is a big cross-stitcher, always has been, and I think her most recent project (in among all the knitting) was to stitch cute little bears onto some bibs for my nephew. (When I last saw her she was knitting a cardigan pattern for him that featured a repeating design of trucks, which she'd replaced with Jeeps. She was nearly done with the thing. It was impressive how many vehicles were crammed into that small a space.)

I saw this (http://flickr.com/photos/ruby42/2404704010/) and think that I may have to figure out a way to do something similar for the nephew. (Or maybe this (http://flickr.com/photos/32709813@N00/445268720/).)

(I also want to do this one (http://flickr.com/photos/docjohnboy/2103552204/in/pool-scs/) for one of my teammates, because it's in the team colors (they wear flame-logoed socks) of our Arch-Rival Nemesiseses and I think that would please her immensely.)

[greenworldgirl.livejournal.com]

Ah yes! Subversive cross stitch. I want a good pirate skull pattern.

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/5841/elcorsshf7.png That is what my sister has been working on. She's been freehanding a lot of that.

http://img58.imageshack.us/img58/1050/hcross2dc6.png
This is what I've been working on. It's one little corner of a big wedding sampler I'm trying to do, in a Hawaiian theme. I'm thinking it's a mistake, but kind of too late to back out of. I'm finding it approximately one brazillion times harder to make up my own pattern and do it then to just follow an existing one. I can make up borders or little things like flowers, so I guess I got all cocky and bit off more then I could chew. Plus I suck butts at counting stitches. I don't know HOW you can do that wrong, but somehow after counting everything three times I'm still managing. Oh well, at least I'm learning something.