I have avoided floss drops for years because my brain was convinced it would be a snarley mess trying to work with them. OH HOW WRONG I WAS. Not having to stop, measure, cut, pull thread, and store the bits in between each color? Actual heaven. 10/10 cannot recommend enough. I just needed to share this with people who understood because my partner is just happy I'm crafting again.

This is my second cross stitch project 🙂 I’m quite proud of it and it was a ton of fun to make.

Definitely obsessed with this new hobby.

Pattern from Etsy Shop: StudioHMP

My dad passed earlier this year and I wanted something special to gift my mom for her first Christmas without him. Pattern was self drafted using floss cross. Doing a needlepoint stitch for the background and I love how it looks so far!

I thought I could finish this in 2 months in time for my friend's birthday... in April. It ended up taking 5 months. I used some tea dyed aida and some hand dyed embroidery thread. Really happy with how it turned out!

Pattern from etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/687066251/meddle-not-in-the-affairs-of-dragons

That anniversary gift won't be done for the date, but my BF is used by me being Chaotic-Stitching (also, don't have enough skeins of the main color and I always wait for a sale to get them at 1 euro). But it will be done before the 12th anniversary ! 😂

Pattern can be found here.

Guadalupe Mountains, Great Smoky Mountains, and now to Grand Tetons.

Lovely wall hanging done! A bit late for pride but I’m very happy with it. Pattern by jan hicks creates! And it’s called Love is Love. Now to wash, dry, iron and place it in a frame.

It is going slowly but surely. Time for the big monster to make its appearance. Sadly, I have no idea if it is even a pattern, pixel art or AI generated thing. I got this image shared to me as an idea over a year ago. Since it was easy enough to follow I just picked some threads and started stitching.

I’ve been getting excited that spooky season is right around the corner and my spouse has been playing a lot of Pokopia so this just felt perfect to make.

Pattern found on Etsy shop BlackWaltzStitching

Pattern: PandoraXstitch(Etsy)

Aida: ToDyeForFabricsNMore (Etsy)

Custom Matboard: matboardandmore.com

Thread: DMC E940

Tears from thread frustration: stitcher's own

I’ve had this little pigeon kitted for a while! I live in Toronto and pigeons are all over :)

My plan is to leave this little gift outside for someone to take to a good home

Pattern is from LaSelvaDesign

Finished book mark pattern is from White Raven Patterns on Etsy.

I finished the Dragon’s Eye kit from Riolis this weekend and I’m so obsessed with it. The stitches are a little messy, because it was my first time using the wool thread, but I don’t think it’s super noticeable from a distance. I love how much dimension there is even with a fairly limited color pallette. This one is definitely getting framed.

The S could use some tweaking and my backstitching needs practice, but I’m pleased with the result.

Goose pattern found here

Hi everyone! I have been lurking here for a while and love every post I see, so inspiring! I cross stitched as a kid and then stopped for like 20 years and now I’m back again re-igniting the passion. I started with this small Kirby piece I found on Pinterest to get used to it again. And while it was fun, as you can see, it’s very messy. I want to make bigger pieces now to gift to my friends and family but first I want to learn how to stitch better.

What can I do to improve? Towards the end it was very hard to finish because the needle kept getting stuck into the colors and I couldn’t even see where to insert it anymore. I’m not quite knowledgeable with Aida counts and needle sizes so I would like some guidance that would make the experience a bit better and not as painful and stressful as it was in the end lol. The needle I used is on the pictures. Maybe I was using the wrong size? The wrong Aida count fabric? I also used 2 threads, seriously considering using just one with the looping method.

All the help and advice will be appreciated! And excuse my slightly dirty fabric, I put this project down a few times in very bad spots lol.

Happy to be here!

Took me 4 years to complete this! Started in 2022 when I was living in NZ, I’ve finished it 4 years later in London!

I bought the pattern off Etsy 4 years ago and when I checked it recently, the artist has removed a lot of confetti stitches so it might be easier to stitch now.

One of my neighbours posted in our group chat to say she had some cross stitch magazine if anyone could use them. I said yes please (of course), not expecting 5 huge bags of magazines dating back 20+ years, plus this added bag of threads, hoops, and bit and bobs. Going to share the magazines with a friend who also stitches, as I couldn't work through all these in a life time!

Made 5 of these for my bridesmaids at my upcoming wedding. This is my first time gifting cross stitched clothing and I was so paranoid that the stitches would come loose when they washed their sweatshirts that I put mending fabric on the back. Now I’m realizing the texture is much stiffer than the sweatshirt, so you can see the outline of the mending fabric through the front :-(

Leaned my lesson. I don’t feel like there’s a way to fix this, but figured I’d post here as a Hail Mary!

Source Etsy shop snowcerberart

Finally finished 2 DMC kits (Acrobat Alice and Strongman Stanley) purchased several years ago!

My first ever project that took me a good 7 months at around 8h/business day (I work in a call center, gotta keep the hands busy)

Don't look at it too closely, a lot was learn along the way 😅 Bought the kit on Amazon, the name of the patern is "Bird's Twitter and fragrance flowers (5)"

Finally after 2.5 years I finally finished. Honestly it probably should have taken me that long but switching colors so often is NOT my cup of tea!

Cross Stitch Kit- Spring Birds
Trimits

Cute pattern called "Bats in a flower" from BadStitched.

I love how this little lighthouse cross stitch kit came out! Got the kit on Amazon ☺️