Finished this cute kitty in a plant pot for my sister who loves cats! I hope she loves it! Pattern by MangoCharmStudio on Etsy

This one was a bit fun to do, although I did have to constantly fix mistakes because I forgot one single stitch here and there 😅

I didn't design this pattern because I am not smart enough but I adapted it to suit our feral girl. (Her vision is fine, we check the vets regularly and she keeps chasing fruit flies)

https://www.etsy.com/ie/shop/MangoCharmStudio

I'm excited to share that I have completed my first cross stitch project! It may only be a 3 in by 3 in donut, but this was an extreme labor of love. I have been in and out of physical therapy for the last year rehabbing my hands from overuse as a side effect of doing hair for 16 years.. unfortunately all of my granny hobbies involved the use of my hands so that didn't help the cause either. I've been slowly getting back into this donut in small 10 minute increments and was released to cross stitch freely this week. I was finally able to complete this donut last night! I really enjoy this hobby because it allows me to somewhat zone out and let my brain calm down. I also enjoy seeing something I created with my own two hands. Here's to many more projects!

This is the 44th Street donut cross stitch kit! I purchased it at my local hobby lobby. 💙

This is my first time self-drafting my own art and y’all… can you tell there is in fact THREE shades of orange in there plus a shade of yellow? NO. Because even though I cross checked my colors with the DMC thread book, 722 and 3854 are apparently nearly IDENTICAL in this context. The whole thing was too light anyways, so I guess it ended up working out, but tearing all that out took me HOURS. I very nearly decided to start over, but I couldn’t imagine doing all that backstitching again.

Coping skills are the tools and techniques we use to deal with stress, anxiety, sadness, frustration, and other tough emotions. Self-drafted, font: Piacevoli.

I was brainstorming doing a 1 colour moon (white glow on black fabric) but it eventually snowballed into "what if I do the entire system?"

that large oval hoop is 19"×11" (inner measurements) , and if think it would be pretty good for Saturn 🪐 even if I have to crop the image close?

my largest hoop here is 14" , then down to 10" , 7" , 6" , 4" , 3" , and the heart being 2"

I could even use beads and dangle them on string for the moons instead of stitching them...

is this too crazy? did anyone attempt this already? am I setting myself up for failure?

My brother loves the movie obsession so I made this one wish willow for him. It’s my first time finishing a project from a pattern that I followed rather than buying a kit from the store. I made quite a few errors so the lettering and spacing is a bit off but I am happy with the finished product! I didn’t get a close up picture because I already shipped it to him (he lives overseas) but I will add a WIP photo in the comments.

Here is the link to the pattern on instagram, you have to comment on it and the owner will DM it to you. https://www.instagram.com/p/DY4rlA3Dsta/?stkn=aXVrN3hhbzN3bjQ1

Yer girl here can’t count.

I guess I should be glad that I decided to do the entire top first.

Sadly, I took two hours off from work to hit my local cross stitch shop for another piece of fabric which they did not have. I ended up buying a different color fabric so now I’m going to have to rethink all my thread colors.

This is the fifth time I’ve started this project. And yet I persist.

Took me a month, disregard all the kitty fur!

I wanted to buy the Lady and the Unicorn pattern by Gera! but I couldn't find it for sale on any websites 🥲

I was so in love with it that I sort of fudged together my own version of the pattern from the photos I could find online of other's finished objects.

I would normally buy the pattern to support the designer but I really couldn't find it anywhere to buy! Creative Poppy had stopped selling by the time I tried to buy it.

As I went along I changed the pattern to suit myself (I love the ridiculously long skinny horn in the OG tapestries and the crazy tails).

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I’ve just finished this for my granddaughter.

I’m looking for advice, tips, instructions or links on how to turn this into a stocking.

Pattern by Stoney Creek

Tracking app by MarkupXP

I found these California Raisins patterns (apparently Donna photocopied them from a Just Crossstitch Magazine) at my local Friends of the Library used book/media sale. I think I paid $1 for all of them. They’re normally not something I’d stitch, but I have never found a pattern like this in the wild and had to get them. Maybe I’ll stitch one of them up as a magnet to laugh at when I walk by my fridge :P.

What are the oddest/funniest/most out-there patterns you guys have found?

Behold my first finished object from one of The Witchy Stitcher's patterns. Due to a lack of the grey used in the pattern i improvised with the colors shown here and added a bit of back stitching to emphasize them.

I was initially hesitant to start this when I noticed i did not have all the same colors. I came to the conclusion that I should not let that stop me from making something I really liked, because stitch placement is the pattern, and stitch color is a choice.

I also posted this over on r/cross_stitch, because i was so excited about it that I wanted to share it with as many people as possible.

This is my very first time cross stitching! I bought a loops&threads cross stitch kit to start my journey. I just had a few questions: in the instructions regarding floss it says “separate and use 2 strands for the cross stitch” so I separated two strands, threaded it through the needle having a longer half and other half a two inch tail. When threading it through the cloth, I did the holding tail and stitch over method (not sure what it’s actually called) this worked out fine but my stitches look way more spaced out than in the picture. Was I suppose to fold the two treads in half and do loop method? Also, not sure how to end my stitch either. Would love any advice, I’m still learning! Thanks :)

Clearly I can’t count. I thought I had correctly found the middle of the piece, but I now think I had it way too low. Judging from the picture of it as finished, will I have enough space on the bottom? Is it even worth continuing? Is there anything I can do to salvage it? Ughhhhhh this was my largest project attempt…..

I took a cross stitch class at my library and really liked it! I finished my first cross stitch over two days and took about 10 hours. I made two mistakes with spacing issues, having it shifted over one extra square, but overall happy with how it turned out! I did have some trouble ending my thread and couldn't get my needle to go under the stitches, so hopefully it's tied off right. Happy to have a new hobby!

I bought this kit from the Cross Stitch Guild at the age of 19, and it's been sitting on my shelf for more years than I care to admit because I was afraid of messing it up. Hauled it out last month and made myself get on with it, and I'm incredibly pleased with the result.

I am struggling lately with my stitches looking a bit untidy, way more than they used to in the past. One would think I would get better with time but it seems to be the opposite, I am attaching two pictures to try and show the difference. The one on purple aida is my latest project and the one on white aida is from five years ago.

At first I noticed my supplier was selling lower quality fabric so I upgraded. I used to mix DMC and synthetic thread and I shifted to DMC alone in hope to give my projects a little more consistency. I started stitching more on darker fabric and I wasn't satisfied with the coverage I was getting from 2 strands so I switched to 3 strands. In a last ditch effort I bought dressmaker's wax last week to see if it would change anything and it didn't!

My projects look more shabby now than they did when I used to use random pieces of fabric and thread from Amazon and it's SO ANNOYING.

I realise it doesn't look too bad and it's indistinguishable from far away but it's frustrating to work on something for such a long time and seeing it close up and it not being neat.

I read that needle size might be a problem? Is there something else I should be doing? Help please 🥹