Another Historical Creation

I was looking through my kit and I found this :

I'd forgotten that I had done this. I really need to get it framed and on a wall somewhere. I also found more works that I hadn't finished (some that I had hardly started) - I think that this blog will help me get some of these thing complete and on display. I have another classic samplers to do after the one I mentioned a few posts ago - I really like working on samplers as it gives you the chance to put the pattern down and sew from memory. Repeating borders may appear boring but so long as there aren't too many colour changes, you can just settle down and crack on with them.

I'd like to design my own contemporary sampler. I think that I'll look into that and get back to you with some preliminary ideas.

Todays efforts

Managed to grab some time to work on a current theme of mine: Windows 95 icons! I'll probably be releasing these as kits a bit later on in the month when I get things a bit more organised.

Some other work

I'll try to keep this sort of post to a minimum, but while I get established, I'll post a couple of my previous creations. I've been working on something today and I'll post the pictures of them next.

I did finish these fairly recently. I took part in an event organised by another blogger and what you did was make a piece of craft for a stranger. I made the swallow tattoo stitch for my partner and I got an awesome pac man needle holder. If I get a few moments, I'll post a picture of the needle holder and credit the creator.

Welcome

This is the very first post in what I hope will be a very long series of fascinating posts. I hope that you'll join me while I stitch a variety of things. What I hope to achieve here is a document of the projects that I am working on, new things and patterns that I have discovered and new techniques and crafts that interest me. I'll also pick up on any news, competitions and events that I find out about.

Here are a few of the projects that I am currently working on in cross stitch :

What I want to do is show you a before and after shot when I sit down to work on a project. These pictures are for reference for the time being.

In the next post I'll show off a couple of the things that I have actually got around to finishing!

Hope you stick around to see what happens.