My Re-found Love of Counted Cross Stitch

I've Found Cross Stitch...Again!

 Gosh here it is November, 2020!!! This year has certainly been a strange one with all that is going on in the world today. During this time of a pandemic,  I have rediscovered counted cross stitch. I follow Quilt Roadies on You Tube and she was talking about flosstube and what a wonderful community of stitchers they are. Well I went over to check it out since I had been thinking about starting cross stitch again. Oh what a wonderful place I found in them! I am hooked! I have done a few small projects to get started again and am loving it. I have never stitched on linen and I am gathering up my courage to try it. There are so many sampler patterns out there that I love, so trying to choose which one I want to start on. I have to admit I am a bit intimidated about working on linen, but I am going for it. Shanda of ShandaQuilting&StitchinginIdaho has given me some advice as to what count to start on. I love her flosstube channel. She is also a quilter and I love that too. Another stitcher/quilter that I really like is Bonnie of logcabinstitcher, she is also on Instagram. I am starting a new fall stitch for Thanksgiving. Getting a late start, but it is small and maybe I can get it done. Let me mention one more flosstube channel I really like and that is Country Stitches with Liz and Deb. They both do such beautiful work and are just fun to watch.

Here is the one that got me started again. I saw Kimberly on Fat Quarter Shop show her houses of the seasons and I loved them. So far I have only done the winter, can't wait to do more. I was a bit disappointed in this one because my snowflakes didn't show up hardly at all.

I have only gotten two bowl fillers done so far, just about to get one more done. I love the little bowl pillows, they are a quick stitch.

Pillow on left is a free Aurifil chart and the one on the right is from a very old calendar from the 80's. 

Here are two small finishes that I need to decide how to fully finish.

The one of the left is a Lizzy Kate Pattern and the one on the right I found in my old cross stitch patterns from many years ago.

 The pumpkin  has been a real challenge! Every time I would work on it I would end up having to frog out stitches. I have stuck with it and now it is almost done and ready to be made into another bowl filler.

This is from the same 80's calendar as the bee hive above.

And finally here is the new chart I just bought for Thanksgiving. It is so cute and trucks are so popular right now. I love turkeys, so I couldn't resist. I haven't gotten it kitted up yet. It calls for a lot of Weeks Dye Works floss and all I have right now is DMC. Trying to figure out if I want to invest in the Weeks. We will see.

 

This is all I have for this time. I hope to have some good progress to show you all in a couple of weeks.

Until then, take care and blessings to you all.