I swear part 5 on this chart is probably bigger than parts 3 and 4 put together, if not larger. I've already stitched so much, and there's still a lot left... more regular stitches, and then a crapload of back-stitching too, and a load of Rhodes stitches. The 2 parts after this don't seem to be as big, so I'm considering this the hump in this ( Read more... )

Tuesday night I finished part 3 of my St. Petersburg chart ( Read more... )

Sunday night I finished part 2 of my St. Petersburg White Nights cross-stitch piece. Hopefully this weekend I'll manage to get part 3 completed. I'm hoping to catch up with the online class a bit over the next month or two (which is currently at part 9, with parts released monthly).

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I finally finished part 1 of my St. Petersburg White Nights cross-stitch pattern. Well, almost. It's missing the crystals and beads, but this is all the actual stitching for part one ( Read more... )

The mail was nice and fast, and vgnwtch and darkvervain received the package today.

And so, pictures!

Sadly, the pictures I took don't do the piece justice, and I didn't really check how the colour turned out before I put the piece in the mail, but there's an example picture I'm including from the designer's website to give a more accurate idea.


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Today I finished my cross-stitch piece, the one I started in January ( Read more... )

I mentioned in an earlier post once about the cross-stitch sampler I want to make for Dashiell. Here's a picture of it. It's from a Dutch magazine, Ariadne (Baby en Peuter), back from 1990, before Ariadne in general turned to suck ( Read more... )

I'm sure some of you remember the E-sheep. The little yellow-cream coloured sheep with purple horns that would happily trot and "meeeh" across your desktop.

This little fellow:


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My aunt's passing earlier this year, and the subsequent need to deal with her posessions put a few things into sharp relief for me. Besides having to deal with the vast extent of her packratting and hoarding, going through the unfinished projects was a sad business.

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