Cross Stitchers Day:
Last week our Creative Cross Stitch Group (and if you are
interested in joining you can find ous on yahoogroups), had our first November
1st SAL (Stitch Along) stitch in day. It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed
my cross stitch immensely that because in Parsons I really do not have anyone
to talk about cross stitch with let alone cross stitch with anyone. Our town is
a quilting town and these quilting groups make some lovely quilts but alas I am
not a quilter. Love them immensely but I do not quilt.
Anyway for our cross stitch buddies on the list I thought I
might ask what you are stitching and how many of us are Christmas stitching?
How many days a week do you stitch and have you ever taught anyone else to
cross stitch?
Do you have a face to face cross stitch group that you stitch
with? What about cross stitch buddies? What was the last pattern you bought?
What was the last fabby and floss you bought? Tell us your cross stitch themes?
Mine are mostly Noir and retro themes but lately I also have
included samplers. My many many genres are coffee, gingerbread, halloween, and
from there we go back to the Noir and retro. Heaven and Earth Designs are
literally to die for and I really love the Randall Spangler Patterns.....on the
fantasy front I really for some reason like the storybook characters and
wizards.
So now you know how my taste runs but I also want to take about
the creative things you can do with cross stitch. I know some of my friends and
myself include love to make halloween cross stitch ornaments and then take a
tree branch or limb spray paint it and decorate a halloween tree. The same with
cross stitch cookie patterns for Christmas you can collect small cookie
patterns and make a cookie or sweet tree. There of course are the altoid tins
that everyone is stitching and book bags, tote bags, alway a fav seems to be
sweatshirts and potholders, guest towels and T-Towels (I'm not talking about
stamped cross stitch but creating your own design), checkbook covers, coffee or
tea mugs, serving trays etc....it is no longer the cross stitch your
grandmother used to stitch although there are some lovely antique
samplers on the market today.
Anyway I thought I would give our cross stitchers some time to
catch everyone up on their projects and ideas.....
Hugs,
Pam
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