Boxes boxes boxes! I've gotten 3 boxes in the mail this week! One from each of our Mothers and one that I ordered.
Since I've gotten into cross stitching I decided to make Christmas stockings for us (thanks to Janice for the great idea :o) ...I'm copying her). My family never really did the whole Christmas stocking thing, so this is really exciting for me! I found 2 different patterns online that I liked and ordered them. Although, they both provide new challenges for me. One (David's) is just a pattern - so I have to buy everything in order to make it, and the other (mine) is not even a cross stitch. It's needlepoint. This is similar, but different! So...It'll be an interesting challenge.
Since I've gotten into cross stitching I decided to make Christmas stockings for us (thanks to Janice for the great idea :o) ...I'm copying her). My family never really did the whole Christmas stocking thing, so this is really exciting for me! I found 2 different patterns online that I liked and ordered them. Although, they both provide new challenges for me. One (David's) is just a pattern - so I have to buy everything in order to make it, and the other (mine) is not even a cross stitch. It's needlepoint. This is similar, but different! So...It'll be an interesting challenge.
That is a picture of my stocking needlepoint "kit". There is so much thread, and it's so much bigger than my cute little teddy bear! Which is finished by-the-way.
Like my grass? That is my personal contribution to the pattern.Anyway...
Setting up is very time consuming. First I have to separate all the colors, then I have to separate all the threads! And there are a lot of them! And there are even beads and ribbons. I'll be taking pictures as I go, like I did before, but the progress may not be as evident since I'm working with a painted canvas (see first picture).
So "yeah!" or lots of free time to try new projects!
3 comments:
Woo hoo! That looks so exciting! I don't know how different it is for needlepoint, but in cross stitching they tell me to separate the threads and I never do. Waste of time in my opinion. :)
Kewl looking stocking! When I separate threads, I take a piece of cardstock (i.e., old manilla folder) and punch holes up one long side. Then I write the color numbers (or names) beside them and tie the corresponding lengths of floss through the holes with a half-hitch (loop floss, pull though hole, pull ends through loop). How do you go about it??
I'm using the "thread organizer" provided in the kit...which is basically what you make.
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