Loved doing this, not once--but twice.

Valerie Pfeiffer Harmonies Birds Chorus Line. I finished my first around January 2015 and eventually gifted it.  I just finished the second one December 2019, I had to fudge a bit in doing the outline stitches. All that's left if to get it framed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Still learning HobbyWare Pattern Maker Cross Stitch Program

Before image, sketch self portrait. Colors are off in finished cross stitch...suggestions appreciated!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is pretty close to actual picture...

 

I am surprised I have any hair left

I just realized my pattern is going to run off the cloth. I am on page 21 of 31 pages and there is only enough material for 5 more pages. Aaagh!!!















If I end it here I have a cover for my footstool. I am thinking of starting a new piece--starting with page 15, ending with page 31. I think I will have enough to cover my piano stool. I will start in the center of the fabric and work to the outside, staying in a circle the size of the piano stool. I think I don't know what I am talking about. So much for lemonade...

OMG, it has been so long since I last posted!!!

First thing I have to do is learn to post all over again; hoping I don't have to customize my fonts and all that good stuff !!

I started my 151 Pokeman's counted cross stitch project back in April 2016. I have an old footstool that was made by my husband's grandmother.  It is well over one hundred years old so I thought it would be cool to cover with something from a much later era.  About one month ago I realized I calculated the size of the material INCORRECTLY. I am only half way through cross-stitching the pattern and I am on page 16 of 30 pages. That is what I need to cover my footstool and then I will not have enough fabric to finish the other 14 pages. If I purchase the same amount of material I can start with page 15 and continue on to page 30 and cover my circular piano stool with the second half of the 151 Pokeman's and then some. I will be posting pictures soon!

Promises, Promises, Promises.....

I promised to blog a little each day. Well--that didn't happen!


I guess I will have to start somewhere, so here is a look at my latest project. I was waiting because I need to post some pictures and somewhere I had come across a great tip on how to insert pictures so that picture sizes would all be uniform.

I am working on a large cross stitch project and I am having trouble with the symbols. The capital I and small L both show as l and l. One color is just a bit darker than the other. So far I have just been skipping over them until I could check around to see what others would do. I am on about the 5th page of a 70 page project and will have to go back and fill in the blanks before I go any farther.

I like the colored pen idea I received in answer to my post regarding this problem--over at StitchersHeaven. Click here!

Well, I did it--I blogged once more. BUT, as far as blogging goes, I have forgotten most of what I learned...