Cross Stitch: 60th Birthday Card
location: My Desk
mood: 
tired
tiredThere should be more to the border, another shade filling in most of the gaps, but I liked the simpler version so I left it at that.
Thankfully, the card was much appreciated, a good thing sing it took me over a month
to stitch because it was hard to see what I was doing under artificial light.
He likes orchids so it was ideal.
Beautiful! So glad to hear it was appreciated too!
you are quite a fabulous artisan!
Thank you!
It's gorgeous. Well done you!
I do love crossstitch. It made me go and pull out some unfinished ones of my own and start up again, whilst I'm on a bit of a hiatus from writing (or at least my brain wants to be it seems). I can't find the one with the orcas though. I'm sure I never finished it but it's gone walkabout. I found a barely started one with dolphins that's less fiddly than most of them which is probably why I abandoned it. I did notice however that the black thread has torn off the card and wasn't in the bag with the rest of the kit, so I've stolen some from what I think is a finished thread card. At least it's black so it's easy to buy more if I can't locate the bundle that went missing. I'm sure I must've stashed the other half of my crossstitch stuff somewhere else. There's a bunch I recall now that weren't in the sewing bag. Hmmm....
And ya, I inspired you to get your stitching out! I hope you'll post pics when you get something finished!
I really hate when threads - or projects - go walkabout. I spent ages the other evening trying to locate all the threads I needs for some small bird designs I want to stitch, and some owl designs. Black is at least a colour you can borrow from elsewhere and replace later. It's not like you get different shades of black thread.
Hopefully you'll find the ones that have wandered off. I wonder if I'll have time for stitching before the New Year... I'm still trying to boost my word count a little more because I haven't dropped below 1k a day all year and I'm so close to the finish line...
I've only signed up for 200k next year, although I'll probably write more than that. I want more time for stitching and reading though, I'm way behind!
Merry Christmas!
I haven't tried stitching on darker cloth although I have fabric cut out for some designs on dark blue fabric (so many things to stitch) but I find stitching with light colours on light fabric can be really difficult in artificial light, especially when working on high count fabric with one strand of thread. I have a daylight lamp somewhere, but I have no idea where.