Me too. Mostly work on them in the winter. DH is gone 2-3 evenings a week with meetings. I sit with a cup a tea and the woodstove. My Ott light made a huge difference for me. Plus new tri-focals.

I use to cross stitch until the arthritis took over. I love doing candlewicking now. I made Christmas Tree decorations the beginning of this year for this coming Christmas. I enjoy sitting on the front porch doing them. It helps me feel cool when the weather is hot.

I do counted cross stitch and love it! My DIL got me hooked on it about 25 years ago when she was dating my son. Have been doing it for years. I find it very relaxing. Now that I have tendonitis in my shoulders and elbows which limits my knitting and crocheting, I find the the cross stitch does not bother me.

judyjo

Hello, I have made a couple quilts, that I used a cross stitch project square for the center of the quilt. It turned out pretty good. :) Marcine

i do cross stitching and i love to do the native indians one and see how pretty they are

I have just started doing "stitchery" which is basically just contour embrodery ; when i have finished one i ll show you :) :) :) ''

I m still trying out threads so if you have anything else than DMC it would be assome if you sent me a tiny bit for trying as i v understood there is so many kinds out there :mrgreen:

how do you like doing it? i've never tried it

I still do and teaching my granddaughters too we love spending time toge
ther is fun lookingn forpattern for sun bonnet sue/bill in cross stitch
thank you frankie

I love to cross stitch. I have been doing it for a lot longer than I have been quilting. Attached is a picture of one of my favourites that I quilted a frame on, and quilted the picture as well. As you can see, the subject is one dear to my heart, quilting!
Debra in Ontario

That is beautiful. It's a work of art.

I used to do counted cross-stitch, but haven't picked it up for many years. These days for relaxation and "therapy" I prefer to quilt or embroider. I do admire the beautiful work dedicated cross-stitchers create, very delicate and subtle.

I have been cross stitching for a very long time. It was my first love in hand stitching. Here are just a few of mine the angel with the blue sash is mirabella and the other one i think is lavender and lace.

I do. My lables are cross stiched.

ooooooooooo I love this one. (yours) I've been cross stitching for over 20 yrs. Been in alot of groups that trade throughout the yrs and have accumilated 600 Cds of patterns AND still collecting. What's the name of this pattern? (yours) I'm hoping I have it. I'm getting ready to start this big hunk of a man :lol:

Those are gorgeous :D

I like to cross stitch, and am currently cross stitching a baby blanket for my grandbaby that is due originally New Years eve, but they are going to take the baby C-section on the 22nd, so we will have a Xmas present early. But I have found I like the pre-printed ones better now then the others, I don't see the holes as well as I use to.

ooooooo I hope you show us your blanket. :D

I will sure do that. I am only about 1/2-3/4 the way finished with it. I pick it up here and there to work on. I have been trying to work in Xmas present making too. I just finished 2 pillow quilts this week, 1 for my brother in law for Xmas and my sisters 60th b-day is this coming month and we are having a surprise party for her this Sat and I picked her some material out Sunday and finished it day before yesterday. I have another one to sew for my sister in law for Xmas, it is cut out, now I just need to sew it, thought about it today, but being lazy. But I need to work in this baby blanket more, I found a baby pillow case that is similar to the blanket that I want to cross stitch too if I can get the blanket done, if not it will be a late present. I will be sure and post the blanket picture for you though when it does finally get finished.

so cool. thanks

"I have been cross stitching for a very long time. It was my first love in hand stitching. Here are just a few of mine the angel with the blue sash is mirabella and the other one i think is lavender and lace."

Both the angels are Lavender and lace. I have done those too. I love her work and have completed about 17 or 18 of them on linen. I have only framed about 14. They are not cheap to frame!!

You should, its a lot easier than xstitch and kinda looks like pretty childrens drawings :D

You got that right they are very expensive to frame. I did four more two for each of my daughters. Really enjoyed making them alot. I did a couple on linen but it was real hard on eyes even with magnifier glass so I prefer to do them on adia.

Ladies, those are beautiful!

Whats adia?

Count me in. I do cross stitching and love it. I finished an English country side picture. Just need a frame. I am also working on a bald eagle and the american background. It is a counted cross stitch, so it is taking LOOOOONG!! I have put that on the back burner for now and am busy making a queen sized american/americana quilt with the 7 virtues of the army embroidered on the top.
I have 4 more quilts including the one I mentioned. So when I get tired of quilts (which happens from time to time). I get quilt fatique. Then I switch to cross stitching or one of the many other crafts I enjoy doing.
Smile

i do all mine on aida. the others give me eye strain. :D
aida is a bit heaver the linen

here's one i did for Ken. I put pillow stuffing (polifil) on it to look like clouds as its called above the clouds. its a thersa wentzler pattern

I think all of you gals work is great i have a blanket here i'll get a picture of one of these days an put it on here

Oh neat, I can't wait to see it. Its so neat all the things you can do with Cross stitch.

I cross-stitch, too. Just not as much as I would like to--quilting comes first!

I do! I think it's relaxing.

I do a lot of cross stitch. It came many years before quilting. It is very portable! Goes everywhere with me.

The quilt in my Author box is a 3 year project with (23) 8" cross stitched Tigger, Pooh, Piglet and Eeyore blocks. It was great fun and a labor of love for my first grandaughter, Emma, who is now 4.

I've done a lot of samplers for births and marriages which are inexpensive to make but extremely costly to custom frame.

A great way to spend your TV time and an easy travel project!

I love to cross stitch! I have done a small wall hanging quilt with cross stitch, but usually I don't mix the two. :)

I used to cross stitch all the time. I made my mil a set of hummingbirds once on linen. I've got several pieces hanging up that I made and I would make wedding announcements whenever anyone we knew got married. I've got tons of floss and patterns still. I just can't get as into it as I used to. Maybe though soon I'll finish the little picture of a wolf I started on for my son.....he keeps asking where it is.

I do it ... but with a LOT of cursing! I like the end result, but not necessarily the process. Of course, this doesn't stop me from doing them! I have been trying to figure out a pattern for Classic Pooh to make a birth "announcement" (i guess I can call it that) for my friend's baby

I love to cross stitch. Have been doing it for years. I have made everyone in my family a picture or two. I now do pictures and enter them in our state fair. So far have done pretty good. The picture on the side is a quilt I made that took about 15 years. Its all cross stitched victorian shops. Of course there's a qulting shop in there. I worked on it off and on. Now I sew during the day when I can and stitch at night.

I've got a Xstitch WIP, a pair of knitted socks WIP and 3 quilt WIPs now. I started cross stitching a long time ago and the urge just comes and goes. I have a hard time framing them after the stitching is done. Most of the time, it's just I have worked on them so long that I don't want to look at them anymore. Some day I'll get around and frame them.

I haven't cross stitch for a long time, but did use the cross stitch stitch on some rug canvas and made a cute trivet from scraps of fabric

you can also make rugs, fun

I love cross stitch, but now its hard on the eyes, so I would rather do embrodery!