A crafter of many years, now using this blog to share my ongoing projects and tips for others to enjoy. I mainly concentrate now on Heaven and Earth cross stitch designs - with several projects on the go at any one time. Also often found knitting shawls and socks, papercrafting. Easily distracted by new cross stitch patterns. Slave to a tyrannical black n white cat called Yuen.
Nikki B
My hubby and myself have created a brand new ‘shop’ with a difference. We are adding my own cross-stitch patterns, using digital images we are both creating. I am currently stitching one of them – yet to be released on […]
Part two of my WIP parade for 2023. This time it is my non-full coverage projects which I work on in those odd hours and minutes before work and over lunches. We’ve changed the equipment and format of the video […]
My 2023 WIP Parade – about time I recorded another flosstube video, and here it is – my full coverage cross stitch WIP parade. I’m looking forward to seeing more of these from other stitchers in the coming month or […]
I decided that I would switch back to working this design page by page. I had a bit of the chimney to fill in before I reached the lower roof section and it seemed to stitch very slowly because of […]
This month I have been working on the patchwork blanket. I’m working two pages together as the bottom page is only 20 rows. I concentrated on the first 50 rows and worked colour by colour. They mostly stayed within their […]
My stitching has been all over the place this month. I now have to work in the office two days a week so on those days there isn’t enough time to work on this project in the morning before I […]
I haven’t been able to spend as much time on this as previous months which has been disappointing. I was able to finish page 9 on the 17th and got started on page 10. Page 10 is mainly books so […]
It felt like a very slow month on Nightmare this month. I’ve been struggling to concentrate again and there has been sections with a lot of starting and finishing of colours. There has been a lot of background to stitch […]
I didn’t have a very good start to this project this month. On the first evening I stitched a length of thread to complete working across the project and as I was re-threading the needle I realised that I had […]