About Nikki

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.

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A Stitch In Time August 2022

September 18, 2022 Nikki
A Stitch In Time August

I have really struggled with this project this month. I began with the intention of finishing page 14 and got the spring shelf on the page finished off and had just started on the summer section when I decided that […]

QS Yexian August 2022

September 13, 2022 Nikki
QS Yexian August Progress

Early on this month I completed the first 50 rows on page 3 so I’m now all the way across the project. It also meant that I got to move the hoop back to page 1 to work on the […]

Trick or Treat August 2022

September 4, 2022 Nikki
Trick or Treat Page 23

It has been a very strange month for stitching this month. It hasn’t been helped by the heatwaves that we’ve had which always saps my concentration but for some reason I have found it very difficult to settle into any […]

Bizarre Bookshelf July 2022

August 21, 2022 Nikki
Bizarre Bookshelf July 2022

At some point during this month I decided that I would complete the page stitching colour by colour. Each lunchtime I was able to get a few colours done and could see that I was getting closer to a page […]

QS Yexian Festival Night July 2022

August 14, 2022 Nikki
QS Yexian full July

Early in the month I reached my first page 1 milestone. I have a lot of light background colours to stitch and the white stitches look a little messy in places to me. I’m not used to working with two […]

Nightmare July 2022

August 7, 2022 Nikki
Nightmare July header

My first month with Nightmare being a focus piece. It didn’t take long to finish page 12, Sally’s face was not as tricky to stitch as Jack’s face had been so I finished the page much quicker than I had […]

Winter, Porth Dinllaen June 2022

July 31, 2022 Nikki
Winter, Porth Dinllaen June 2022

Winter, Porth Dinllaen, kit by Geckorouge HoHoHo 4 limited edition for Christmas 2021. Artwork by Dorian Spencer Davies. Stitched on 28 count Easy Count fabric using 1 strand of thread. After re-arranging the rotation I had a spot in the […]

QS Yexian Festival Night

July 31, 2022 Nikki
QS Yexian Festival Night June 2022

QS Yexian Festival Night designed by Heaven and Earth Designs artwork by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law. Stitching on 20 count Easy Count Aida and using two strands of thread. April 2022 1,941 stitches I started this project in April just before […]

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