Sew and Tell:See what folks are working on!

I specialize in Cafe scenes...I call them tapestries they are so big) and have found 4 marvelous ones on Everything Cross Stitch. Each takes a year and a half to do. 4-5 hours a day while watching TV...I cannot watch TV anymore without cross stitching. My mentor wife has created a monster!

I feel in love with this pattern and couldn't wait to get started. It took me 7 months. The hardest part of this patterns was the colors, I got really tired of blacks and blues. But the finished picture meet and exceeded my expectations.

This project was quite the challenge but it has such beautiful colors and was actually fun to do. Took me almost 10 months to complete (working about 2-3 hours/day) but is so worth it! A real prize winner.

I just finished this piece and loved how it came out. First time I used beads in a cross stitch piece. Lots of blending of floss colors and stitched over 2 threads. The even weave made it difficult to keep stitch counts with the inconsistency of thread width. Now to frame it!

I made this for my nephew and his new bride. Directions were clear and it was easier than I thought it would be. They loved it

Enjoyed stitching this little reminder of London. Chart says DMC 820, but I forgot to ask for the materials to be listed so I ordered CC 273 London Fog (who could resist?) and CC 173 Plymouth Rock. The chart uses a bit more than 7 yards of 6 ply at two threads, so one skein of DMC would be enough. The clock hands are a scrap of GAST 0450 Cornhusk. I don't like that 4 typefaces are used in the words, but I left it as is. Soaking it now to remove the grid, with a color catcher for the non colorfast CCC (prewashed, but may still run).

This project was fairly easy to do. I added some other metallic threads to enhance the picture the beads are a great touch. I worked mine on a linen material which was thin, using regular Aida cloth would make it easier and a sturdier finished piece. This is a gift for a friend, I have purchased another of the mermaids and look forward to doing that one to keep!

This is a lovely finished piece and fun to stitch. The backstitching is brutally difficult, especially around the flowers! Also there are a LOT of half cross stitches. I still don't know what the objects are that are lying on the beach -- rowboats? overturned boats? One skein isn't sufficient on several of the colors, but that isn't indicated on the thread list. All in all, recommended.

Loved doing these 2 gnomes

This went together fairly well, but there were a lot of color changes that I made because it seemed kind of bland. I also did some extra top stitching around the beards.