This month’s beginner’s guide was supposed to be about rock climbing, but I may or may not have been the victim of a rock climbing related scam(??? or I’m just unusually bad at reading comprehension, I guess). Anyway, I have now vowed never to rock climb and so my back up thing was cross stitching. This is kind of cheating because I have actually cross stitched before, when I was 13, out of a kit. But this is the big leagues now, my friends. Observe:
Got myself a plastic frame and everything
I got this cool Disney Villains pattern on Etsy and had to assemble the supplies myself.
Everyone is cuter as cross stitch
Luckily, one of my coworkers was giving away a ton of cross stitching supplies, including a lot of embroidery floss! Yay! Hardcore cross stitchers agree that the best way to store your thread for easy access is to wind the skein around a little card, write the number of the color, and arrange them in a plastic box like so:
Numerically they don’t make a rainbow, sadly
I like this pattern because each figure doesn’t take a very long time, so you really feel like you’re getting somewhere after only an hour. I’ve probably been doing at least 30 minutes a day for a few weeks now. Yay!!
The pink line is to measure the middle to know where to start. It gets taken out at the end
I wasn’t able to finish this project in a month, but I’m excited to have my first Legit piece of cross stitch art. I’ve read some articles online about how to frame them properly so I’ll try that when the time comes.
The back is less pretty
Resources:
Buzzfeed Beginner Cross Stitch Guide
Framing Finished Cross Stitch
Previously: Beginner’s Guide to Calligraphy
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