cross stitch and robins

[watervole]

I've been getting seriously into cross stitch recently. It's very relaxing. I've made further progress on the piece mentioned here http://www.livejournal.com/users/watervole/111031.html - I'm over a third of the way through it now. I've also been working on a few Xmas gift tags. Did a star yesterday and part of a robin today. This led myself and Richard to speculate about typical robins seen on xmas cards.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/waveney/9537.html

Comments

[eleyan.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean about relaxing, I find beadwork does the same for me. And when you finish, you have something tangible and pretty.

[peaceful-fox.livejournal.com]

I used to love to do cross stitch and I've been tempted to do it again. I haven't done any in at least 10 years and I remember it was very relaxing.

[gair.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love cross-stitch. I would have gone mad in the first few months of the new job if I hadn't been obsessively sewing. It's like smoking, except that you get tangible pretty things (as eleyan says) out of it, instead of terminal illnesses (in fact I took up cross-stitch after I quit smoking).

The only trouble with that is that I don't really like embroidered things. Gerald and I went to a craft fair last weekend where she realized - after three months of watching me obsessively sew - that the reason people do craft fairs is so they can keep on sewing/crafting without having their whole house fill up with hand-crafted oojamaflips. I'm getting round it at the moment by working on a huge cross-stitch/patchwork thing as a present for one of Gerald's friends, who made us a quilt, but when that's done I'll have to think of something else. Possibly satin-stitch and/or Jacobean embroidery next, though, as people keep recommending it to me: I don't think I'll take to it as much, though. I like the modularity of cross-stitch.

[eleyan.livejournal.com]

you could try making cross-stitch xmas cards, that you then have to give away. And these would be very portable, so you could work on them here and there. I have a friend who makes different hand-made xmas cards every year.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Making gift tags is good as well. I'm just doing a set of those. They get given away with pressies.

And, of course, you can ask family members and friends to give you cross stitch kits that they would really love to have as pictures. You get the pleasure of sewing it, and they get the picture at the end.

[exalted-mugwump.livejournal.com]

nice to hear your doing things.

You may get an amazon delivery before I get back addressed to me, just put it to one side for me. It's course reading I am going to be doing over christmas, thanks.