Hello Stitching Friends!
When Jo from the blog Serendipitous Stitching recently celebrated a tenth blogaversary she listed and answered a Ten Things Tag list. I really enjoyed reading the post, so I decided to join in the fun. However, I haven't kept an extensive record of my stitching the way Jo has, so my own list is unfortunately incomplete and only contains seven of the ten tags.
The tenth blog post you made
This was a post back in April 2015 and I was really happy to finally get around to framing a summer window.
I'm still hoping to finish the autumn and winter windows from the same series...
The tenth blog in your blog list
At the moment it is A Stitcher's Story which is written by the super sweet Vickie who displays the most gorgeous seasonal stitching projects on her cabinets and shelves AND adores poodles🐩🐩🐩! She has even designed a really cute Calendar Poodle SAL which is free on her blog.
A designer you have stitched more than ten designs.
This was a little bit tricky since I like a lot of different designers. However, the more I though about it I realised that the designer I have stitched the most is probably Lesley Teare since she designed my favorite go-to design for cards.
I have definitely sitched this design more than 10 times, haha! I have a feeling that designs from Joan Elliott and Emma Congdon come in a close second and third if you check out my WIPs and finished projects...
A project that took/is taking more than ten years to complete
Since I am a periodical stitcher this tends to happen every now and then, and even more so since I also love to start new projects instead of finishing my WIPs.
This Christmas scene was a loooong time in the making, but these days I put it up on my wall every Christmas.
The pattern is from an old Swedish weekly women's magazine.
At the moment I should think that this sweet little girl is my oldest WIP. I started stitching her when I still lived in London 16 years ago. Clearly I wasn't too worried about fractionals back then, but whenever I bring her out these days all those fractionals makes me cringe. So she goes back in the UFO pile again...
The tenth colour on your current project. Do you use it a lot?
My current WIP is a seasonal design in four parts and DMC 964 is used for the summer and winter motives .
I certainly like to stitch with bright and happy colours, and this blue shade features in at least one more of my current WIP:s.
Your tenth finish this year (or last year if you haven't finished ten so far this year)
Well, right now I'm working on the 10th and 11th finish for the year, so I'll just show you my ninth finish instead which I gave to a good friend of mine.
I'm ashamed to admit that I've lost the design details for this project...
How has your stitching style changed in the last ten years?
My stiching style has changed A LOT in ten years, that's for sure.
When I started this blog I was into Joan Elliott's pretty but complicated fairies...
...and life-like animal motives.
I didn't see any limitations and thought I could stitch just about anything, regardless of size, beads or metallic threads. I think about it as my delusional phase...🙈😂😳. I just don't know WHAT I was thinking...?! Most of those projects are still UFO; do I need to say more..?! Although I might pick some of them up again since they're quite close to being finished...
Somewhere along the line I discovered designers like Emma Congdon, Durene Jones and Cheryl McKinnon and projects with blocks of bright colours...
...and a lot less time-consuming backstitching.
Maybe some cheerful sayings...
...and pretty nature/seasonal designs.
The urge to stitch pretty, complicated fairies or large animals with lots of confetti stitches has completely disappeared along the years.
The one constant cross stitching love has been Christmas projects....
....but I try to stay away from too much backstitching and/or tricky charts/details in my Christmas designs too these days.
Overall, it seems I've moved away from complicated stitching and now just want easy, cheerful and uncomplicated designs at this point in my life. But who knows what kind of cross stitching projects I will like in 5 or 10 years time...😉😳😀???
Finally, I want to leave you with a short video from our morning walk today. We are really enjoying gorgeous spring weather here in Sweden😳...
Don't you just wish you were here?!😂
Happy Stitching,
Annie
