All posts containing finished cross stitch.
Cross stitch journals are everywhere. This time of year in particular, social media is bombarded with Kickstarter after Kickstarter with journals in every form and fashion you can think of that state they’re the best thing to happen to cross stitch since the cotton thread. Now, some of these are actually pretty darn good. I…
Title: Daruma Doll Calendar Date Completed: December 2022 Design: Lord Libidan Count: 13 Canvas: White Colours: 11 Pop Culture: Japan When Jamie (Mr X Stitch) from the Xstitch Magazine reached out about a 2023 calendar I was happy to join in! But then he set the challenge, and I panicked! We had to make…
Title: Tarot Card – XVIII – The Moon Date Completed: December 2021 Design: Lord Libidan Count: 18 Canvas: Black Colours: 8 Pop Culture: Mystery For the next issue of the Xstitch Magazine, I had to come up with a pattern for the theme "mystery". Annoyingly, that also meant what I was going to stitch…
Title: Kitsune Tattoo Cross Stitch Date Completed: September 2020 Design: Lord Libidan Count: 16 Canvas: Cream Colors: 25 Pop Culture: Japan For the recent Xstitch Magazine issue, the theme was ink. To my, this initially seemed like a hard idea. When you think of cross stitch, ink isn't really part of the picture. Threads…