I've been doing some Christmas cross stitch. Both these patterns are designs by Pamela Kellogg of Kittyandme on Etsy. I love her work.
This one is Crazy Trees ....
.... and this one is Crazy Holly Leaves.
They are for perforated paper but I opted to use Aida cloth. On paper they would make ornaments but also very unique Christmas cards.
I didn't have all the colours she listed in her directions for a couple of the designs and since I have a lot of embroidery thread I substituted colours. There is a site I use called Thread Bare that has a tool for matching to the closest DMC colour.
I reinforced the cut edges by painting them... on the back edge...with Liquitex clear gesso as I just happened to have some and it worked great. They will not fray ever. To finish I added a ribbon then used white felt on the back to hide all the stitching.
Take care and keep safe 😀
Those are lovely. I've done a little bit with perf paper, so different from fabric. But aida cloth rules!
ReplyDeleteThank you :) I thought that Aida cloth might survive handling and storage better than paper.
ReplyDeletePretty.
ReplyDeleteThank you :)
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