I went home the other weekend and saw some of my first cross-stitch projects there. (I think my oldest ones are in the closet somewhere, made from yarn and a hard plastic grid, and I didn’t search for them.) I thought you all might get a kick out of seeing them, so I took pictures of them.
These first three are the ones at home. The tiny bear one is beaded and very small…only about 3 or 4 inches big. The bigger bear and the hot air balloon are both 8 x 10. The bigger bear has a funny story to it: when I was little where I rotated the whole project around to do the border and made all the cross-stitches go backwards down one side…and then redid the whole thing to fix it.
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Next, here are some projects I have at my apartment now. These are projects I finished more recently, although having recently moved, I haven’t yet figured out where to hang them. The hot air balloon (I don’t know why I did another one of these, lol) has a LOT of beads and is 5×8 in an 8×10 mat. The Leaves in glass was a quick embroidery project bought because the green matches my bathroom color scheme. Bon appetit is 5×8, and a funny story about this piece is that I worked on it during my (Computer Science) Operating System Design class in senior year of college while sitting in the third row. My teacher thought for SURE I was a slacker and not paying attention. In fact, he was such a boring lecturer that keeping my hands busy kept me awake during class. The teacher thought much better of me after I finished my first exam in a third of the time allotted and received ~95% on it. Finally, Good Fortune is also 5×8 and I did it in early graduate school; it was my first time using metallic thread and doing “couching”. It’s currently on display on the buffet in my living/dining room, which is all themed black and red, so it looks stunning there.
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I hope you enjoyed seeing all my old projects. By the way, I am working on a secret new project, but I cannot write about it here because it’s a gift for one of my readers! Once the gift has been given, I’ll post up a recount with pictures of it.
I love the bon appetite!