They both are beautiful. These have really caught on here at cute. Nice work.
Think we might see the end of them. Everyone must be getting sick of them and moved onto something else. My machine today said that is the last Thank Goodness.
Lyn
Lyn, these are both stunning - so sorry - your machine is throwing a fit - Hehehe! I like the smaller one and would love to learn cross stitch to do a really small one - wonder if we have someone that knows how to make cross stitch on the embroidery machine - that would tackle this?
How about Martine, Actually I haven't seen her around. Hope she is OK and just busy, or haven't I been looking closely? Lyn
I've been away, but I'm back.
When you do cross stitch by hand you use an open weave material like aida, which you can fold very easily next to the stitches. Machie cross stitch can be done on aida - I've seen nice examples made by a Husqvarna lady, but that requires very skilled hooping. I'd rather do it by hand. BTW I still use a cross stitch pincushion - a small square one - that I made at school when I was 8 yrs old.
Shirlene - http://www.theflossbox.com/ has some free cross stitch patterns. I stitched one out over the weekend, I only had 16ct aida on hand so it came up a little smaller, but I love it.