Cross stitch design As much as we hate to be seen as just regional costumes and wooden shoes, as well as Delft blue,tulips and windmills, we embrace it as soon as tourism is concerned. Even the postal office issued a stamp 2 years ago. So here

Cross stitch mug rug - or not. Last week when sorting out a cupboard I came across a small embroidery I made 70 years ago. The design was printed on the linen, I did not like the gaps between the crosses then and still don't, but my mother insiste

Doily in the making. After a rather unproductive period as far as embroidery is concerned I finally tested this cross stitch design. It's 20x20 cm but I made other arrangements as well. I used variegated thread for the leaves; the light part is ver

Chris' biscornu inspired me to digitise a few more. This is the one I stitched out. I have yet to sew the parts together to a biscornu. I like to do that by hand and use a whipstitch through the straight stitch outline. I think that gives a crisper resul

Guest towel with cross stitch border. After digitising a design to illustrate what I was trying to say, I just had to stitch one out. I think I might delete the curls and make a number of leaves to get a nice freestanding (as opposed to part of a b

Cross stitch cushion. Seeing spendlove's beautiful cushion I remembered the embroidery I made for my mother. She did not want it to be framed and sewed it on a silk pillow. It needs to be cleaned and has been in a drawer for almost 2 years.I reall

Notebook cover (A6). Had do try a cross stitch design using part of the same clipart. Recycled jeans leg and another addition to my "gift drawer" was born.

Biscornu The last pincushion, I really must do something else. They all fit a 4x4 hoop. I stitched a treble stitch on my sewing machine along the edge (forgot to digitise that) and used a whip stitch through those stitches to sew the two

Golden Rod in cross stitch. Stitched out this design I made a fortnight ago. Looks pretty, doesn't it. Well, it would be nice done by hand. However, there are too many unconnected stitches to make it a nice design for machine embroidery. I hat

Pincushions Have been playing a bit more with cross stitch designs. Here are some of the pincushions I did.

Cross stitch ITH pincushion It fits a 4x4 hoop, the crosses are 1.8 mm and I used 30wt cotton thread to embroider. I digitised it in 2 colours, seperate colour for the hearts, but used only one in this case.

Bookmarks The one on the left I made some 40 years ago. It was an Eva Rosenstrand design. The one on the right I made today, by machine. What gives the game away is the machine stitch I used to secure the fringe. The design stitched in 13

Latest springflower in cross stitch. Being Dutch, although not from Amsterdam, I had to do a few tulips.

Notebook cover As requested I made a small tut on how-to-make-a-bookcover the way I do it. I used the test I did for the cross stitch design, to be found on Yoriko's site.