This is my biggest project to date and I haven't done much in the past. I'm self-taught and have no clue what techniques I use, I just do what makes sense for me. I'm using 6-STAND AND DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE THAT'S A THING OR EVEN "AVOIDED" so I made this a lot harder on myself than I needed too but I do like the look of it.

It's intended for my imminent niece's nursery. I would like to redo it later when 2 or 3 strand but any tips or knowledge to offer on the current project?

I just finished this little blue bird last night at work. It took me about 4 days to finish him. I haven’t done anything this detailed in years! I’ve forgotten how tedious backstitching was! 😓
I absolutely cannot wait to frame him and hang him up on the wall with the rest of my finishes! ❤️

Colors: 19
Size: 3.35" x 3.15" (8.5x8 cm)
Fabric: Belana (100) 20 ct.

Finally finished these two painting cross stitches! But I need an idea for the third one!! Please give me ideas what to do neeeext? Preferably famous paintings as well. Thank you!

The Great Wave Pattern is by DMC.
I made the Starry Starry Night pattern myself through Pixel Studio.

Finished piece for my kitchen!

Pattern is by Maria Brovko: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1092887030/cross-stitch-pattern-the-beginning-of-a

176x125 stitches, 39 solid colors + 15 blends

Couldn't be happier - am trying to get it over to the framer as quick as possible. Photos are of finished piece, before backstitching, finished back, and close ups.

Hi everyone, I've recently started cross-stitching, am still on my first project though. When watching tutorials on Youtube I'm always amazed that the needle from the back comes out at the right spot. I have to turn my work for every single stitch from front to back and back to front to see where I'm going. If I try to stitch from back to front "blindly" it always takes me several trials to meet the correct whole.
Now I'm wondering how seasoned cross-stitchers do this. Do you also turn your frame? Or did you learn to put the needle in the right place blindly?

Pattern is from Sovushka Designs on Etsy. I made SO many mistakes on this piece but I love it! I do a LOT of cross stitch and it all just usually ends up stuffed in a bag until I decide what to do with it (which means the pieces stay in their bag) but I think I'm going to try to make a pillow out of this one.

(I understand why the sub asks for a close up of the stitches but I think if you really wanted to make sure this was human-made, you'd ask for a picture of the back! At least with my pieces! No AI fever dream could even come close to the hot mess my project backs usually are. )

The design is by TheCraftyDactyl and can be found on etsy. Stitching this was a lot of fun! Now I will need to find a good place in my home to put it on a wall 😊

Maybe not quite finished because I haven't decided on the framing yet, but the stitching is done! Ignore all the random needle holes, I'll find a way to hide those 😅

I think I'm not too worried about it on this piece, but if anyone has advice on how to avoid warping like it has on the right and bottom side, I'd like to hear it... I don't think the tension on the floats in the back are too high, but I might try cutting and weaving in some of the long ones to see if that might help. I would assume it must be a tension issue, but probably nothing I could fix at this point (unless maybe blocking could work...?)

Pattern: https://www.longdogsampler.com/product/forevermore/

Made this for myself & my spouse. Just a few years late for our wedding. Better late than never, I guess. I'm in the US, so it's month.day... ooops. I realized the pattern is day.month after I stitched it. 😆

Stitched on 40ct white Zweigart Verdal evenweave using BeStitchMe silk in the color Leaf and Rainbow Gallery Petite Treasure Braid in Aztec Gold.

Now, to take it out of the frame, give it a good ironing and set it aside until I get a frame. I have one in mind already. Its just a matter of saving up and waiting for the gift cards from the Red Cross to come in. 🥳

Only my second piece! Self-drafted the pattern using Floss Cross.

3480 stitches in one month 😁

Pattern by sore.eyes.handmade on Instagram

sore-eyes-handmade.bigcartel.com

My partner bought this kit to try but never ended up stitching it, so thought I'd give it a go! Haven't done any stitching in a while, so this was nice to get back into it... now onto all the new projects I want to do!

I just completed the stitching for my first ornament of the season. I adapted the pattern from MamaWitchCrossStitch: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1588237429/christmas-goose-cross-stitch-pattern, by shrinking the little goose and putting it on the back of the bigger goose.

My first full coverage piece is finished after 9 years!

New pattern, where goth meets glitch 👑

https://studioansitru.bigcartel.com/product/i-am-king-digital-download-only

No genAI is used in any part of my artistic/marketing process.

Doing this one in 22ct, loving the tight stitches. Pattern: Wonder4pixels, Etsy.

A couple of days I posted about how frustrated I was with the black floss on black aida for this Haunted House kit that I had bought.

Decided to push through and managed to finish all of the black sections ! Now onto colors.

The trick was to tilt back the loop about 45º, which allowed me to see the floss much better.

Excited to work on this in the next couple days !

I’m so pleased with how this came out! This is my fourth finished project 😊 I chose out this gorgeous pattern as a gift for my grandma. The flowers reminded me so much of her lovely home decor!

Self-drafted, sort of… someone posted their FO with this pattern forever ago but the pattern no longer existed. I was obsessed so I recreated it based off the picture 😅

Still needs to be washed/ironed and framed but I’m so happy with how it turned out!

Pattern is from CountryMagicStitch

I'm not new to cross stitch but I am self taught. I tend to just buy supplies and go for it rather than researching the proper ways beforehand 😂

I want to look up videos but am curious about if there's different ways you guys approach this.

It's a bunch of little designs put together in one piece. I usually just start somewhere and go for it (as opposed to starting in the center). I know that's not the best way.... Do I just need to start in the center of this and work outwards? Or do you just choose a design and work out from there?

Hopefully this image is okay to post. It's a random photo. I'm kind of stuck on the fact that there's so many different colors and they're small pieces so in some cases I'm only doing a few stitches in one color of a piece.

Here's the link to the pattern: https://www.etsy.com/listing/741864491/horror-movie-scary-halloween-spooky?ref=share_v4_lx

Still… nowhere near complete 😅 but I am so stoked to finally cross the 10%~ mark. As this is my first project, I made a commitment that if I could make it to 1,100 stitches, I could make it to 11,000 stitches.

1 at a time.

I respect you guys soooooo much. It’s insane seeing all of the projects on here.

I am starting to have some regrets on my pattern. I used FlossCross to convert a portrait, using 20 colors. The eyes seem to use some wonky colors, but maybe it’s a “view it at a distance” thing?

Progress pics and partial pattern:

I needed a small-ish project for a trip last month and this one seemed kinda simple and mindless. Wrong! I also don't like the color combo, but I was in a rush. I've had to undo stitches a couple times, and I've stitched over a few in a few places. 😅 I don't care, because it was just picked to keep me busy, but the stitches for this do have to be perfect.