Anchors Aweigh and teaching
In honor of my service in the United States Navy...
My niece called me yesterday wanting to come over to learn how to cross stitch. Of course I said yes. She also brought her baby. We all had a good time! Here is a picture of my niece learning the craft:
Here is a picture of my start on Anchors Aweigh (a Candamar design):
I actually took this after starting the lighter blue stitches this evening. The dark blue is all I completed last night.
I was a bit annoyed with this kit when I first started sorting the floss and prepping to stitch. It did not contain all of the correct colors. There was no white whatsoever. It gave 3 or 4 different shades of brown, none of which are even charted! Thank God for my well organized floss as I was able to convert the Anton floss into DMC equivalents and get the needed colors from my stash.
The undesirable floss that came with the kit:
Here is a picture of where I am now:
I leave you with "A Mother's Love" (and baby hugs):
It's hard to believe that little bugger is gonna be a year old in less than a month!
My niece called me yesterday wanting to come over to learn how to cross stitch. Of course I said yes. She also brought her baby. We all had a good time! Here is a picture of my niece learning the craft:
Here is a picture of my start on Anchors Aweigh (a Candamar design):
I actually took this after starting the lighter blue stitches this evening. The dark blue is all I completed last night.
I was a bit annoyed with this kit when I first started sorting the floss and prepping to stitch. It did not contain all of the correct colors. There was no white whatsoever. It gave 3 or 4 different shades of brown, none of which are even charted! Thank God for my well organized floss as I was able to convert the Anton floss into DMC equivalents and get the needed colors from my stash.
The undesirable floss that came with the kit:
Here is a picture of where I am now:
I leave you with "A Mother's Love" (and baby hugs):
It's hard to believe that little bugger is gonna be a year old in less than a month!
Comments
I do enjoy sharing my hobbies with others who want to learn. I tried teaching my soon to be 12-year-old niece (in MI) how to stitch over the summer. I sat her down with needle, thread, and a piece of scrap fabric to show her the basic stitch. I wasn't going to show her how to read a chart until she got the stitch down - you know the attention span of an 11-year-old?? Once she got the hang of it she just kept going and going and...well, she was doing her own thing and it was looking rather cute! She is a talented artist - drawing - and I believe that she would be an excellent CS designer, if only she would stick with it.
Molly - I agree that's one reason to avoid kits, but this one was too cute and too cheap (on clearance - probably b/c of the floss) to ignore.