Comments on: abstraction distraction

By: Cristina

Cristina — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:24:08 +0000

I love this as pictured! Beautiful work here. Best, Cristina

By: Trine

Trine — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:10:24 +0000

I’ll have to bookmark this page; I thought I was the only one who still did cross stitch these days. :) Well, I don’t do it anymore – I have the same problem as you, can’t find anything I really *like*. I’ll check out those links you posted, hopefully there’ll be kits available for overseas customers. :)

Trine xx

By: Claire

Claire — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:15:30 +0000

there’s an etsy site with cross stitch patterns of eames chairs. very cute.

By: Mia

Mia — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:02:04 +0000

I love embroidery since it requires such a narrow focus yet you can put it down and not forget what you were doing.

By: Jocelyn

Jocelyn — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:49:14 +0000

I remember when you bought that cross stitch and, as much as I love it, I remember thinking “where will she get the satisfaction in finishing a tree?”teehee.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:15:10 +0000

Ahh, cross stitch – my first crafting love. Silver Needle does have a very wide selection, but they can be kind of flaky on shipping. If they’re missing one item from your order, they’ll hold the whole thing for 6 months, and not tell you. I’ve had pretty good luck with Elegantstitch.com, and they also have a Hoffman shopping cart. Hoffman is a company that only sells to retailers, but they have the largest selection of patterns anywhere. You can access their site through Elegant Stitch (as well as several other online retailers, but ES offers a discount, always a good thing), and they have thousands (and thousands) of patterns. When I worked for my LNS, about 90% of our patterns came from Hoffman. I’ve also had pretty good luck with Stitchingbitsandbobs.com, but I order most of my cross stitch from Stitches n’ Things. That shop also participates in the online needlework show – http://needleshow.com/index.html. I’m amazed at how far the cross stitching industry has come in the past 10 years; some of the designers make patterns that, when stitched, look like art. Some friends and I are even stitching little chairs – they’re so cute!

By: missyecaj

missyecaj — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:25:18 +0000

I just happened to find this etsy shop, which carries both embroidery and cross stitch patterns. I've started embroidering again, and I agree-it's sort of freeing after knitting. I certainly appreciate the need for gratification on a project like the one you posted above. It is gorgeous, though.

By: kristin

kristin — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:27:47 +0000

I confess to owning and loving both Mary Englebreit cross stitch books. I know, horribly dorky, but her designs are just so freaking cute.

By: maryse

maryse — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:05:01 +0000

that’s a lovely piece.

i learned how to do needlepoint as a kid which is pretty mindless too but it’s tough to find canvases that aren’t 1. too “precious” and 2. too expensive.

and it’s virtually impossible to find the right cotton here in the US.

By: nova

nova — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:31:21 +0000

Oh, I have done a couple of pieces; and, I have to say, there is a certain calm that cross stitch brings…you know, when you are not ripping out 200 stitches…