l preparing for the Christmas holiday! Full of good, creative fun and loads of color made into embroidery and cross stitch. It’s all of my favorite things combined. I’ve been making ornaments, and it’s been a delight.
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I get quite a variety of questions about embroidery and how and where to start, so I thought I might write out a few of the best tips for beginning embroidery. Embroidery is a wonderful artform to explore. It’s colorful, full of textures, expressive, and perfect for slowing down and giving yourself time to catch
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I get many questions from people who want to start embroidery. That’s cool. I feel flattered they come to me with questions. I have a lot of experience for sure, but there is still much I don’t know too! We keep on learning little by little. There are two questions that come up over and
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Just in time for Halloween, I have a new cross stitch biscornu ready. I actually started this little cross stitch back in the spring, but got distracted and put it away. But I’ve returned just in time! Stitching this was easy and the colors nice and fall-ish. I did have a little problem sewing the
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Hi everyone! I have my latest finish to show. I simply call it “Bird Floral”. Maybe not the most expressive name ever, but it can be a challenge being creative with pattern names sometimes. This one felt a little different than my usual. Strong colors and felt a little more traditional in the design elements.
Hi all! I’ve been keeping myself busy stitching. This year my goal is to be consistent and keep up with as much as I can. Not always so easy, as you know, but I’m in there trying. My main focus is keeping steady with my creative adventures, both drawing and stitching. For my stitching work,
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Hi everyone! Here we are at the tail end of summer. I hope it stretches out for you as long as possible. I’ve spent most of my summer resting in an effort to get energy back. It’s slow progress, but most of my symptoms have died slowly. But I still have a pain in my
The first Summer of Stitching video is now finished. I’m really excited about this and am going to go to work on more videos.
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Welcome to Summer of Stitching here at The Floss Box. It’s been a spring like no other, and the rest of the year will likely follow in suit. Lives have been turned over and changed in a short space of time, and the old “normal” may never return. I have been ill with the virus
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Sometimes it just happens. You’re going along doing something, working on a project, creating something, following a routine, then you break it. Maybe it’s intentional, but lots of times, I find, I just slip away from something. Or it’s based on a thought, a judgment that is not really especially good. Like deciding I’m not
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