Anyone Cross Stitch?

[featheredplanets]

Rosie is about 50% finished and really starting to show.

Oh wow! That’s awesome. Well done you!

 

[RojoMarz]

More progress on Rosie.

 

[orloffer]

More progress on Rosie.

That is very impressive! I do not have any experience with cross-stitching, but it looks fun and I would love to learn. Could you briefly explain how you know where to put what colors, and the order in which you add them?

 

[RojoMarz]

That is very impressive! I do not have any experience with cross-stitching, but it looks fun and I would love to learn. Could you briefly explain how you know where to put what colors, and the order in which you add them?

Thanks. I used Pic2Pat to create the chart/pattern from a photo I took. When you upload to Pic2pat, you choose the fabric count (14 ct is larger squares than 18 ct...think of it as the number of squares per inch) you want and the number of colors. The site then creates the chart and produces a pattern to follow. Patterns comprise of symbols and a key to tell you the color used for the symbols in addition to a page showing placement of everything.

There really isn't any rhyme or reason to which color gets done first...I stitch in what is called "cross-country", which means I take my floss whenever I want to get to my next stitch of that color. Others stitch by the "grid block" (notice the red metallic lines. Those are my grid lines to indicate a 10x10 block. The lines will be removed when the piece is complete.) I decided to start with the colors that had the fewest stitches to get those out of the way. There were lots that had only a couple stitches, as there are 150 colors in Rosie.

 

[orloffer]

Thank you so much for the explanation! I will look into Pic2Pat.

 

[Starburst]

I enjoy doing cross stitch and embroidery/needlepoint, though I don't have any examples to show because I always give mine away, lol

 

[orloffer]

I need to learn how to do all these things. It's great because it combines creativity with practicality.

 

[RojoMarz]

I need to learn how to do all these things. It's great because it combines creativity with practicality.

Agreed...plus we don't have TV, so it gives me something to do (besides surf the net).

 

[RojoMarz]

Rosie is all done. I may redo her head feathers, I think they may be too purple.

 

[orloffer]

Rosie is all done. I may redo her head feathers, I think they may be too purple.

Beautiful work! It has so many details that when I saw it in the attachment, I nearly thought it was a photograph. I bet Rosie would be very happy if she knew that she was the subject. I know I know I had a hoop and a bit of cross stitching fabric at one point, but apparently it is lost.