I am sure you will be faced with the following words in the following months several times: Heritage and cross stitched flowerssince the Bordeaux flowers, designed by John Clayton  are the next cross stitching projects for me. Even though these kits were not on my to-do-list, they became the first in line  now.  I love these designs.

I have bought the kits with evenweave since I believe they will look much better stitched in this version of the material.

First, I will stitch the tulip one.  I am a bit afraid of the kit, since it is new for me to stitch all the design will be stitched unlike  the other designs I have stitched before. I have never counted how many stitches are made during the embroidery of a project, but now it is easy to count.  This kit contains 54 x 135 cross stitches so this is 7,290  cross stitches.

Have you ever counted your embroidery’s stitches?

The other new thing in the case of these kits is that I will start the stitches at one of the corners instead of the conventional middle starting. If you ask the reason, I have no proper answer only that “Just because” I feel this way is better now. 

The kit itself does not contain many separated colours of threads, but I will need to mix them together during the stitches. I have already tried this method of color-mixing in  other different projects, I am sure the the final result will be nice with this technique.    It is true, I will have to take more care during the counting of the mixed colours – especially if they are next to each other. I am really waiting for the start and I am wondering how quickly the stitching willgrow.

The summer holiday in the kindergarten is ending soon  so Panna will come home from her camp.  It means I will have less time  for stitching than in the last few weeks.  But as you all know, the embroidery is not a competition, there are not deadlines, so it  does not matter how long a picture’s stitching takes .  But I have to tell you I am always waiting for the final stitches right after starting a needlework project.  ☺

I am interested in finding out  which part of the material  you start your stitches from and how  you wait for the finishing touches relating to your needlework.   Write and tell me your experiences!

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M.I.Eszter