Newbie Question

[Dragoniron7]

and.....every year for christmas, my family feels the need to buy me crappy kits they find at yard sales....i know im a guy that cross stitches, but i do try to stick to cool stuff at least. The very few kits i get that are cool, i will probably just take the pattern and use my own stuff to make it. I usually save the jumbles floss just in case, a few times i have had women try to attack my floss collection to make bracelets....thus is why i save the jumbled stuff.

[Rozez1982]

I love that unicorn. I have several cool cross stitch kits that I haven't even started yet. I buy them when they are on sale. I have some Disney ones and some of unicorns and a white tiger.

[Mak327]

I also, as with most people before, hate the stamped cross-stitch. I have done quite a few of the kits, for various things. The disney kits are usually good and I've found a few others here and there that I like. I also keep the patterns, and use my own threads many of the times.

[Janica]

I mainly do kits, but only counted. I agree that most kits are horrendous, but on occasion I find a nice one, and I try to go for ones that keep me busy for a while. Here's a few...

This one's my favourite, because of the black background. It was a real bitch to make, but the end-result was well worth the effort.

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The border in this one is made up of quarter-stitches in three different shades of golden brown.

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The rider in this one is done in whole stitches, but over one thread of cloth only, so four times smaller than the regular stitches on the dragon.

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