I know it seems really early for Christmas (I mean, it’s literally only just October!), but I rather ambitiously decide to cross stitch all my cards this year and if I don’t get a move on I’ll never be finished in time! Especially judging by how quickly the past few months have sped by. Here are a few of the items I’ve stitched so far:
The bauble was an experiemnt to see the effect I could achieve with some multi-coloured thread I bought. I think it turned out quite well, what do you reckon? (Click the image for a better view.)
I love robins and couldn’t resist giving these two a try. I like the one on the right best.
I know I have some readers out there who also cross stitch… is anyone else planning on doing Christmas cards? If so, I would love to see yours!
Confuzzledom 
I think I need to give cross stitching a try at some point! Love your cards, they are so cute!
You should! I bet you can buy kits in the US.
I’m doing mine at the moment also! Love the robins x
Thanks, the robins are my favourite too.
I love the bauble! I have some multicoloured thread that I don’t know how to use so I might steal your idea! I’m going to do cards this year as I’m going ti do another big project soon. How many cards are you making in total?
Steal away! I stitched each cross individually to keep the same colour together. If you do the bottom arm of the cross first then go back over the effect will probably be different 🙂
I’ll need about 10 if I do just family. If I have time for more than that selected friends will get one too.
I hope you don’t have hundreds on your Xmas card list 😉 You’ll be cross-stitching until Xmas 2024 🙂 Looking good though!
Haha, not quite that many. About 10 for just both our families, then we’ll see if I have time to do them for a few friends as well.
Are there going to be any ‘guess what it is?’ posts? That was fun last year!
I’ll see what I can do 😉 Cards tend to be fairly small stitches though so it doesn’t take long to be obvious.
Some of my guesses last year were way off, but it was great fun! 🙂