Monochrome Cross-Stitch
Posted February 20th, 2006 by
boogaj
Back in fifth grade Mrs. Douglas taught our class to do cross-stitch. I still have the first project I stitched up – a sad looking little giraffe. After that I happily stitched my way through an entire book of Ziggy charts. Then there was a teddy bear or two and even a rainbow encircled unicorn, but once I graduated from gradeschool good charts got more and more difficult to find. The things that I wanted to stitch just weren’t availble.
(The design pictured above is “Paradigm Lost” by Long Dog Sampler. Photo used with the permission of designer Julia Line.)
February 21st, 2006 at 4:23 am
Permin of Copenhagen has some beautiful old historic sampler charts that I was lucky enough to pick up a few years back. Also, the Danish Handcraft Guild is a place to look both for great samplers and other beautiful Scandinavian cross-stitch designs. Danish Handcraft Guild was bought out by Germany’s Baumann a few years back so it was hard to find the charts/kits. But they are now being imported both by Nordic Needle and Scandinavian Stitches (a little on the spendy side though!).
February 21st, 2006 at 4:40 am
I am working on Long Dog’s Mouline Rouge now, in red, of course! Let us know what fabric and fibers you are using! I am using 40ct. Lakeside Linen in “Pearled Barley” and Vikki Clayton silk in “Garnet”. Doing this piece in silk is the only way to go!