Cross stitch question

Well, there are some freebies you can download from different designers. Some are just little pieces, others larger. I wish I knew what are you looking for or what is your taste, but I can send you some links, hope you will enjoy them:

http://www.lizziekate.com/free.html

http://www.mirabilia.com/crossIndex2.html (click down on "free designs";)

http://www.mysticstitch.com/free-designs.aspx

http://www.victoriasampler.com/Free_Patterns/Default.aspx

http://www.michaels.com/art/online/projectlist?categoryid=30

 I like all things except really religious ones Thanks for the links! I've got a couple patterns saved I'm gonna try in the next little while.

I love to cross stitch!!!!

My favorite cross stitch website is www.123stitch.com.  Michaels and Joann have both, IMO, drastically reduced their stock on patterns.  They still carry the floss, so I usually buy only floss from them.  But patterns...horrible selection.

On this site, you can order patterns, books, kits, and fabric.  I just got a pattern from them for making Harry a Christmas stocking.  I just finished the stitching, now I'm making a second one for my brother's dog, and then I'll sew them into actual stockings.

Here's a picture from the website, of course, the one I made says "Harry" at the top:

It goes along nicely with the ones I made last year for myself and BF.  Here they are:

This is the one I made for me, but it says "Heather" instead of the name on the pic:

And this is the one I made for BF, with his name, Dan, at the top:

I got an Australian Cattle Dog pattern off of this site, because I liked the detail best:

 http://www.thestitchstudio.co.uk/Adogspage2.html#DK050

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I got an Australian Cattle Dog pattern off of this site, because I liked the detail best:

 http://www.thestitchstudio.co.uk/Adogspage2.html#DK050

That's a beautiful design!  I found a book with dog breeds, and they are really pretty patterns.  Apparently there are about 10 books in the series, each one has several different breeds.  I bought the version recently that has an Italian Greyhound pattern.  It's simple, but pretty, and actually once the book arrived, I found out they have two versions of the same pattern-one tan IG and one grey one.  One of my coworkers has greys and IGs, and has been having some medical issues lately, so I thought I'd make her something to lift her spirits a bit.  I was originally looking for a greyhound pattern, but the ones I found were all racing pics, so I went with the IG pattern.  If you go to that link I posted earlier in the thread, and enter "dog" in the search field, they have tons of different breeds, and some of them are quite pretty.

Before I left NH, I was working on a Doberman one that came from a pattern book.  Some time in the move, I lost the pattern (probably packed somewhere in the storage unit.)  Damn if I cannot find the pattern book anywhere - I got it from a Hardware-turned craft store... Ace/Ben Franklin back in NH.  *sigh*...

I've heard that is is a decent program to create your own x-stitch pattern from photos  http://www.stoik.com/hobby/stitch/

If you want to buy supplies online, I will highly recommend: http://www.abcstitch.com/index.php it's a good website, like 123stisch.

Also I wanted to show you this designer: http://www.heavenandearthdesigns.com/ I think it's amazing!! But I don't know if I'm capable of get through one of those works.

Ohhh, something else near and dear to my heart!

In the Miribilia patterns I have......#03( current work ), #13 (almost positive), #22 and my sister has #30.

I also have a TON of older cross stitch books and patterns I could ruffle through. I will post what I have later when I get home.

Wow, I can't believe so many folks on here cross stitch!  I kinda felt like it was an "old lady" hobby.  At least, that's what my BF would joke about, until he saw the first completed one I did (I did a lot in high school, but didn't pick it up again until about 4 years ago).  Then he was pretty impressed.  But, yay, fellow cross stitchers galore!!!

Aerial: Those stockings are Beautiful!!! I love Ben's a lot!! Can't wait for you to show the final view!

And I'm surprised too!! I was saying to oranges yesterday, how sad I was having my "crazy stitching friends" so far from me. And now I find out all of you like the same YAY!! So, now I can share the advances made in my last work

Please, please, please show yours!!

sweet!  I guess I gotta get cracking on mine so that the dog actually LOOKS like a dog.  Right now it's just splotches of black and grey...

I want to learn to cross stich just so I can make this! 

 I used to do a lot of it...eyes not doing so good now.  I first started out with crewel, which I liked better, but did cross stitch when the craze hit. 

Here is my favorite piece...gotta say that Hub never thought of it as art, but I had a different opinion and have it over my fire place.