Cross Stitch - Blog Posts
I saw a flower today...
Started cross stitching, my first 2 done, i think i did well.
Put a hole in the shirt while cutting the aida but it came out good
Just wanted to share with you what I have bee-n doing with my free time and to tell you all to bee happy
my first cross stitch
There’s really not much to this post, I just wanted to share the finished piece of the cross stitch I started. This is gonna get turned into a quilt pillow for my aunts birthday in March, I really hope she likes it. She’s obsessed with the beach and if she could would spend every day there- as I kid I used to think she was a mermaid in disguise lol-
I ended up not doing the little knot details because I couldn’t get it and was becoming a little bit frustrated, but I plan to try again at this on a future project
craft update
yesterday after going to the dentists, my nana wanted to go to the craft store to look around since there was a big sale and I had a coupon. So we walk around and I offhandly mentioned that I wanted to try doing cross stitch, so she goes all in and gets me a starter kit and some of the fabric for it. I even have some embroidery floss that’s back at home.
anyway I wanted to show everyone my new hobby lol
I’ve spent a little over 5 hours on this guys, why is it so addictive!
I made a couple more tatreez (Palestinian embroidery) inspired designs for my fundraiser, found here and here:
I'll also reshare a few versions of an older tatreez design I made that have been quite popular (the friend I am fundraising for's girlfriend really likes them and she's an amazing artist so I feel validated, haha):
The bottom one is available on a bunch of products, the four square designs are currently only available on stickers and pins. I also incorporated the above pattern into a couple other designs:
These tatreez patterns were made using FlossCross. All these and more can be found in my full shop here.
ALL PROCEEDS from my work are for my Palestinian best friend, to help him support his girlfriend in remaining in America until it's safe for her to travel back home and to help his friends and family in Palestine and around the rest of the Levant who are being hurt directly and/or financially by the attacks on Gaza, the raids and economic devastation in the West Bank and the collateral damage in surrounding countries. He will donate anything his family doesn't need to the Palestinian charities he works with.
Here's a small sample of a few of my other designs:
Most of the designs are available on a pretty wide variety of products (shirts, stickers, prints, notebooks, pins, bags, etc).
Thank you to everyone who has helped out so far!