EmnEllie Cross Stitch Blog

New Design!  It's been very busy lately. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I want to start another series. So I did!  This new series has four designs, all smalls. I plan on releasing them all at once. In other words, you will buy all four designs in one listing. The theme is the four Cardinal Virtues, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance.  Although they are not available yet, I decided to share a behind the scenes picture with you of the first design ( Prudence ).  Here it is: The Cardinal Virtues- Prudence  I think my cardinal has character. Do you like the play on words? This one is a bit different from the other designs I'm working on right now. Much less use of negative space than the Alphabet series. But there is still negative space for his wing!  When I was watching Liz & Deb on their Country Stitchers Flosstube they mentioned a method they learned from a designer once. Unfortunately, I don't recall that designers name....

Another New Start  Every time I watch Flosstube I sit there saying," Oh look at that!!" or, " Let's see, how many wip's do I have? Sure, I have room for another start!" or even more often I don't say anything and just run to my stash trying to figure out if I have all the floss for the latest project that has caught my eye. Seriously, sometimes I wonder if I need help.  This time, I was watching the always lovely Lorrie on her Flosstube channel, Mischievous Stitches showing us a book of designs by a designer named Jeannette Crew. So my mother purchased a book of her designs: Lot's of great designs in here!  It was July and how could I resist a patriotic start? I decided to stitch the Contemporary flag, the design on the bottom right of the picture above. Here's the floss: Gorgeous!  So in the picture of the contemporary flag, the design really looks like it has a lot of shading and depth. Great, I thought. But then when I ...