EmnEllie Cross Stitch Blog

Photo by  Cristian Palmer  on  Unsplash   Happy Wednesday! It's been a rainy week here at the Castle. There's been so stormy weather, it feels like at any moment the Castle will float away, or look like those underwater castles that people have in their fish tanks. But let's hope it doesn't get to that point! It's been a longer amount of time than usual since my last post, but I was working on a solid block of cross stitch, and didn't want to report back here until I had some good progress to show. Here's what I've been working on!  Behold! A shield! Nice, steady progress, and here's the result. Don't you just love that variegation? Keep your eyes open on my shop for the next few days, as I have a new chart coming. It's a band sampler, and a red band sampler (being a red band sampler makes it better!).  Here’s the link to my shop. Medieval people ate French Toast? And the Romans too? I think I still prefer maple syrup…

  Photo by  Bjorn Snelders  on  Unsplash Happy Tuesday! Finally getting some May sunshine here at the Castle. Some Black Eyed Susans have started to bloom, and volunteer tomatoes have decided to grow in the raised beds. Not having a good time getting my Italian Eggplant seeds to germinate, but I bought a new seed packet so hopefully those will have better germination. The last time I shared a WIP update, the crown wasn’t finished. This time, I finished the crown, and made much more progress on the shield and that bottommost band:  Do you see that backstitch near the Unicorn’s hoof? It was such a joy to stitch! I used one strand of floss instead of two. After pondering this for a bit, I’ve decided not to stitch my initials and the year on the shield. Maybe I’ll do some tiny backstitch at the very bottom when I’ve completed it, but I’m not feeling it for seeing my initials in the middle of the finished project. It’s not that I hate the way the initials would look (they're lovely!) it