For as long as I can remember I've loved working with my hands. My mom is a sewer/needle crafter, and she taught me the basics. From there I use YouTube and other tutorials to learn new skills, and I love to create my own patterns and designs.
Many of the projects that I choose take months to complete. To me, the process is more exciting than the finished product, so I often give my pieces away.
On this first post I want to share my project from last week. My brother and sister in-law requested a cross-stitch pattern of an ice-hockey playing bear. After scouring the internet I couldn't find anything that even came close. But never fret!! To the drawing board I went, and came up with a pretty cute (and awesome) design.
I started with two inspiration photos: a bear and a hockey player
My husband couldn't believe it, but the artist in me surfaced. From the two images above I sketched a design in simple pencil.
I own the program PC Stitch, and had I been near a scanner I might have cheated and imported this image right into the program. However, I think I would have had a lot more clean up to do than actual designing. To me, mapping out the graph is the best part! You can see in the image above that I drew guidelines to help me scale the image. I knew I needed it to be about 30 count as a finished product, so I used a ruler to break my drawing into 10/10 unit squares. I then used graph paper to chart an outline.
From there it was easy to chart the pattern into PCStitch, add color, and a background!
I haven't had time to actually stitch this design, but I'll be sure to share it when I finally do.
I haven't had time to actually stitch this design, but I'll be sure to share it when I finally do.
