Winter Cross Stitch Camp – Finishing Day

I’m in love with Mill Hill Kits……..just saying!!

For cross stitch camp I decided to make Easter ornament and settled on three Mill Hill Kits.

Two are now stitched, so this morning I spent some time FFo’ing then.

For the ‘Lotus Egg’ I followed Vonna Pfeiffer’s tip of using mount board on the back to give it some weight.  She suggests three layers but because the egg was already fairly heavy with all the beads, I just did one layer on mine.

I didn’t do the same for the bunny ornament because it was quite a difficult shape to cut out and mount board is never easy to cut at the best of times, so I just backed that one with some sticky backed velvet.

Next up will be the Mosaic Egg.

Happy Camping!

Sue

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Winter Cross Stitch Camp

As we hit February, it means it’s time for ‘Winter Cross Stitch Camp’, hosted by the lovely Sheri from The Colorado Cross Stitcher.

This year the theme is ‘Collections’ and we have to stitch something to add to an already existing collection or start a new collection of something.

Because camp was going to coincide with me going into hospital for a hip replacement, I had to choose a project that would be easy to stitch while in hospital because I didn’t want to have to take a lamp and magnifier with me.

I decided to start a little collection of Spring and Easter Mill Hill ornaments but in the end it didn’t matter because my surgery was cancelled.

I still decided to go ahead and stitch them though and purchased three kits from the Spring Bouquet Collection.

Egg-ceptional, which is the one I have started and is a combination of cross stitch and beads

and then Mosaic and Lotus Eggs, that are 100% beads.

Here’s where I am with my start

Happy Camping!

Sue

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