Sunshine

This saying courages you to "Give the sun the time to shine". It is my own design and stitched on pale yellow aida fabric with the theme of my dear yoga hobby. Also with this I used photo stitch method to help to create the finished design.

Dreams

This is my own first ever photo stitch design. I started to work with this already before I had a soft ware for it. It is about a dog who understands: "If I could have it all, I could not dream..."

Unconditional Love

Unconditional love doesn't mean undiciplined kids. In love too there are always the rules that form out a safe fence around people who are in the circle of love.

My own photo stitch design.

BeFaithfulFriend

During the years I have designed a collection of sayings and stitched them to be true. I used photo stitch method to create this beautiful project BeFaithfulFriend. He is the very first dog of MyOwn. I learnt so much with Him & His Brains & Attitude. He was extremely strong minded and had more "sisu" in Him than you can meet in a person.

YuleNight

This is my own design of frosty YuleNight. I really enjoyed stitching it on RoyalBlue 14 count Aida and noticed it works pretty well. There are few back stitches for some details. I made this using a picture of dearest MrW when He was VeryYoung and VeryLittle.

So many months

There's so many months since I updated my blog for the last time. Unfortunately there's things you need to do to earn your living and always it can't be the craft. On the other hand the time you need to spend away from your desires more delicate it tastes when you can get back on to it. :)

In July I gave the 40th wedding anniversary gift to special people. Finally here's the picture of loved gift. It stands on the place of the honour in their living room. If you take a look at it very careful you notice it is not just converted by a designing programm. It took hours of work to pick up the shades. I didn't want it to look black and white as the original picture. They have big black and white photos on the walls from old times. I wanted the design look naturally old but I wanted it to differ from the original black and white photography. That's why I did also some other changes to the picture.

The frame is great and I was so happy to have it. That's because they have also almost similar framed very old colour picture on the wall.

 This is my own photo stitch design. I used a designing programm to convert the original picture behind 40 years. I did a lot of changes to get better outfit to this cross stitch project. I rejected almost all the shades the computer suggested. I did also many other changes. Coverting a picture to a cross stitch chart by a computer is easy but programms offer you also possibilities to make it better than the computer suggests. Computer has no brains so always its suggestions are not brilliant. It takes some time to do it all by hands but usually it's needable to do so to get best possible outlook. If I use converting programms in designing I use the computer's result just as a base on which I start to create.