I have a challenge for you..

Thirty years ago, I ran a small business producing counted cross stitch embroidery kits. It was called "DevaStitch Designs", because we were based just outside Chester, but mostly what I did was small designs of local landmarks for the small local needlecraft shops that used to abound.

I did a kit of the Paddle Steamer Waverley for the needlecraft shop in Largs, and it sold very well. I sent the worked model, after photography, to the shop, and it never came home again (not surprising, we closed our businesses about the same time, and there was some chaos.

We were on the Waverley yesterday - my first time, as I made the design based on a postcard - and I just thought - it would be lovely to see it again.

So, do you, or anyone you know, happen to have on your wall a counted cross stitch of the Waverley Paddle Steamer from DevaStitch Designs?

#CountedCrossStitch #Needlecraft #HandEmbroidery #AskFedi #PaddleSteamerWaverley

It's complete!

The alphabet is from the book Elizabethan Cross-stitch & the rest from 2 Dover books on Celtic design.

#countedcrossstitch #embroidery #psychopaths #tangerinetyrant ##OrangeMenace #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #sexualpredators #rapeculture #predators #craftivism #artivism

I need to iron this sampler & stitch a muslin back on it before I place it on a sort of hanger & ultimately on a wall. But the embroidery is complete.

The alphabet is from the book Elizabethan Cross-stitch & the rest from 2 Dover books on Celtic design.

#countedcrossstitch #embroidery #psychopaths #tangerinetyrant ##OrangeMenace #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClass #sexualpredators #rapeculture #predators #craftivism #artivism

I just finished these 2 counted cross-stitch pillows.

The bottom one is a quote from a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. The design is from Modern Folk Embroidery,
https://www.modernfolkembroidery.com/

#countedcrossstitch #embroidery #gothic #Halloween #Witchsky #gothiccrafts

Another finish! I absolutely love the colors on this Luna moth, and the way it looks on the Logwood Lugana fabric couldn't be better!

Designer: Happy Little Mouse https://etsy.me/46yfgLF
Fabric: 28ct Logwood Lugana https://etsy.me/4k9MAxP

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This cute little pink truck will soon be hauling Christmas presents around. Pattern and fabric are from an old Caterpillar Cross Stitch advent calendar.

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#crossstitchersofinstagram #stitching
#xstitchlove #crossstitcher #countedcrossstitch
#needlework #stitchersofinstagram #christmas #christmasstitch #caterpillarcrossstitch

My latest counted cross-stitch project: my words from a 2017 protest. The alphabet & flowers are from the book _Really Cross Stitch: For When You Just Want to Stab Something A Lot_ by Rayna Fahey.

#StopRewardingSexualPredators #countedcrossstitch #embroidery #RapeCulture #misogyny #OrangeMenace #RapistInChief #Kegsbreath #patriarchy #misogynyisterrorism #misogynation #AmericanFascism #EpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #chopupmisogynists #chopuprapists #feedmisogyniststodragons

I just finally finished these 2 counted cross-stitch projects. I stitched them between 2017 & 2019, but the fabric was folded up with raw edges until this morning.

I used a book called Elizabethan Counted Cross-stitch.

#countedcrossstitch #resistance #ArtIsResistance #JoyIsResistance #embroidery #craftivism #AllAbortionsAreGoodAbortions #OverthrowPatriarchy #FuckThePatriarchy #reproductiverights #OverthrowPatriarchy

I finished and framed this Edgar Allan Poe counted cross-stitch project over a year ago. Today I finally hung it up.

Designed by The Witchy Stitcher. https://www.thewitchystitcher.com/

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