looking like actual embroidery. For sale now.
___This is the smaller scale version of this pattern, with about 16 stitches per inch. Set at this scale it looks like actual embroidery stitches. ___ Cross-stitch is worked usually over 2 threads each way on even-weave fabric. Straight lines are worked in backstitch. I do not recommend embroidering cross-stitch from the reverse - I have done it, and it was very hard to keep the geometry straight in my mind backwards!___ At this size or smaller, this makes a cross-stitch look fabric, a cheater embroidery fabric. ___ I was doing the designs that are the basis for this set of fabrics in the 1980s and very early 1990s. Most of them have been hiding in my graph-paper notebooks ever since; a few I embroidered as counted-cross-stitch on even-weave fabric or Aida cloth. I did a version of this sampler as counted-cross-stitch.___ My philosophy of cross-stitch design prefers to use the minimum number of stitches per motif to make the identity clear, and that flowers should be identifiable (sometimes to genus and species), even when drawn in pencil. No "it's a mass of amorphous purple, it must be violets".___ You will notice that this fewer-stitches-per-motif design philosophy means less work for the embroiderer too. Besides a sampler for the wall, this would make a great pillow-cover or chair-seat design.___ Or a great place-mat or tray cloth. Or Arts & Crafts style curtains. ___Slightly updated October 2014. See other cross-stitch designs in my cross-stitch collection, and a cross-stitch teatowel calendar in the linen teatowels collection.___ See the larger version at http://www.spoonflower.com/designs/1458742 ___This design has been ordered, it's about to ship - available for sale soon. Nov 25 2014 - now for sale.