My name is Lisa and I'm a cross stitcher in New Zealand. I've cross stitched since I was a teen and I remember joining the TW BB board when I was 18 (as kiwiflowa) it was my first contact with other people who were just as crazy and passionate about cross stitch as I was as well as discovering the marvellous wonder of all the designs/fibres/fabrics that were available off-shore with the click of the mouse. Blogs weren't a thing, digital camera's were new and expensive to have, cellphones did little more than txt and, you know, actually call people. I'm now 30, and my passion for cross stitch has waxed and waned over the years. My interests have grown into other areas: Gardening, knitting, reading.
I've gone to uni, graduated, started working, bought a house with my partner, got engaged, bought another house and moved out of the city, quit work. Yup I was really not happy, a bit burned out to be honest, so in June this year I left my job and became a home maker it's taken me this long to feel settled and content.
Sooo I pulled out my cross stitch this week for the first time in ages. I have a lot of old WIP's as I used to like working on many things at once, going so far as to create complicated rotations. I have a lot of stash in boxes that I haven't gone through in ages. At the moment that causes me some stress so all I have done this week is pull out the WIP I was working on last and have been working on that this week. Over time I will start to organise everything I have.
Here she is:
Persephone by Mirabilia
The fabric is wonky as I was trying to stretch out the wrinkles. Next time I will iron before taking photos. The right hand ironwork is actually 1 stitch lower than it should be so I will be ripping that out at some point and re-stitching, which will also mean a new skein of waterlilies I think too.
This is a huge design, I forgot until I took it off the qsnaps and it seemed to go on forever when unfolded, it's hard to take a photo of it on the table as I'm not tall enough and my arms not long enough! I resorted to using the tiled floor.
Just as I remembered getting photo's uploaded to blogger is such a pain. I just had to download google photo's, picasa, make umpteen folders, upload photo's to picasa webalbums etc etc. Off to go research how to make this easy. Instagram is a breeze and so much easier!! I've never found the whole picasa process intuitive. I don't want my laptop to become full up on photo's including a lot of duplicates.
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