Last weekend I decided to have a change with my stitching projects, I’ve been working hard for the last few months on either the Owl and Hare Hollow or the Garden in Stitch book and I just fancied a change. I decided to do a bit more of my strawberry sampler book.

This is a kit I started whilst on holiday over Christmas. It’s a kit by Jane Greenoff for the Cross-stitch Guild. I’ve done a couple of pages already…

The next set of pages were darning stitch, which is basically just running stitch in neat patterns. It turns out it requires very accurate counting and it’s very easy to miscount judging by the number of mistakes I made!! Many were spotted early enough to undo, others were adapted into the pattern!

These double pages will be pressed and then folded in half and the edges whip-stitched together, I’m still wondering about putting a little interfacing or stiffener of some kind just to give a bit more body to the pages. I’ll probably stitch two sides together and see how it feels.

The next block is hardanger with some scary cutting of threads! I’d better concentrate for these pages!