Merry Christmas, Ya Filthy Animal

The other day I admitted to not having watched “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer” in the context of a Thanksgiving cross-stitch pattern, but I definitely grew up watching Home Alone (and judging those parents for being so terrible they forgot their kid on multiple occasions).

So I know the context of this quote made into a holiday decoration by DIY Candy. This will definitely make people of a certain age laugh and reminisce about all the ways they thought of to foil robbers should any come upon their home when they were alone.

And now that it’s after Thanksgiving let me finally say Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal, to you.

[Photo: DIY Candy.]

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It’s back to school time where I live, which I always feel like is a great time to learn a new skill or take a deeper dive into something that you might not have learned a lot about before.

Usually when we are learning new hobbies we only know what we know. We learn the terms that we encounter, the skills that come up in the projects that we want to make. It’s not that we don’t care about other basics or different approaches, we just learn what we need to know to make what we want to make.

And that’s totally fine, but sometimes it’s a good idea to go back and review the basics or learn the things you might have missed the first time.

In that spirit I share this post from Caterpillar Cross Stitch all about basic cross stitch terms that every stitcher ought to know.

Did you know that the little bundle of thread you use for cross stitch is called a skein, for example? Or the difference between grid size and design area in a pattern? Or that working complete stitches one at a time is known as the English method? (I didn’t know that one! Apparently doing half of the stitch across the row and then coming back and finishing it is the Danish method. Who knew?)

There’s also a little bit about getting started with confidence that might be helpful at any skill level.

So what I’m saying is, even if you feel like you know a lot about cross stitch already, head over to Caterpillar Cross Stitch and check out their list of terms and make sure you know them all. If nothing else you’ll feel a little smarter, either because you already knew them all or you learned something new!

And if you do learn something new, I’d love to hear about it.

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