Stitch Fine Art with this Fun Kit

Cross Stitch Creations: Fine Art shows you how to recreate classic artwork from the masters in cross stitch.

Take your needle art to the next level and recreate some of the finest masterpieces in history.

From van Gogh to Klimt to Munch, the projects and artists found in Cross Stitch Creations: Fine Art represent a wide range of art movements in the painting world.

Cross Stitch Creations: Fine Art includes a 64-page instruction book that details how to create works originally painted by van Gogh, Klimt, Matisse, Hokusai, and many others:

Composition with Large Red Plane, Yellow, Black, Gray, and Blue by Piet Mondrian
The Swan (No. 16) by Hilma af Klint
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles by Wassily Kandinsky
Curtain, Jug, and Fruit by Paul Cézanne
Sunflowers (Fourth Version) by Vincent van Gogh
Flowers in a Rococo Vase by Paul Cézanne
The Scream of Nature by Edvard Munch
The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
The Creation of Adam by Michelangelo
The Tree of Life by Gustav Klimt
The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai

The kit also includes some materials for making some of the projects, but as you might imagine a lot of colors are involved in some of these projects so there aren’t materials that could be used to make all of them.

Have you seen this book? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

About the book: 64 pages, 12 patterns, $21.99/£12.99, published by Quarto.

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35+ Sunflower Cross Stitch Patterns

I love the look of variegated cross stitch floss and how it makes it possible to stitch with a variety of colors without changing thread, giving your project more depth and a more complex look without you having to do anything different.

Or at least not much different. I recently came across this blog post from The Copper Fox all about how to use variegated floss and it noted that many people would say it’s a good idea to complete a whole stitch (when you’re stitching whole cross stitches) with the floss before going on to the next stitch. Most of us stitch row by row, but of course if you do that with variegated yarn, it could change color along the way and you’ll end up with stitches that are half one color and half another color or a different shade.

Of course that makes total sense but I’d never thought about it.

The post includes swatches with different kinds of variegated threads to show the different between working stitch by stitch or row by row, and it doesn’t make a huge different over the small area shown but I can see how it might make a difference if you had really long rows or if you just want to make sure your stitches are a single color whenever possible.

In addition to this experiment, the post talks about other ways to work with multicolored floss, including deliberately mixing the colors among the strands of floss you are stitching with and stitching in a different order instead of right to left and top to bottom (or whatever direction you typically work) to get different effects from the thread.

It’s fun to geek out on this stuff because it can make a difference if you want to play with it, or you can just stitch on without giving it much thought, and both will give you good results.

Check out all the experiments at The Copper Fox.

Do you do anything different when you stitch with variegated floss? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: The Copper Fox]

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