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funkymonkey wrote:Really glad I did my mini-swap project on 22 count so I know NOT to use it for my super mario world title screen!! That stuff is intense. Somehow I almost feel like it was harder than the 28 count I used over the summer. Maybe because with that, I knew what I was getting myself into, but I kept trying to treat the 22 like it was 18 and it didn't agree with me.
I think the biggest problem for me was under-estimating how mind numbing it was going to be filling in the single colour background.
These are gorgeous! I think we forget that the kids see us doing these "sewings". My daughter (Age5) has got it in her head that she needs to be making the sewings with me bless her, so I think I am going to get her a few easy projects for Christmas.
msstitcher wrote:These are gorgeous! I think we forget that the kids see us doing these "sewings". My daughter (Age5) has got it in her head that she needs to be making the sewings with me bless her, so I think I am going to get her a few easy projects for Christmas.
Ooh let me know what you get! My girl (she turned 4 in October) keeps asking me to have a go. She sort of gets what to do but I think what we work on is too small for her. I'm looking for some way to teach her how to do it without being too complicated
RMDC wrote:...I've been stitching at an estimated rate of almost a full BMH per day...
I've been teaching my almost-7-year-old by using 7 count plastic mesh and yarn. We started by learning how to stitch over the end of the yarn to secure it, then did a row of half-stitches, then went back over the row to make whole stitches, and finally secured the yarn without knots. Most recently she learned to make a row of halves and then move down to make a second row of halves beneath, then go back and finish the stitches. She's tried a small cross-stitch kit before, but it was a bit overwhelming for her; she responds much better to the chunky needle and wide mesh.
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When I was small my mum get me a jewellery box kit with plastic canvas and wool. I stitch all the squares and rectangles following my little patterns and then mum stitched them together to make a the box (it was in the shape of a little house with a pitched roof and a flowery front garden ) I was so proud of that and I've still got it around 15yrs later. Something like that for little girls might be a good idea.
RMDC wrote:I've been teaching my almost-7-year-old by using 7 count plastic mesh and yarn.
Yeah I was thinking of using 7 or 10 count, and a big plastic kids needle (I saw a kit somewhere recently for something similar). The only thing is that I think perhaps my girl is a bit too young, she's just turned 4. The enthusiasm's there but I don't know if she has the physical skills necessary!
peas_and_love wrote:Something like that for little girls might be a good idea.
Not for this little girl! She most likely will want something Sonic or something Link!
RMDC wrote:...I've been stitching at an estimated rate of almost a full BMH per day...
blackmageheart wrote:Yeah I was thinking of using 7 or 10 count, and a big plastic kids needle (I saw a kit somewhere recently for something similar). The only thing is that I think perhaps my girl is a bit too young, she's just turned 4. The enthusiasm's there but I don't know if she has the physical skills necessary!
Maybe wooden beading kits, or those lacing boards? The ones shaped like animals and whatnot with holes for lacing around them, or perhaps freehand boards like these.
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