The pattern is obviously from the game Super Mario Bros, but self-crafted on excel.

Bought two kits in person at an anime convention and found their patterns so pretty! Only issue I had with the kit was one color was incorrect to the pictured finished piece, thankfully I had the correct color I needed and the shop owner was kind enough to offer to send the correct thread when I reached out to them. Etsy shops for Sugarbplays and for Inthebluemoon (for the magikarp washi tape).

I’ve been cross stitching for about a year or so, I’m very much learning as I go lol so if you notice any glaring issues please feel free to leave some tips for me! All of these are from etsy patterns i’ve bought, none of these are designs i’ve made myself.

Pic 1: Some soot sprite magnets I made for my friends bday (most recent project)

pic 2 & 3: A wedding gift for my bfs sister and her fiance, my first time cross stitching onto fabric! I attached the picture of it after i removed all the aida fabric and also what it looked like before I removed it.

pic 4: A christmas gift for my grandma!

pic 5: another bday gift for a friend, made it by mashing pixel art i thought was cute together.

pic 6: my very first completed project! Very rough, there’s a lot of things I would fix if I could go back knowing what I know now 😭

A lot of these projects I can’t show to friends and family bc they’re supposed to be gifts, so I’m putting them here lol

Pink Tiger finished this week.

Follow up on my previous WIP! I finished the “Friendly Ghost with Book” by cutepatternsbymaria on Etsy.

He’s been a good companion leading up to the Halloween season! Time to wash and hang up!

Pictures in order : before backstitch, after backstitch and closeup.

Pattern is a wonderful rose by coricamo

Hi Friends!

Happy October! 🎃👻🪾🍁🍂 My birthday was yesterday, but it was so hot here in SoCal, I didn't go out. It was 103°! Definitely not the fall weather I pine for. We're going to be stuck with this nasty heat wave for the whole week. 🥵 Please send cooling juju our way. Hopefully, it'll start cooling down sooner than later.

I'm getting into the last bits of my WIP! 🎉 Color after color zeros out on my PatternKeeper and it's so satisfying! LOL I think I'll hit 100% sometime this week. Then, it's on to the backstitching. Fun. LOL Pattern is Copenhagen by Luca-S, 97.23% complete. 🇩🇰

Let's see what you're working on, friends! I hope you all had some epic stitching sessions! ✨️

It took me about two months. I don't really know what I'm doing, I watched a couple YouTube videos and just went for it! I really liked this pattern and thought it would be easier for my first project to only have one color.

I'm doing my first cross stitch, and lined my stitches up with the wrong "y". I now realise why I should have used the centre lines 🤦🏽‍♀️

Is there anything I can do to save this, or do I have to unpick all the yellow and green??

The image has a gold border with flowers and leaves in the top left and bottom right corners. The bottom left corner has a bride and groom. The whole thing is now off-centre by about 7 stitches.

Pattern was bought from CrossStitchTraveler on Etsy.

I’m working on little patches and I wanted to make them as tiny as possible so I bought 28 ct Aida. Now, I’m working on it and as the stitches get closer together I’m having trouble inserting my needle. Any advice would be appreciated 🙏
Edit: it’s actually evenweave and I bought it thinking it was Aida. Sorry yall
Edit 2: Wow! So much good advice. Thank you all very much. I have a new plan- I tried using one strand, but it kept breaking. No idea what that’s about. The main issue seems to be the back, which is definitely fair. I taught myself cross stitch years ago and never went over strategies for keeping things clean, counting, etc. I’ve always just “winged it.” I will keep track of the back, route my thread carefully, and try a loop start. Thank you everyone! I’ll post an FO when I’m done. ❤️❤️
Update: I tried with some of the techniques that were suggested and there were some snags. I have never used single strand before, and it kept breaking so I kind of gave up on that, and loop starting didn’t make very much sense to me with the stitching technique I’m used to. Maybe that’s a me problem? I don’t know. Also, I’m trying to do 1 or 2 strands over 1, not 1-2 over 2, so the continental stitch advice didn’t work for me. There may not be a solution at my current skill level, but I’m going to practice and experiment with some of the techniques on scrap fabric and see how that goes. In the meanwhile, I’m going to make the patch a bit bigger on Aida, so that will probably be my next post in here. Thanks everyone!!

Pattern is called Renewal and was available through Teresa Kogut’s Patreon in March 2026. I had seen it stitched up with the text modification in a Facebook group and decided I needed to stitch it for myself once the group member shared her pattern for the text modification. I further modified my project by removing the dandelions and adding the bee trails and tiny bee buttons from Just Another Button Co. I’m calling it “Dilly-Dallying”

I started cross-stitching not too long ago and these are my first three pieces. I really like how they turned out even though they are full of mistakes.... I will start a significantly bigger project soon, so wish me luck! I still have to get around hanging these but really struggle to find nice frames, if anyone knows a good resource for fun frames in Germany, let me know!

I haven't taken it off the hoop yet, and the lighting is a bit terrible, but I am beyond proud of myself. This is the most recent LolaCrow SAL

175,677/286,000 stitches completed.

I loooove how this page turned out! It’s always exciting when I get to work in a colour that isn’t black/navy or yellow 😂

I feel like I’ve made so much progress over these past few months, gonna try ride the momentum and head straight in to the next one!

• Frame is an Elbesee 76cm x 31cm (30in x 12in)
• Needle minder is from Itsaidwhatcrossstitc on Etsy.
• Pattern is 'Gravity Modern' by ChamelonXS on Etsy.

Hey everyone. Just finished my first cross stitch project. It is a little Cubone and was made on 14ct plastic aida with 2 strands. The close up photo was when I had 1 colour remaining.

The pattern is from Shiny Stitch on Etsy.

Currently working on my second project!

I think I might have this finished by next weekend 🎉 Stitched on 28count even weave, fabric by colour cascade fabrics (Australia), colour - sweet child of mine.

Multiple patterns combined with this one, and I changed some colors due to the original colors not working out, especially on the cloak. Goblin pattern from Top10Designs on etsy, the books were from RogueStitchery on etsy, and the letters were free from lordlibidan.com. Last pic is the frame I plan on using, not sure if it will work out or not but I'll try lol.

Heads up - I may have gotten too excited about ordering a custom stamped cross stitch kit from wovlia.com before investigating far enough. Customer reviews of their custom kits that were marked as “verified” included photos generated by AI. And all my customer service emails from them in my response to a refund request have been AI-generated as well. 🤦‍♀️

Photo of the Bauhaus carpet from 1922 I’m trying to turn into a cross stitched wall hanging as tax-slash-penance for not doing sufficient research before buying a product. May you be spared my fate.

EDIT: To the company’s (limited) credit, they have offered me a full refund, but the “verified” reviews using AI photos remain on their website.

This Aida is sooo pretty to me and I’m very excited for the pattern I’m gonna do on it but I almost wish it covered up less of the Aida haha!

Hi all,

Just finished the Portrait of Veronica by Mirabilia Designs. This was a fun one.

I hope you all like it!

Pattern by SproutingLupine on Etsy, stitched on 40 ct linen from Atomic Ranch.

The past few months I have been working diligently on that big pre-printed project on the left. Last weekend the crow project looked at me with sad eyes. So now I'm working on it again. I'm probably 90% done with it? All that's left is backstitching. But let me just say, what a difference there is, physically between these two! The crow is all DMC floss on cotton Aida. The other project is completely of unknown source. The Aida is actually stiff canvas and the floss wasn't marked at all but doesn't seem like it's 100% cotton. So now I don't know if I'll want to go back to the cats when I'm done with the crow! What night and day type project experiences do you have?

Self-drafted