Priceless Stitching

I am so excited to share my first ever Halloween cross stitch finish! This design is Snail Slime from the Scary Apothecary series by Hands on Design. As soon as I saw this design I had to purchase it and stitch it up for the Halloween season this year! I love snails and think they are just adorable. The kids and I love looking for snails in our front flower bed where they have lived for a few years. We have had some as big as a nickle, which we have nicknamed Daddy Snail when we see him 😂 Needless to say the kids thought this design was pretty cute too. I chose to hand dye a piece of 28ct DMC Monaco fabric to stitch on, but I knew I didn't want to do white as shown on the design piece. I am really drawn to dark gray and other typical Halloween colors. I dyed my fabric using the Charcoal Rit Dye and baked it dry. Then  I used a bit of left over coffee to soak it once again. I baked it a second time even longer than before to make the coffee marks really darken up.  It resulte

In honor of the first day of fall, I am sharing one of my recent finishes as my first post on my Priceless Stitching Blog ! This design is Happy Harvest from Country Cottage Needleworks. It is stitched on a 28 count evenweave from Hobby Lobby's Artiste brand. I did a light coffee and tea dye on the fabric before stitching on it. I used all the called for overdyed flosses except for the red on the house, which is Classic Colorworks Cherry Cobbler. The pattern called for CC Crab Cakes, but it was too pinky for my taste. I had also just picked up this adorable tin FarmHouse decor piece on clearance at my local grocery store and placed picks inside. The Cherry Cobbler was the perfect color to match. I knew it had to be displayed next to my Happy Harvest! The only change I made to the pattern was omitting the birds. I mounted Happy Harvest on Pres-On self stick mounting board I purchased from Amazon. Then I hot glued some torn homespun cotton print (not actual homespun) ruffled ar