Thanks for the tips! ❤❤❤🛎️❤️❤️❤️

Chocolate spots on your fabric? Got ya beat, I kept getting oil spots on mine. Had NO idea where it was coming from. I was not eating. They just materialized out of nowhere. For several days this went on. As the oil spots showed up, I'd change my design to cover them. Years later, when I replaced my ceiling fan, I realized the oil was coming from. My ceiling fan was leaking.

Thank you for the tutorial "5 common mistakes tor beginners to avoid". You are a angel to think about setting newbies up to succeed.

Gotta love kitty cats! They hate when you are concentrating on anything but them! Kuro our spoiled rotten darling always does his best to settle right in front of my Kindle. He gives himself bonus points I think if he can cover my phone at the same time, the chubby brat! Greatly enjoyed your video and your cat is lovely!

Miss seeing your videos

Thank you for taking the time to share what you have learnt.

Step one lose your needle

This is a lovely beginning and easy to follow. Thank you! 💖

Why did you stop?

Many thanks for the advice. Any tips on keeping your place on the chart and pattern I waste a lot of time locating where I am on the chart

EmilyB, mostra o gráfico desse bordado por gentileza.

40+ year stitcher here ☺ One of the most important things ever to remember: always, always make sure your stitches are going in the same direction! That is if you start your bottom stitch like this: //// all your bottom stitches need be that way. It does make a difference even though you wouldn't think so.

Your lipstick is gorgeous! looks so nice on you!

Such great advice. Thanks so much!! Love your lipstick by the way. You’re so pretty.

Very informative

Very beautiful cross stitch

the shining

What a beautiful cat! I love orange cats!

Cute 🐱!!

Good job!

You look so much like Kelly Clarkson! Thanks for the tips!

Oh no... I have sweaty hands :( will that get in the way? I’m getting stuff for stitching in a few days

So long winded

7:25 if you have a hard time framing that project add another piece of fabric. The seam will be under the frame... If not, add a mat and the seam will be under the mat. 💜🌞🌵

You seem really nervous.

Good advice about not eating while stitching and washing your hands. Good idea not to drink either. Beautiful cat!

So helpful - thank you!

You don't skip spots and jump over like that even with the flowers. Waste of thread and messy. I only jump maybe max 3 squares. Never more. Or if I do I thread them through the back stitching. Oh and I never start in the middle. If you figure it out properly, you'll be fine. Or get thread guide lines and stitch them in with squares of 10x10. Makes it easier to start wherever you want.. Your video is stupid..

I learnt something. It seems all x stitches have cats except me. I would love some but I have birds. I have a question. I just started a chart. The bird swing requires back stitch for the side of the swing. No x's in this area.The back stitch cuts through the squares/holes of fabric. (14c aida) The catch is if I'm reading the chart right is it requires two strands of two colours for this back stitch. 4 strands in total. You can't get 4 strands through aida where there aren't holes. So do I do this in one length or every square regardless of through holes or not? First time I have come across this situation. Great video.

black dot??

Thanks, from Texas.

I think you play piano. Very nice video. Thanks

Wow I am so happy that KZfaq put your video in my recommendation listing today because I love crafts and I am into diamond paintings at the moment. I taught myself how to knit and I have noticed people are into cross stitching so any advice and help would be very much appreciated by us beginners. New subbie here hello from Ireland. Ps really cute cat.😃👍👋

#lifewithacat thanks for the great tips & encouragement with cross stitching.

Did something happen to your Etsy store? The link won’t open

Useful information! Love your cat; so typical!

Emily I enjoyed this video and thanks for the tips. Worried about the mole on your hand. Once a nurse, always a nurse lol. Love your cat.

I used to stitch for commission. Once finished a stitch that had a very old design which was nothing like the picture. It was for the brother of his sister who passed away and started the stitch for him. I also design my own. Some of these tips aren't great. Soak in salt water to remove stains. Also I have always started in the centre and been stitching for almost 20 years (I'm 28) and the amount of strands is always determined in the design. 3 strands makes for a much more defined picture. It all depends on what the project is. As such a simple project as in the video yeah no use in using extra. Yeah keeping the back neat is great. Not something I do too much though. As long as you don't force the colour through the aida if it's framed you really can't see as no light shines from the back. I miss cross stitching since my daughter was born. I am on doing a photograph of my dog and my mams dog. About 300 different colours. Will be class if ever finished

I use multiple colors at the same time, is that the right way to do it?

Is it bad that I mix all of my different stitches. Like I cross stitch, but not for the whole piece. I'll use tons of different types of stitches on a piece. They always turn out really cool and everyone I've shown loves it. Is that a bad thing that I mix different type of stitches?

Thank you for this video, it's been very helpful. I wish you mentioned mistakes regarding posture--I just started cross stitching a week ago and I woke up with a sharp neck pain today, presumably because I bowed my head for a long time when stitching. Surely this problem isn't so uncommon among stitchers? Anyway I'm surprised that there are hardly any KZfaq videos addressing this subject, and believe it would be super helpful if someone made one about it.

Don’t worry my cat eats my thread too 😂 My little assistant o_o

There is also a correct direction as it comes off the skein - if used in the wrong direction, the thread can fray and get worse before the end of the length used.

Oh I'm sorry your Emily!

Great info and inspiration, making me excited to cross stitch with Maynia in full throttle. When I was younger and my eyes were good I would watch movies and stitch for hours, then age and eyesight not as strong hit, and now retired I see all these videos and the bug has hit me. I was going thru my drawers and found some to die for patterns that I MUST cross stitch. Your cat is beautiful and I loved that he was in the home. Your home is beautiful as well and thank you for sharing that most beautiful blue and white cross stitch project. I love that people turn on cameras and inspire us with their knowledge of a craft that they do, to help us. Thank you Denkai

Cats and thread. It is their special toys 😽

oh god i have been cross stitching for two years after we learned it at school but my teacher never taught me to divide the floss. i have been wondering why there was always too little floss in kits i bought and why the projects got so stiff!! thank you very much for the tips...

Thanks for the vid, good advice! I’m just new to cross stitch. Literally I just started today lol

I need to know when the directions says 1 ply, am I suppose to thread the needle with both ends of the thread together making two actual strands or do I leave the thread uneven stitching with only 1 small thread.