So I decided to do something a little different and show off my own crafting hobby. With the Holiday Bookmark Swap coming up, I've been busy making bookmarks. And one of my favorite bookmark projects are cross stitch bookmarks. I like doing cross stitch because it gives me a break from work and reading (although I still enjoy reading a lot) and bookmarks are a quick project that I won't get burned out on easily.
My big thing at the moment are name bookmarks. I made one for myself and my brother and one of my best friends for her birthday and they were a big hit. So then I started to get orders for them. So I custom make and sell them now. And it's a lot of fun, because I design them myself.
Here's one I did for a kid who loves Disney. I found a Disney handwriting font and was able to convert it to stitches. I then did it in his favorite colors of navy blue and gray.
After making that one, he liked it so much that he ordered one for his friend, who loves Halo. Hence the Halo font on this one. He also wanted the edges fringed instead of folded over, which was a little bit different effect:

Here's the first bookmark I did with variegated (color changing) thread. It's a little hard to see because the picture is so bad (see comment about camera phone above), but the thread changes colors as it goes along the letter. It took a little experimenting to figure out the best way to use the thread, but in the end I think it blended really nicely.

This is my latest project, finished last night. Again, I used variegated thread, but only one color this time instead of two. I really like the way it turned out, although I wish I could have gotten the text a little taller. It was a bit hard to work with since the name was so long.
4 comments:
I'm a big cross-stitcher myself (am currently making a hummingbird one for my mom's birthday), so I think these bookmarks of yours are super-cool. Thanks for sharing!
Very nice...I'm a knitter myself. Would any be available for sale for a birthday in January and June?
Mary D
You do a beautiful job, Alyssa! I've never learned how to cross-stitch - is it very time-consuming?
If I'm not reading/cleaning/etc I like to make diarama-styled yarn wrapped wreaths. They take HOURS but are a lot of fun :)
I have to get back into my cross stitching. I loved doing it. The bookmarks are really nice. Great job!
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