Sweet Stitchy Days

Linen Love

What a pleasure it was to stitch this cutie (I call her Cupida!) in the month of pink and red and love aka February. She is so, SO BEAUTIFUL and I really hope that she blesses my blog as well as all of my stitchy endeavors. This was my first time cross-stitching on 32 ct AND linen (Zweigart Lucan)—well, Lucan is actually a blend of linen and cotton, but I’m totally counting this as my first stitching-on-linen experience as it felt SO different from working with aida and evenweave. I’d been slightly intimated by the idea of stitching on linen, so I feel extra proud of myself for completing this project. I definitely look forward to working with linen again soon, maybe a Belfast!  

I stitched this sweet angel from a freebie on the Pinker ’n’ Punkin Quilting blog titled “Ewe Have My Heart” (minus the ewe!). Melisa generously offers so many adorable free patterns on her blog, and I have already started stitching one of her houses.

I used tent stitch for the three larger hearts for a different effect and whatever DMC flosses I already had in my collection (B5200, 310, 349, 434, 437, and 3706). I like to imagine Cupida as an angel of self-love, directing her arrows at all those who need to love themselves more...which is probably most of us. 

Wishing you a lovely day and may many blessings come your way!

~Shona