For the past year, I've been busy taking care of my kids and was doing cross stitch. I was able to finished 4 of my project within 3 months before I had my baby and was able to coin 2 out of the 4 cross stitch. I stopped coining 2 of my cross stitch, hlab nyiaj, since I was starting to get backache coining with a huge stomach so I decided to make 3 more cross stitch for 3 of my sister that aren't married yet. So far after having baby, I'm barely finishing them. Just one more piece to go then I'll have to border it and sew it all together before coining them. I wanted to take picture of the process and totally forgot to, so once I'm done with the ones that I'm currently trying to finish, hopefully, I will remember to take pictures of each step. It will probably take a while since I'm in the process of buying a house.
This is the one that I'm currently trying to finished. I did all of the 6 squares and just need to finish up with the long one that goes around the waist. This is the one that I only took a picture of with my phone when I was starting out.
Below is the how it looks like when I border it up and sew it all together. It took a lot of work.
To me, I feel like this was the hard part. Obviously, it was my first time making these, so my corners aren't that great and I was just starting to get familiarize with my sewing machine. It was a lot of steps and very very back breaking. When it comes to coining, it's a bit easier once you get it but very back breaking.
The picture below is the one that my mother in law made for my daughter. It was my first coining and didn't do too bad.
With these, it takes a LOT of patience and time. After making these, I now understand why they're so expensive. It's a lot of hard work and best done with no infant/toddler around.
April 24, 2016
Update:
I found a picture of the first 4 cross stitch that I did early last year.
