I don't really understand why
but the focus of each cross stitch
and the repetition of each stitch
back and forward across the canvas rocked and
soothed your soul.
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Counted Cross Stitch is a form of counted thread embroidery, where the stitcher counts the threads up and over so that the stitches (X's) are of uniform size. Counted Cross Stitch can often include other stitches such as 1/4, 1/2 or 3/4 stitches and back stitching used to outline areas for depth.

 

This is the progress I have made on Red Riding Hood2. The first pic shows about 10 hours work and the second is after 23 hours of work

Finding Fairy Tale Stamps, among other amazing art work on stamps has lead to  new Cross Stitch projects for me that fulfills a sense of wonder with both cross stitching and stamp art. I just did not realize the extend of art on such a small piece of paper.

The other day I went to pay my monthly bills and realized I was out of stamps, so I paid some of the bills online. But this got me to thinking that stamps are one of the many daily things that will be coming to an end soon.

For over a hundred years governments have issuing stamps so that hundred of thousand of people could communicate with each other. This over time lead to some pretty amazing art work on stamps and to stamp collecting. But as I said before this may be coming to an end within, say the next 15 years. And that number is very conservative.

So be sure to check out the other stamp sets that have been issued and then re-created here at Crossed Fairy Tales.