1. What types of stitching and design styles appeal to you most?
2. What types and styles don’t appeal?
1. I’m not sure exactly what this question is asking, so I will answer it in a manner that makes sense to me. 🙂
As far as stitching goes, I like everything. Straight cross stitch, speciality stitches, drawn thread work, pulled thread work, hardanger, ribbon embroidery, etc. I tend to like designs that will hold my interest by mixing up a variety of stitching types. I like celestial, oriental, realistic and fantasy designs. Dragons, fairies and angels are good. So are band samplers. I really like geometric or symmetrical designs, so I’m drawn to square Just Nan, small Sweetheart Tree and most of the Chatelaine designs. I also like Mirabilia and Passione Ricamo for realistic and “realistic” fantasy designs. Throw in The Victoria Sampler for hardanger designs and I think that’s the heaviest hitters in my repertoire. Not that I don’t or won’t stitch other things, of course. 🙂
2. I am not a big fan of primitive or country types of designs. Whimsical can be okay, depending on how it’s done. Anything too cute is right out.
Hi Jenna,
We have similar tastes in stitching, I see. The only thing is while I may admire others’ stitching of dragons, fairies, and angels, it would be a very rare thing for me to stitch. 😀
Heck, we have such similar tastes in designs that we love … I went through a phase when I really wanted to stitch oriental designs, and ended up with a whole pile of charts that to be honest I’ll never stitch now in a month of Sundays … they’re among the pile of boxes that I freighted over from home – if you like, I’ll scan the covers when I finally get around to unpacking them, and see if there are any that you’d like. Admittedly, some are really old, so you may not actually like any of them – they were part of an chart exchange I did quite some time ago, where we all chose a theme, and sent charts to each other according to our theme … I chose oriental … 🙂