🎄 Dimensions Needlecrafts Needlepoint: Delightful Happy Snowman Stocking (71-09143) Review

Oh what a nightmare. I've been embroidering for 50 years, but never with dental floss. If I hadn't made this as a gift request I would have thrown it away. From now on I'll pay extra and stick with wool for quality sewing.1. Each strand needs to be split into 6 separate strands and then combined back into one strand. Splitting the strands causes the strands to kink a bit (which I believe is the cause as it gives the gathered strand more volume/thickness to cover) making clean reconnection a…

Every member of our family, except for two new grandchildren, has Christmas stockings that I made from kits or made up myself. Each was completed with wool yarn, and when my daughter in law chose this stocking for one of the boys I happily bought it.Everything came with it except dental floss of course.After finishing a bit working with dividing the strands of thread and then recombining the 8 strands for sewing decided I that I wouldn't be finishing this this Christmas I've definitely spent…

This one was a lot of fun too (I just finished the sled) and is a lot nicer in person than the picture. I slightly altered the top and flipped the ribbon and added it at the top so the name is sandwiched between the 2 ribbons and I use the same FONT (bigger block type) so these 3 family stockings "go together" that way (I do the red truck for Dad.) Again, my only warning: watch your thread changes, counting if it's a cross or half stitch, and two-tone threads, as those many changes really add…