I am stumped! They aren't listed in the pattern as French knots, and they don't appear to be 1/4 or 1/2 stitches like elsewhere in the pattern, they are just sort of... there.

It's a free pattern from DMC, so I am suprised that it's so ambiguous. The DMC patterns have been pretty good so far...

It's this pattern if you'd like to see the whole thing: https://www.dmc.com/AU/en-GB/products/cross-stitch-cat-chistmas-baubles

Edit: After staring at the pattern for a while, one thing I noticed is under the French knots, it lists the black for the eyes, and another colour E5200... looking at the pattern I cannot see a single spot where the E5200 French knot is used... Do you think there is a mistake in the pattern, and the E5200 is meant to be the pink circles for the paws?

I'm very bad at judging how close I am to done. And I did little else the last few days. But it's finished. About two weeks shy of a year. Yay!

I was going to call it done once I finished all the colors but it looked really rough with the bare fabric for white so I filled in all the white spaces this time too

Getting very close to the end. And I'm about two weeks from hitting a year. Hoping to come in just under. We'll see!

As an aside, I have come up with a way of framing my finished cross stitch projects that I really like and thought I would share here:

I wash the piece and rinse well, then leave sandwiched in a clean white towel under a stack of books over night.

The next morning it is very slightly damp, and I gently spray the back of it with spray starch (the kind used for ironing shirts).

Then I iron the back of it, with the front on a clean section of the towel so the stitches aren't flattened, then leave it to dry uncovered for a few hours.

Then I flip it over, and armed with a toothpick and a few q-tips I spray some starch in a little cup and using a q-tip I dab any stitches like lettering or back stitches or French knots to wet them with starch and use the tooth pick to carefully align them.

While that dries, I get a piece of card stock and spray it with craft spray adhesive, there are many brands, but it's important that it's acid free and that the can reads that you can either spray and put together immediately for a permanent bond, or spray and let dry to use as a temporary positioning adhesive.

This is what I want, I spray a thin layer, let it dry, and it has the feel of... A sticky note adhesive. It holds the cross stitch so it cannot sag in the frame, but is completely temporary. I carefully place the cross stitch on the board and use a clean q-tip to press around the letters and design til I'm happy and pop it in a frame.

I've done quite a few like this over the years and so far nothing has gone awry. If anything does I'm confident it's reversible. 😊

Needed to see something else for a change and still have a ton of fabric to work with so No Face and me are going on a little sardine adventure for the next few days.

It took 14 months and 53,592 stitches, on 16 Aida cloth!

It did not iron very well.

I'm 70% done. This has come a long way.

Cross posted / shared from https://kbin.melroy.org/m/[email protected]/t/1134319

I see your lots of red and raise you lots of greenish blues!

The bow is taking a little while to finish. It's A LOT of red lol

The face is starting to take shape!

I'm nearly done with the ocean, it's doing well so far!

This will eventually be a Kiki's Delivery motif, but right now it's just 3/4ths of a cat 🐈

Halfway through. Hopefully I can find a new hoop on Friday the one I'm currently using, is too deep(?) and therefore using up too much space ಠ⁠ಗ⁠ಠ

I'm 2/3 done. Ish. Just the top chunk left. I'll probably hit a year working on it before I finish but it'll be close.

I'm busy making a wedding gift (which i haven't shared, as this is my first post here), and I'm doing the Noel sampler from Satsuma Street as my togo project. So I'm really not supposed to start anything new..... buuuut yesterday I got the final ingredients for "the stitchers book club" stitch-along from Cloudsfactory. I have been eyeing it since it started in January, and I was finally enabled enough to join. And then i couldn't (wouldn't) help myself, and had to start it!

I'm so excited to see if i can catch-up, as I'm starting 7 months late, and it's NOT supposed to be my main project

I don't know why it just cuts off at the waist like that, but that's the total pattern 🤷‍♂️

These are old but the thread is perfectly good!

More pics.

They had hand-written price tags with amounts of $2, $4, $5, and one $7.50 (very full, seen next picture)

Most were about half full, but the highest price-tagged one was almost full.

Here are all the colors that I got:

Now what should I make with all these? Anyone need some?

It's kinda bigger than expected but since I'm on sick leave again I can make up for some time :D

Pattern available on Etsy

Goku is about 75% done now! I hope to be finished by this weekend!

By now I have a bunch of these cards with left over yarn. I'm looking for a solution to store it properly (bring same colors from different cards together, label them with the correct ID numbers, ...) but I'm not sure how.

Space is definitely an issue so I was thinking about one of these TCG albums.. any better ideas? How do you store your yarn?

The colors do look a little better now that the hair is done