Jane's Box of Colours: MFT STITCHED WITH LOVE

17th March is St Patrick's Day and over at My Favorite Things we are getting crafty with cross-stitch again with an Irish theme.

I decided to go BIG on this one. I love cross-stitching and wanted a huge canvas to work on. So I carefully die cut our tag cross-stitch die multiple times, until I had an area 45 crosses square!
To enlarge the grid, you will need some low tack tape to hold the die in place, patience and a smidge of brain power to ensure your grid ends up the right size. I found it easiest to pop out all the holes and slot the die back into some of the pre-cut holes. To ensure the die stayed in position, I taped it down and then run it through my die cut machine again. Merely repeat this process until your area is of the appropriate size - you really don't have to go quite as mad as I have done - I was just challenging myself to see if I could actually do it!

I found a beautiful Celtic Knot design online and stitched it with various shades of green Scheepjes Catona wool/yarn (a Dutch brand)

DMC Perlé Cotton works really well with these projects but you could use normal six strand embroidery thread too. I personally opted for the Catona yarn because it worked out considerably cheaper for me, not to mention these miniature balls of wool are so darned cute!