It’s a new year, and with finally finishing the stitching on my Christmas project (which no, I haven’t finished up properly yet), it’s also time for a new project.
I’ve only just got this started and is going to be a really simple design. A Latin quote, big letters, nothing fancy except I’m stitching it on black fabric for the first time (18 count aida, my go to).

The letters are really big (like 3 inches high) and I might do a smaller version to use up some of the left over fabric as the scraps are a bit too small to use for anything else.
I think the black would look amazing with bright colours like I’ve seen a few of the other stitchalongers do but I thought I’d keep it simple for my first time stitching on black but also because I haven’t had time to design anything else!
Here are the links to everyone else stitching something for the SAL:
Avis // Claire // Gun // Carole // LucyAnn// Kate // Sue // Constanze // Debbierose // Christina // Kathy // Margaret // Cindy // Helen // Steph // Linda // Heidi // Jackie // Sunny // Hayley // Megan // Catherine // Connie // Clare
Welcome back to Mary Margaret, and hello to our new stitchers Renee & Jenny !!
We post updates for all our individual projects every three weeks
oooh looking forward to seeing what this is going to be!
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Oh my word, what a challenge to the eyesight. I think your eyes must be a lot better than mine, but it will spectacular (sorry, no pun intended) when it’s done.
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Ahaha. Love the pun. It’s not so bad as the fabric isn’t that small (18ct) and I’m using such a contrasting colour. I don’t think I’d ever use linen or anything like that in black!
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Thanks so much for the welcome, congrats on finishing your project and looking forward to seeing what you are working on now, I’ve never braved black aida but it looks so striking 😍
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Black is a first for me too but I’ve seen others in the Sal use it before and it just looked so good! (Granted they used bright colours so mine probably won’t look THAT good in comparison but it’s still exciting)
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This sounds interesting. Looking forward to seeing what it will say.
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Thanks 🙂
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This looks very interesting, We’ll all be guessing the quote next time!
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Haha that’ll be fun. Hopefully you’ll have more to guess with!
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Looking forward to seeing more of this !
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Thanks 🙂
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I’m intrigued 🙂 Something to maybe try on your scraps….DMC 111. It’s gorgeous on black.
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What colour is DMC111? You’ve got me all intrigued now!
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Click the Cirque des Cercles link down the right side of the page under Cross Stitch. You’ll see photos of the Ink Circles design I stitched in DMC 111. It’s a variegated thread.
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Ah. I look at posts on the wordpress app on mobile so can’t see that but I think I remember what you are talking about and that was a very pretty colour!
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Yellows and golds.
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Black fabric is very stunning! I look forward to seeing more of your new project.
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It really is! I’ll see how I go but I might have to design something really colourful to stitch on black next time.
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I think just about everything looks incredibly beautiful on black fabric. I have a couple of projects in my stash that use black fabric and hope to get to them some day.
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I really like the simplicity of white stitching on black. I have only stitched on black twice – a jester pattern for my sister – two little jesters with lots of color. I found black to be very difficult. This looks really nice and classic! https://stitchingirlblog.wordpress.com/ I tried to change this to my personal wordpress account but couldn’t figure it out.
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Thank you. Hopefully it’ll look classic when it’s done and not boring haha
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Black fabric is challenging! I tried it for the first time on 40 count linen in 2018. I had to invest in a light magnifier clip on for my project. Looking forward to seeing the quote!
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Ahhhhh! 40 count!?!? No there’s absolutely no way id stitch on that let alone with dark fabric! Wow. I bet it looked amazing though!
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I know it’s crazy, lol! But it does look great. That project is still a wip for me and I’m planning to work on it next week 😊
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Eeek. Good luck!
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I love the black Jess! I haven’t stitched on black yet either. Should look amazing when you get it done!
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Hopefully! It is a really striking colour
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I love stitching on black, but I was always a bit goth. 🙂 This will look so striking when you’re done, can’t wait to “read” it!
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Haha. Thanks
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Thank you for the warm welcome! Your new project is off to a great start. I look forward to seeing it in February!
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Thank you!
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Love the contrast of whitework on black – mind the eyes!
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Haha. I know. It’s not so bad though as the fabric count isn’t that high
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This is going to look stunning, as usual! I find stitching on black quite difficult so I understand your hesitation with the colours.
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I hope so!
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I have had a break from the net during the Holydays, but I saw your finished embroidery and it´s looking great! This new one looks exciting!!!
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Thank you!
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