Baby Sampler.

 My friends baby has entered the world healthy and beautiful! Congratulations to her and her family on such a beautiful little guy! Now as promised here is a picture of the sampler (I have blurred the name).

Now considering I only had 2 months to finish it and I didn’t have a cross stitch chart I think I did well! The hardest part was getting the lettering right so let me talk you through it. It may take a little time but it isn’t too difficult and it’s worth it!

You will need some graph paper or make a graph of your own. I used graph paper. I counted how many cross stitch squares across and down I had to play with for the name and drew this onto my graph paper. I then figured out what font I was going to use and practiced underneath the box I’d drawn, like so:

Then I transferred the text into the box I’d drawn, finding the middle of the space and the middle of the text to centralise it. Nice and easy. Obviously the more text the more difficult and as you can see from the blur the name was quite long!

You could also use this technique for pictures by transferring the picture onto a grid, which means you can make your own custom cross stitches!

Anyway I am very happy for my friend and her family.