Thanks!

Thank you!

Thank you! If you've done cross stitch that includes backstitching, it's quite similar and you already know how to follow a chart. Coloured blackwork on black Aida is one of my favourite looks!

As a primarily blackwork designer, them's fighting words! 😂

Thank you!

Alllll the time.

Thank you!

Gorgeous! That's a ton of work and it turned out beautifully!

Aww, the ghost kitty is so cute!

There's a certain amount of "tyranny of the grid" when you're working on Aida (you may notice a lot of my designs are abstract and geometric), but more organic shapes are also fun to work out. Good luck, and I'd love to see what you come up with!

Biggest tip is probably common to most digital art - save everything. The rejected drafts, the motifs you decided not to use for this project, the versions that were almost-but-not-quite right. Save it in a coherent filing system, b/c sooner or later you *will* want some of it.