Yep, completely fucked that up didn't I?! To be fair there was no instructions in the pack, this was supposed to be for kids for crying out loud.
But alas! That is a different time for me to rant about my crafty shortcomings. I am, however, going to review this lovely cross stitch kit I bought about a month ago from Argos! (You totally said it in the tone of that weird Argos advert from the early 2000's. ARGOOOOS)
Firstly I would just like to moan about the lack of crafting goods at Argos. Yeah sure there's loads of packs that are child friendly, but I am an adult! We like doing cross stitch!
Anyway, I thought this kit was pretty easy to use. You get a lot of thread for what you actually get, I thought I might have used the thread too sparingly but the instructions did say use one thread.
An added bonus to this is that it actually has the design printed on the fabric (I don't know what it's called, soz). I felt like I was cheating but this is a beginners kit, probably. I wouldn't know if it was actually a beginners kit cause it wasn't clearly labeled, but let's not get nit picky.
I did run into a spot of trouble whilst using this kit. The thread, especially the dark blue threads, were confusing. On the instructions, that I lost, were in greyscale so that was quite hard to figure out what goes where. The little card the thread came with were lettered but I feel that having colour in the instructions would have helped.
As you can see I started using the wrong colour thread, me being an extreme perfectionist I had to pick the parts I did wrong which ended up with me completely restarting the kit. Perfectionists ftw!!
Something else I had trouble with was the damn plastic embroidery hoop you are given. IT LIKES TO UNSCREW. Not even making that up, the amount to times I noticed the screw decided to randomly unscrew was ridiculous and annoying.
This kit took me one and a half days to complete. You could probably finish it in less time if you are good at cross stitch.
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