Minerva's Treasures

 Good morning dear readers, Today I want to talk to you about my first Cross Stitch Pattern release for this year. If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen it drop last week but if not, below are the detail. The pattern is called Christmas Cat. I know it is still August and way to early to be thinking Christmas, but cross stitch is also a very time consuming hobby and to finish a project in time for the festivities, one must start working on it as early as perhaps late August or early September. This heavily depends on the stitching time that one is willing/can allocate to that particular project and the list of projects on the to do list! Without any further ado, below is a mock up of my Christmas Cat:  Design Details:   Suggested fabric: 18 count aida or equivalent count in evenweave. White or Ecru would make a nice background. Stitch Count: 139 stitches wide by 178 stiches high Floss count: 28 different colours Size: this heavily depends on the fabric count of ...

Welcome to Minerva's Treasures!🌟 Good morning everyone and welcome to this little space where I shall be sharing with you whatever happens at Minerva's Treasures.  Let me start by introducing the concept. Minerva's Treasures is a place where one can find anything related to hand made, home grown and home reared stuff.  Let's break that down:  By hand made I mean anything that one can do with their own hands such as crocheting, knitting, cross stitching, resin crafting, paper crafts, do it yourself ideas and anything else that may come to mind at some point or the other.🧶 Home grown on the other hand refers to anything that can be grown in a field or in planters such as flowers, plants, fruit, vegetables...agriculture in a sense but not on a commercial scale, more like a hobbyist kind of thing.🪴 Home reared is more or less the same as home grown, only it relates to the growing of animals and birds, be it as pets or for their produce such as hens grown for eggs.🐔 All ...