Every Day Happy!a Cross Stitch Kit by Imaginating

Cute sampler for summer, with pretty colors. I stitched it in less than a week. It counts easily (one thing I like about imaginating samplers is they are very easy to count and they have the best charts in the market IMHO). I added eyes to the ladybug and the sheep though I'm not sure the sheep looks much like a sheep. There's a fair amount of backstitching in this sampler, for vines and stems. Also there's about 50 french knots. I'm not a fan of french knots on aida (linen is okay, but aida is loose weave enough that you have to worry about the holes when you are placing them. In a design this tight, those french knots are a bit hairy). The biggest problem I had is that they seemed to give me one lighter blue strand among the others in the thread for the frame. This was a problem because I unwittingly didn't notice and stitched half the frame in a shade noticeably lighter than the rest of the thread (and the frame was the lightest blue, so I couldn't have picked up the wrong color). However, I often stitch a frame with half stitches first, to make sure I counted it right, (with a full stitch every ten stitches to help the counting) so I just did the top cross with the color it should have been, and it is not noticeable. This is nice if you need inspiration to have a cheerful attitude.