An Interesting Side Project

As with most Craft-minded people, I have multiple crafts that I like to do. Two years ago, I discovered the joys of Diamond art and started doing that in between my stitching projects to give my mind (and eyes) a break from miniature stitching.

A few months ago, I decided to investigate having a kit custom made for me using one of my own dollhouse rug designs.  It took me quite a while to find a company that would be willing to create the kit for me without a photograph and using the colors and amounts of diamond drills that I chose.  I did not wish to send them a picture of my design and have them choose the colors, I wanted my own colors. The program I use to assist me in my petit point designs tells me exactly how many stitches I use in each color, so it was easy to tell them how many diamond drills I needed. As an added bonus, diamond drills are matched to DMC colors, which is what gave me the idea in the first place.

The company I found, after contacting several, is in New Brunswick, Canada and the owner was extremely easy to work with. Here is a link to her website if interested: True North Diamond Art. My custom kit of my Jocelyn rug pattern arrived in the mail on July 7th! I was so excited, I had to start it right away!  This kit was a birthday present to myself and arrived just in time. Above is the bottom left corner of my design done in square diamond drills. Due to the nature of Diamond art, all pictures end up with a pixelated look when looking up close like this photo is, but they look great from a distance. This picture will eventually go into a frame I have on hand and I look forward to watching this one progress.