Cross Stitch Patterns

To help me decide what sort of pattern I want to design I will be looking at other patterns to give me inspiration and it will help me decide if I want to keep the pattern simple by using one colour or to step it up and experiment with using more than one colour. There are downfalls of using one colour as there are not many patterns that use just black thread, using just one colour also doesn't make it as exciting and as challenging. But there are the positive sides of using one colour, you don't get confused with what colour goes where and you wont make as many mistakes. In my opinion I do think the black cross stitch patterns do look effective and I do think they look good. The positives of a coloured cross stitch is that it is more detailed and there are more variety in designs. The downfalls of a coloured cross stitch is that it is a lot more complicated and will take a long time to complete. So I will be looking at other cross stitch patterns to help me work out what I will do.