Well, my start-itis continues! When I was at Creativa a couple of months ago I bought some very cute charts by Cornelia Papesch (a German designer) that called for a brand of floss that I was unfamiliar with, Vaupel & Heilenbeck (V&H), and while Gosia encouraged me to try V&H out, I hadn’t yet bought any of it.
Then today, on the EMS Cross Stitch Board, someone else was looking for a V&H to DMC/Anchor conversion chart and someone was nice enough to post a link to one. I immediately downloaded it and pulled out my Cornelia Papesch designs. I was just going to look to see if the floss conversions made sense, honest! But “Frühlings-Mix” started screaming at me and I couldn’t help myself.
Since these designs can either be done with traditional cross stitch or petit point, the next thing I knew I was looking up exactly what petit point was online. As I read about petit point, I thought it sounded kind of neat. So I cut out some fabric and started stitching away!
For those of you not in the know, I would describe petit point as half-stitching over one. It is also suggested that you use the “continental stitch” when doing petit point so that your half-stitches don’t get lost within the fabric. And so I learned how to do that tonight too! 
I am doing this design using 27 Count Linda, it is stitching up really fast, and I think it looks really neat!
Now, I really must feed the cats and then I am off to bed. Toodles!