Cross stitch in jewelry

Even I like to try different craft techniques, cross stitch was not my favorite and I tried to avoid it for a long time. I still have painful memories from my primary school time then we should make some small presents for the mother's day and it turned for me to be a big disaster.  But this is my latest creation- a bangle covered with Latvian national symbols in cross stitch technique. It took me a  lot of time to make it and I still have pain in my fingers, but I love the result and I started to like this very old decoration technique, for sure I will make more fashion articles by using needlework.