Slower Stitching: longer to complete projects
A companion to my Slower Knitting mod - this mod slows the time it takes to complete cross-stitch projects.
One of the best parts of Cottage Living is the ability to cross stitch. I am a stitcher myself, so every Sims home I have, I get some llamas, and give them all the treats for coloured wool!!!
I don't know why someone would want to cross-stitch faster? It can take me ages to complete things myself, so why shouldn't it be the same in The Sims?
The time coding is a little different to the knitting one, so I referred to a mod to make stitching faster, and made a change before testing.
I am unsure as to whether the number corresponds to sim minutes, or something else - there's only one value, as opposed to a big or small project, which is interesting considering you can stitch something in three different sizes!
For this mod, I have:
reduced the speed value from 10 to 1, which increases the time it takes to complete a project (I believe this is 10 project minutes per 1 sim minute; now 1 to 1)
In conjunction with this mod, I recommend:
Using MC Command Centre to make skills more difficult, which will slow progress of level
Downloading JaneSimsten's functional spinning wheel - you can then use this to spin wool from your animals, to make yarn for knitting, or thread for cross-stitch
Downloading JaneSimsten's extra cross-stitch patterns - these include some really lovely historical patterns for your sims to stitch!
This mod requires the "Cottage Living" Expansion Pack
I have edited the following coding:
- loot_CrossStitch_CraftingProgress_Gain.xml
Anything else that modifies this may cause a conflict.
This will also conflict with LittleMsSam's Cross-Stitch Slower Crafting as it will result in no stitch progress at all!
Update 02/09/2026: Updated file as it seems previous one was not correct.
Update 10/08/2026: Added known conflict information
Update 16/06/2026: Updated PlumbBuddy Manifest.
