I’m ill at the moment and felt too sorry for myself to stitch anything last night, but hopefully I’ll get a few put in on Errol later and come back with an update!
@thegiddystitcher living in a small town has its advantages. The craft store is three blocks away. Whenever I start a new project I organise my floss, see what I'm missing, make a list and take 20 minutes to go pick them up at 0.75€ per DMC skein, half if using the Polish off-brand. What makes it better is that the people running the store are an elderly couple who are genuinely interested in what you do. I also send my work to them for framing for next to nothing. Support your local small businesses if you can!
We have an actual craft shop, but they’re focused mostly on quilting and anything else gets treated with suspicion at best. I have no idea why they even sell supplies for other crafts if they’re going to be so weird about it, I once dared to ask if they had any lace weight yarns in stock and the owner looked at me like I was mad!
Thankfully we have a more general shop that’s part of a locally-owned chain, and they stock an inexplicable number of craft supplies too. Probably a big market for them here given the attitudes of the craft shop lady, now I think about it 🤔
With the steep price of $0.66 USD they cost around here I’m willing to invest in up to 15 skeins in one shopping visit. This is clearly the only reason I have not attempted any of the 80+ color 25" full coverage patterns I’ve found yet 😅
The moon and the castle are thankfully both exactly where they should be, so I think I have a (very) little bit of wiggle room with the sunset since it’s pretty abstract, and it runs into the empty black spaces around the corners and bottom!
I believe it’s based on a Star Wars version of the game that’s no longer around called Tiny Deathstar. I didn’t design this though, it’s from this kit I found on Amazon
I tried a few times to use Pattern Keeper, but it just frustrated me and seemed to make things more confusing so I never did really get into it. Does it really make things alot easier?
I don’t think it’s necessary for smaller patterns like the ones you’ve mostly been doing so far. Mostly I just do those by looking at the PDF on my phone while stitching.
But when you get into the big full coverage things (my main project in there has over 100k stitches and a LOT of confetti) it’s honestly invaluable for most of us who try it.
Still, each to their own and all that. But if you do use it, back up your progress lol 😅
I have some full coverage patterns I’m working up the courage to try, maybe I should give pattern keeper another go when I start working on one of them lol
@thegiddystitcher I have trust issues with anything that involves putting large amount of data into a phone app, a lot of them don't properly support backups/export.
I dutifully catalogued all of my acrylic paints at one point, but then needed to reset my phone and was annoyed that there was no way to export or backup the data (Even the full phone app backup lacked it). So I went back to a Cloud based spreadsheet.
@bitflipped Definitely with you there! In this case the app in question actually has a pretty good export / backup process but I just got complacent and didn't use it enough. Worked out ok in the end but it very nearly didn't and my lesson is learned! 😬
@LemmyIsFantastic Well as soon as Google create an app specifically designed for people who like to paint small plastic war dollies then I'll be sure to download it :D
I’m the same way with cross stitch supplies. There are plenty mobile apps, but I so do not want to lose a meticulously categorised list of hundreds of colours of embroidery floss. So spreadsheet it is!
Been there. Once I overwrote my SAL progress. I had to fill in everything from scratch. Good thing I did it at the start of the new page so I could just fill in all of the previous one.
That taught me how to easily fill large areas in PK… and to backup
One the one hand not too hard at all really. On the other I’m trying to keep the back from being a complete mess so I suspect I’m gonna be doing a lot of individual lines…
It’s starting to take shape. You can already see something resembling legs. This week has been hectic and I haven’t had the chance to stitch much. I’ve been working on my backyard birding setup and that also took some of my free time. We also rescued a pigeon. I’ll probably stitch while keeping it company so progress might come faster.
That needle minder is hell on earth! Really fits the vampire theme.
Meet Domino. Disappointing pic but that’s the best my partner could take at twilight with an almost dead phone. I think it really likes my old pullover that I was intending on throwing away. Its wing is bruised/hurt and the leg is broken. Vet said it’s not going to make it in the wild with that leg but it might fly again. He said the best I could do is adopt it. The poor thing probably won’t fly outside without a leash and supervision though.
As much as I love cats, I hate it when owners let their cats roam outside. They prey on birds for sport, not for food. I know exactly whose cat did it, that’s why I’m salty. It’s not the first time he’s done that. Also I have a cat at home which might make things interesting. So far he’s shown curiosity but not predator behaviour as he does with other birds. Not going to risk it though!
Funny that you mention the two old magnets. My minder is a DIY from craft store magnets that are probably as good as your old ones. But that murderous cat brings me so much joy I had to make it. It works just barely but totally worth it.
The junk drawer magnets came from a broken knife sharpener, and they were way too strong. They were constantly leaving marks on the fabric and getting stuck to the scissors, and stuck to my bracelet lol
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