My hands are so tired just looking at the moon. That’s impressive as heck. I haven’t really worked on anything this week. I made a tiny bit of progress on my skeleton hand last weekend but I’ve been so busy and tired with election week and working 1 job plus a little of a second. I really want to start something for Christmas soon, though.
The moon has been very challenging mostly because there are like 4 different colors in there that look almost identical at first and they’re all in pretty random shapes lol I still have to do the other half of it once I finish this section!
It’s definitely one of those things where the more I add to it the more I can see the variations! I think once the whole thing is done it will look really good, since the other half has larger parts that will make it more apparent too
Ok that makes a lot more sense than it did when it was just a couple blobs of blue 😆 It’s coming together fast! And seconding the love for the amazing needle minder.
I started on my new stitching project for the #DiscworldMAL on Sunday, and tbh this pathetic effort is as far as I’ve got due to the demands of dogsitting a dog who really doesn’t enjoy being away from her usual home.
In my defense I did have to frog and redo quite a lot of this already due to being a total idiot who can’t count to ten, so it’s more work than it looks like!
That pattern looks amazing! I’m sure a fussy dog would make things difficult, my cat lives here all the time and she constantly tries to distract me when I’m stitching lol
I’ve had to frog a few parts of the moon there as I was going along just because it’s one of those things where it won’t work at all if it gets one stitch off
I also sit under a lamp and thought that was about as well lit as I could get, but recently bought a cheap neck light and I have to say it makes quite the difference! This is mine but there are lots the same www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BRZ8MKKC
Might be worth a try if you’re really struggling with it.
As far as the lightbox thing goes, if you’ve got any kind of tablet you can get apps that just light up the screen white and use that. I’m more of an old school “always has the laptop out” person so I can hold my project in between me and the screen and get the light shining through from that instead. Basically just anything emitting light behind the fabric.
That does look like a good option! I have all my patterns on a big 12" tablet that I do sometimes use to see what I’m doing, but parts of the pattern are pretty dark so it doesn’t always work… It doesn’t help that this new pattern has a lot of dark blue/dark purple on black lol
I haven’t stitched on black aida, but I when I stitched, I used these magnifying glasses that had little LED lights on them. They were rechargeable and you could turn the lights on or off. If lighting isn’t a concern for you, maybe just having a zoomed in view of what you’re doing would help. There’s other options than glasses, as well. I think the glasses are the least expensive and the bonus is that they’re helpful on projects that use other colors of aida.
Some real lazy lack of progress photos in this thread, like. Get it together stitchers 😂
My phone is bricked (thanks Android 14) so I had to take real photos with a real camera and use a cable to get them to you. But I persevered!
This week my WIP is basically kitting up this Errol pattern, which I’ll be starting on Saturday as part of the Discworld Makealong that I have inexplicably agreed to host. For the uninitiated, Errol is a swamp dragon from the book Guards! Guards! which you should 100% read.
Currently trying to decide between my heart (stitch it on the cool space fabric) or my head (go for the speckled neutral for contrast). And it’s an actual paper pattern, like in the olden days, so I might have to sit on Friday night and make a Pattern Keeper version too!
Should’ve looked closer at the colour count before buying it, I’m short about £20 worth of floss and definitely can’t afford that for a little bit, so I’ll just start off with the bits I own and see how it goes…
Thud! is such an amazing book, it’s the one I usually pick in those “which is your absolute fave” discussions because it’s just the perfect blend of the usual humour plus actual real hard-hitting emotion.
The Witches have a special place in my heart because Equal Rites was my first book, and Granny was quite a good influence during my formative years! But the Watch are definitely a close second. And I couldn’t say no to Errol’s big sad eyes 😆
Also PSA to anyone who doesn’t know but !discworld is totally a thing!
I started the first stitches of Dracula’s Castle last night! The castle starts off with dark navy blue on black aida, so there’s not much to see yet lol
Hard to pick a favourite. Maybe it was Maria Sibylla Merian who sailed to today’s Suriname numerous times (a woman in the 16-17th century) to catalogue butterflies and popuralize the idea that metamorphosis among insects is a thing. Her illustrations are really aesthetic and revolutionary.
The tree I stitched in the end is also tied for the first place. It’s called the dynamite tree. Its fruits explode when ripe with seeds flying with speeds up to 300km/h, it’s covered in spikes, and it’s sap is deadly poisonous.
Due to my occupation I was familiar with the plants in the “these plants can kill” section. The effects of their poisonous alkaloids are very common in pharmaceuticals, and are used to treat certain conditions but I’ve always found them really cool!
Still alive. Slow progress. The last few weeks have not been terribly kind. But still working on it. Hoping to get back to a little more regular progress soon.
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