Honestly I’ve never gridded before so can’t help you there, but hopefully someone has some tips! Looks like a much less involved pattern this time round, that must be a nice break. My guess is some kind of llama pattern?
Anyway, I’m breaking with tradition today. No cross stitch whatever from me all week. BUT, in the spirit of Halloween I decided to face my great crafting fear, and am trying my first ever hand embroidery piece!
So far it’s a bit wonky and also my fingers really hurt, but I’m very proud of sticking with it! This is for a video so I’m not posting it anywhere else cos it’s secret. But you won’t tell anyone, right? 🤫
Oh wow this is beautiful! I should try embroidery too. It seems really practical and I want to customise my clothes. Looking forward to the video! That’s a nice teaser.
My guess is some kind of llama pattern?
It’s a really good guess. That’s an alpaca. I’m surprised people figured it out at this stage. It’s an adorable pattern that got me started with cross stitching…but I didn’t start it until now because I was intimidated by backstitching.
Woohoo! Nailed it! There’s a little toy alpaca in front of me now wearing one of those colourful blanket things, and I guess it was 50/50 alpaca/llama from there 😆
Please don’t feel like I’m shilling videos btw, it’s just often my only time for crafts in a given week overlaps with that stuff so it’s just naturally what I talk about. Anyway if you do try embroidery I can say, make sure your needle is big enough to pull all the strands through comfortably because OW MY FINGERS. That’s my #1 tip so far lol.
Thank you! I figured out the knack of sort of waggling the needle under each stitch to help them lay down flat, but actually getting them to go where I want to is still an exercise in frustration half the time. Just takes practice, I suppose!
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!
I’m finally finishing up this Wonder Woman pattern! The logo has proved to be more difficult than the rest of the pattern but it’s been really fun to work on. Hopefully by this weekend I’ll be able to post the finished piece!
I wish I had some advice for you on gridding, but I’ve never tried it. I might look in to it soon since I have some much more complicated patterns I want to work on next
I didn’t realize how much it needed washing until I put it in a frame, and then it was super obvious! I figured if I was going to have to remake it anyway then it was worth at least trying to wash it first lol
I just now realized what this piece reminds me of! It looks like it would be in a scene from that old Sierra PC adventure game Gabriel Knight that I was obsessed with when I was like 12 or 13 years old lol it was set in New Orleans and had all kinds of colorful backgrounds in the different scenes
Oh my gosh, I never played that particular game, but I totally get the old floppy disk game vibes. I want to start clicking around the scene looking for things every time I see it.
I posted literally the same second as you! This is looking interesting. Looking forward to seeing how it comes around. I did some work on the greenhouse. My other project is on hold until I finish this one.
I got a little more work done. We’re inching along. I can only work for a few minutes at a time, but I also have nothing else to do, so it’s this very strange combination between fast and slow progress. I got lucky with my colors, the blue background goes well with the gold, white, and black.
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