Looks fantastic! You did a really good job, and just in time for Christmas. How long did it take you? I did a similarly sized one as my first project and it took my like 3 years because I kept forgetting about it. Haha.
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
If you have access to a 3d printer, you can print these gridding rulers, which have made my life way easier since I discovered them.
If you don’t have access to a 3d printer, you could cut a small scrap of aida in the same count as your working fabric and essentially create a ruler for yourself. You’d still have to manually count out and mark the ruler, but you’d only have to do it once. Then you can just transfer the lines to your working fabric each time you start a new project.
Note that there is some variance in sizing, stretchiness, and whatnot between fabrics though, even if they’re all the same count. So you may still want to do a quick double check against the ruler before gridding the entire fabric.
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’ve finished a couple of things recently, and now I’m sort of on pause until after Halloween because I have roughly 87 more hours of hand sewing to do for my stupid costume. I never did move the s in fuckers because I realized I’d have to unstitch about half the word and I just…wasn’t gonna do that. The second thing is based on the last 2 panels of this comic that someone posted and I said, “oh I have to do it!” I did realize after taking the picture that I never finished the eye, so I’ll have to do that, but I think the rest is done.
They both look really good! I definitely want to read more of that webcomic lol I don’t think I would have noticed the spacing issue if it wasn’t pointed out to me
100%, looks totally fine and ESPECIALLY if it would’ve been a lot of frogging, bugger that. Love the little bird comic, I saw that get posted somewhere here recently too it’s so cute!
Thanks! I got this pattern from Etsy and they have tons of awesome patterns that are mostly $5-6 or less! The supplies are pretty inexpensive too, I got all my supplies at Michaels and spent around $25 and I’m still using up most of it. I just started cross stitching this year and it’s become my favorite hobby/obsession lol
Oof I missed to post last week’s thread and almost forgot this week’s. You beat me by two hours! We’re planning a short vacation and it turned out more stressful than I expected. Also work is draining me… I really need that vacation! Anyway I’m mostly done with the cat.
I have some more work to do on that boooooring blue da bi Dee da ba da book, as well as the porcelain throne. I gave myself some… creative liberties with the TP as metallic grey isn’t the best paper colour. Once I’m done with that, I’ll do the backstitch. I admit, I don’t like working on this as much as I thought. The solid block really made it a grind.
The greenhouse of oddities is on hold until I finish this. I kind of want to get back at it but if I do I’ll end up leaving this on hold indefinitely…
Oh! I just bought that pattern like 2 weeks ago and I’ve been working up the nerve to start it lol! Looks like your making good progress so far! Let me know if it becomes particularly infuriating lol
I decided to tweak the pattern a little and do it on black cloth so as to avoid doing all the black. And maybe letting the characters and rain stand out a little. I’m really not looking forward to figuring out how to do the rain…
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