And then just spending the next five minutes doing all kinds of weird needle yoga to get the last little bit to work out. Because I know I can get one more stitch. Pretty sure it would be faster to rethread, but… I already know I won’t.
I bust them every time I forget to thread one strand at a time - two just destroys them. Pinching at the narrow end helps but I ended up buying a pack of 100 and not worrying too much.
The real newbie moment is needing them in the first place (I’m kidding). Not that I stitch or sew a lot. But I’ve actually never seen any of these break. I thought everyone had a pair their grandma gave them 20 years ago and just use it forever.
Didn’t get time for much recreational stitching this week, until quite late last night. So a day late thread works great for me :D
I got back to work on this Ocean Wonder kit, after thinking I’d get it all done on holiday and then actually doing maybe 50 stitches that whole week. Sometimes a project is just bigger than it looks! 😅
Did most of the whale during a LotR marathon a couple of weeks ago and now I’ve made some solid progress on the dolphin too, those are by far the two biggest bits so after that it should be plain sailing!
I’m just commenting so I remember to post a picture tomorrow. I started a modified combination of thesetwo patterns this morning, and it’s the first time I’ve used variegated floss and now I’m worried I’ll never be able to use anything else. The store I buy Lecien floss from (across the country, of course) is about to have to ship me all of it.
I’m using the forest one as the border and the bear in the middle. I just cut off the flowers on the left side of the bear and added a second back foot because I liked how it looked better. I’m making a few adjustments to the colors to make everything work together, but it didn’t require much there.
I feel the opposite! I’m intimidated by the counting and how everything has to be so precise with cross stitch. Embroidery is more like, eh I messed that up a little, stitch something next to it to make it look better.
The people can finally have one! I couldn’t post a picture from my phone, so it took a while, but here’s what I got done yesterday. imgur.com/a/jvZHCB6
It’s a split stitch - it’s just back stitching, but you just stick the needle through the middle of your previous stitch. The original pattern used chain stitch but it’s a lot more work, so I went the lazier route that still gives a similar kind of sweater-y effect.
I doubt most people would consider big chunks of black like that to be “fun” but hey whatever floats your boat 😄
Looking good! I also am in fairly desperate need of more black floss, thank you for the reminder, need to shift my cold enough that I can actually set foot in a shop though, that’s step 1 atm. Sigh.
The other two projects (which I’ll post about soon) involve very detailed blackwork, or constant thin lines of different colors, so the big chunks of color in this one are like a break so I don’t go cross eyed lol
I’ve used Stitch Fiddle in the past to create designs from an image (although I’ve only made a few patterns myself). The site also has a “draw line” feature so you can add in your backstitching. They do have a download your project feature, but idk if they give pdf as an option.
I do find their designs require a little tweaking tho since they add a bunch of colors/gradients along the line edges. To do this I basically just delete or reassign the unnecessary colors to the main color. That way I don’t have to manually edit each pixel and the process isn’t too tedious.
Ooh yay welcome to Discworld! And belated happy birthday! So much progress on your greenhouse since I last saw it, you’re a way faster stitcher than me that’s for sure.
I am back from holidays and have been feeling very sad, but the last couple of days I started picking up the crafts again. Today I spent some time in the car in a hospital car park (nothing dramatic, just time-consuming) so took the opportunity to frog an old bit of test stitching so I can reuse the tiny corner of fabric for something else!
After much deliberation I only packed one cross stitch project for the cruise and that ended up being a good decision as I worked on it for all of five minutes. To combat the post-holiday depression we did a LotR marathon on Saturday though and I managed most of a whale, so that’s officially decent progress!
Welcome back! I hope the cruise went well. I really like how the whale turned out 🐳
Too frugal?
Never! I take pride in doing good work with what I have lying around instead of buying new and expensive stuff… Although I sometimes get lazy and hop to the store 😅
Cruise was amazing, I am honestly so so sad to be home 😭
Kinda amazed that little corner of fabric even fit in the hoop, though admittedly “fit” is an exggeration it’s sort of barely clinging on at the sides. I’ll figure that part out later though. The frugal mind finds a way!
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