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
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
@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!
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…
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
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