I can't remember if I have posted these, but I can't find them, so if I did, you get reminded of them!
I love how my friend Heidi added my snowflake one to her Yule altar.
I can't remember if I have posted these, but I can't find them, so if I did, you get reminded of them!
I love how my friend Heidi added my snowflake one to her Yule altar.
I do love cross stitching on colored fabric. I got this aida on Amazon, and have had it sitting just waiting for the right pattern. I found it! I think I'm gonna take this one as my "white elephant" gift for our Yule ritual!
Pattern is by CryBabyCrossStitches on Etsy. I love love this color of aida. I think I got it from Amazon.
I love to make cross stitch gifts for Christmas. I have a few friends who really appreciate them, and so they get these from me.
I made this one for my friend Leslie. She is amazing AND... she loves her margaritas. So I thought this was appropriate. It was really fun to stitch up. I can't wait to give it to her!
Pattern by StephXStitch on Etsy.
I did this one for one of my witchy friends. Stitches are a little wonky but... oh well. Pattern by MiNiceStitch on Etsy.
I am in a mood today... not a great one. I am having a hard time dealing with everything going on in the country and I'm honestly a little scared about what's gonna happen. Will we even have another election? I'm afraid to say anything in case it puts me on a list or something... and I'm trying to stay positive and kind of just live my life the best that I can.
So this helps... don't let those Muggles get you down! I finished this one on Saturday.
Hello!
I have been kind of busy of late. Doing what...? I can't really tell you. It just seems like I have not had a lot of time to blog. There are a lot of things going on that I don't want to get into because this is a craft blog and not a political or sadness blog.
That being said, we are taking steps to move up north. We have actually been doing that, but now it's more urgent. We are getting estimates to fix both gates and our driveway, and then we will start taking things off of the walls and patching holes and then I guess we'll need to paint but we can do that after we move stuff. We want to really spruce the place up so we can sell for a decent price. Not that it's in bad shape, but under all this pretty stuff are a bunch of holes in the wall!
We plan to move to Coldspring until we are able to find a place up north, and that will give us the space to save money if we need to save for a new place (depending on what we can get for this place) and also pay off some debt. I'm excited, a little nervous, and very sad. It's like a house break-up and it's painful for me because we have worked so hard to make this home perfect. But... sometimes things happen and you have to move on.
I'm also a bit sad that I won't be decorating for Christmas. We will be packing so there is really no point.
ANYWAY so that is what we have been doing. I have, however, managed to finish another Cryptid from the Witchy Stitcher Cryptid Stitch-along, and I am working on another piece right now. Cross stitching and embroidery bring me peace and happiness so I have been concentrating on that as much as I can.
Hello there! It's been a while since I have written. I went on vacation to Savannah with my sister and Mom, and then had another week off, so I got a lot of stitching done. Plus, there was Halloween merriment to be had! I went to Randy's for Scary-oke and dressed as a bearded lady. We had a blast!
Savannah exceeded my expectations. We went on a ghost tour, a few cemeteries, a plantation, and we went to a museum of oddities that had weird taxidermy, freakshow stuff, an Anton LaVey room, a room of cult stuff, and there was a little Ed Gein and John Wayne Gacy tour/talk they did. It was my favorite part. We ate lots of good food and walked a TON. We had brunch on a river boat. I was TIRED when we got home but I had a blast and I'm so glad we got to spend that time together!
Then I came home and just did a bunch of relaxing and I got a few embroidery and cross stitch pieces done. And now I don't know what I want to do next. I'm usually into holiday stitching but I think since it's still summer outside, I don't feel much like the holidays. I think I will do the Witchy Stitcher Yeti from the Cryptid Stitch-A-Long tonight.
I finished this cutie on Halloween! I got the pattern years ago from Andrea Zuill/BadBird.
Happy Monday! I have a short week this week since I will be going on vacation and then I have all of next week off! I haven't decided if I'm going to take some embroidery to do with me on vacation or not... I may take at least one project.
This weekend, I was so disappointed in the weather on Saturday. It was hot as fuck. We went to a car show and I wore a really cute outfit, but it was all black, and heavy fabric, and the sun was out in full force with not one cloud in the sky. UGH. I got overheated. I'm not super into car shows, but we went because my dad likes looking at old cars, and my sister and I dressed up to get pics and didn't end up getting many because we were so hot and miserable. The one I got is horrible and I am probably gonna end up deleting it.
After we went back to my parents', everyone took a nap (except for me) and then we had dinner and then came back and hung around by the fire. I made it an early night because the heat just took it out of me, and I was finding that I was almost falling asleep by the fire! It was a nice fire, though.
Sunday, we all got up and drank some coffee... again, around the fire. My dad loves making fires and when it's cooler out, he makes one every morning and he and my Mom sit out and drink coffee by the fire. I love doing that too. All in all, I had a nice weekend. I love hanging out with my family.
Saturday night, I got all comfy in my pajamas and then got ready to do some embroidery, but then realized I was too tired, so I decided against it. I didn't get any embroidery done until last night after we were home, rested and had dinner. I started the Sublime Stitching stitching lady last night watching The Penguin and then finished her on my lunch break today.
Then I think I'll work on the Badbird Jackolantern girl, or I may actually save her for my trip so that I don't have to take a bunch of different colors of thread, and I'm sure there will be downtime during which I can do some more embroidery. I have a nice piece of orange fabric I can use for that one and since it's all black stitching, it should go fairly quickly.
I got a used copy of Carina Edvolsen-Harris's Stitched Blooms book. The patterns are simple but very, very pretty! It came with a CD so you can download and print the patterns, but laptops seem no longer to have a CD drive, since we don't really use CDs anymore. I can always just trace the patterns, I guess. Or scan and print them. I'm excited to flip through and see what pretties she has in there.
I also just found these cool embroidery stitch practice cards on Amazon that I've put into my Amazon Christmas wishlist! If I don't get them for Christmas, then I'll just get them on my own, but I would like to learn a few more new stitches.
... with this Tara McPherson/Sublime Stitching collaboration!!
I stitched this up back in 2009, I think (If you care to go back that far, you'll see it) and gave it away and decided I wanted to make one for myself when I saw that one, so I did!
Hello there, and happy Tuesday!
I am having a hard time deciding which embroidery piece to do next. I printed some Christmas ones out for tiny ornaments but I will probably start working on those when I am off the week after next, since I have a whole week and a half off work.
I started this one yesterday after work, and then Eric and Haylan came for a visit, so I finished on my lunch break today. It's another of the Japanese embroidery patterns from that book I got years ago, and if you have seen older posts, you may recognize it as one I also put onto a onesie.
Happy Monday! I had a great weekend. I spent the ENTIRE day on Saturday (except for lunch at Usta Kababgy with my cute lil hubby) drinking coffee, watching horror movies/true crime documentaries, and doing embroidery! I also spent half of Sunday stitching, and the rest out with a friend.
Here are the fruits of my labor.
This one is a Cate Anevski illustration. I did it a long time ago on a hot pad for a friend, and decided I need one for myself!
I used to LOVE the Pimp Stitch group back in the day. They had a blog and featured embroidery designers, and also provided free (and some for sale) patterns that were just SO CUTE!!
I’m taking you on a stroll with me… I was looking for my
Kawaii Fruits embroidery pattern, because I discovered that I needed a password
to access it. I reached out to the shop
owner and she no longer had the pattern or the password. But I went down a rabbit hole that led me to
my very old email address and there it was!
I downloaded it to my computer and named it with the password
as well because you can’t access it at all without the password. I’m so happy to have it back!! Now if I could
only get the goddamned printer to work…
Anyway, I was going through some of my old embroidery patterns
that I have saved on my laptop, and I found one for a Holy Cupcake… by Pimp
Stitch! So I was like “OH RIGHT! I
remember them!” I got so many free cute patterns from them back in the day when
I first started embroidery in 2009.
Well, they have a Flickr page where people used to post their pictures.
I haven’t been able to find another community like the ones
back then. Feeling Stitchy and Pimp
Stitch were two of my favorite places to find patterns and inspiration. The blogs are no longer active, sadly, but
the archives are there!
And now I’ll leave you while I go down a rabbit hole of my
own.
R.I.P., Pimp Stitch.
This is the last of the Facebroideries for now. Green is my favorite color and I thought this piece of green fabric would be great for a green Facebroidery!
The Stick N Stitch is good for some things, but I think I may give it a rest for now and go back to tracing, and maybe just use Stick N Stitch for pieces with long straight lines or circles (you know, the things I can't trace worth a shit), because if I'm using a dark color over the lines, I can't really see how straight the stitches are. Or maybe I can use it and just not do dark colors.
Another issue is that I can't get the wrinkles out of the fabric after rinsing. Anyway, I do think this one is pretty cute. I chose to not fill in the eyes on this one. I like how they look a little hollow. I also used some more etoile thread but as usual, the sparkles are not showing up in the photo. It sure is pretty in real life, though!