Horror Perler Art

 I made these this weekend.  I love to make horror movie perler beads and then came up with the idea to mount them on blood-spattered canvases (that I made).  Can't wait to do more. Maybe I can make some for my sister...

And of course, Michael Myers from the Halloween series

Sublime Stitching Ornaments

 I love Christmas stitching.  It's so cozy and makes me really excited for the holiday!  Here are some Sublime Stitching ornaments I stitched up!  Some are going to my mom and I'm keeping some as well.  

I worked on these at my parents' house since i was there for Thanksgiving, which for my family, is the official start of the Christmas season! I love some holiday stitching in the forest!  They remind me of some of the ornaments we had when I was a kid.  I am sure most of those are broken at this point...

 This is my attempt to revive this blog.  I haven't done a lot of crafty stuff this year because it's honestly just been sort of a rough year.  Well no, actually, that's not true.  I have made a ton of paper beads.  That's basically all I've done!  I'll have to get some pics and post them.  I find rolling them to be very calming...

Anyway, I did these cute cute little stitches from Wild Olive's Teeny Tinies!  I did some of these on Halloween, and then made pins out of them last night. 

Tiiiiiny Stitches

Now and then, I like to drive myself crazy by stitching on 18ct Aida. I know a lot of stitchers use it, but it's hard for me personally to look at for long, because my eyes aren't great on up-close details, and it gives me a headache because of my football-shaped eyebawlz. Here's some madness I did in October of last year. They're super cute, yeah?

I made some wee needle minders out of a couple.

Stitched Shroom Pendant

 I've been making these cute embroidery pendants and thought I'd try my  hand at my own design.  What do you think?

Itty Bitty Mushrooms

Look at these teeny tiny mushrooms!  I think I used 16 ct aida for these.  They are so cute.  Here is a pic of some embroidery scissors for scale. 

I made a little button needle minder using these cuties.  I love how it came out!

Plants V. Zombies

 I would love to make all of the plants from the Plants V. Zombies game.  For now, here is the Peashooter.

Cats Welcome, Humans Tolerated

 Here is a random piece I made for a friend and didn't end up giving it to her because there was some schmutz on it.  Instead, I gave her another cross stitch I did, and kept this one.  This was back when we still had cats :(

Pattern by 1906Monsters on Etsy.  I sort of personalized it to my friend's cats but.. now they're just cute little cats. 

Skull Ring

I made this cool ring.  I don't know, I just felt like seeing if a little cross stitch hoop would look ridiculous as a ring.  The answer is yes, but I do love ridiculous things.

Mini Stitches

Here are some mini stitches I did earlier this week.  I hung them up near my desk, and got a pic of them all.  Then I decided to send some to my sister so I didn't get a close up of all of them before I packed them up and mailed them.  

A very blurry pic of some gothy mini stitches I did.  I found the patterns on Pinterest.

Small and Scary

 I have made a few more little horror minis.  

I had the idea of making these bloody hand prints when I came across a pattern for baby handprints.  It is very Blair Witch.  

Then I wanted to make like a pin or a pin cushion or something, so I stitched another one up and used a bottle cap.  It kind of came out okay but kind of not... but I did keep it and I may one day actually put a pin back on it.  

I also stitched up this little knife I came across and made a pendant.  

Tomb Sweet Tomb

 I did this one from The Witchy Stitcher last night.  Not sure if I'll keep it at work or home, but I really love the little font.  

I'm a Very Neat Monster

 I found these Dexter patterns by Alicia Watkins on Etsy and snatched them right up!

This is the only one I've done so far but I love it!

Spooky Stitches

Here are some pieces I've done recently!

Look at this little Michael Myers!  The stitches look shit because the glass on the frame is smooshing them  Boooooo!  I think I yanked the pattern for this one from Pinterest.

Leatherface!  

I don't like how this one came out.  It's from The Witchy Stitcher and it's actually not the entire cross stitch pattern.  I think I was being lazy and just stitched up the words only.  The pattern is fine but I framed it in this stupid frame that doesn't work at all for it.  I think I hate this frame...

I know I found this one on Pinterest and just copied it myself.  

Das ist alles!

2014 Got Away From Me!

I didn't do a lot of embroidery or cross stitching in 2014, so I didn't do any blogging at all.  So,  here I am to make up for it.  Here are a few pieces I completed in 2014!

I downloaded this pattern of little Totoro with a sack!  I finished it in October of last year.  

It must have been this Dia de los Muertos girl Cate Anevski released that made me want to embroider again.

Anyway, let's see what I get up this  year!

Three Skulls, Deedle Dee Dee

 I haven't been doing a lot of embroidery lately.  I've been focused on cross stitching.  Therefore, I have gotten out of practice.

I saw this cute pattern and downloaded it.  Then I stitched it up for a friend's daughter.  However, I really don't like how it came out.  I don't think the stitches look very nice and so I don't know what I'm gonna do with it.  I REALLY hate to throw out projects, even if they're bad.  

Witchy Stitches

Here are some cool pieces I've done recently. They are both Urban Threads patterns.  I stitched these up on a trip to Louisiana to see my husband's family.

Harry Potter and El Snitch de Oro

 I did this one a while back.  I can't remember when because for some reason, I didn't get a picture of it.  I came across it and took a pic recently, so thought I'd post it since I've sort of neglected this blog and I feel bad about it.  Not that many people read it, but it's still fun to do.  

This is a Dia de los Muertos inspired Harry Potter with a Golden Snitch.  I did it on a handkerchief and for some reason, in redwork.  Maybe I was seeing a lot of redwork here and there.  An acquaintance of mine designed this for a tattoo, and I loved it, so I downloaded a pic of the design and stitched it up!  Maybe that's why I didn't post it- I may have been worried she'd get mad about it.  But I just LOVE it and couldn't resist stitching it up.

I think I did this one when we lived in our bigger apartment in the Chevy Chase apartments.  That would have probably been 2011 or maybe last year, but I wanna say it was early 2011.  

Urban Threads

 I love the simple patterns that Urban Threads creates.  They do elaborate ones as well, but I love their simple ones.  They're a nice quick stitch when I'm in the mood to do embroidery.  Here are two I did the other day.

I love this Cthulhu one!  

And I am totally going to brag on my stitchwork here... beautiful!

2012 Has Been a Blogging Bust

I have been so busy this year.  This is the last stitchy thing I stitched up this year. Not sure what I'll do with it, but it will probably be gifted at some point.  Maybe I'll gift it to myself.  It's from the Sublime Stitching Kokeshi collection.