Here's some more cross stitch progress. I am rather excited now that Arthur is mostly done, and you can even see most of the guy falling away behind him. And I've reached both the right and left hand edges now. It's moving on quite quickly. Hurrah!



Earlier in the week:

Geeky Cross Stitch

Geek-topia

I am utterly bemused by the world right now. Blah blah blah, woe is me, etc etc.No-one wants to hear another blogger moaning on the internet!

Also probably of no interest to anyone is the continuing adventure of my Inception cross stitch. But it's so incredibly useful to me to be able to look back through these posts and see how far it's come on in such a short space of time. Arthur appears to be the one part of my life not mocking me right now! So, spammed with images of his progress y'all shall be, whether you like it or not!

I'm thinking there are a few bits I may want to go back over at some point - maybe blend a few colours a little better, perhaps add some backstitching around Arthur to better define his arms from the background. But on the whole I'm really pleased with how this is shaping up.

Yaay! My Inception cross stitch is coming on in leaps and bounds, as is only fitting. I need to take it out of the frame to get pictures now, which is encouraging. You can see a bit of Arthir's head now, and his gun, and I was very excited to realise I've already reached out to the left hand edge. I need to go order some more of the darkest blue thread though - I've already used nearly a whole skein of it, and I'll apparantly use nearly 60 metres of just that colour in the whole piece. Eeep. The angry-making stage of large cross stitch project procedings must be just around the corner...

Maybe this project will be different and I'll lov it the whole way through. Maybe.

Anyway, right now, it's awesome.



Here's how it looked over the weekend:

Like this!

"Forget you" wouldn't fit. Also, it doesn't scan right.

Liklihood of me murdering a builder: rising.

Ways in which this wee cross stitch makes me smile: many.

This is my new totem of staying calm. I'm going to mount it behind my work space when I actually have one of those again.

The pattern's adapted from a few twee wee samplers.







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Star Trek crafts: I Wish I Knew How To Quit You

I may have made a few too many cross stitched Star Trek badges here. I didn't mean to fill a whole sheet of cross stitch fabric with them, but somehow I did. I'd just add another one every so often when I was between projects, and then somehow I ended up with twenty of them (these are just the ones that came out best!). A worrying number of my projects lately have felt somewhat involuntary. I am possessed by some strange spirit of craftiness. Weird.

Anyway, have some Star Trek insignia. They're all on 58mm (2 1/4") badges. And if anyone wants a pattern for any of these just ask!

Fandom Awesomitude

Gradually catching up on messages and emails and comments and all the wonders of the interwebs. And so here's some more crafty stuff.

The fabulous akisilver and the wonderful epicycles were my winning bidders for the LJ Help Japan  auction and both asked for very exciting stuff.

So I got to make a kitschy Doctor Who sampler:

 And a steampunk Hetalia badge:

Both projects were great fun to work on, and all for a good cause. Many hurrahs!


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