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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Bitching and Stitching

So, five days with minimal access to the internet seems to do weird things to my head. I am a data junkie, it's appalling. But now that BT have replaced a THIRD section of busted wiring hopefully our landline will hold it together for longer than a few months this time. And if O2 could find a way to persuade 3G signals to penetrate the apparently hefty walls of my building then I would actually be able to communicate with the outside world with all my stupid devices just like their bloody adverts claim. Anyway...

Just five days away has left me with a lot to catch up on, and a backlog of things to post, but on the upside I did get a lot of cross stitching done the past few days so you can actually see some bits of Arthur now. Hurrah!

(ETA: The aforementioned internet issues meant I didn't post the first few updates on this cross stitch project here at blogger. You can see those posts over at my LJ here)



Some pics of the days in between under the cut.

Powerpuff Pattern

A few people over on my LJ seemed interested in stitching their own Powerpuff Girls piece so here's the pattern for it! I've changed a few wee details here and there since I stitched my own version to make it (I hope) even better.

If anyone would like me to post patterns for any of my other cross stitch pieces please let me know and I'll see what I can do! (I reserve the right to maybe be a bit precious about the giant cross stitches o' doom as they're very personal to me, but quite frankly I don't think anyone's mad enough to want to do them anyway.) Check out my Flickr tag for all my cross stitch stuff.

Feel free to do whatever you want with it, but credit or a link back here would be much appreciated. And if anyone does stitch this I'd love to see it!

So, if you wanna stitch this:

Then here's your pattern under the cut (click to embiggen):

Sugar and Spice... and Everything Nice

I've been going through a bit of a creative cranky period the last few months. I've got about eight potential projects on the go, but no completed patterns. So a few weeks ago I decided to just do something fun, and I figured something with limited colours would be easier to work up a pattern for and much less headache-y to stitch. And I was so right.

I stitched 6931 stitches, made up of 35 metres of 9 different colours of thread in just over two weeks. In comparison, the Serenity cross stitch was only a little over a thousand stitches more, and yet it took me nearly six months. That's a ridiculous variance of stitching speed! Clearly, fewer colours means much easier stitching, and the magic cross stitch fabric helped too (more on that later).

So, here's a Powerpuff Girls cross stitch made of joy and stress-free stitching!

A close up, because I am so happy with this piece!

A work in progress pic, that is slightly freaky - Blossom looks like some kind of freaky zombie rabbit without the black outlining stitched in! But it does show off my new discovery - magic fabric. Guide lines already printed on the fabric that wash out when you're finished. Genius. It has made my life so much simpler. I will never stitch large projects on anything else ever again!

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My handbag is going to die

Yaay! Normal service should be resuming on my internets soon - apparently the phone line coming into our building was composed mainly of rust, so no wonder it's been acting like dial up for months.

Today's crafty post is (yet another) Trekkie thingamabob. It's probably an idea that would have worked better on a red t-shirt, but I had a red beach bag and I wanted to do this, so to hell with logic!

   

Aaargh. Crush. Stomp

It seems quite appropriate to post this custom Bowser piece right now, as life pretty much feels like a hellishly difficult boss level at the moment. But this is pretty, and I'm rather proud of how it turned out. So here's 7 by 7 inches of cross stitchy Mario fun (buyer's tag pixellated for privacy).

Extreme close up! Because I am really happy with how neat my stitching is on this piece.