Here’s some more of that embroidery stuff I do. These ones were sitting on my computer after showing them off to another friend of mine.
My mom had a kit of that primordial cat picture pre-dating the Internet, back when she handed me all of her cross-stitching materials. It had about the hind legs complete when I received it and It was only in the last year that I sat down to finish it. It was meant for a couple that had chat de la lune woodcut so I figured it would be in good company. Unfortunately when I reached out they replied once and then nothing but silence. They’re still around as my Facebook tells me they are, but this still remains: a gift without a person to go to.
Ignore the squares, those were basically my first forays into the hobby and I don’t have a good frame for them. The bear is my first dabbling in actual embroidery, using tribal tattoo designs traced onto the fabric. It turned out okay, though I was unhappy with how loose the backing was, and I might still use it for a family Christmas gift.
The unicorn was a spur the moment thing. A group brought in a new friend for games night, back when we still did that. I was between projects, finishing up the bear and looking at this multi-colour embroidery floss to see how I would ever use it for a project. This new friend aligns herself closely to unicorns and mermaids so it didn’t take much for inspiration to strike. I probably should not have sketched the damn thing in black marker but what’s done is done. She has it now but I doubt she will remember a thing about it in another month.
The circular motif was a pattern I found online that looked neat and it would work with fabric I had with a small square count (smaller means larger squares which makes it crap for detailed work). I experimented with varying the number of strands in each of the colours, then slapped it into a hoop as a gift for another friend who’s made growing plants her hobby and has a lack of things hanging on her house walls.
The darker fabric is the somewhat current progress of a project from a kit purchased about a year go. The pattern is of two fairies silhouetted against the moon and it’s for myself. It’s silly complex to what I’ve done before in counted cross-stitch and there has been some creative adjustments when I’ve gone off-pattern. It’s difficult to work with because I made the decision to track the amount of time I’m spending on it based on the running times of movies I’m watching at the same time. I’m nearly up to 60 (fuck!) movies, most of them mediocre Netflix trash.
