So close! Have you got a specific plan for framing it or turning it into anything?
My WIP Wednesday progress was nonexistent these last few weeks but NO MORE! After setting up the new stand the other day I got nearly 400 stitches in on Errol over the weekend, which is a lot for me!
Pretty much everything below collar / wing level is new this week, it’s been very motivational and really helped get my stitchy bug back a bit.
Speaking of, it’s 24 hours of cross stitch this weekend (Friday-Sunday) and I think I may give it a go! Might even vlog it, assuming nothing gets in the way. So I need to decide whether to use the time on this project or switch to something else, or maybe a combo. Hmm decisions decisions.
I have some metallic gold I may add as backstitching to give it more of a story book vibe, but other than that I just plan to frame it. Errol is looking great so far! The new stand looks very nice, if somewhat complicated lol! I’m glad it’s working well for you!
Thanks, need a bit more practise before I can really get speedy with it and stitch two-handed, but it’ll give me something to shoot for during 24hocs 😄
It’s a paid pattern or is share it but it’s say over half of the stitches are not adjacent to the same color. I didn’t realize how many different shades is one tone is blue there is. It did make it easier to be lazy when I would forget to do a stitch though since they all blend well.
As someone who’s dabbled in pixel art, I can’t help thinking that it should be possible to reduce the number of colours and stray singleton stitches in that one without degrading the image by much, if at all. It would be a bear to get 100% right according to the pattern. Nice job!
Hah, that’s my approach with my current full coverage too. Oh, I made a small mistake or left an empty spot? These colours are all so similar I’ll just fill it with whatever 🤷♀️
It’s a great effect in this piece though, hopefully worth fiddling with all those blues!
As someone who is also suffering the lingering effects of our good friend covid, this is very relatable. Glad it all worked out in the end though, lucky you didn’t frog it before realising :D
Edit: Oh my god this was just a speculative comment that I didn’t really think would work but lemm.ee is federating again HOORAY!
Thanks for mentioning lemm.ee btw. I heard of it, but now actually took a look at the communities they have, and it seemed interesting enough to create a new account over there Have a nice sunday!
It’s a decent server, I’ve been happy with it. Couple of things you should know if you’re thinking of moving.
First is that our admin is a contributor to Lemmy core and quite enthusiastic about rolling out updates / doing his own experiments so we’re a bit of a guinea pig server sometimes. Usually a good thing, but not so much when it breaks federation for two weeks over Christmas 😅
Thanks for the heads up. It’s not so much moving, as just creating one more account. I think they defederated from threads, so that is not bad :-) And since it’s not my main account (this one is), i have no objections against experimenting admins, generally i like that kind of thing, especially when they would share their views with us.
Fair enough! My other account is on .world lol, picked both of them at separate times as a “nice small server that seems competently run” and now look at us, two of the biggest Lemmy servers, well done me 🤦♀️
If it’s available to you try to use DMC branded floss. I normally don’t care about brands, but when I started stitching last year the first thing I did was buy a big multi pack of generic floss that caused me to get quickly get very frustrated lol! The DMC stuff glides better and doesn’t fluff up so much
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