The Crafting Thread

Auspice · Jan 27, 2020, 1:50 AM

Ugggggh. The stitching group has been wanting to do a roadtrip to this amaaaaaaaazing cross-stitch store (https://nedlewerkes.com/ - I've only seen photos but omg) and the weekend they've chosen .... there's like, 5 of us who are going to WitchFest and I'm kinda salty about it because it's like.... you're discounting my vote because it's a Facebook poll and it'd put it at a tie between the 7th and the 21st.

$:\$

surreality · Jan 27, 2020, 2:25 AM

@Auspice Gah. Yep, one more stop on the 'need to win the lottery dammit' cross country road/shopping trip.

We supposedly have a place -- all of a whopping one -- but it's by the beach, which means huge beach markup pretty much guaranteed. (I know my state's tiny but still, c'mon now... it's also high density on fiber artists and wealthy older women that do 'impress the other local wealthy older women' styles of usually canvas-and-wool needlework that will probably never, ever, ever die.)

It is seriously not a joke that in said lottery dream world, I would open a high-quality+sane-pricing fiber/bead/etc. shop. (Would this count as 'public service' to most people? Probably not, but, dammit, I think it would be doing some good in the local world for sure to have something other than big box stores in the county.)

Quinn · Jan 27, 2020, 3:41 AM

Made a bunch of cookie ears for my daughter's Daisy Scout troop. They LOVED them! And while it was a pain, they were easier to do than I thought.

surreality · Jan 27, 2020, 3:47 AM

@Quinn Those are incredibly adorable. They came out amazing!

surreality · Jan 28, 2020, 3:37 AM

Bobination complete. Probably still missing a bit over half the colors out there at least, but holy crap that took a while. <eyes flouf>

As a heads-up to anyone trying to eventually flesh out a 'full set of colors', the 'exclusive colors' are not counted in their '489 solid colors', or listed on that card. So there are actually 505 solids. (Yeesh.) (198/505)

It is worse when you like the other foo, too.

Flourescents! 2 in the normal light effects lineup. Actually a total of 12, but most are only available in 'packs'. (6/12)

Variegated metallics! 2 in the normal light effects lineup, 12 more only available in 'packs'. (12/14)

Pearlescents! 8 in the normal light effects lineup. (7/8)

Normal Variegated! ...weird crapshoot, some only available in a pack. (19/19)

Coloris Variegated! All available individually. (24/24)

Overdyed Varigated! All available individually. (8/60)

Etoile: All available individually. (35/35)

Glow in the dark! Available individually. (1/1)

Satin! All available individually. (18/60)

Normal Metallics! All available individually (I think). (12/23)

...yeesh.

tek · Jan 29, 2020, 9:24 PM

Finished another of those spiral hats for my sister. Gonna make a third for her wife.

JinShei · Jan 29, 2020, 9:29 PM

@tek That is gorgeous!

tek · Jan 29, 2020, 9:36 PM

@JinShei all I can see are my mistakes. I made fewer on the first hat. But thank you!

Auspice · Jan 29, 2020, 9:37 PM

@tek said in The Crafting Thread:

@JinShei all I can see are my mistakes. I made fewer on the first hat. But thank you!

I hate that feeling and know it well. It's something that all makers feel. I have a few stitches on my current piece that are pinching each other and the fabric and I know they will ease out, but I am fighting myself not to rip hours and hours of work out to fix just these 4 stitches.

And I know, when it's done, I will wash and iron it and they will disappear and no one will ever know buuuuuuuuuuut......

JinShei · Jan 29, 2020, 9:42 PM

@Auspice said in The Crafting Thread:

@tek said in The Crafting Thread:

@JinShei all I can see are my mistakes. I made fewer on the first hat. But thank you!

I hate that feeling and know it well. It's something that all makers feel. I have a few stitches on my current piece that are pinching each other and the fabric and I know they will ease out, but I am fighting myself not to rip hours and hours of work out to fix just these 4 stitches.

And I know, when it's done, I will wash and iron it and they will disappear and no one will ever know buuuuuuuuuuut......

Same! I only see the flaws in the clothes I make....

surreality · Jan 30, 2020, 2:39 AM

@JinShei said in The Crafting Thread:

I only see the flaws

...so say we all!

Auspice · Jan 30, 2020, 2:49 AM

Auspice · Jan 30, 2020, 5:56 AM

@Auspice said in The Crafting Thread:

@tek said in The Crafting Thread:

@JinShei all I can see are my mistakes. I made fewer on the first hat. But thank you!

I hate that feeling and know it well. It's something that all makers feel. I have a few stitches on my current piece that are pinching each other and the fabric and I know they will ease out, but I am fighting myself not to rip hours and hours of work out to fix just these 4 stitches.

And I know, when it's done, I will wash and iron it and they will disappear and no one will ever know buuuuuuuuuuut......

I lied.

I'm tearing out about a cumulative 8 hours worth of work rn.

Auspice · Jan 31, 2020, 8:05 AM

@Auspice said in The Crafting Thread:

@Auspice said in The Crafting Thread:

@tek said in The Crafting Thread:

@JinShei all I can see are my mistakes. I made fewer on the first hat. But thank you!

I hate that feeling and know it well. It's something that all makers feel. I have a few stitches on my current piece that are pinching each other and the fabric and I know they will ease out, but I am fighting myself not to rip hours and hours of work out to fix just these 4 stitches.

And I know, when it's done, I will wash and iron it and they will disappear and no one will ever know buuuuuuuuuuut......

I lied.

I'm tearing out about a cumulative 8 hours worth of work rn.

it is done and a handful of stitches done to redo it.
Hopefully I'll get caught back up over the weekend.

Also! One of my new stitchy friends is giving me some extra aida (I was fussing at myself because I SWORE I had some sky blue but I did not have sky blue) that they have no use for so I can begin on a pattern I discovered that I know my mother will love.

Auspice · Jan 31, 2020, 4:26 PM

the pattern I'mma make for my mom.........and then prob immediately after prob have to make for myself.

surreality · Jan 31, 2020, 8:34 PM

Have experimented with paint. Yay for creative mess-making.

Current thing-in-progress:

Other painted piece (which needs ironing so badly... I just figured out after the first one that I really had to totally wet down the fabric first to get the effect I wanted):

...that one started off red. The odds of me ever using red as-is were not 'never' but definitely 'not often'. Using red painted? Yep, already know what I will probably do with it.

...the mats underneath it when I lifted it up were weirdly cool, though. I kinda don't want to use them again and just cut them up to make something out of them now!

Auspice · Jan 31, 2020, 8:45 PM

the gold gave me a sudden flash of memory. It's barely there but.....

I remember in art school, in SF, a few of us did (for fun, not for class or anything, just for fun because this is what art school nerds do) these ink spill pieces and we used black India ink and gold ink and it looked kind of like that.

I had completely forgotten about those.

surreality · Jan 31, 2020, 8:53 PM

@Auspice I love projects like that. I think I like that piece of plastic more than I like the fabric, and I do like how the fabric turned out for ten minutes of experimentation.

Auspice · Feb 1, 2020, 12:44 AM

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Auspice · Feb 1, 2020, 12:47 AM

Okay I can't find this luna moth pattern on DMC's site again and it was linked direct to me so it auto-dl'd. ANYWAY. https://www.dmc.com/us/free-patterns-5041/free-patterns-5042/free-cross-stitch-patterns-5044,by-theme-etoile-507.html

they have some cool lunar-themed stuff in their etoile freebies rn and one was a really cool lunar moth one.