Old Lady Crafting be Damned
I keep making stuff but yet I never seem to post any of it these days. My knitting/crocheting winds up on Ravelry or the occasional Vintage Stitch-O-Rama post but everything else gets photographed and forgotten. I have an arm chair to cat bed project I've been meaning to post since forever but I keep forgetting I can post stuff from my smartphone.
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Warning: plastic granny-grid is a gateway drug to other old lady
crafts. Thankfully I couldn't find any other tissue covers I liked so
this is where I stopped and there aren't any stupid little gingerbread houses with tissues coming out the chimney hiding in my apartment somewhere.
Of course I found out later the Rubik's Cube tissue cover on The Big Bang Theory is either painted wood or solid plastic and not plastic mesh so I could've just bought the damn thing on Amazon.
Marvel at my early morning photography skills! This one came out of the book Star Trek Cross-Stitch, which I'd bought thinking there might be something I could convert to colorwork knitting if I added a few rows to un-flatten it. Ha. This is a big piece, like 11"x13". I goofed up the stitch count somewhere in the middle and didn't notice until it was too late so I had to fudge it a little, but it doesn't seem to make any difference in the design.
This book also had a plastic granny-grid Borg cube ornament but I'll be damned if I can get cross stitch on plastic mesh to look like it does in the book, so I said the hell with it.
Another one from Star Trek Cross-Stitch, on top of the black towel I'm going to sew it onto. I cut a beat-up old bath towel in half and the other half will have the original series crew because why the fuck not.
Three different Back to the Future cross stitch patterns combined into one unholy Frankenstein's monster of a design. I still need to turn the edges and sew them down. Same thing as with the black bath towel but I haven't decided what to do with the other half yet.
Four random patterns using scrap Aida cloth. All are pretty small, maybe 3 1/2"x5" and are brutally shoved into thrift store frames.
The top sampler is part of the Blackbird Designs pattern Bittersweet Moon using just the tree and a weird alphabet crammed around. Unicorn pattern found here and NOPE made by squinting at a photograph of someone's project and getting the flowers wrong. Nevermore was drowned in strong tea because I really seriously hated making those little doodads in the background; most of them are ONE STITCH. I'm pretty sure there's come fancy way of doing that which doesn't involve two knots and severe cursing but I'm not privy to that technique.
Current project. I thought I didn't already have enough nerd projects littering the place so I chose this dandy resistor chart from Adafruit. It helps that they also sell all kinds of electronic stuff I shouldn't be buying instead of groceries; stuff like the Raspberry Pi.
Groceries are overrated.
I hate metallic embroidery floss by the way. There are only a couple squares of that on here but they took at least two hours punctuated by creative swearing. So, fuck you metallic embroidery floss and the scrofulous nag you rode in on.
I just ordered this pattern. Away We Ride, from Blackbird Designs, because it has a witch house and ravens and it's all old-timey without having one of those priggish homilies smack in the center like a lot of cross stitch patterns seem to be plagued with. I'm not bothering with the fancy-ass hand dyed floss because I doubt my stitching skills warrant that kind of expense. I prefer to spend my bucks on fancy-ass hand dyed yarns and computer parts.
Salem - 1826 from notforgottenfarm on Etsy. Another recently ordered pattern that's all spooky-old-timey. I've got a piece of linen that should be the right size for it and some scraps of carved wood trim to build a frame. Because you can never have enough stuff on the walls. Landlords love it when you fill the plaster with nail holes.
