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WIP Wednesday, anyone? (i.imgur.com)

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Really just posting this hoping for some solidarity.

I've been working on stitching up Garden Cat since last year. But actually, I'd stitched some of it previously and ended up picking out the whole thing and starting again due to what we'll just call "poor creative choices".

So, last week I finished the garden part and genuinely thought I was done. Got all celebrationy. Took it out of the q-snap and unrolled it to see the full glory....and realised I was just confused from having stitched the sky parts once already but I hadn't redone them yet this time around🤦‍♀️

So that's been my stitching this week. How about you?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Post didn't federate. RIP. I'll just have some crisps and commiserate with myself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can see it now on sh.itjustworks!

I wish I had something to share. I have been playing with stained glass instead lately. To be fair I was never very good at stitching. I wish we had a general 'creative / show your work' community for this type of post, because I bet we'd get more traffic!

Hopefully so more people will find your post!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Hurrah! If you want to show me your stained glass efforts in the cross stitch community I won't tell anyone 😉

I did find [email protected] and [email protected] but tbh this place has been way more active than either of those so far. We'll get there!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just recently got into embroidery. Ive been freehanding this poppy off and on- my first project. :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooh coincidence! My first cross stitch project was also poppies, guess there's just something about them lol.

It's beautiful so far, nice work. I'm always jealous of people who can do "real" embroidery but I can never get the stitches to look neat enough when I try it. Do you have a plan for fully finishing it or is it more of what we might call an experimental project? :D

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you!! I just really love poppies, and I saw a lot of them when I went to Germany last month.

LOL you can definitely tell with this that I was trying different things. It's definitely an experiment, and I'm trying not to be too hard on myself where there are elements I'm not pleased with. I'm not sure what I want to do to tidy up the whitespace around the central whorl... but I do want to finish it up and add more elements!

It's been so much fun! I spend a lot of time in front of screens for work and play, so it's nice to have something creative to work on that's real. And I love all the colors! 😂

One thing I didn't expect is the hand pain, so I bought some compression gloves. Do you have any tips for ergonomics??

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

As a chronically online person since about 2001 I know exactly what you mean lol, it's great to make things that are "real" and tactile although I do also make video games so it's a nice balance between the two really!

Honestly I do get some recurring wrist issues and as much as I hate to say it, rest is the only surefire way. Although you can totally cheat and "rest" by just switching to a different craft for a while that requires a different sort of repetitive movement, having all my different crafts on a rota has kept me going this far 😅

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I hope this link works.

Currently working on Lola Crow's greenhouse of oddities SAL. During the past week I finished the two side parts of the greenhouse and all the DMC 310 stitches of the frame which was a relief, finally something resembling colour! Still about 2/3rds done with the frame.

Edit: Fixed link

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I see you picked a new instance, then! Good choice 😄

Looking great! Yeah I can imagine it feels good to have got through all that black. Had to look the pattern up and it's incredibly cool, things like this make me doubt my self-ban on SALs. But maybe I can live vicariously through yours instead...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oops!

My stitching this week has consisted of buying all the supplies I need to fully finish a gift and then ignoring it for days…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Ah yes that sounds like my usual strategy too. I'd try and motivate you but we all know it's pointless. The procrastinating mind will do what it wants 😅