Grow Big

Whipped this up this morning, hence bed-hair. It's Mushroom from Super Mario - which one, I'm not sure. It's a gift for a friend, and so far I've only done it 1/2 stitched. Not sure if it's worth going back over it or if 1/2 is good enough.

Ah well.

Feel free to ignore these pictures below - old cross-stitches that I didn't have uploaded.

Heart-felt Moments

So I've finished the Heart cross-stitch, and done another. Tomorrow or the day after I will look more closely at fusing these pieces together, and then look at how I might make a keychain piece out of them. I've cheated in these by not filling the white sections and just leaving the blank white aida cloth underneath, and by trying out half stitching the red-fill on the heart. Although lazy, I think it does still look kinda cool. Also saves time! 2nd Heart was done in about an hour.

Red used is 349.

Beep beep.

So I now have a watch. I haven't worn a watch in several years, possibly 6-8, I can't really remember. It was a cheap LED watch from DealExtreme. I'm yet to decide if I like it. I'm never really certain the the strap is a good length or not. I think I'd prefer it tighter, but maybe that would be too tight... ramble ramble...

I haven't done any stitching in a little while. Have heard that washing the aida cloth is good once the stitch is complete. Will be testing that out..

Have decided my next stitch will be Dry Bones.


PS, wow - I look so happy...

Repeat

Another day, another cross-stitch. Today I did Boo, of Mario lore. It's not easy being colourblind - I was made aware later that my grey wasn't actually grey. Cmon, grey? Pull it together eyes! Again, some pictures, but this time it's a little more difficult to see the progress. Shirt change is due to putting on new shirt for dinner (other was 2 days old... mmm, old shirt).

(Colours used - 778 and 349).

Rockman!

Aka Megaman. I stitched him in an evening. This evening, as it was. Or most of yesterday evening and a small part of the early morning hours of today. There's a few mistakes, but I can live with that. Here's a bit of a stage by stage with photos...


All smiles by the end folks. Now I'm not entirely sure what I'll do with this guy. It's my first time using Aida material as the canvas/backing, and I'm not sure that I like it more or less than the plastic stuff I was using before. I can get it for free though, so that's good enough. In future I'll use 3 threads instead of 2, as on the Aida it looks a bit sparse, though you may not be able to tell that in the pictures. For those with sharp eyes, yes it's a shirt from Diesel Sweeties!

(In part for my own future reference, colours used were 806, 964 and 834. DMC floss I think...)

Now I go sleep...