The Art Deco Lady of Doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom Junior is finished. Pictures to be posted as soon as I can get the (expletive deleted) computer and iPhone to speak to each other again ( Read more... )

I finished "Seasonal Welcome". Yay me! Pictures soon.

( Clicky! )

... okay, I haven't made any actual stitches yet, but the fabric is cut and framed and the centerlines are in place. Oh boy is this stuff flexible. I am doooooooooooomed again.

Started back in February, which now seems like several lifetimes ago. Put down in early August before vacation. Just picked it up again this evening and... if I'd realised it was that close to done, maybe I would have picked it up earlier. (Or maybe not... the metallic fractional backstitches are SO EVIL!)

( clicky here! )

Good news: I have finished all of the regular backstitch.

Bad news: There is now nothing standing between me and the metallic backstitch. I'm really not looking forward to that.

Pics soon.

Did some more stitching on the cross stitch lady of dooooooom. GAH, someone needs to be slapped for recommending doing this on aida. Sadly I've already agreed to do the same picture for a friend in shades of pink. Maybe for the next one I'll make up some art deco mittens. :P ( Read more... )

( At last! An actual picture! )

So I decided to break from the plan (all the metallic whole stitches next) to do some of the detailing around the face, because I was tired of being stared back at by some sort of weird vampire zombie. OMG the backstitch on this one is EEEEEEEVIL! Half of it seems to be on half- and quarter-stitch boundaries. I'm doing this on Aida, people ( Read more... )

Progress is being made on the Art Deco Lady of Dooooooom...
( cross stitch geeking within )