Finally got around to stitching my latest fannish project of Bucky Barnes and Natasha Romanoff aka Winter Soldier and Black Widow. All thanks to chujo-hime for sharing the pattern. It's quite easy to stitch up. It's with DMC floss on 28 ct Tea Dyed Irish Linen from Charles Craft. (They come in tubes from Michaels.) The first linen fabric I chose ( Read more... )

I attended my second Stitch N Pitch event. Report is here and photos such as they are here.

Is it too early to be depressed about baseball ( Read more... )

derryderrydown opened up the new fannish_xstitch community for when your cross stitch goes by way of a Tardis or a Tree of Gondor or say a Stargate symbol. *looks innocent* Never found any comics oriented cross stitch projects. Anyone?

Earth glyph socks

Other Atlantis Gate symbols

And my cross-stitched Earth glyph

In which I play around with the computer
Aka I blame Havoc part bazillionth...

So my ancient version of PcStitch 5.0 which claims only to work with Windows 95/98 installed on my XP machine. It even imports jpgs correctly. I still haven't quite mastered how to scale something properly. But I've mostly created a pattern of the Stargate Earth point ( Read more... )

For those who don't know, one of my non-fannish hobbies is needlework, mostly cross stitch. Occasionally the interests coincide, like when I stitched that David Tennant picture. I still have this idea of stitching the Stargate point of origin symbol. I'll have to see if my old Pcstitch works with XP or not. It'd be lovely in some starry or sea ( Read more... )