Tentacool/Tentacruel ~complete~

My second piece for the Patchwork Gym project.

I like this one, it was easy and a lot of fun to stitch. Here is a picture of it with the Staryu/Starmie piece:

I enjoyed working with 14ct aida, which is something I don’t do often anymore. I also rather liked the size of these pieces, very quick and easy. Doing the backgrounds was a little tedious, but not too bad and they do look quite nice!

Staryu/Starmie ~Complete~

Apologies for the lack of posting recently. I’ve been hard at work on various stitching projects, as well as the million other things I need to do every day

Here’s my first finished Pokemon patch:

I had to pick out a lot of the colours myself (which is sometimes tough because DMC don’t exactly have an awesome range of purples) but I think I did ok!

Coming soon – FFVIII Rinoa and Tentacool/Tentacruel!!

Staryu/Starmie WIP

S’right, I’m doing Pokemon again. For the Patchwork Gym project

I didn’t think I would have time to stitch any patches for the project what with the Sprite Stitch quilt, but I’ve managed to squeeze a couple in. First up is Staryu and Starmie! Hyaa!

Thanks to Shiva, I’m low on the light blues needed for the sea…so it won’t be finished until I get some more threads – which I will also need for my second patch, Tentacool and Tentacruel.
I’ll finish up Starmie and then I’ll crack on with FFVIII Rinoa until my order arrives

More to come really soon! ^^

P.S. Please check out the Patchwork Gym blog, which I write and update for the team!

It’s not very effective…

This is my entry into the Sprite Stitch February challenge – “Unlikely Partnership”. As techno-ninja put it, a kind of anti-valentine. I wasn’t sure I was going to enter, but I had an idea one day and couldn’t resist stitching it up. And this was it! Tails attempting to carry Snorlax – quite an unlikely partnership, I think

Well, I have work to do (mostly on squares!) but I also have an upcoming important project that I will be posting about shortly. So stay tuned!! ^^

Catching up (or trying to, at least)

I can’t believe it’s nearly the end of October already. Seems like only yesterday that I was working on the Diglett/Dugtrio thing… I guess time really doesn’t wait for anyone

Let me deal with all the stuff that’s been going on since my old PC sailed off to oblivion. Of course, there was the alphabet challenge. I didn’t win (didn’t really expect to though lol), but I shared second place with riotpatch – we both got 20% of the votes each – and first place went to Sprite Stitch member “supermarkio”, congrats! Check out the final entries here.

Next up is the September mini-swap. My secret partner was “ezsebeth” from Belgium, who likes Pokemon. So I made her a hussif (a sewing pouch with goodies in) with Dragonite on the front.

Pictures taken by ezsebeth.

 

I think it could have gone better, but my sewing machine decided if my PC wasn’t going to work then it was going on strike. So, I ended up stitching the lot by hand! I also included goodies, such as pins, needles, scissors and things like that (I got a small sewing kit from the local supermarket and raided it ). I hope ezsebeth likes it and can use it

My swap gift was from “stephaniem” – how she ever guessed what I hoped to get I’ll never know lol. She gave me this :

A Black Mage [heart] bookmark! I read a lot, but I didn’t have a bookmark, and never got around to making one for myself (I basically just tried to remember where I was up to in a book, with limited success). The visual representation of my user name is great and I love the colours. So, thankyou stephaniem!!

I think I’ll leave it there for today (don’t want to make this post too long and bloaty), but I will continue tomorrow with more of my recent works in progress and other news.

The Craft Swap – Part Two b!

As promised – the final part of my craft swap adventures!! Here are pictures of the items at their new homes:

The Pikachu was painted in acrylic on canvas for Turqoizyoshi, and the PSIV Demi keyholder was cross stitched on 14ct aida (the frame, mount and hooks I made myself ^^) for Bamiyan.

I had a lot of fun making these, Turqoiz and Bamiyan seem to be happy so it’s been a win for everyone

So…now I think I can finally say the craft swap is over for me. I think it’s been a success, and I look forward to September’s mini swap, as well as future big swaps ^^

Challenge entry complete!

Here it is, finished and framed! I only managed to get a pic of it this morning (GMT) and submitted it for the challenge as soon as I could.

The original idea was much bigger, square shaped and the words were inside the square. I cut it down a lot – mostly because of time constraints but also because I’m kinda fed up with doing square/rectangular patterns. So I tried this odd shape…and I’m quite happy with the result. The quote is from Tremors ^^

The whole thing’s in a keepsake frame – it’s a lidded box with a padded bottom, you pin mementos and things to the padding… but I bought it cos I thought it’d be great for cross stitch. Only cost me about £2 as well

You can find this and the rest of the entries to the Nov/Dec/Jan challenge here.

What I’ve been doing (including challenge update)

Ok…I promised more posting and here it is, albeit much later than I hoped. I have been keeping busy, although lately I’ve been thrashing Shining Force III with my brother. For some reason we decided to get the Saturn out one day and….well it’s still out and is probably on right now.

I have managed to squeeze in some crafting though!

Still quite a way to go on this one..and the challenge ends at the end of January. A lot of things got in the way of this one, but I hope to have it done in time. At one point I thought I wouldn’t complete it (we had a lot of snow and this was slowing the post down – I was waiting for threads to arrive) so I started a smaller project :

I am going to try and finish both (and maybe enter them both into the challenge!)…all I have to do is try and ignore the familiar themes of Shining Force III and Shining the Holy Ark calling me….

I have also learned to crochet this month. I don’t do it particularly well but I do find it really enjoyable. For my first project I decided to make a pyjama case for my bed, based on an abstract design I’ve been playing around with for a few months (more on the abstract stuff in a future post).

Apologies for the bad lighting, the sun hid in the clouds and my sister had bailed so I had to use my phone camera >_<

The design is based on FF Black Mage colours (such as FFIX’s Vivi). Like I said, I’ve been playing with abstract ideas, but haven’t really had an opportunity to use them with something other than paint. Will post more when the case is finished!

And that’s what I’ve been doing!

New challenge WIP

Here’s the first progress shot of my challenge submission:

I don’t know if it’s obvious from this photo but it’s a bunch of Digletts and Dugtrios…or at least it will be lol. More updates as I get it stitched!

EPP Update

A quick update on the progress of the epic pokemon pattern. It’s going quite well, but it’s gonna take a long time lol.

I’ve decided to post updates on this one once a month or so, rather than every time I feel like getting a pic of it I will probably post updates more often on the WIP thread at Sprite Stitch though so be sure to check that out! ^^