Tag: stitches

  • I realised I’d made a rookie error with the original calculations (aka calculating pleats into whole length instead of finished length!). Once that was sorted I got sewing. This is the finished cage cover. Despite careful measuring for some reason it has one end invert shorter by 2.5cm and a lining pucker under half a…

  • Slowly getting there with the dragon cross stitch. Stitching on black is really hard on the eyes, particularly when some sections are the same colour in different stitches!

  • Decided to make a cage cover for the birdcage as all the commercial ones are boring! Found this cute fabric and taught myself how to calculate for inverted box pleats. Now I just need to find where I packed the sewing machine…

  • Finished snow leopard cross stitch. Took approximately 2.5 months over about 3-5 hours stitching sessions most days.

  • I’m in the midst of unpacking things after moving house again. So you’re only going to be seeing quick’n’easy projects for a while. Here is a little blue tit bookmark I made up over the weekend.

  • Slowly getting there. This section was really annoying to do because of all the spots…but it’s looking good!

  • A little update on the cross stitch progress. Officially halfway finished!

  • School term is making me stressed and tired. So I decided to take a break from the major ‘thinking’ fursuit project to do some stitching. So here’s a sashiko harvest ribbon design. I’m thinking of making it into a mini wall hanging at a later date.

  • School is wearing me down so I don’t have enough energy to focus on my major project. So I’ve started a new cross stitch so I have something relatively mindless to do until school holidays roll around again.

  • Some more photos of the quilts from the craft fair (because tumblr wouldn’t let me upload all photos in one hit!)