Cross stitch and embroidery

Finally finished this little guy. Here's the pattern on etsy

The second skeleton is done! I'm working on the moon now, it will be easier to see once it's done lol

One skeleton is almost complete!

Small piece I started to see something different than blue and green for a while.

If you want to peek and see what game is running on my Gameboy, here's the pattern on etsy.

Finally, and (accidentally) matching the Halloween season! Though I'm going to do the letters again since I'm not happy with the spacing.

Pattern available on Etsy

My spooky Halloween cross stitch is coming along nicely! I'm beginning to doubt it will be done by Halloween though lol it's supposed to be all white on black aida but I was out of black aida so I decided to take some liberties with all of it

The skin, crown, and jewels are painted with the outlines and hair embroidered. I went for stitching, because I wanted his hair to blow in the wind. I'm relatively new to embroidery, and felt this subject benefited from my bad, newbie stitching

Hey everyone!

It's been a while, but I have finally got PDF uploads and an editor in a state where I'm ready to share!

Try it at clickstitch.app, as always any feedback or suggestions are welcome! :)

Here are the changes:

🚀 PDF Uploads

It is now possible to upload a digital PDF pattern so you can track your progress! It will construct the cross-stitch pattern from one or multiple grid pages and attempt to auto-detect the threads for each stitch.

I've tested it on a few websites as well as a couple that other people have sent. If no threads can be detected, an option to choose will be available.

There's no doubt some PDFs won't work (yet!), feel free to send them to see if they can be supported!

Once uploaded you will have the option to edit the pattern. Which brings us to the next major change:

🎨 Pattern Editor

Before finalising a pattern that you'd like to track progress for, there is now an editor. Whether the pattern has been uploaded via a PDF, an image or from scratch you can:

• "Paint" or erase stitches
• Draw various shapes
• Swap entire thread colours
• Check whether you have the required threads in your inventory
• Stamp images onto your an existing pattern

🧹 More UI Refreshes

• It's now possible to see % progress for all patterns directly on the dashboard page
• Global (all of your patterns) stats are viewable on the dashboard
• Your "active" pattern will be displayed at the top of the dashboard

Just starting another spooky Halloween pattern! This one may actually not be done in time for Halloween... We'll see lol

Making a spooky ghost for Halloween! Hopefully it will be done by then lol

How to perform the dreaded Kamehameha wave! Lol

This is the first two poses of Goku's Kamehameha blast! Should be starting the third one in the next few days!

I am stumped! They aren't listed in the pattern as French knots, and they don't appear to be 1/4 or 1/2 stitches like elsewhere in the pattern, they are just sort of... there.

It's a free pattern from DMC, so I am suprised that it's so ambiguous. The DMC patterns have been pretty good so far...

It's this pattern if you'd like to see the whole thing: https://www.dmc.com/AU/en-GB/products/cross-stitch-cat-chistmas-baubles

Edit: After staring at the pattern for a while, one thing I noticed is under the French knots, it lists the black for the eyes, and another colour E5200... looking at the pattern I cannot see a single spot where the E5200 French knot is used... Do you think there is a mistake in the pattern, and the E5200 is meant to be the pink circles for the paws?

I'm very bad at judging how close I am to done. And I did little else the last few days. But it's finished. About two weeks shy of a year. Yay!

I was going to call it done once I finished all the colors but it looked really rough with the bare fabric for white so I filled in all the white spaces this time too

Getting very close to the end. And I'm about two weeks from hitting a year. Hoping to come in just under. We'll see!

As an aside, I have come up with a way of framing my finished cross stitch projects that I really like and thought I would share here:

I wash the piece and rinse well, then leave sandwiched in a clean white towel under a stack of books over night.

The next morning it is very slightly damp, and I gently spray the back of it with spray starch (the kind used for ironing shirts).

Then I iron the back of it, with the front on a clean section of the towel so the stitches aren't flattened, then leave it to dry uncovered for a few hours.

Then I flip it over, and armed with a toothpick and a few q-tips I spray some starch in a little cup and using a q-tip I dab any stitches like lettering or back stitches or French knots to wet them with starch and use the tooth pick to carefully align them.

While that dries, I get a piece of card stock and spray it with craft spray adhesive, there are many brands, but it's important that it's acid free and that the can reads that you can either spray and put together immediately for a permanent bond, or spray and let dry to use as a temporary positioning adhesive.

This is what I want, I spray a thin layer, let it dry, and it has the feel of... A sticky note adhesive. It holds the cross stitch so it cannot sag in the frame, but is completely temporary. I carefully place the cross stitch on the board and use a clean q-tip to press around the letters and design til I'm happy and pop it in a frame.

I've done quite a few like this over the years and so far nothing has gone awry. If anything does I'm confident it's reversible. 😊

Needed to see something else for a change and still have a ton of fabric to work with so No Face and me are going on a little sardine adventure for the next few days.

It took 14 months and 53,592 stitches, on 16 Aida cloth!

It did not iron very well.

I'm 70% done. This has come a long way.

Cross posted / shared from https://kbin.melroy.org/m/NiceMemes@sopuli.xyz/t/1134319

I see your lots of red and raise you lots of greenish blues!

The bow is taking a little while to finish. It's A LOT of red lol