citrinestitches

[Nico|he/him|24] A fiber arts (usually cross stitch and cross crochet at the moment) sideblog. Mainly for documenting my progress and pieces, but also for saving patterns and other creations! If I accidentally reblog anything that was made/used gen Ai please feel free to let me know so I can delete it.

[citrinestitches]

Pinned Post!

Hello, I'm Nicholas!

ko-fi

Link to my folder of free to use patterns!

[werepuppystitch]

Finished cross stitch broach pins. Ginger, Silver and Dark Ginger in two variations of kitties. Cross stitched on vinyl aida and backed onto felt with broach pins.

[wyrmwizzard]

The moss ... it spreads 🌱

I've recently learned the french knot technique, and I'm Addicted. 'been using my new power to make psychedelic patches of moss around my 💀

[pokemon-cross-stitch]

Day 272: Ampharos. Funny enough, I've still never used one, to my knowledge

Original post date: March 22, 2024

[samanthalanetextiles]

Part one of my FREE Pride mini stitch-a-long 'Pride Besties' is now available on my Ko-fi page!! Find the link here > 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Meet Roz the cow! Roz is a proud butch lesbian, a loyal friend, and a spice girls superfan. Roz has zero tolerance for BS and isn’t afraid to uppercut a transphobe, but she also really just wants to find the cow wife of her dreams so they can collect secondhand crockery and live a peaceful life together. <3

Part two will be available next Wednesday (10th June). The final two parts will then be available the following two Wednesdays in June. The four parts of this mini stitch-a-long will remain free on my Ko-fi shop until Wednesday 8th July. After that, it’ll be added to my Etsy shop as a paid pattern.

🤍🩷🩵🤎🖤❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

[dizzytoad]

:D

[rugretti]

Greyscale zanka cross stitch wip hehe

Progress pics under the cut

[pokemon-cross-stitch]

Day 271: Flaaffy. It's always weird to me that that is how it's spelled but maybe I'm just weird

Original post date: March 19, 2024

[paintedstitches]

It's strawberry season!

[yayxstitch]

It's dark and I wanna stitch :(

[creativeendevors]

My first cross stitch!

[stitcheduphearts]

[Kagerou Project] Kuroha

“If he is dear to you, use your monstrous powers.”

technically just a color-swapped Konoha, but dang do I like the palette :)

original pixel art by @abitofkake

[okayyoureacab]

Hexagon Quilt

[rumade]

This is the second time I've seen a video of this technique and this explanation is so clear! It does use more fabric than English paper piecing (EPP) but you end up with a double sided hexagon so don't have to source fabric for the backing.

I'm doing EPP at the moment but I have a hole punch to make the papers and just use leaflets and junk mail, so it doesn't feel wasteful. I don't think it's difficult either- in the video she mentions it's not for beginners, but I don't have that much experience with hand sewing or EPP and I've been finding it pretty easy so YMMV

[lindstromm]

I saw this video yesterday and was seized with the need to try it out immediately. Lookit my cute lil' hexagon baby!!

Here is what the backside looks like. OP notes this takes more fabric than paper piecing, but that excess fabric makes it already triple-layered. Besides not needing backing fabric, I don't think you'd need batting for this quilt at all. It's already thick and soft just from folding all that fabric into a hexagon.

[lannamichaels]

Hexagon quilt tutorial video by tiktok user camelscrafts. Method:

Each hexagon begins as a 6" circle. camelscrafts does this by creating a paper template using a compass. According to the video, a 6" circle will create a hexagon that is 2.5 inches tall.

These hexagons are hand-sewn. Thread the needle.

With the fabric right side facing, find the center of the circle by folding it in half right sides together, then folding it in half again (wrong sides are facing). The top of the triangle shape is the center of the fabric circle.

Make a small stitch into the center of the fabric. The wrong side is still facing.

Unfold the circle. There will be a small stitch in the center.

Now the hexagon is created by folding the circle into itself: Take the needle to one of the edges of the fabric (it doesn't matter which one). Pull the needle through and pull the thread tight. This will fold down the fabric and create an edge of the hexagon. Crease the fold with your finger.

This fold has two corners, one at the top and one at the bottom. Put the needle into one of the corners and pull the thread taut. This will create another fold.

Continue this going around the circle until all of it is folded down, creating the hexagon. camelscrafts notes that the last corner pulled in may be a little bit "wonky" (no precise point in the corner) if the corners were not done precisely. However, that corner is pulled into the back, so is not visible from the front.

The hexagon is now formed. Sew around the folds in the middle of the circle to hold the folds in place. Tie off and cut the thread.

Attach hexagons to each other along the sides. With right sides together, whip stitch the sides together.

[pokemon-cross-stitch]

Day 270: Mareep. Everyone loves Mareep. Its like Spheal, how many people can you think of thay genuinely don't like it?

Original post date: March 11, 2024

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

current state of the internet is a FUCKING EMBARASSMENT. was chatting with my grandma bout the history of crochet and knitting (and the comparative ages of those respective technologies) and i was like "oh YEAH and also that ancient greek fiber art we partly figured out from chemically testing the scoured bleached pigments of stolen statuary (tumblr knows what im talking about)—gimme 30 seconds to look up the name."

5 minutes and 3 search-engines later i am crying tears of blood screaming spitting blubbering in despair as my grandma attempts to digitally pat me consolingly on the back. the library of alexandria didn't burn it was "restructured" to "increase shareholder profits"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

and i STILL CANNOT FIND THE TERM.

i am scouring the internet like the victorians scoured and destroyed all trace of joy and color from stolen relics for the LOST NAME OF THE ANCIENT PROCESS of textile-creation akin to knitting/crocheting/nålebinding that at least one academic/crafter used to recreate the leggings on this Glorious Motherfucker:

the google execs erased it. they bleached my bestie AGAIN from history...

[lachrymose-lyricist]

is this of any use

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

SO IT IS!!!

Archer statue from the Temple of Aphaia (ca. 480 BC) next to a reconstruction of its original paint job:

The leggings and sleeves would have created using a method called SPRANG which predates knitting and is over 3,000 years old. What's even sexier is modern artisans managed to recreate the entire outfit using the original method!

Mmm-HMM, love me a shapely thigh in harlequin hosiery. Put👏men👏in👏clingy-ass👏clothing👏again👏👏👏

Unfortunately english sources are hard to find, partly because Google's a shithole, but also because this textile project comes from a German museum, in Germany, where people tend to speak (and publish) in German. That said, the original link is to a short-but-sweet article I would have had no problem finding in 30 seconds a mere few years ago. fortunately i have clever beautiful insane people following me, but alas not everyone has such luxury. thanks to everyone in the notes who shoved themselves down this rabbithole with me!

in conclusion let us take a moment to sincerely wish Google a very burn in hell🙏

[aluradragon]

Crochet castle! 🏰

[the-embroidery-bard]

HAPPY PRIDE, US-IANS🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Here’s a free pattern featuring my first and favorite muse, the goose with a knife. Go forth, stab fabric, punch n@zis!