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Different fiber arts when you make a mistake
Sewing: It’s ok, the pattern is only suggestion! Ply around with if, make it your own.
Quilting: All good, you’re just gonna need to spend half an hour on the calculator and make another trip to the fabric store.
Knitting: Time to sob while you frog two hours of work.
Bobbin Lace: No one will notice that not, it’s only a glaring problem in the most delicate piece of work.
Tatting: So you choose death?
Rule #1 of fiber arts: you need to know how to count
Rule #2 of fiber arts: you do not know how to count
Rule #3 of fiber arts: to make sure you are counting correctly, you must recount enough times to guarantee you got it right
Rule#4 of fiber arts: it will never be enough
I want to be competitive like this, but I am only food-motivated at this point in my life.
4x4 Inch Hand-Embroidered Hoop
Do you know how to do cross stitch?
Yes
I used to, but I forgot
No
Every time I'm forced by circumstance to hand-sew something, I remember a fairytale I once read. There are lead-up shenanigans as the humble protagonist helps small animals and meets the princess and all that, but in the climax, the princess rigs a contest for her hand by setting her own task: sew her a dress in a single night.
The noble suitors, who have never sewn a thing in their lives, sabotage themselves by their own ambitions: they choose difficult fabrics to work with and cut huge, elaborate patterns and select gems and pearls and beads to sew onto it, and snip such long bits of thread that they lose time detangling their stitches, and ultimately resort to pinning bits together as they run out of time, so that their offerings initially look beautiful and flashy, but when the princess tries them on they stick her with pin ends and fall apart as she moves.
The humble protagonist uses a very simple pattern without embellishments and sews using short lengths of thread (snipped off and threaded for him by little birds of course) which don't tangle and therefore save time. His dress is plain by contrast, but holds together and the princess is able to move freely in it, and so he wins the contest and her hand.
I particularly think about the bit about threading the needle with shorter lengths of thread, needing to tie off more often but avoiding tangles and thereby saving time.
I then ignore that piece of wisdom passed down through who knows how many years and proceed to cut the longest damn length of thread I can manage because I hate tying off beginning or ending knots and I will not subject myself to more of that even if it does mean more tangles along the way.
I don't remember much of my dead grandmother.
(Geez, what a way to start, right?)
Her death was right at the beginning of when my memory loss starts - that period of six months that was filled with so much dissociation that not a single memory registered - and it's almost fully blank except for the sour taste in my mouth as money-hungry relatives descended on the inheritance.
You're not supposed to say anything bad about the dead, but she was a bad person.
All her life, she played favourites. She was stubborn, and had a temper, and ruled the family with an iron fist. She wasn't someone who loved many people; it wasn't even a contest with her, she either chose you or she didn't, and that was a choice you couldn't influence in any way. God knows she certainly didn't choose me; out of my siblings, I was definitely the least favourite. To be fair, I didn't take it personally; kind of hard to, when she somehow had a favourite and least favourite grandchild between two twins.
She's the reason why my father's so fucked up (Listen, I may not have been a wanted child, but she would have 100% aborted my father if the pregnancy wasn't discovered too late and that is something she explicitly told him), she's the reason why he thinks that neglect is normal and can't have a single normal relationship for the life of him. In a way, I inherited all of the trauma she gave him.
I also inherited her knitting needles and an old sewing machine, the only belongings of her I took while the rest of the family was squabbling over expensive vases and fur coats. Ready-to-wear things weren't exactly available when she grew up, so both her and my mother were great and knitting and crocheting and sewing and everything in between. For my mom? It was a necessity, so the moment she could stop, she did. But for her? It was a hobby.
It was, for a second, one of the few things we could bond over, even though I was only a crocheter at that time. I was always bad at it, never having enough patience to make sure everything's perfectly even. I still don't; nobody just does handmade stuff anymore so the fact that I try is impressive by itself.
Clank go the knitting needles. I've been on a roll this year, learning needlework and mending in my free time, inspired by many nightmares of zombie apocalypses, but knitting is new; I've been at it for a week, using YouTube tutorials to slowly struggle through some basic stitches. Now, I'm about to start making my first (very very basic) sock. Yep, just one for now. I don't have enough needles to make two at a time like people recommend.
Clank go the knitting needles. I learn by myself, so it's fun; if my mother would be the one teaching me, I would have already quit after a rage blowout. I don't know what it would have been like, if my dead grandmother taught me to knit; she never taught me anything, but the people she paid attention to did seem to enjoy it when she did.
Clank go the knitting needles. I'm not good at relationships, either; burned too much and too hot at too young of an age, weathered by grief and loss and broken promises. I'm afraid to trust people, I know that. I'm trying, but I'm still a bit too broken to trust myself not to damage others, while time just keeps going on, and on, and on, never stopping to let me catch up to my age.
Clank go the knitting needles. I wonder if I'll end up like her; if I, too, will end up inspiring at least three generations of trauma and overachievers. They just dropped our practicals grades; I was so afraid to fail that my review ended up being 65 pages. I'm one of the three people in my group who have an A; one good winter exam, and I'll be on a high scholarship. The weird thing is that it wasn't hard. I guess that just means I'm making progress towards being a good doctor, even if for now that means being a good paper-pusher.
Clank go the knitting needles. She didn't like my mother either; they were too similar so they clashed personalities. The thing is, we're similar, too; similar in flaws, similar in figure, similar in expressions and snark, similar in mind. I use her micro, one-person pots and pans to cook in my one-person apartment, and use her knitting needles and her yarn to learn to create fabric from nothing, while knowing almost nothing of the person who it all belonged to before.
... I just hope the sock won't unravel halfway through once I try to knit it.
a significant problem with crafting is that once you make something you now have it forever. you can sidestep this by making gifts for people but well now they have the thing forever and there's probably a limit to how many things they want. unless the thing you enjoy crafting is also a thing you want an infinite amount of there's just no good solution here.
i don't like to complain about this bcos i don't want to discourage people from giving me cross stitch related gifts but i do wish people would remember that if you give someone a cross stitch kit as a gift then you are also by extension giving them a piece of wall art to display in their home.
if i cross stitch a thing for someone i will generally give consideration to 'is this something this particular person will want in their home forever' and i am not afforded the same courtesy in return :(
This is why baking and decorating cookies or making candles / soap is a good compromise! You get an creative outlet, but the end product gets consumed.
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My goal had been to finish this guy by the end of September, which didn’t happen, but I am definitely gonna be finishing this week!
After planning, printing out the pattern, 179 hours of hand embroidery, and quilt backing, the Beleriand Embroidery Project is COMPLETE! 🎉
Size wise, it is 33 inches long and 41.5 inches wide. Time wise, I started the project in the beginning of March 2025, and have completed it on the very last day of September 2025. Seven months! Not bad!
I am extremely happy with how it turned out! It was so much fun and a lot easier than I thought it would be (except for the border, which gave me the most trouble!).
I feel like I know Beleriand so much more now! There’s something about physically putting in each place that helps to hammer home where everything is in relation to the stories being told within the Silmarillion.
Thank you all for your lovely comments on my previous posts! I treasure all of them 🥰
Now on to the next map!
This was my first large scale 1-over-1 pattern on 28 count, and that was a personal decision because I wanted it to fit in a 10 inch hoop. This was also the pattern that solidified my love for this tiny stitching. It just looks so good!! I entered this into my county fair and they thought it was printed at first, the detailing was so fine. I also think the message is very good, but I'm also a scientist...
I saw a photo of someone else embroidering this while I was on Reddit, and I had to do it as well. So, I printed out the paper with the Dune washing hand meme and then used a light board I borrowed from the library to trace it onto some fabric. I used my water dissoluble pen for this. Then, I just went over that with thread. I kept the printed paper to reference for blue vs black thread and also referenced where to use one vs two threads. I actually think the hands turned out looking ok! I do not draw. The first photo it's still wet, and hasn't been ironed yet. This hangs in my bathroom.
This was a Christmas present for my Uncle who loves Godzilla back in 2023. I'm super fortunate that my family is appreciative of hand-made presents. Another fun fact is that I did a lot of this project while on an Amtrack to and from NYC for a friend's wedding in the beginning of December... yes, I did start my Christmas present for my Uncle at the beginning of December. Do better than me.
This was my second linen over two project, and my first project with little add ons. It was just so cute! I picked this up at the same time as Halloween Cross stitch (my first linen over two) and the Scissor Fob project from a cross stitch shop 1.5 hours from my home. I had fun making this.
Before versus After Backstitch!
This pattern was requested for me to do by a friend, and I made it more complicated for myself just because???? I wanted it to fit inside of a 4 inch hoop I already owned, so I needed to make the pattern 1-over-1 on 28 count evenweave. However, I think it looks amazing on this scale! This little dude is so cute, but I know nothing about Star Wars still.
Pattern: BD-1 - Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order by BomshellStitches on Etsy
My family loves playing Eldritch Horror and just Lovecraft horror in general, so this was the perfect house warming gift for myself after I moved homes. If Cthulhu rises, please take me first! Pattern: Cthuluhu Devours by TheRetroStitcher on Etsy (the shop is currently on break so I'm not sure if this link will work in the future)
Well, it took over a year but I finished another page of my cross stitch Middle Earth Map... one night before Bilbo and Frodo Baggins' birthdays. Fun! However, in the forever time I took to finish this page, I'm happy to say that I defended my PhD! So... worth it??
After finishing this page, I am 31.03% done, according to Pattern Keeper. Close ups, the back, and progress GIF below the Read-More.
