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Hi. This is where I post my progress on my current cross stitch projects.

I'm currently stitching something as a gift to my beschert. It's going to end up being roughly 47,000 stitches which is wild because I haven't cross stitched since I was 9 years old and I made half of a smiley face before giving up.

Tzvi—if you've accidentally stumbled across this sideblog... please don't scroll down or you'll ruin the surprise. <3

Here's what I'm working on. It's a screenshot from Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979):

hey what are we doing about the fact that the bit of fabric you hold when you're stitching gets a little grimy after a while?

#cross stitch #embroidery #I have a q snap #I think I'll try gently scrubbing it with a toothbrush and dish soap?#or spray it with a lil enzyme eater?#but what are we doing to prevent this because right now I'm using a folded handkerchief as a sort of pot holder deal

80 hours! 💪 look, there's almost a guy!

#had a three day weekend and made some really progress!#cross stitch #ha I just realized that one part was a telephone wire

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Still trying to find that sweet spot of finding a rare whole day free to cross stitch, taking my stimulants at the right time, and not feeling guilty about it the whole time.

Feeling a little disheartened by how long this hobby takes when I have a less than ideal attention span and only a couple of hours a night to work on it, barring interruptions.

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I mean, I keep my projects slightly in progress basically all the time (thread started, needle on top of the work thus stitch started) and just work on them whenever I have basically any time and also while I watch stuff which helps the attention bit somewhat

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I took this advice and it's been really helping :) thanks so much, it was a great suggestion.

Almost done with this section! There are going to be some faces in this section pretty soon~

70 hours

~6,500 stitches

Also: someone told me that I can stitch going in any direction as long as the stitches all end up the same way... they were wrong. Unless I'm losing my mind. I can absolutely see the two small sections I tried this in. Ah well. It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to be made with love.

#cross stitch #exciting stuff #genuinely very pleased to be done with the tan yellow and pink in this square #still loving this hobby so that's a great sign :)#on a side note I have one episode of the sopranos left and will need something new to watch as I stitch #throw me a rec if you see this!

Still trying to find that sweet spot of finding a rare whole day free to cross stitch, taking my stimulants at the right time, and not feeling guilty about it the whole time.

Feeling a little disheartened by how long this hobby takes when I have a less than ideal attention span and only a couple of hours a night to work on it, barring interruptions.

#it's a marathon not a race #but still #I'm trying to figure out how everyone else juggles so much #and still has time for hobbies #cross stitch #if there's a secret you gotta tell me

34 hours of work so far!

A rough estimate is 2,500 stitches so far, give or take.

Figured out how to do a pin stitch today to anchor my stitches, very excited about that.

Just chipping away at it!

Also someone sent flowers to my house today and I can't figure out who it was?

#cross stitch #almost alarmed by the flowers but they're sweet and I like flowers at my breakfast table so

16.5 hours (out of roughly 645?)

~1,200 stitches (out of 47,000)

Didn't get as much done today as I wanted to but that's okay. It's a marathon, not a race.

Anyway, that's the sky in case you're wondering.

#I wanted so badly to take it to my meetings today but I didn't because it wouldn't look good #EVEN THOUGH my meetings were useless and repetitive and poorly run trainings #respectively #big sigh

Excited to be heading home from work on a sunny day—gonna eat a burrito, make a kalimatxo and cross stitch until bedtime!

#the sopranos will also be present #cat does

picked up a new hobby this week... I haven't done any cross stitching since I was nine and now I seem to have picked up a project that is 47,000 stitches in total

I can't show you what it is because it's a gift for my lovely partner and I'm keeping it under wraps for now

But this is what 13 hours (and roughly 800 stitches) looks like!

Almost there...

#cross stitch #cat does #this is your brain on stimulants

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