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2024

#cross stitch #wip

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say what you will about the internet and especially tiktok but im glad for it because it not only lets people show off art of all kinds, but shows that theres countless mediums and kinds of art, and that theyre far from dead

cause earlier i was at michaels and there was a rly small selection of cross stitch kits mixed in with the embroidery kits, even though there were tons of thread colors to choose from. not to mention cross stitching patterns that i see tend to have a clear target demographic and its clearly older people

and i pointed this out and my dad said 'its dying cause no one does it anymore, no ones going to be doing it in 15 years' and i know he was just being a pessimistic boomer like always but it made me wonder, cause i genuinely dont see cross stitching very much. like. i see people do damn near every other medium possible, but almost never cross stitching.

i think to me a big thing is that... cross stitching is a lot like pixel art. and its way easier and arguably less time consuming to grab any electronic device and open an art program that lets you place individual pixels...

but cross stitching is physical, and you have to thread that needle and you put your needle through every hole, and you can feel it with your hands. i like cross stitching and i genuinely want to do it more lol

anyway im just glad the internet can prove my dad wrong with a simple search, cause the idea of a medium of art dying is. fucking terrifying. especially one so neat and fairly accessible like that

#I’m thirty now and I’ve been cross stitching for over 20 years #I always come back to it #sometimes I’ll do another thing for a while #or like now I’ll decide to overambitiously do a full year daily project with it #at the end of the year I’m planning to teach some art kiddos how to do it

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Now the pears are in bloom and after them the apple blossoms, the sweetest of all!

Then the tulip poplars and black locusts and way in the distance in June the catalpas. So much beauty on the way!

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Capstone Fiber Arts Survey

Hey guys, a friend of a friend is doing a Fiber Arts survey for her capstone, and it would be a huge help if those of you who do any kind of fiber/textile art could take this survey and also spread it to anybody you know who is currently or was previously involved with textile arts, from your sister who makes subversive cross stitch to your great grandpa who took up knitting when he served in the Marines.

The capstone project is on the Importance of Fiber Arts to Female Socialization in Patriarchal Societies. She is looking to gather the data on the 21st century fiber artists to see how current fiber artists are viewed and view themselves.

Thanks! 💚

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I have a new job now I am somehow the new accounts person which seems insane but alright.

The new company I work for still use desktop computers with stand up hard drives and each day someone has to take home the sacred removable hard drive with the copy of the days work in case there’s a fire. Because apparently this company are cutting edge and also in the year 2003????

#I’m very extremely new but also now old enough to know this company have made some choices. #the people are nice though and the work the company does all seems very impressive

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16.04.2024

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Enjoy it while it lasts, folks, because it won't be long 'til Cicely's breaking out her snowsuit and mukluks.

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she’s here for the job!

#dang that’s cute #northern exposure

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I like this time of year when the other trees are mostly leafless and you can see little white dots in the hills here and there—the wild cherry trees in bloom ♡

Also is there a softer light than April evening light.

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14.04.2024

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15.04.2024

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Lunchtime

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Stay away from my cheeks. They’re culturally a kiss free zone.

Cheek-kissing as a form of greeting throughout the world (and number of kisses given)

by mexidominicarican8

#I will allow hongi particularly as there is usually warning that that will happen

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#whew. got it.

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FRIENDS 6.15: “The One That Could Have Been(Part 1)"

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This is Australia's current top news story

#it’s behind the yellow line I see no issues