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“Summers Passing” pattern by @8pxl

took me nearly 9 months and 28,200 stitches but here it is!

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Happy International Bat Appreciation Day!!

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What I have learned from this is the older ladies in the cross stitch groups are going to be getting a meme from me.

Everyone has their own view/way to do things and I realize this can be a hot topic for some. This will also have a follow up question.

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So I remembered this little cross stitch kit I got a while ago and finished it. But now I can't decide if I like it better with the legs or without the legs. I kinda wanna make it into a pin or a patch (and I'll have to figure out how to do that) and having the legs would make it more difficult but in a way it feels incomplete without them.

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Knitted dragon cowl!

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Yesterday I got the big wool blankets warped up on the loom at the studio. It looks like Lisa Frank barf and I love it. It took almost the whole weekend to warp and I only got about 20 minutes of actual weaving in before I had to leave. I wanna go back!!

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I finally get to post this because they got it! This was a gift for a friend who likes Columbo.

Shoutout and thanks to @kidkinobi on Pixilart for the picture of Columbo I transcribed square by square into a cross stitch pattern by eyeballing the colors. They had no socials I could tag.

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Found this on facebook.

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The National Park Service has released crochet/knit patterns! The triops is my favorite.

Here's their Ravelry:

But wait there's more if Ravelry isn't your thing:

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knitting tutorial made by a twenty-something knitting influencer: 18 min long, 12 of those minutes being the intro and a sponsor plug, they show the first few steps of the tutorial at the slowest speed known to man, they show the most important steps at a neck-break speed, they stop every five seconds to talk about what they just did, 40,000 comments filled with questions ranging from insightful to “how do i knit”, filmed with a camera that costs more than a car, the tutorial is incorrect.

knitting tutorial made by a seventy-something grandmother: two min long, filmed 17 years ago, shows you what you want with the skilled patient hands of a beloved deity, made with the world’s shittiest camera, the best video on the fucking internet, four comments and 30 views, you lose the video and never find it again.

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Currently obsessed with this late 1800s Victorian silk-and-velvet quilt my mother brought out of storage, which I was scandalized to have never seen before. The colors are startlingly vivid, and the effect is strangely modern. It was likely the work of my second great grandmother, who lived in Eastern Iowa in the last quarter of the 19th century. Not sure if anyone will see this, given that I haven’t been active in quilting discussions, but I’d welcome any info on quilts of this type and period.

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"“Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays. As long as you keep that in mind, and never give more weight to one than the other, the history of the galaxy is a simple tune with lyrics flashed on-screen and a helpful, friendly bouncing disco ball of all-annihilating flames to help you follow along.” - Cat Valente, Space Opera

Quilt wall hanging tribute to one of my favorite books. Mostly traditionally pieced with a bit of applique.

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Unrecorded artist, Moose Hair Tufting, early to mid-20th century, Moose hair, fabric, porcupine quills.

Raclin Murphy Museum

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Help! Need cross stitching advice!

Okay. So, I've got a massive set of pieces I want to do. (Short explanation of what its for: I've been a part of a Pokemon DnD campaign for almost three years, and our campaign is going to be ending soon-ish.) I want to do the other players' starters as major arcana tarot cards, because my character is the mystic/hex maniac type and it is amusing.

There will be seven total, maybe more if I decide I can go through the designing of whole different pokemon as tarot cards. I have the ideas for what I want the cards to look like (and fucking hell, the DM's card is going to frustrate me to tears, I just know it.) But I am having a bit of an issue getting it sketched like I want.

The thing I need advice on is: how do you, oh great pattern making wizards, get from sketch to finished pattern? I had the idea of sketch, transfer to a pixel art app the best I can, get it close, then use that as the base of the pattern. (Unfortunately, Stitchfiddle doesn’t let me layer and shade like I want.) But I also feel that might be over complicating things? This is my first intensive pattern I've made from scratch.

I'm open for DMs or replies to this post. And if anyone who sees this knows of a cross stitcher who makes their own patterns, please send it their way. I think I bit off more than I can chew, but also my heart is set on making the end of our journey something my friends can enjoy.

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BEHOLD

smiling bat :)

based on this guy ^ my favorite little guy from British Library Harley MS 3244 f 55v

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I came across this in a book I'm currently reading and it's really stuck in my mind and I wanted to share

'Sheep in Wolf's clothing' by Judith Duffey 1986

I don't know if anyone on here is going to be interested I'm this piece or anything but I wanted to share as it struck me an an amazing piece of textile art