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Here's a comparison video between two pieces of the same cat! I started hand embroidery at the beginning of 2023, and seeing them side by side is my favorite. Enjoy!

Those EYES?!?!

I embroidered a jean jacket for my soon-to-be sister-in-law’s birthday, and then finally finished it just in time for Candlenights, 6 months later 🎉

An embroidery of the Wikipedia page for embroidery.

Honestly not what I expected to win, but I'm completely down. How could anyone not love the combination of hobbits and Abba? Also, the lyrics are surprisingly fitting considering the effects of the One Ring.

Of course, this inspires an obvious follow-up poll, so why not. We haven't had one in a while. I'll give it its own post, however, as that has proved easiest for keeping track of these things.

Edit: Follow-up poll here

Mamma mia, here I go again My my, how can I resist you?

This is part of my ongoing Discworld jacket embroidery project. Of course Great A'Tuin has to be on there. And of course it has to be the biggest one of them all.

I'm going to put the finished product in my masterpost, but I'm so proud of the thing that I have to put it in an extra post beforehand. Enjoy!

Update!!!

Behold: the elephants! 😁

The turtle moves! Now it's just the "cargo" left. And the universe. Well.

Update 3: Why did I have to try single thread for the disc. Why. How did I ever think that was a good idea. This is taking aaaages.

I'd say never again, but I know myself too well...

Still trying to decide whether to outline the landmass with darker thread or not. It would make the lands more distinct - but it might also make it look more like a comic. If you have any thoughts on it, let me know. I'll only decide once I've finished the rest of the disc and that'll be at least a week, if I had to guess.

I finally had some time to continue and the disc is done! Now just some stars, planets, etc...

My estimate is that this took about 150 hours. About half of that went into the disc because I discovered single thread embroidery.

And because I always think it's really interesting to see the back of the embroidery - bonus:

On to the next one! Maybe I'll do the luggage now.

Art Nouveau revival-style custom bathroom sink & mirror design by glass artist Lyn Hovey & woodworker Jamie Robertson (1980s)

Scanned from the book, 'Contemporary Crafts for the Home' (1990)

It is done!

Been asked for a pattern - specifically by @donut-interact and @cannibalisticgalaxy who I can't seem to tag, sorry -

and while the simple answer is that there's no pattern as such, the complicated answer is this:

I made the charts in stitchfiddle and made up the shaping as I went along with a lot of cursing.

I have now found a way to share the charts and anyone can create copies and download it. If you really wanna knit this yourself though I highly recommend the stitchfiddle subscription because I could not have done this without the color blocks that come with the subscription (and at like 4$ for a single month that's pretty fair)

Overall construction is a top-down raglan with a bunch of short row shaping between the colour gradients.

Chart 1 wasn't actually used for the most of the knitting but it's got the gradient pattern that I used: https://www.stitchfiddle.com/c/sg9j9f-d0yt92

would NOT recommend actually adding in the yellow sun but do that in duplicate sts after.

Chart 2 is knit in intarsia in the round. After putting the sleeves on hold I switched from knitting in the round to basically knitting back and forth, to enable me to do intarsia, but with joining the rows into a round on a kind of side seam.

https://www.stitchfiddle.com/c/sgbn0v-ex1ugt

Chart 3 is the duplicate stitching that I did on top of the intarsia.

https://www.stitchfiddle.com/c/sg90fd-d7fult

The whole process was vaguely documented in my tag Binary Sunset Sweater Madness including the dozen or so times that I totally threw out my design and started over.

I realise this is far less information than an actual pattern would give you. I can look up the intarsia in the round tutorial I used or give you the number of balls of each yarn I ordered (and where I'd get more or less) or elaborate on the raglan shaping another day.

And just for fun, here's what I have left over:

I have NO IDEA why I thought I would need so much pink. Turns out the thing that's even harder than knitting such a piece is estimating how much yarn you'll need. Anyone want some dusty rose Drops Karisma?

quilt by Chinami Terai

The Shetland Textile Museum Loves Lace Too So They Asked Anne Eunson To Recreate Her Famous Knitted Garden Fence and It Looks Gorgeous: 👉 https://buff.ly/3eU31xc

My latest cross-stitch project is done!!! 101,277 stitches on 18ct aida, measuring about 40 x 50cm, finished just in time to round out the year 🥳 She took 390 days of work (and 79 rest days at various points) -- started on 17/08/22 and finished in the wee hours I'm pretending were still 28/12/23. She'll be off to a framer's as soon as they open back up after the holidays!

(the pattern is waterhouse's my sweet rose from scarlet quince!)

I saw a thing and thought it seemed like something you might find cool

-This is GENIUS-Systlin-

Meg Embroiders on Etsy

This is Nakey, the sweetest lil corn snake!

This piece was incredibly challenging, but super rewarding as well! The scales shine differently as you move the hoop and they catch the light, creating shifting depth. I’ll upload another post with a vid showing that off cause it’s one of my favorite things about this, and the reason I chose to embroider each individual scale.

Image ID: A hand embroidered corn snake sits on an off-white muslin fabric inside an embroidery hoop. The snake has a pattern of red, orange and brown patches, bordered in dark brown. He is arranged in loops, one loop shows off his underbelly which is cream spotted with dark patches. He also has his tongue sticking out.

It’s so beautiful! How did you get that texture for the scales? It looks like secondary stitch over your base layer, though I can’t quite tell what it is the effect is breathtaking! Wonderful work!

Thankyou! The scales are all done by satin stitch, that gives the uniform look to each of them so they stand out from their siblings. Sometimes i bordered the scales with single lines of threads, (or closer to the head more satin stitches) sometimes it was to nix the fabric colour coming through, sometimes it was to create highlights or shadows. But the rest of the time i let the satin stitch speak for itself!

Moon. Fabric and thread. Stitched from a photo my brother took.

I just realized that apparently I never shared this series here on Tumblr??  

I call it Living Paintings, as they are recreations of extinct animals that some artists actually saw and painted from memory, a long time ago.

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