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WIP Wednesday! What have you all been working on this week? (lemmy.world)

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I was making good progress until I got to the golden Lasso of Truth lol! It's going well so far, but this part may take as long by itself as the rest of the pattern! What have you guys been up to?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That Wonder Woman is looking amazing! It's not a race so take as long as you need for the Lasso. People work on WIPs for decades!

I managed to get a couple of hundred stitches this week. Prof. Carver is looking more like a human now. I'm on sick leave (nothing serious, just a cold) followed by a week of planned paid leave... so I'll have free time to catch up!

My progress is slower than usual this week. I've been trying to crochet a pair of wrist warmers which held me back a bit... I spent two days and made a lot of mistakes only to realise I'm 10g short of the yarn...which is discontinued. So I had to frog the whole thing, start over, and improvise with a different colour from the exact same yarn, at least for the wrist part which is hidden. Fun times! At least I almost finished another Discworld audiobook.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The professor definitely looks better now, although I liked him as a mischievous spirit person too lol! I hope you feel better soon!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Hope the cold clears off in time for you to enjoy the actual leave! And I agree he had a certain something when he looked like an eldritch being from The Beyond, but I suppose this is cool too. The shading in this whole pattern is really good I have to say.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I've finished a couple of things recently, and now I'm sort of on pause until after Halloween because I have roughly 87 more hours of hand sewing to do for my stupid costume. I never did move the s in fuckers because I realized I'd have to unstitch about half the word and I just...wasn't gonna do that. The second thing is based on the last 2 panels of this comic that someone posted and I said, "oh I have to do it!" I did realize after taking the picture that I never finished the eye, so I'll have to do that, but I think the rest is done.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They both look really good! I definitely want to read more of that webcomic lol I don't think I would have noticed the spacing issue if it wasn't pointed out to me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I sort of figured it wasn't noticeable enough to bother, especially since the only people seeing it in person will be me and my mom.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

100%, looks totally fine and ESPECIALLY if it would've been a lot of frogging, bugger that. Love the little bird comic, I saw that get posted somewhere here recently too it's so cute!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This is so damned good, I'm tempted to start a new hobby.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

You came to the wrong community if you want talking out of it...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks! I got this pattern from Etsy and they have tons of awesome patterns that are mostly $5-6 or less! The supplies are pretty inexpensive too, I got all my supplies at Michaels and spent around $25 and I'm still using up most of it. I just started cross stitching this year and it's become my favorite hobby/obsession lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Go for it! It was life changing for me, as a person who has a hard time meditating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Come on in the water's fine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You just want to be grateful it's not metallic thread! 😅

I've managed progress on two whole things this week. Ocean Wonder has a somewhat creepy octopus missing half his tentacles and also his face:

And the Steampunk World Map is looking decidedly "without NZ" but I swear I know it exists, the pattern has it on, it's just coincidence that this was my last stopping point 😆

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There is a world statistics website that jumped on the meme about NZ always missing from maps so they took it to the next level and started placing it on random spots like west of Australia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of when people make maps about Eurovision statistics, and obviously it's focused on the general Europe area, but then they just stick Australia in the sea wherever it'll fit 😆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It all looks amazing so far! I didn't even think to use metallic thread! Is that really tricky to work with?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it's anything like glow in the dark ...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's so much worse than glow in the dark! Apparently it's not so evil if you use thread conditioner though, or so I'm told, no way I'm trying it again any time soon to find out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

😬

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wait I just bought some glow in the dark thread, what's so bad about it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wouldn't say there's anything bad about it per se, it's just kinda frustrating to work with. Cut it off shorter than you probably would a normal thread type as this stuff loves to fray/unravel. It gets real poofy real quick when you're stitching with it. I also found the stuff I was using to feel ... odd. Almost like twine or something. Just kind of rough in texture. I was glad I didn't have to use a lot of it, although there are a couple other patterns I've got my eye on that use it pretty cleverly. I would use it again, but only for a pattern I really love. Or if it was minimal in use. And there are apparently several different types. Some are more plastic-y in nature. Some may glow better than others. It's just an odd duck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I just looked at the one I got and you're right it is kind of stiff compared to the regular floss, like almost a plasticy feeling. I haven't decided what to use it for yet, but thanks for the heads up!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Missed updating last week. Life has gotten in the way of things lately. I finished the one color and started on the rest of the ground. Hoping to get back into a groove but we're not quite out of the woods here yet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks like you're making great progress! I'm jealous of your Cthulhu needle minder lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks! I love that wee beastie! (Seriously I'm a little embarrassed by how much joy that thing brings me. And it really is handy)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It's so cute! I think we can all relate to the disproportionate joy of a good needle minder 😄

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I completely understand lol! Right now my "needle minder" is actually just two magnets that came out of a broken knife sharpener, I really need to get something better but they have almost nothing at the stores around here

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did you pick up a snap frame?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not yet 😞 The big store only had some very dodgy looking cheapo ones, and the small store had none at all, so I'll probably have to order one on Amazon