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First Knit Sweater
It only took over a year, with a ton of delays, but I have finally finished my first knit sweater. And it’s Cool Times Barbie! I am so completely stoked with how the duplicate stitching turned out. …Even though I only noticed after posting the video that, um… it’s not actually done. I missed some…
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Classic 80s kitsch
Needlepoint magnets! On a thrift trip not too long ago, I came across the motherload – or actually grandmother load – of vintage kitschy magnets. (I know it was “grandmother” because one of the magnets said so. This was a store that tends to get donations from singular sources, so I knew they were all…
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Force Be With You
I made this for someone named Maeve. For the sake of privacy, I won’t say too much about them here. But they love Star Wars, and one day this pun occurred to me and it had to be made. I drafted the pattern in Photoshop, using the font ‘Star Jedi.’ Then I imported to FlossCross…
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2024 Craft Goals
In which I feel very meta, making a post on my new website, featuring a video in which I talk about setting up this website. I’m talking about goals today! Without even trying, I discovered I had 10 big ones. But first! I’ll share a fun little montage of all the things I made last…
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Hello world!
I am letting the default wordpress First Post mark the occasion of when I actually started this blog/website. This is going to be my repository for all of my crafty endeavors. Projects, WIPs and progress pics, updates for YouTube videos and other things I have planned, you name it. But, where projects are concerned, they…
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Retro Tunic, 1984
My First Crochet Sweater I started this sweater in June, 2022. I wasn’t using a pattern. I just wanted to try putting two rectangles together. And I wanted to use up my Lion Brand Homespun yarn, which had been sitting in my yarn basket since 2006. I had a TON of this stuff. I loved…
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Art Deco Vase #1
I think my favorite 80s style – one I actually love, rather than just get ironically amused by – is the 80s art deco revival. It has clear art deco influences, yet remains distinctly 80s. Art deco lines, 80s colors, and a clear fascination with vases. There was a series of longstitch needlepoint kits from…
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Sunflower Stitch
Another of my longest WIPs completed I began this project way back, before the turn of the century, before I left my home state for the first time. It was intended as a gift for my stepmom, who at that time was still married to my dad and living in Kansas, next to a field…
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A fairy bad time
This project has so few stitches that the amount of time it spent in the naughty bin probably gives me a 2 stitch per year average. Purchased in the fairy-loving years of my late teens, I thought it would be so pretty in my apartment. And I thought it would be so fast and easy.…
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From doodle to stitch
When I was a preschool art teacher, some of my favorite moments were the mornings during arrivals when I could just sit and draw with the kiddos. One day, several years ago, I drew a pink dolphin and added some 90s style decorations. When the mood struck me to pick up embroidery again, I decided…