Here comes the weekend!

I'm looking forward to what will hopefully be a very stitchy weekend, of both the cross and sewing kind. I need to sit down and get the fleece mats sewn for my chinchillas; I think they'll be much happier with the cozy fleece than they are with the Aspen chips in their cage. I also have a lot of motivation to finish up Ornate Butterfly, partly because it's intended as a gift, but also because I have this huge urge to start up something new.

I would very much love to hop on the sprite cross stitch bandwagon. I'm honestly terrified of trying it! I haven't done a cross stitch that wasn't purchased as a kit. I haven't the faintest clue of where to start! I mean, I know there are places like spritestitch.com with its huuuuuuge forums. But the idea of trolling some forums isn't appealing to me. I saw the tutorial there on turning sprites into patterns, but it suggests either a $50 program or a free website-based thing that doesn't seem to be around anymore. I'm pretty sure I could figure it out after I got a pattern and used the RGB to DMC values conversion chart to buy the floss; it's the getting the pattern part that I'm so unsure of. Any thoughts or suggestions on this front would be much appreciated.

Well, here's to a craft-filled weekend!

Updated WIP of Ornate Butterfly! I plan on making some more really good progress tonight. The awesome task lighting and the scroll frame have made such a difference in my stitching speed.

The photo does not do the colors in this any justice, however.

First real post

Alrighty. Time to get to business. Two early photos of my two WIPs. These are from yesterday; Ornate Butterfly had a lot more done on it after pics were taken. It's actually starting to look like a butterfly!

Well! Here I am, making yet another thing to update that I might never pay much attention to. But at least there's a Blogger mobile app! :Db

I guess I should start off by explaining that this is mostly going to function as a stitching blog/scrapbook, focusing on cross stitch. There may be from time to time the random sewn thing tossed in for variety.

Thanks for popping by!