Had a bit of a lull in cross-stitching as i focused on finishing a bigger drawing first, but I am now back at the sprite thingies.
Finished the first one of the trio, actually!! Cutting it out was nerve-wracking, but it's the spikiest one i'll do so I've got the worst behind me. All the finish touches (perhaps apart from a knot above the beads so they don't move up as well, but whatever) turned out to work exactly how I wanted them to, so i'm ridiculously happy about the whole thing. Got an entire month to finish the other two so I'm excited that I might actually get to submit them as possible prizes.
Paid another visit to the specialty store, only to find out they only had a single skein of non-DMC white (look, i don't need precise colors and why should I pay premium when there's a local company making perfectly good floss). So I landed one white and several of something they call 'marshmallow'. Thankfully, one of the sprites is going to be Flareon, so I'm going to use the slightly warmer white on it to keep the pure white for Vaporeon with its blues. They also had 0 plastic canvases of any higher count. Put an order in for some they have up on their website, but it honestly looks more like a grid for something with much thicker fiber. We'll see if it works when it arrives, and if not, i'll have to dig up the order I made for my current plastic canvas and try the online-only shop i got that from and eat the shipping fee.
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Had a bit of a lull in cross-stitching as i focused on finishing a bigger drawing first, but I am now back at the sprite thingies.
Finished the first one of the trio, actually!! Cutting it out was nerve-wracking, but it's the spikiest one i'll do so I've got the worst behind me. All the finish touches (perhaps apart from a knot above the beads so they don't move up as well, but whatever) turned out to work exactly how I wanted them to, so i'm ridiculously happy about the whole thing. Got an entire month to finish the other two so I'm excited that I might actually get to submit them as possible prizes.
Paid another visit to the specialty store, only to find out they only had a single skein of non-DMC white (look, i don't need precise colors and why should I pay premium when there's a local company making perfectly good floss). So I landed one white and several of something they call 'marshmallow'. Thankfully, one of the sprites is going to be Flareon, so I'm going to use the slightly warmer white on it to keep the pure white for Vaporeon with its blues. They also had 0 plastic canvases of any higher count. Put an order in for some they have up on their website, but it honestly looks more like a grid for something with much thicker fiber. We'll see if it works when it arrives, and if not, i'll have to dig up the order I made for my current plastic canvas and try the online-only shop i got that from and eat the shipping fee.