Weekly WIPs
Jun. 22nd, 2019 11:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
milesyI've been so flipping busy the last few weeks that these are the only posts I have time to do. I'm taking today off to just do my own thing, because my head feels like it's full of helium and I can't figure out why. So let's talk about projects.
We start off with the last badge in my queue, and it's already shaping up to be a beast. I worked on this for a little bit on stream, and most of that stream was me realising that I might not have enough floss to finish it, because of how much of the area is a single colour. Normally that's not a problem, but these badges on 14ct use so much fabric that this will be the last one I ever do. My big fear with it is that while I'm pretty sure I do have enough floss, it won't all be exactly the same colour. Although hopefully with it being this dark, that won't really be noticeable.
The parrots, which like the horses, don't have any parrots. Also, this picture is very orange for some reason. I don't know why. I'm doing this one in tent stitch, but luckily the horses have taught me a lesson, so I'll be doing all the outlining in full stitches. I've done pieces like that in the past, and they always turn out really good, so I can't see why full coverage would be any different. So far though, it's just an endless sea of green, and oh god, between this and all my other WIPs, I'm going to have to buy so much green in the coming months. D:
Now we got Kermit, another endless sea of green. Once I get past this confetti bit, this page should fly. But right now, I'm stuck in confetti. I love this piece though. It's already turning out so well, and the colours are so dark and moody that I can't wait to get to Kermit and see how well he pops. In the original painting I did, the background was brown, but I went with nothing but green for some reason on the stitched version. I think it might have been because DMC doesn't have the nicest range of browns, and a bajillion greens, so I knew they'd behave better. That might be why so many of my pieces right now are nothing but green.
I don't think I've ever mentioned it before, but this pattern is available for free right now.
The goat actually has a goat! I'm loving this one so much as well. Some of the colours in his horns blend together a bit too much, but it doesn't really matter. They're all so bright and vibrant that it still looks really good, and it will only get more bright and vibrant once I do the black. The green is killing me, but I think I only have one more row of pages on these awful palm trees before the green becomes easier to stitch. I do not know what I was thinking with this. I'm going to get at least down into his shirt to make sure the pinks work (I don't really doubt that they will though) before I release this pattern. Just to be safe.
I didn't get a whole lot of work done on the horses this week. Most of what I did get done was fixing the lines to be full stitches, since I didn't like how uneven they were as half. I think I screwed it up in a few places, because it was impossible to see, but it still works. I want to get through the sky before I release this one, because that's where most of the colours are, and if the sky works, the rest should work just fine as well.
And lastly, Toothless. I got two pages done on stream yesterday, and nevermind that one of those pages had a whole eight stitches. But those two tiny pages were enough to make me feel like I've finally managed to get some real progress done on him. Unfortunately for me, the next two pages are enormous confetti nightmares, so this will be the last time I make a huge amount of progress like that in one sitting.
Pattern is here.
I've got one more WIP, but it's not one I can show you because it's for this year's mystery stitchalong.
We start off with the last badge in my queue, and it's already shaping up to be a beast. I worked on this for a little bit on stream, and most of that stream was me realising that I might not have enough floss to finish it, because of how much of the area is a single colour. Normally that's not a problem, but these badges on 14ct use so much fabric that this will be the last one I ever do. My big fear with it is that while I'm pretty sure I do have enough floss, it won't all be exactly the same colour. Although hopefully with it being this dark, that won't really be noticeable.
The parrots, which like the horses, don't have any parrots. Also, this picture is very orange for some reason. I don't know why. I'm doing this one in tent stitch, but luckily the horses have taught me a lesson, so I'll be doing all the outlining in full stitches. I've done pieces like that in the past, and they always turn out really good, so I can't see why full coverage would be any different. So far though, it's just an endless sea of green, and oh god, between this and all my other WIPs, I'm going to have to buy so much green in the coming months. D:
Now we got Kermit, another endless sea of green. Once I get past this confetti bit, this page should fly. But right now, I'm stuck in confetti. I love this piece though. It's already turning out so well, and the colours are so dark and moody that I can't wait to get to Kermit and see how well he pops. In the original painting I did, the background was brown, but I went with nothing but green for some reason on the stitched version. I think it might have been because DMC doesn't have the nicest range of browns, and a bajillion greens, so I knew they'd behave better. That might be why so many of my pieces right now are nothing but green.
I don't think I've ever mentioned it before, but this pattern is available for free right now.
The goat actually has a goat! I'm loving this one so much as well. Some of the colours in his horns blend together a bit too much, but it doesn't really matter. They're all so bright and vibrant that it still looks really good, and it will only get more bright and vibrant once I do the black. The green is killing me, but I think I only have one more row of pages on these awful palm trees before the green becomes easier to stitch. I do not know what I was thinking with this. I'm going to get at least down into his shirt to make sure the pinks work (I don't really doubt that they will though) before I release this pattern. Just to be safe.
I didn't get a whole lot of work done on the horses this week. Most of what I did get done was fixing the lines to be full stitches, since I didn't like how uneven they were as half. I think I screwed it up in a few places, because it was impossible to see, but it still works. I want to get through the sky before I release this one, because that's where most of the colours are, and if the sky works, the rest should work just fine as well.
And lastly, Toothless. I got two pages done on stream yesterday, and nevermind that one of those pages had a whole eight stitches. But those two tiny pages were enough to make me feel like I've finally managed to get some real progress done on him. Unfortunately for me, the next two pages are enormous confetti nightmares, so this will be the last time I make a huge amount of progress like that in one sitting.
Pattern is here.
I've got one more WIP, but it's not one I can show you because it's for this year's mystery stitchalong.
