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I FINALLY learned to use a sewing machine and made the Quidditch cross stitch piece I made into a pillow. Well, I made two - one for a friend and one for me since I really liked the cross stitch design. Stages of almost finished: I learned to do a slip stitch (Or am learning as I see) to hide the stitches when closing the pillow. Completed pillow: I'm currently working on finishing the second one! The first one is all ready to be shipped to my friend! The pillows aren't as "perfect" as I wanted, but I'm happy with it. This project involved a lot of screw ups and undoing stitches.

I finally finished the Quidditch pitch cross stitch I've been working on. I finally got to the store to get the color I needed yesterday. I started working on a second one so both my friend and I can have one, and that ones going a lot faster (though still takes forever) sicne I've done it before and am more familiar with the pattern. Next I'm going to turn this into a pillow. I'm getting sewing machine lessons from my mom.

Not coloring, but here's a project I've been working one I got the pattern off of etsy. I decided I wanted to make a fancy pillow for my friend's birthday, but this is taking many many more hours than I thought it would which makes me wanna keep it, lol. Ill probably make a second one for myself. Mostly done. How do I rotate the image?

I'll try and get a picture of this soon. So right after Christmas I had this delusion that I could cross stitch and I was going to make one Christmas ornament each month so by next Christmas I would have 12 new ornaments. Years from now when I am long gone my great-great-grandchildren would hang these on the tree and marvel at my talent. So I found 12 easy cross stitch patterns that supposedly could be done by small children, got all the supplies and sat down to work. Step 1: threading a needle. That shit is hard. 15 minutes later I finally have that thing threaded. Step 2: I was supposed to center this thing or something, but I got rather frustrated with that step so I kind of skipped it. Step 3: start making rows of x. This was tedious. Step 4: have an actual child come over and point out that Santa's body is crooked. Ponder ripping it out. Realize that I suck at this and then give up. Step 5: try to ignore it sitting over there in the corner a constant reminder of yet another thing I have failed at.

I have been cross stitching since I was 12, and love it.