Textileophile

 As ever, I'm not entirely sure where to start.  I've been crafting a lot in the last few weeks.  I dedicated myself to working on Persephone cross stitch, but decided that the pull was simply too strong and started the Yoshis I was telling you about.  And I just steadily worked on socks in the meantime. I'll start with Persephone:     I believe this was three days worth of pictures.  I finished the silk background stuff!  Very exciting!  I think I mentioned I was playing thread chicken, but I actually had plenty of thread to finish.  There isn't any background silk in the bottom half of the piece, so I am done with those colors! Next, I finished her face and started working down her skirt. Her face doesn't look complete for several reasons.  1) there's a lot of back-stitching that I'll do at the very end to outline things, and 2) there are a lot of beading that I'll do after the back-stitching.  The beaded stitches don't get ...

 Hey there! It's been a few weeks and life doesn't really look dramatically different than it did a few weeks ago, but here we are.  Actually I just switched up where I've been cross stitching, nothing like a new view to change things up a bit and add excitement to your life! So yeah, my cross stitch lady (I believe this is the third lady I've cross stitched, so maybe I should use her name, Persephone, that is the name of the pattern) Ahem, Working on my Persephone cross stitch seems that much extra appropriate at the start of Spring: You cannot tell, but I can, how differently this fabric and thread combination is working for me.  Well, the path the thread is traveling anyway.  I am really enjoying it this time.   These purpley/greeny/browny hearts are stitched out of silk!  This is the first project I've ever used silk for and it is delightful.  The thread is so soft and slick, it is wonderful to work with.  There are a few minor headaches when ...