Textileophile

It's only been a few days, but I have some good things to chat about! I have a round up of finishes to talk about and a fancy new start.  Good things. First things first:   I finished my socks! These are nice.  I luff them. Secondly, I finished my final fantasy 9 epic cross stitch! This finish feels really good.  I love the way it turned out.  I am.. mmm.. a little unhappy with the subtle back-stitching I added, but it's not really my forte and it's fine.  I'm, well, I'm kind of proud of my work here.  It was a lot of it-- from the drawing of the pixel art and the converting it to a design to the stitching itself. The stitching was almost the least of it, cause I can cross stitch just about anything.  The title did get a bit long, but overall, it was an enjoyable cross stitch! I took a few hours in between finishing this and diverting my energies.  I had a big job to tackle, and it directly involved floss.  See, when I bought the 180ish colors that I needed for this

Hey there folks! What have I been up to, craftwise?  Well, honestly, not a whole lot. A few days after getting back into spinning that old shiny from Christmas, I stopped spinning altogether and now my wheel is sitting near the desk upstairs mocking me for taking it upstairs.  :sigh: Instead I've fallen back into cross stitch.  You see, I'm getting there with the FFIX cross stitch, I'm right about halfway through with Quina.  So, I had to work on them. This is several days of progress.  Quina is a large person, as you can see.  In the game they're a blue mage, so they learn abilities through eating.  And sometimes anime is as subtle as one of Quina's weapons (they fight with large sporks).  Anyway, the large swath of Quina's robe is why I put down the cross stitch in the first place.  But I'll never get through it if I don't work on it. Anyway, I'm also to the toe on the socks that I always have going: This was when I was to the heel of the socks I a