A... Frame?! And TUSAL!

Hello, wonderful world~ There is actually a picture of stitching this time; don't y'all pass out at once! ;) I'm also including the July TUSAL (wat. it is still July thankyouverymuch.). Not much went in there as I went on a vacation and forgot to bring my travel stitch box (*cry*)!

Yet another C&H book! :D

I think I may have found a frame for a finish! It's (of course) a thrift store find and I thought it might be suitable for Miss Christmas Moth. It was found at the same thrift store the kit was picked up which is kind of amazing! Sorry for these horrible cell phone images but I was way too excited to wait for the weekend, haha. Don't mind the sticker gunk on the frame or the wrinkles on the stitches or the crookedlyness of it -- this was the "does it work?" test. I think it looks kinda nice in this frame (or am I decoratively challenged?) so yay!

The scrolls are cutout, not shiny!

I'm so pleased to have found a frame but now I have the problem of washing, mounting, centering, etc. I've never done anything like this before so any tips would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks for looking! Yay, frame, yaaaaay~

Edited on August 05, 2012!

Blog Hop #5: To Season or Not To Season... (& TUSAL!)

I can't believe I forgot the last TUSAL! Anyway, here's the update, haha. There is more floss in there, I promise. I still smoosh it down at every opportunity. :D

June TUSAL

Mostly more black as I've been focusing on the lettering in FFVII. I try to do a letter in a sitting and as it's been quite hot, I've had a bit more stitching time, hah.




Now for the latest installment of the blog hop! It seems I've become more or less hopeless about posting updates on FFVII so I'm glad for these prompts to keep me from disappearing off the face of the planet~

I don't think I'm very seasonal, but that might be the lack of patterns I personally find stitchable for seasons! Since I like quirky sorts of things, I usually have to design my own patterns if I want to stitch holiday-themed goodies (Halloween example here). Otherwise, it's whatever tickles my fancy at the moment. A new game came out? Gotta commemorate it. Something unreasonably dorky someone said? New idea for a pattern!

The exception seems to be Christmas; I'll stitch almost anything for that holiday, haha. There are usually tons of patterns I like involving Christmas / winter, and it doesn't seem to be limited to cross stitching either! I did a cute crewel kit last year (see here), and picked up another for this year. I mostly focus on ornaments and one very mini aspiration is to stitch one ornament for myself by December 25. So far they've been just little kits I've picked up in various thrift stores.

Oddly, my favorite to stitch for (Christmas) is not my favorite holiday (Fourth of July, yay!). I don't dislike Americana, but I haven't found any designs I'm willing to stitch myself! Perhaps someday I'll create a pattern for the best holiday ever!

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