I’m amazed you keept up with the hobby after that! I would probably have given up, if that was my first experience

But I also love DMC floss!

Thats probably a sensible priority.

Sounds like a rough period, I hope everything ended up fine! And that you had a good vacation :)

The first ever DMC Aida I got, the squares were taller than they were wide. So I have sworn to zweigart since. But if that haven’t happened to you, then that’s great, but trying new things is also kinda exciting!

I’m so happy you are joing WIP Wednesday again! Did you finish the megazord? Or just rotate projects? :-)

Thank you!

I plan on keep showing whatever I’m working on on Wednesdays and show off when I finish something :)

And hoping that more people join in on posting here :)

I feel like its so often a problem with those big stores, they need to cater to so many different crafts that they only have the cheep stuff. So the only usefull thing they have is DMC.

Which is actually also a problem with my local needle shop… they only carry DMC fabric and I prefer Zweitgart.

I was very confused at the start of this comment, but thanks for the cute story! 🤣

If they lost tension easily it might have been the cheep ones.

The brand Q-snap should be really nice, but for reasons that was not a option for me at the moment. So I was so excited when Nurge started to make them.

So far I have only tried the small one, but I mostly like it.

All your guesess are correct.

From the top left: Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King, Agatha Cristie

Jane Austin, Lewis Carroll

Mary Shelley, J.R.R Tolkien, Shakespeare

Jules Verne (unfinished) and Roal Dahl.

I dont know that meme, and a quick search confused me more than it helped.

So…maybe 🤣

Not really actually. I might recommend them, but I’m not sure I’d actually call then good, becuase i feel like they try a bit to hard at being interesting instead of just covering an interesting topic.

But lately it has been Diaster Autopsy and Plane Crash investigations on Disney+

And I often revisit HBO’s chernobyl but Disney also have a pretty good one, which have a bit of a different more “true” take.

Pretty much everything. If my shoulder allows I stitch all the time when home, with something on the TV. Lately it have been disaster documentaries.

But if I’m on the couch with my boyfriend it is Fader Brown. We just got a new season and I really love that show!

I just wash them normally at 30°C and hang dry. I’m pretty sure i did the loop-start and then just weaving the thread under when ending, but a bit more than usual, but nothing else to protect it. And they look just as good now 3 years later.

Good to know, thank you!

You can buy something called water soluble canvas, which has the cross stitch grid. In my country I have only found 14 count.

I recommend basting it on, and then starting in the middel so it don’t shift while you stitch.

When you are done you just wash it.

I have made these pants using that

There is also something called waste canvas which you pull out after you are done stitching. But I don’t have personal experience with that.

Very fancy, but it’s not aida, its 32 ct. (12,6 in cm) Mureno (evenweave) from Zweitgart.

And it is my frist real try on anything but aida, and it is smaller than I’m used to, im doing two over two, so it is 16 ct (6,4 cm), but I’m used to 14 ct (5,4).

And i will be posting whenever i finish a bit part, but it might take a while.

Ohh, right, I’ll see if i can fix it.

Video surveillance at work personally makes me feel more safe at work. If something happens, the police have a bigger chance to find the guilty party.

And I know that the only reason it would ever be used against me, is if i do something very very stupid and/or wrong.