DMC is having a promotional sale to get a free petite version of their gorgeous antique floss chest if you buy one of their bundles! If you embroider a lot with their floss it might be worth it for you to get one of these bundles because it saves you like 40% on the total cost of individual floss. I would love to take part in this promotion, but alas. I am a humble grad student living off loans. So hopefully someone out there can get the chest and maybe send me pictures of it. It looks so pretty.
Also.
Folks might not be aware, but DMC has free patterns on their website. Including Halloween patterns. Here’s one I picked at random:
This is a great resource for people who want to get into cross stitch and embroidery but don’t have the resources to buy patterns and kits. People ask me a lot about where they can get patterns for embroidering and I usually direct them here.
They also have free patterns and VIDEO TUTORIALS for embroidery, knitting, crochet, macrame, and other fiber crafts.
Autumn is the best time to get a new hobby. You should do it.
Let's tie this honeycomb karada - it takes some time but once it's built, you can pop it off yourself or a partner and have it ready to go in your rope kit as a portable full body harness - it's based off of my experience with macrame techniques and my love of ferking around with wearable rope art and I hope y'all enjoy ❤️🐝🪢
Around a year ago I started an embroidery project which I had no fucking clue what I was getting myself into. "Van Gogh-inspired Halloween-y Cat In The Moon" as a surprise for @theintrovertinthetower (who has a magnificent black cat)..."if I can draw it, how how hard could it be?" i asked myself, incorrectly.
well. It took me a long fuckin time. But it turned out!?! well, even??
I went so insane over this that I even braided the cord for the border. I think the whole thing took me around 90 hours. If I had known the needle eye size I used for most of it was a terrible decision any earlier it might have only taken me around 30 hours! The last two thirds took me significantly less time than the first third. Super fun, and I learned so much!
A work in progress! I’m making a bunch of necklaces based off all the different costumes in AWoW and this one is a rendition of Ronal’s tewng. (Pictured in the second photo and made for the movie by the wonderful, talented Deborah Lynn Scott and her team!)
I’m going to macrame or embroider shells separately and attach them when I’m finished, because I can’t find the exact kind of shells they used and it’s going to drive me batshit crazy if i look and it turns out they don’t exist because they were 3d printed or something.
Anyway, it’s avatar related, so it’s being shoved down your throats, gobble gobble, my friends✨