A lot of many things

I purchased a pattern from a designer for a cross stitch to make a gift for someone.

I bought the floss in specified colors and had a huge “Ok, trust the process” moment.

The subject in the design is supposed to be a piece of toast. “Mana Toast,” to be specific. Ok, the blues make sense then. The browns make sense. The orange and yellow?

Trust the process.

Ummm… I’m getting more Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vibes than Dungeon Crawler Carl…

Trust the process…

It looks like pizza to me. The angular slice and the brown spots read sausage pizza. The recipient likes the piece but I was going to make one for myself and I can’t get over the colors.

I have another project that has a cross stitch piece of toast (am I toast obsessed?) and I just purchased those colors today. The two on each end and two in the middle are the original brown on the left, I picked the ones in the middle and the right is the pattern I have. If I do it right those will look way more toasty to me…

Here’s where I have a question for you:

I’d personally be ok with it as long as they didn’t claim it’s a whole new thing they imagined up themselves. I’ve created a couple cross stitch patterns that I’ve posted for free on FB and I couldn’t care less if they’re manipulated.

But anyway. I’m gonna make the toast my way. It’s gonna be on the wall somewhere in my house where maybe three people in my life that would ever see it would get the reference.

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"CYPRIA 11: ACHILLES RAIDS THE TROAD"

For nine brutal years Achilles and his Myrmidons ravage the surrounding towns of the Troad, beginning with the sacrilegious killing of the Trojan prince Troilus at the sanctuary of Apollo, sealing the god's undying hatred. Achilles raids Mount Ida, captures the prince Lycaon by night and sells him into slavery, sacks city after city including Hypoplacian Thebes where he kills Andromache's father and seven brothers, takes the priest's daughter Chryseis as a gift for Agamemnon, and burns Lyrnessus, killing the family of the noblewoman Briseis before claiming her as his own concubine.

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The Trojan War Cycle brings together The Iliad, The Odyssey, and surviving poem fragments of the Epic Cycle: The Cypria, Aethiopis, Little Iliad, Iliou Persis, Nostoi, and Telegony, to reconstruct the full myth in sweeping, chronological order. Kickstarter Link in bio/linktree