MEOW!

[image description: two square embroidered patches featuring five-stripe flags with embroidered edges in a contrasting colour. Each patch features five stripes of horizontal cross-stitch and sits on a dull blue microfibre blanket. Left-hand patch shows the five dark aqua/light aqua/cream/lighter red/darker red stripes of an aromantic autistic flag; bordered in bright yellow; right-hand patch shows the dark green/cream/red/brown/black of one of the allo-aro flags, bordered in bright blue.]

I’ve queued two patch posts on @aroworlds for @aggressivelyarospec‘s AggressivelyArospectacular event, and since I ended up with a couple of extra patches outside my original plan, I thought I’d share a photo of these here.

The first patch is the closest I could come to @kittysprites‘s aromantic autistic flag; the second patch is the closest I could come to @aro-punkwave‘s allo-aro flag.

A few weeks ago, I found a pack of embroidery floss and 11-count aida fabric at Daiso. Since both things are expensive and I was running out of aro flag colours, I was excited. However. The fabric (more like woven plastic!) frays differently from standard aida, and the thread sticks to each other and falls apart at the same time, making it difficult to handle. I had to practice to learn how to use both, and I realised that I can’t mix the Daiso threads with my other threads without it looking very obvious, which limited my flag options.

I did have colours that matched the autistic aro and first allo-aro flags enough to be readable. The autistic aro flag is my first attempt, which I think the edging shows, but I am getting better!