#natisstitching

Finished on January 9, 2025. It has more depth irl, I can't really capture it with the camera. The progress is a lot of posts in my #natisstitching tag.

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Here's another pic. The colours are a bit dull on this one but oh well.

upd2: it's not exactly cross stitch, to be honest. It's tapestry (goblen, petit point, whatever name you like for it). It's stitched with 2 strands of thread over one strand of fabric (instead of the regular 2 strands to make an X), that's why the stitches are so small. It usually doesn't have any kind of backstitch and is better to look from afar because it's like a watercolor painting of sorts. When you look really close, you only see stitches. When you look a bit further away, you can see the entire picture.

Look at this fat fluffy birdie!

Details are under the cut.

Pattern is: Self-Isolating Bat by Night Spirit Studio. It's free on their website. (lots of other nice free patterns, too).

P.S.: Switched DMC 02 to a fully white thread (a mix between b5200 and Blanc). Still looks nice.

Progress and more details are under the cut:

once you get into fiber crafts, there's no going back. I don't have any needles for knitting or crocheting that would fit this yarn, so I'm knitting with my fingers. I want to make some coasters out of this cord. I made one a while back, but it's way too small. and since the yearn is just sitting in my drawer, might as well something useful with it.

gotta say, for a first attempt with this technique, it looks way better than it did with another technique with knitting on fingers.

April 9. It doesn't look like much but it literally took me several hours. I stopped stitching when I literally started falling asleep, it was around 10:40 pm.

April 10. Tumblr says 22 hours ago. 😁💪 // April 11.

April 12. I usually listen to audiobooks, but today everything pissed me off (or made me want to cry), so I listened to The Dark Side of The Moon and cross stitched for around an hour and a half. It's 10:32 pm at the moment of writing this & it's time to lie under my blanket and relax.

April 13. Stitched until felt sick of it. Kind of way too monotonous for me. The colours are too green and gray, and I want to colour it like a brush, but there's no easy and fast way to stitch all that green sky. 😮‍💨

April 16. Contemplating whether I should continue this because it looks VERY green. This finished project looks so much more vibrant, although redder, but I think it looks better? I'm not really sure what to do with this. 🤔😮‍💨

Does anyone have any thoughts? If you stitched this, was that the case for you as well?

April 18. Since the options were: abandon this thing or stitch the pattern as is, I'm doing the latter and hoping the final result will work together. Since I'm really bad at switching colours, especially in a such complex pattern, I'm gonna have to embrace the green hue. Or not. We'll see.

April 20. I am SO eepy and basically falling asleep with my eyes half closed. Would prefer more stitching but progress is progress.

April 24. Because it's so monotonous, I have to switch places where I stitch. Also, I'm sleepy and my eyes hurt, so I took the easy road.

April 25. I think I'm running out of thread of this colour. 🥲

April 26.

May 8th. Not thrilled about this or cross stitch rn. The colours are so green and get, and muted, and boring. :(

a decent enough coaster 😌 gray yarn used = good!

I want a sewing machine sooo badly. handsewing sucks big time.

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pdf for the actual pattern / credit: 1. / 2. / 3.

i actually have NO idea where it's from aside from that, i just made the patterns readable for myself. hopefully there are no mistakes in the second and third ones, being unable to turn the canvas was really difficult to make it symmetrical.

if anyone knows the actual sources, please let me know. thanks!

listen. no wonder I haven't found anyone doing something like this, ESPECIALLY by hand. my hands hurt, it takes too much time, it's ugly.

maybe I'd be able to pull off the thing with the fabric with a sewing machine, but it's basically impossible by hand and it is NOT worth it. don't repeat my mistakes, lmao.

having a creative mind is kind of a curse.

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