One stitch at a time

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.

Made this today to celebrate water and grace🦦🌊🐟

Free pattern ➡️ link below

If you get into white work embroidery, you might discover cutwork. And when you start doing cutwork, you might get curious about incorporating detached elements. And before you know it the fabric is gone, you are making needle lace, and there goes the rest of your week.

Buttonhole stitch - not even once.