Cross stitch and embroidery

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Me (at 4:45PM): I'll #CrossStitch for 15 minutes before I start cooking dinner.

Husband (five hours later): Can we order Domino's before they close at 11???

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I just finished one commission that I realized I severely undercharged for once I started it, now I have a few other people asking me to make more pieces!

I looked up some info online about setting prices, but I'm honestly never sure how many hours a cross stitch is going to take me to finish, and the other method they recommended was charging by the number of stitches, but that seems like it ends up making things more expensive than people would be willing to pay...

Does anyone else have an easy pricing structure they use?

Is @thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee still on here? I feel like she might have some experience with this lol

Now that I finished my commission piece I'm back to my Spirited Away cross stitch! Just finishing the last parts of section 5 of 6 so hopefully this one will be done soon!

What are you guys working on today?

Doesn't it look ferocious? Lol

I thought you guys would appreciate this breaking news story lol

60% completed, should be done by end of year! :D

The Cacodemon commission piece is going well! Switching back to 14ct for this one is helping it move along quickly lol

What is everyone else working on this week?

I'm taking a short break from my Spirited Away cross stitch to make this piece that someone commissioned from me on Saturday! I believe this guy is called a "Cacodemon" and it's from the video game Doom!

I started this just after finishing Totoro so this is a few weeks of work. Will be a present for my sister when finished.

What are you working on today?

I haven't had time to get as much of this done as I'd like this week, but you can at least see the rest of the 5th panel here taking shape! I hope to get this part finished up by the weekend!

Trying to Thread a Needle...

https://youtu.be/RRqG5z5QdCQ?si=wYl-XwEsaLCGV3X3

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Making decent progress on panel 5 of 6 here! It's pretty much just that one soot sprite and a few more of those flowers that take forever lol The final panel is almost entirely black and white so that one should go pretty quick once I get to it!

I keep forgetting about the Lemmy groups, and my health sucks, so this post is just trying to make my addled brain remember these groups, heh.

Anyhoo, this project is for my elder son (if anyone remembers the Vault Boy one I made for my younger son a few months back), and I'm attempting a few new tricks.

1. I stapled this monks cloth to a painting frame. It does look like I'll need to do some tightening once I'm done, though. So I hope I can figure that out.
2. I painted the outside, eyes, and mouth, and I do like how the mouth and eyes make the fabric pop.
3. I found a larger needle that came with a kit on one heck of a sale at Hobby Lobby, and that is what I'm using. However, it is a tad too large for the yarn I got. So quite a bit of it looks rather frazzled, :thinking:.
4. And I'm attempting (all-be-it a poor one) flow. (I have no idea what the proper term would be, heh, but it's where the thread leans in one direction, or flows along a line so each row...erm...flows with every other row. (Oof! Well hopefully you can understand that gibberish, HAH).

Meh, regardless of the issues (and boy can I not draw worth snot) it still looks pretty darn good. Now for the body...:grimacing:...The proportions are just a tad off, but it'll have to do.

woops! Guess I didn't post about the Vault Sweet Vault here...Well, here's that one.

I want to frame that Totoro stitch and my wife would really prefer a round frame. I don't really want to use just a hoop but have had trouble finding round frames in a 12-14" size that seem nice/decent quality. Anybody have any recommendations?

update:

So my wife found a round record album display case that was 12". It had a couple little quirks, but ended up working pretty well. The trouble was nobody really frames round objects. We ended up taking it to a Michaels and they did it, but there were definitely a couple hiccups in the process. (They tossed the back of the frame and just papered over it once they had the stitch in place. Mostly because they didn't pay attention when we said there was a lip in there they needed to take into account because it was meant to display a record... Oh well)

From the front it looks pretty great and we have it up on the wall now and I am pretending the back is fine. Heh.

After 10 months. Finished. Biggest project I've tackled to date. I'm super happy right now. Will look for a frame to finish the project for good.

I'm still new to cross stitch. My mom sent me this cheetah kit made by The Stranded Stitch. So far, so fun!

Once I finish up these last 2 flowers there are only 2 sections left to do! I still think it's funny that I picked this pattern thinking it would be quick since there are only 10 colors, but it's been so complicated that it's taken me longer than any other cross stitch I've done so far lol

Totoro was too big to bring so I grabbed the little katamari damacy kit my kids got me for Christmas. It was a normal pattern but at the last second I came up with the joke and had to use it. (for those not familiar with the game you play as a prince)

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Found this on YouTube in relation to project prep & organization & thought I'd share. I already have my own way I prep & organize for projects, but I still thought it was amazing & that someone else may want to see if it works for them. The video also shows some clips of how they organize floss into binders, though not how they do that part, and I thought that was pretty ingenious too.
https://youtu.be/tmj7ELFcqHc?si=pqWIslhs2bd9Ybog

I had to frog almost all the progress I made last week and redo it after realizing I'd somehow stitched everything in the new section one row too low... Thankfully I got caught back up and made a little more progress though so I hope this panel will be done by Friday!