Back in love with cross stitch...

I know I said things like "CROSS STITCH IS SUPER BORING" and stuff like that, but I was wrong! I've fallen back in love with it again. Sometimes I need some structure in my life...



I had a cute ice cream cones pattern, and couldn't resist the urge to make drug references. I'm classy.

I stitched this while watching episode after episode of Twin Peaks... and now I'm working on a cross stitch based on The Shining... haha. You'll see!

Genetically Engineered Bouquet.

The latest embroidery I've actually finished. I've dubbed it "Genetically Engeneered Bouquet".

Recently, I've swapped from cross stitch to embroidery. There's just so much more room to move... not restricted by all those rigid squares - not that I didn't take my liberties with cross stitch. Embroidery offers me so much more flexibility - more stitches (although I've only really been obsessively using chain stitch, satin stitch, back stitch and a semi-detatched stitch that I can't remember the name of), and my ideas are much easier to just draw on the fabric and get going, rather than having to map it all out (and inevitably miss out cross stitches and fuck the whole thing up anyway).

Here's a look at my little embroidery/cross stitch wall next to my bed, featuring Francis Bacon postcards from the Tate...



Also, I can't help but add this, anyone who watched Sesame Street as a kid should remember this....

Recent inspiration... & a cross stitch!

This is my last night living at my parents house, I'm feeling good, taking my last opportunity to drink my dad's beer. I can't wait to have my own space again, to create constantly, and not just waste time looking at gorgeous pictures... with that said, here are some amazing/inspiring/just generally rad pictures I've found on flickr in the last couple of days... click on the links to go to the original pages...

& to finish, my latest cross stitch I've uploaded to flickr...


xoxoxoxo

Cross-stitched Anti-Valentines!

Anti-Valentine for Tastyfake
Originally uploaded by liviaincognito

Oli's anti-valentine for me, isn't she sweet? Hehe. I loves it, but I forgot to take it home in my hungover haze the next morn!


And my anti-valentine for her, which I forgot to photograph
before giving it to her!

Re-obsessed with cross stitch.

For once, these are actually my flickr photos! I've started doing cross stitch again, not long til my fingers and wrists start to ache... meanwhile, here are some of my old projects.
All done in 2008.

Other crafty things I've made...

I really wish my camera would work again. Stupid jerk camera!

Ice Cube Cross Stitch

Ice Cube Cross Stitch
Originally uploaded by laughable

Did this in June this year.