#They're like a slightly warped reflection of themselves

[some-pers0n]

Every once in a while I think about the ship I've been obsessed over for close to two years now and feel like I'm ascending to another plane of reality. Like sometimes you just encounter a ship that hits every single mark and is perfect in every regard and you're left stunned how something like that can even exist

[frogsandfries]

Let's talk projects

I don't really talk about my work much anymore/lately. I just don't have much to say lately. I'm not up to anything big; I don't have a studio, so I can't do much sculpting. I fill my time with embroidery, and pin design and bead pattern-making on my tablet. I get paid Thursday, and while getting a set of wheels is my big priority, I'm really desperately crossing my fingers that I have something left over to start working on this bead pattern:

Feel free to try it out, if it strikes your fancy. I really put a lot of time and effort into it, but literally all I'm asking is that you give me a mention. I would also love to know how it went for you. I designed it for 15/0 beads, and theoretically, it should weave up to about the size of a credit card or playing card. I have no idea what I intended for a finished weaving; I'm not even certain that it will look good finished, but you can keep an eye out on my art Tumblr, Stosphia.

If this works, I was thinking about using it to illustrate at least a couple hundred frames of my graphic novel. I know, I know: What graphic novel? I don't even really write anymore, and my life has been such chaos and disorder for the last three years, my project reflects that. What in the ever-hecking heck was I imagining I would do with the weavings themselves? Also, it's an awful lot of work for a graphic novel.

This is a very grungy, grimey tarot card patch that is slightly, weirdly, just a tiny little bit warped and stretched. Noob mistake.

It's in a six-inch hoop, and it got stretched the slightest bit from the original four-and-three-quarter inches. Apart from being grimey, which I should be able to Oxy back in order, I've been making incredible progress here in Arizona. I started this in January, and back in Wisconsin, I had been working full time as well as trying to work on a conversion van. Embroidery just wasn't a priority. Most of my time in Oregon, I was too depressed to function because of the guy we were stuck with. Here in Arizona, I walk most of the day and it's rarely gloomy or cloudy. I also only work part-time, so I have plenty of time on my hands.

The reason I like the tarot and ATC formats is that obviously, there's not so much space to fill, so even if it's a silly and weird idea to embroider tarot or ATCs, they're small enough to work up (relatively) quickly, as well as small enough to wear. I definitely love the wearability factor.

I wonder if it might not be a good idea to take a break between this and my first graphic novel ATC to stitch something more random, more for fun. Something simple that I might be able to show off in public, maybe even at work.

Which reminds me.

At about four-by-three inches, I wouldn't call this small, but I designed this before I saw a Single Pale Rose. And I've been thinking about it maybe kind of a lot lately. It was supposed to be kind of a memorial-style piece. Now I'm not sure.

Regardless, this is not an inbetweeny piece. This patch, if I did stitch it, would be its own piece. For my inbetween/stretching/warmup/fun patch, I have a handful of small little doodles that I might try. Or, I was going to experiment with flair-style hand-stitched pokemon. Even at the rate I've been charging along, my first tarot card still probably has a couple weeks left on it, which means I have some time to decide.

I know a while back I was complaining about not being crazy about the Print-Stitch-Dissolve paper. Unfortunately, before I got to give it a second shot, my pack was ruined in rainy Oregon, so even if I don't have money for beads, I definitely want to order a new pack of Print-Stitch-Dissolve paper. I'm so disappointed and annoyed because it's expensive for paper and I'm not sure I'll change my mind even after this experiment I have planned. Before I throw away the damaged pack, I'm going to see if I can salvage any bit of it.

That's pretty much it. There are certainly projects that I want to be working on, but between my friend's fines, my bill, only working part-time, and not having our own transportation, I'm just making it work with what I have. I have a tablet; I have massive amounts of embroidery thread; and I have time.