#aida cloth

[99problemsbutastitchaintone]

I love hand dyeing fabric and always have, but hand dyeing floss is SO COOL. highly recommend.

[mydonkeyfeet]

My crafting friends and I were discussing this and we realized that none of us had ever thought about how this word is supposed to be pronounced when referring to the fabric. I don’t think any of us had ever heard or said it out loud. I think of it the second way like the opera. I’ve also seen it written as Aïda. What does that mean?

Edit: Someone in notes said eye-da. That's a good one too.

[mathysphere]

just played a cool game jam game on Itch.io-- Cross Stitched, where you play Baba Yaga as you try and fight your way out of a tapestry, and collect and enhance powerups in your own tapestry as you do.

It's real simple-- game jam game and all-- but lots of fun, and insanely beautiful!

[bubblesandpages]

It's amazing how each new craft you pick up brings to your attention a completely new set of muscles to be messed up!

[appropriatelystupid]

SHE’S DONE!!!!

(pictured next to the first one to show how location and birthday alters the look)

[tomb-mold]

i have 3 full storage bins and multiple bags full of yarn and crochet cotton and i am running out of space to put them!!!!!

[houseofpurplestars]

[Image id: two white aida cloth bookmarks with Palestinian style embroidery, atop a copy of "Rifqa" by Mohammed El-Kurd. One is short and narrow with embroidery in red, it features three vertical "S" shaped leech motifs with a simple border on each side. The other is longer and wider and features the motifs found on a keffiyeh in black thread, a pattern available from tatreeztraditions.com /end id]

[ooc-miqojak]

So I got about a third of the way through my Ahsoka cross-stitch and realized I'd been using the wrong color of orange thread for her face, and I have been putting off ripping the stitches out for like... a month or two?? Maybe I'll just... set her aside for now and start work on the Peppermint Butler piece I wanted to work on, and I can deal with the anxiety and frustration of a piece I was REALLY excited for... later.

[fortune-maiden]

lesson learned... if I want to do larger cross stitch pieces I really need an embroidery hoop

[too-many-plants]

when the pattern you're working on wants 1/4 stitches on 28 count linen

[tuliharja]

Vincent: *Trots up to Aida, before stopping.* "What you are doing, Aida?"

Aida: "Building snowball lanterns." *Points one at her side.* "Do you want to help Vincent?"

Vincent: "...it's cold."

Aida: *Sweat drops.* "That's what you get from dressing in the same clothes always."

Vincent: *Gains evil glint into his eyes.* "...I'll give you a snow bath." 😈

Aida: "You wouldn't-" *Gets hit by the first snowball.* "...Eeeep!!" *Rushes quickly away while Vincent chases after her.*

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My character Aida and her boyfriend Vincent Valentine. I like to think Vincent dislikes snow because it's too cold for him despite the fact Aida made him a matching scarf with her own. But not everybody like snow...

Artwork: @tuliharja

Note: I’m fine with reblogging, but ask me first for my permission, if you want to repost my artwork.

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[tacobellebandit]

Rows of singular color with no design visible at all we love to see it

[jinzlers]

me, mounting my wife’s round-but-too-big-to-hang-in-the-hoop cross stitch gift for her mom: dang, I gotta take these pins out and start over. I was going around when I should have been going across, like tire nuts.

my brain: dude how in the goddamn fuck did you get to 33 before noticing you’re trans

[discountalien-pancake]

This fabric doesn’t have any lines of symmetry but it does have repeating motifs so while I didn’t bother trying to pattern-match any other part of the corset, I made sure the center-front panels aligned!

[celesticadream]

@tastefulcrucifixparty

I don't know who needs to hear this, but

YOU DO NOT NEED TO START A NEW HOBBY!

STEP AWAY FROM THE TEXTILES!

YOU DON'T NEED MORE YARN!

THAT FABRIC IS NOT CALLING TO YOU! LEAVE IT ALONE!

[badkarma1998]

It WOULD look cool as a patch! I was thinking of making a smaller one to turn into a patch!!!!

HELL YEAH! You definitely should!! I've gotta look up how to make cross stitch patches, but once I do its over for all these fuckers (these fuckers being my bags and jackets)