#jilly is going to need a crafting tag soon

[faejilly]

Sorry I've been afk so much lately. Some of my favorite people in the world I mostly only ever see on Tumblr (or various social DMs) and I have not been in either of those places, and I miss you.

(if you're wondering if you're in that group, yes, I assuredly mean you too)

Part of this is because I have had three counselors in a row leave our HMO so my brain-speed med prescription expired and I am Too Tired™️ to start over with someone AGAIN. I'll get there eventually

Part of it though! Is in an attempt to combat the magpie!brain (and in search of something to do with my hands at a Social Thing I am going to at the end of the summer) I am attempting to re-learn how to cross-stitch (last done with a Grandmother* when bb!jilly was idk, 10-ish) and will hopefully (upon getting a bit better at judging the thread tension for tying on and off so I get a little less tangled on the back & thus am not QUITE so much in my own way for the next color) start looking into more embroidery stitches soon!

(Yes I started with a dragon. Because Dragons!)

There is just something so very satisfying about pulling a thread through and watching it smooth into the spot you wanted y'all, so much serotonin 🥰

ANYWAY

My sort of point is: if anyone has any rec's for beginner stitch samplers or small (ish?) project(s) do please share. (I have black aida on my shopping list already for a couple Halloween patterns I'm hoping to try, but the more the merrier!)

Thank you! Or hello! Or whatever! (I love y'all 💚)

*Not technically my Grandmother but like, she watched me when I was young and got me into piano lessons and her bio!grandson was my BFF for years, and I drove 6 extra hours on a roadtrip to visit her when Thing 1 was a baby, so. Grandmother. Yk.