The third annual unofficial craft exchange.

previous craft exchange sends that I can find in my phone.

Gosh those are beautiful

cross-stitch is paint-by-numbers + tangles, I recommend it to anyone who can hunch over a tiny thing for a lot of time.

(and I do mean a lot - the ship one there is about 40 hours, the X-Files one around 15-20)

I LOVE that X-Files cross-stitch. It's on my wall over the piano.

I have two IRL friends who xstitch, it's fun to swap pieces around.

Wow, these are nice! :3 I really should get into it. Seems like it'd be the same sort of satisfying as doing a good puzzle, for me.

(except you actually keep the thing you make at the end)

I still owe Hats a present from the time I got overambitious with a new craft - she got a small gift from me but there's a bigger one in a drawer in the craft cabinet in my living room more than half finished, that I am GOING to finish one of these days because it's gorgeous.

(this is why we don't try new crafts for swaps/deadlines, self)

do it do it do it

siderealtime Yes! Every time I do a puzzle, my brain goes 'we could be doing a cross-stitch instead, c'moooon.'

And if you have low-key hoarding tendencies, a cross-stitch obsession can still be limited to a tote or two. I have a goal of owning every color DMC currently makes, and I'm very nearly there, and that still only occupies about a cubic foot.

Most of my hoard is patterns.

and my cross stitch pattern hoard is digital because I like being able to easily magnify it on my phone or computer screen

Some of my favorite ones I've done.

The sailing ship is the first one I ever finished.

And the two Rebel symbols became a pair of Mickey ears for Disneyland.

Starry Night there took me and my friend over 200 hours.

that is so nice to know, too! (cause yes, I do have some hoarding tendencies I try to beat back with a stick XD )

omg the starry night o_o!

these are gorgeous :3

I own too many Taylor and Cromwell patterns, my cross stitch queue is long

TheHats: those are spectacular, especially the ships

BUMP EVERYONE GET ON THE CRAFT BUS

SOMEONE GONNA GET A CROSSSTITCH

idc if you want to make pressed leaf placemats, draw TLV character stick figures in crayon, or repaint thrift-shop salt and pepper shakers as Iris and the Admiral, GET IN HERE.

Everybody deserves to make a thing and then see someone else politely lose their shit about that thing.

the salt and pepper shakers