Tetris has my heart.

I love the look of black aida, but I didn't really like the finished look with this piece, it just didn't pop properly. Pattern is the same one for my previous tetris heart, which when I'm not half asleep and on my slow computer I might even link to -- but I enlarged each block to be 4 instead of 2, making it bigger.
I outlined everything and put some detail into each block using a shiny white thread, which was an absolute pain to back stitch, let me tell you. Totally best off using a shorter piece of thread than you usually might to stop it getting tangled.



A photo of the white shiny detailing.



And showing off my macro setting on my camera, an obscene close up!

Minor updates

I've been pretty quiet the last couple of weeks, I've managed to get myself slightly more than full time hours at work lately, which leaves limited amounts of time for my hobbies of both reading and crafty things, when I'm used to part time hours.

But I've made a few things:

First up, I finished my tribbles juggling balls, and they are very fluffy. I managed to make each very distinct by using a different wool for the netting, one is squishy, one is hard and the other is kinda pointy, somehow. It makes it easy to keep track of the juggling patterns, so that's a handy unexpected bonus of my planless diving into projects thing I do.

Next:

This little dude. I made him up all on my own, no patterns involved. I'm so proud of him! :) But it will be interesting if I ever want to replicate him. But I'm sure I'll manage. I have plans for this little fella, but I'm not mentioning them til they're done, so I don't spoil the effect. Or hype it too much, if I can't manage it.

Also I came home to this on my whiteboard the other day:

I laughed so hard.

Tetris Magnets

I should really use my proper camera for these things, shouldn't I? Instead I use my iphone camera, because then I can just upload it straight to photobucket with the photobucket app... but enough on my laziness*; these are my first attempt at making something with plastic canvas! I used the perforated plastic 14 count stuff, cut it into shape first (which I am really bad at when it needs to be a specific size) then stitched. I know I'm missing one of the L shapes, I cut it so stupidly it would have had a section that was only three stitches across! After I wrapped the edges I glued a strip of magnet to the back using PVA to begin with, but yesterday I bought a hot glue gun(!!), so now I'm using that instead. It's much better, and even more fun than PVA.



* So I did take new photos with my camera, and I found the cord and the usb card reader so its just as easy to use the camera now, and they look so much nicer, and will from now on. Mostly. :)

I was so excited to see that I got some spam mail the other day, because it had a HUGE fridge magnet in it, and magnets like that are perfect for chopping up into little crafty pieces. So imagine my excitement when I got another yesterday! Its currently soaking to get rid of the paper.

And because this makes me laugh when I look at it, my whiteboard: