Started a new #Pokemon themed embroidery last night, my first time playing around with Turkey Rug Stitch. Still need a lot of practice with it… it's really uneven right now. Hopefully I get better at it as I go!  

The hoop is 6 inches in diameter, for scale.

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Hubby has taken up a new hobby -- needlepoint! He describes it as both meditative and also challenging -- like putting together a puzzle. Here are a couple of his finished pieces! Also, an excellent used book I picked up last year, which covers embroidery stitches, patches and crocheting -- useful for #VisibleMending and fixing up some knitted and crocheted pieces!

#SolarPunkSunday #Crafting #FiberArts #Needlepoint #Art #NatureArt #Crows #Sunflowers

Made this needlepoint over 20 years ago from a 16-color gif rendition using my partner's yarn remnants. I found it again while cleaning the garage and figured I may as well finally dust it off and give it a proper frame treatment. Should have used the non-glare glass though.

My neighbor remarked that a needlepoint of a Van Gogh seemed rather ironic, and of course that was the whole point in the first place.

#diy #needlepoint #VanGogh

I’m quite proud of this one. First time embroidering an animal.

#embroidery #needlepoint #hobby #swan

/2 #wip #needlepoint

Moved the template so it is at hand for a long time. Checked the tools, the tread shades. I found a way to match DMC shades to the original and to highlight the area I'm going to sew with a certain shade.

Goal: not buy anything for this project, at least in the first half. I should have enough stuff in the house.

Two problems: 1) transfer highlighted area to fabric at points in time, 2) eyesight, not as good as it used to be. Gotta magnify now. And have good light.

/1 #wip on the #needlepoint project.

This was on the back burner because I could not find the masking tape.

But I found the masking tape and progressed: stitched the outline on a window and measured it against the fabric I'm gonna use. Discovered that my initial estimation was too big, scaled down, printed, stitched again on the window..

Had to move the template from the window; I moved onto a self-healing mat (quilting), and also supported that on a huge clipboard (drawing/painting)...

#needlepoint project progress: I counted/measured the canvas and prepared a template. I'm gonna transfer the contours on the canvas and then wing it with the colors.

Soooo excited!!

While I was fussing with that my youngest had a friend over and they were busy drawing cards (after I relieved them of screens).

It was a nice feeling of beehive in the house..