I'm gonna sleep with Captain Kirk!
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tripperfunsterFor reals! Well, once I sew this thing to a pillow. For now, I think I'll just wear it like a thong ... or a diaper, judging from the size of it.
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kiwicoy did great cross stitch patterns of the cast of TOS, and I was so impressed with her Kirk that I said to myself: Self? I wanna do that too! Except, HOW CAN I MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT, TIME CONSUMING AND COSTLY?? And then, because I am very good at wasting both time and money, I thought .... BEADS! I shall buy many coloured beads and SEW THEM TO A MUTHERFUCKIN' CLOTH. And so I did!
Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with me? This took ... forever. And I have this weird disease where I hate to start something when I've already got something else on the go. Now, I have about a billion fest things to complete.
Here's a detail shot:
And durrr... I have very little grasp of the mathematical (or symmetrical) and, of course, when I started this project, I didn't understand that if I changed the spacing on the pattern (due to the beads being a different shape than a cross stitch) THEN THE ENTIRE PICTURE WOULD BE WARPED. I managed to figure it out like ... 5 hours in, so I had to rip it all apart and start over.
Hey, another cool thing,kiwicoy has made a cross stitch pattern out of my drawing Kock or Spork
I'm dying to see what that will look like when it's stitched!
kiwicoy did great cross stitch patterns of the cast of TOS, and I was so impressed with her Kirk that I said to myself: Self? I wanna do that too! Except, HOW CAN I MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT, TIME CONSUMING AND COSTLY?? And then, because I am very good at wasting both time and money, I thought .... BEADS! I shall buy many coloured beads and SEW THEM TO A MUTHERFUCKIN' CLOTH. And so I did!Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with me? This took ... forever. And I have this weird disease where I hate to start something when I've already got something else on the go. Now, I have about a billion fest things to complete.
Here's a detail shot:
And durrr... I have very little grasp of the mathematical (or symmetrical) and, of course, when I started this project, I didn't understand that if I changed the spacing on the pattern (due to the beads being a different shape than a cross stitch) THEN THE ENTIRE PICTURE WOULD BE WARPED. I managed to figure it out like ... 5 hours in, so I had to rip it all apart and start over.
Hey, another cool thing,
kiwicoy has made a cross stitch pattern out of my drawing Kock or SporkI'm dying to see what that will look like when it's stitched!
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Date: 2009-10-23 04:09 pm (UTC)Welding
Pilot an airplane
Skateboard
Juggle
and really? I've actually tried quite hard to juggle and I just to not posess the coordination.
The other things I have not really made an effort to do.
As for this, it honestly takes more patience than skill. Kiwicoy did most of the work doing the pattern. It's just a matter of following it.
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Date: 2009-10-23 05:47 am (UTC)Maybe one day I'll make a Snarry quilt XD
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Date: 2009-10-23 04:18 pm (UTC)Sadly, I think this will be my first AND last beading project.
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Date: 2009-10-23 10:06 am (UTC)I LOVE HIM! Seeing my patterns done by other people makes me so so so happy! Especially in A WHOLE OTHER MEDIUM THAN INTENDED! My hat is off to you. Enjoy sleeping with Kirk.
P.S. Kock or Spork is coming along well. I'm probably just under halfway done - it's bigger than I thought XD Finished their clothing and just started stitching their skin. Might post a WIP pic on my journal in a few days.
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Date: 2009-10-23 04:23 pm (UTC)And your patterns are so cool! I am still blown away.
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Date: 2009-10-23 10:24 am (UTC)*goes back to her own huge-ass cross-stitch project*
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Date: 2009-10-26 03:40 am (UTC)I am used to drawing, and that is MUUUUCH faster. I probably could have done ten nice drawings in the time it took to do this.
This is cooler though ... :D
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Date: 2009-10-23 10:38 am (UTC)Seriously?!
How am I ever going to compete with that!?
You....Are...A MAZE ING!
That is intense.
BEADS! BEADS! Wooooooooooooow....sorry I am gushing about it but it is most glorious!
*sobs in a corner*
I shall have to bust out some special kind of awesome for your commission to not shame myself!
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Date: 2009-10-26 03:42 am (UTC)And I think ... instead of a quote, I want Spock to have GQMF beside him.
Whaddaya think?
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Date: 2009-10-26 01:01 pm (UTC)That sounds SWISH madame!
Do you have any qualms about me embellishing it a little?
For example, around his head I was thinking of doing like an old school tattoesque halo in varying shade of green. A bit like this if you know what I mean...
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Date: 2009-10-26 03:44 am (UTC)Cool result though eh?
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Date: 2009-10-23 03:50 pm (UTC)I don't even want to think about how long that took!!
Enjoy it!! Thoroughly! *wink wink*
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