New item

There's a new pattern in my Etsy shop. It's the one for this Assumption is the Mother of All Fuckups piece, which I quite like. 

My Miyazaki pattern set is done and will be up for sale in a few days. It's different from my other patterns in the shop because I haven't stitched all of the designs. In looking through Etsy I found that loads of people just sell patterns without an example of how they look stitched and they all seem to do fine. So we'll see. I did stitch my Totoro who is quite cute. 

It's not loads and loads of designs, just a sampling. The set includes Kiki, Jiji, Calcifer, Porco Rosso, Totoro, No-Face (a large design and a smaller design), a couple small tree sprites, and a soot (though I'm not happy with him). I'm happy with it, in any case. I don't really want to do larger full characters, though I might try to slip in the scarecrow from Howl's Moving Castle quickly, but maybe not.

snow day

It's snowing a bit today! I love it. Most people want it to be spring and I might if we still had spring. We don't though, it goes straight from winter to summer and I like winter a hell of a lot more than summer. Since I live on the fifth floor, I didn't have to turn my heat on even once, however I did have to turn my AC on a few weeks back when it was sixty-five degrees.

Here is the finished quote from Priscilla Queen of the Desert. I like the effect of the blue getting lighter as it goes out, though it makes me wish I'd done the text in a really dark blue rather than a dark tealish color. I didn't know starting out that I'd do the border in blues though, I just figured I'd grab whatever color I had the best progression of which happened to be blue. 

The pattern for this piece is now for sale in my Etsy shop.

Assumptions

This new project is a quote from Priscilla Queen of the Desert. It may be a phrase more widely used but I've never heard it except in that movie (one of the best movies ever!). 

I stayed up really late to finish the text so it would be ready to show this morning. This in turn, presumably, caused me to dream about doing the loveliest flowery border in wonderful peachy and sea foam colors. I might try to recreate it but not for this piece.

For the border on this I have a pretty good idea which will be quite simple and easy but hopefully give a nice effect.

So far I have raised $6 in my It Gets Better pattern fundraiser. Even if I can only raise enough to buy one of the books that's more than I'd be able to do on my own so it's all good. If you don't buy patterns (I certainly don't) you can donate through the It Gets Better website or make a purchase of the book which they'll then give to a school library (you can even ask that it go to a specific school library).