I Heart your brain

Valentines Day!!! And yes, yes I do love you for your brains!
Okay I'm pretty sure this pattern originally came from etsy? maybe? really etsy is all I’ve got. If anyone knows let me know so I can credit the cute. I modified it a little but only in a superficial way. The colours came from left over floss from other projects.  

It was a crazy time for me with work dragging me up to Canberra and back for two consecutive weeks. So this was made up for my boyfriend in the little bit of time I managed to have at home. (missed the actual valentines day - this had to be gifted prior while I was still in the right state)

I turned it into a (very rough) card pouch for a Myki. For those who don't know a Myki is a public transport ticket card used in Melbourne, very romantic I know. I couldn't find a press stud so once again cannibalised one from something else. This time it was a power puff girl wrist cuff - I liked it but needs must and I'm a bit old for the power puff girls. Once I gouged the stud off the cuff it wouldn’t go back together properly. I bashed it with a meat mallet until it was crushed back together in some semblance of a functioning press stud. Like I said it was a very rough finishing job.

So, the finished product;

Wish

Wish by Dimensions

I stitched this one for a friend as I thought the silhouette looked a lot like her son. I hated it almost the entire time I was stitching it. Less so by the time I'd completed it but I was still iffy if I liked it or not.

My friend liked it and that's all that matters in the end.

Stitched on 14 count light blue Aida

Think Green

Think Green by Dimensions 

I hate and will always hate the writing on this but I couldn't think of how to change it and considering it was the last thing I did it was a little late to back out of the cross stitch by then. Despite my hatred of the back stitching on the writing I'm pretty happy with the rest. The frog is just too cute :-)

Stitched on 14-ct white cotton Aida

He's in a frame in my kitchen now, probably looking down and judging my chocolate intake and use of chemicals (i love bleach great stuff)

Work in progress shots:

All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up:

Candyfloss

A Popcorn Candyfloss kit I picked up at the Craft & Quilt Fair Melbourne. The kit had clearly been around for a while but looked very cute. She was a wee bit beyond my skill level but I got there in the end. The photo's not the best but it's the best I have on hand, I might post a better one when I get a chance. She has little french knots on her shoes and a tiny curl where I messed up one of her 1/3 stitches.

She had way too many fractions for my skill level but the finished product still looked very sweet.

She's in a frame and looking cute on the bookshelf. (is bookshelf still the correct term when it's used entirely for dvds?)

PA47 Candyfloss
16-ct Aida 9cm/7.cm

Just a Quicky

Quick-stitch soldier

Heels together, shoulders back, and present needles! This cute little royal guard demands to be stitched on the double.

The beginning of the end. I picked up this little guy with a magazine in 2011 as a free kit. And on completion the seed of a crazy stitcher was germinating.  

His hands are meant to be in grey and his beads are wonky in this shot but on a whole quite happy with him. He still graces my fridge as a magnet to this day (2013).

Little Heart

Pretty sure I brought this one off the ebay seller rolstek, It was so very very cute and the plastic canvas was easy to work with. Before I managed to finish it though I lost the keyring/phone strap part, the one you can see in the photo was cannibalised from one of those $2 toy machine keyring toys of which I have a disturbing number.

If you look closely at the purple in the rainbow you might see that three stitches are the wrong way round. Unfortunately I didn't notice until it was stitched together and therefore too late. I still love it despite my error.

Burke Street Yarn Bomb

Knitted urban graffiti; 

Burke street Melbourne