I don’t know how to cross stitch (and did absolutely zero research before starting this kit), but this is a mood, especially after I realized I miscounted and put the s one space off and now have to pull it back out.

  • frickineh@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    No idea why the picture keeps showing up sideways, but that’s also about how my foray into cross stitch is going. 🤷‍♀️

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      Not that it matters, but I heard it turns out sideways because maybe you took the picture sideways, except when you edit the photo to correct it, the photo doesn’t actually transmute all the pixels. It just adds a detail saying to rotate it on the metadata. Then when you upload to Lemmy, Lemmy strips the metadata for privacy reasons (type of phone you took the picture on, location info, etc. as well as rotation).

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    1 year ago

    Sounds like you’re the kind of person who would enjoy Very Ugly Plates. Worth a google.

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    1 year ago

    I applaud your willingness to jump in with zero research and figure it out 😄 But you already do proper embroidery which let’s be honest is way harder. Cross stitch will just be a relaxing diversion compared to that!

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      1 year ago

      I feel like this is harder! Maybe because if you mess up, you can’t just be like, “fuck it, put a flower over it” like you can with a lot of embroidery. You have to be a lot more precise with cross stitch.

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        1 year ago

        Haha, fair point! Although I reckon a lot of cross stitch patterns would be improved with the addition of a random 3d flower 🤔

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      1 year ago

      Funny you should say that. I’m currently working on this, too, and I really considered turning it into a middle finger, but I want to hang it up at work, so I’m being an adult about it.