Latest Posts by petunialily - Page 2

Finished a thing!

Edit: I posted the Etsy shop in the notes, but gonna put it up here too in the finished project pic. It’s GameOverStitches and all their stuff looks awesome.

not to sound corny but the textile arts make me feel connected to the world around me. it's so intentional and deliberate and when i sit and do it, i think a lot about how many other women that came before me used to do it, how many hands have used the same supplies i am using, and how many other people might be doing the same thing as me all across the world right now

honestly yeah, fiber arts is magic. you cast spell of warm gloves, spell of nice hat, spell of stuffed animal.

material component: yarn

wand: single hooked wand or double pointed wands, depending on caster's preference

mechanical component: specific motions repeated in a particular pattern

time component: a while

look seriously the first step in a knitting recipe is "cast on", and then it's a bunch of letters and numbers incomprehensible to anyone not versed in the arcane art. that's a spellbook. yes it's a book of knitting patterns but also. it's a spell book.

Notebook Paper Crochet Blanket

My cross stitch project inspired by @lookitsstevie's art is (finally) finished!

Happy almost New Year! Here's to many more belly rubs to come! 🎉🎆🎇 Based on this photo of my first born

Celestial Orcas by NeedleLotDesigns. mesmerized by the color work and shading here

Vibe I was going for: glitter gel pen in a 9 y.o.'s diary from 2005

Did I succeed?

Okay. So.

Tower is done!

It cost me additional day of work and pain in my fingertips from pulling all the underlying canvas, but IT'S DONE! (The canvas was breaking apart as I expected - and feared - it would. I ended up pulling horizontal strings first with a help of a big needle and then all the verticals just swiftly came out.)

For a while I was consider leaving it kinda like this though...

...on account of this stage being fast and easy to achieve 🙃

I'm preparing next pattern to put on the other side of the back - one of the bigger SDV trees with an additional magpie sprite and another Junimo (once I decide on the colour). Stay tuned!

Lil bookmark while I'm working on a big project. :) First try at black work, I think I did okay. Pattern by PatchyAtBestCo on etsy.

guyyysss i finally finished this piece! took me over 2,5 years, 124250 stitches, and 180 thread colors. It is approximately 45x45 cm in size!

crochet aquarium

Batch drop of the cross stitch projects I got through in the last year

I finally finished snoopy!! he isn't perfect but for my first project I think he came out okay :)

Do you guys wanna see my cross stitches I did recently? Of course you do :) these were my first two ever, and I’m pretty happy with how they turned out!

Patterns are from colorfully.sarah on insta!

Look at my tiny husband!!!

I'm almost done with this portion - a bit more colours for the flowers, then the top, then it's finished :3

Here's a close-up on Harvey:

AT LAST....... I'M FREE

Approximately seven months and almost 12,000 stitches later...... behold :') I don't even know what else to write anymore gfdsgsd just look at it. Please.

Feeling brave enough to try it yourself? You can buy the pattern here for as little as $1 👍

Little ghostie had a sparkler ✨

First cross-stitch finish of 2025 is my latest design 𝓖𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓪 𝓢𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓴𝓵𝓮𝓻 which I stabbed into a 10ct black Aida cloth.

You can grab it from my shop: https://crossstitchvienna.at/products/ghost-with-a-sparkler-cross-stitch/

despite all my dread i am still just a rat made of thread