APRIL Stitch-a-Long - Patterns and Prep!

funkymonkey · Post by **funkymonkey** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:38 am

JoAnn has some linen, but Hobby Lobby seems to carry more in the stitching aisle, they even have some nicer Zweigart stuff.

Post by **starrley** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 8:05 am

funkymonkey wrote:I have taken to switching back and forth between linen and aida recently; every time i switch i'm like yesss this is so much better, then by the end of the project i'm like man i need to go back to the other one; haha.

LOL, I do that too.

qu33nofspades wrote: luckily past!me looked ahead and stored away a good deal of materials.

I love it when "Past Me" does awesome stuff like that!

funkymonkey wrote:JoAnn has some linen, but Hobby Lobby seems to carry more in the stitching aisle, they even have some nicer Zweigart stuff.

The Zweigart stuff is really nice. It's worth the price. You might find some good deals online.

Miss Clawful · Post by **Miss Clawful** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:02 am

Now I'm not sure if I'll be able to do the stitch-a-long, but I did place my votes, and get this, no NES picks! A shocker for me. There are a lot of really good ones to choose from, but I didn't pick 8 of them, only my absolute favorite 4, those I that kept me fixated on the most. One Genesis, two from the SNES, and get this...a pokemon one!

m4pl3g1rl · Post by **m4pl3g1rl** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:10 am

Beyond the Pokemon sprites themselves, there are a lot of pretty background sprites in the Pokemon series. There is a small flowering bush that I thought would make a fun random thing to stitch.

Post by **blackmageheart** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:31 am

Thank you for all the votes so far. It's a very interesting contest! I can't wait to reveal the top bands.

And with that, here's a friendly reminder to all you peeps who have not voted to do so before the end of Saturday! If you use the link in the Site Announcements, it will take you to my earlier post with the Google form link and the downloadable zip containing the previews. Get your votes in as soon as you can!

Ishtar · Post by **Ishtar** » Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:21 pm

Voted!

QueenBex · Post by **QueenBex** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 2:44 am

voted!

Difficult choices! I had five for sure then had to really think for the last 3

gamerwolff · Post by **gamerwolff** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 4:07 am

BMH can you do us all crazy (and/or) stupid people who wantto stitch all of these a favor and post all of the patterns in the patterns section. I'm seriously going to attempt to make a huge sampler out of them all!

Eventually.....

gamerwolff · Post by **gamerwolff** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 4:12 am

funkymonkey wrote:I have taken to switching back and forth between linen and aida recently; every time i switch i'm like yesss this is so much better, then by the end of the project i'm like man i need to go back to the other one; haha.

I'm the same way...i personally think, that aida for big projects though... there is just less distortion

Post by **blackmageheart** » Fri Mar 29, 2013 4:35 am

gamerwolff wrote:BMH can you do us all crazy (and/or) stupid people who wantto stitch all of these a favor and post all of the patterns in the patterns section.

I will be doing so at the end of the event! I'm also thinking about tackling the supersampler... if I have time.

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