Geekery

Who says that cross stitching has to be all hearts flowers and bunnies? Though looking at some of the publications you would be forgiven for thinking that is the case. Etsy in particular has opened the market place up to independent designers and it is possible to get a whole range of things to stitch whatever your taste, subversive, snarky, rude... you want it, the chances are you can probably get it.

Some of my projects recently have made a turn to the geek side. I have these three hanging in my kitchen, points if you can tell me what the molecules are for. (More points to me if I can remember which is which?) These ones are from Robin's Designs on Etsy. There are some really different and fun designs on here. I particularly like the 3D cross stitch figures she does, amongst which she has done a range of Dr Who figures, though I have not yet attempted one of these. The "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock" design is also one of hers.

As an additional point, I can't fault her customer service.

My large project for 2015/16, and I mean large (82cm x 43cm) is the periodic table. I did it for myself, simply because I wanted to, it's colourful, informative and an iconic image. This one comes from Holly's Hobbies UK. I'm not 100% happy with the framing on this one, it was very difficult to get laced straight. Will just have to see how much it starts to annoy me, and whether I can find time to have another go at it.


Given some of these pieces you might be forgiven for thinking that I come from a chemistry background, but no. Unless you count school chemistry 30 years ago! My education is history, language, law. I hoping however that Squirmy and Posy will show some curiosity in these and interest in science once they get older.

Have a good week, happy stitching, Xx

* Caffeine, Chocolate and Ethanol