Glitter And Glowflake

In non-ironing-hat related news - I’ve nearly finished my glow in the dark spider jacket

So when I need to actually do ironing, the hat suddenly becomes homeless. The obvious place for it? On my head. So yeah I iron in an overly large sun hat. As all normal people do.

So it now lives on my ironing board (as every lazy housespouse knows, the ironing board doubles as a clothes horse when it’s not in use). Very rarely I actually need to *use* my ironing board for non-hat-related purposes…

The basic story of the ironing hat is that once upon a time I bought a very bulky hat to protect me from the sun, whilst on holiday. Upon getting it home I realised it doesn’t fit in any drawer without getting crushed.

Every time I put on my ironing hat, I think “I have an ironing hat, a hat I wear when I am ironing” sounds like a quickfire lie from Would I Lie To You #WILTY

This would be a lot easier if I a) had a sewing machine b) had any idea what I was doing 😝

WIP. My sunflower jeans wore out and I didn’t want to bin them so… attempting to make a bag! The elastic waistband tripped me up, so it’s a little wonky, but it’s not terrible!

Lining and straps next

I finished embroidering my jacket! Bluesky doesn’t let me photo dump and I got a few closer shots so those are on my tiktok vm.tiktok.com/ZNdCvP9gw/

#handembroidery #jacket #embroidery #taylorswift

And made myself some needle minders with cheap charms, magnets, and buttons

Tried to take the loops off and decided it looked messy/screwed the edges up so left on for the next two

The thread to finish the last rose finally arrived! Jacket completed and washed. Need it to dry to get proper pictures, and of course the sun has packed up and left 😝

Surprisingly difficult to photograph a jacket in its entirety. All finished apart from one rose where I ran out of thread and now have to wait for the postman to bring me some more 😭

And currently embroidering my denim jacket

Finished! Needs ironing and framing but finished a few days ago and forgot to update

But progress has been made

A picture of the back of a cross stitch project, with headphones accidentally sewn to it

Sometimes the universe tells you to put the #stitching down and go to bed

Progress update

Getting there!

More Taylor progress.

And Taylor Swift cross stitch project progress!

Teacher gifts sorted.

Finished two projects today: a mockingjay for my daughter, and a dragon. On to boy twin’s birthday gift next!

I’ve done this little dragon (KitsbySAstitch) once before - the difference between before and after backstitch is amazing

I’ve worn mine almost daily since September, and they’ve held up perfectly.

Also TIL it’s really hard to photograph the inside of a shoe…

Generally with wearable stitching I’d encourage an iron-on backing to cover the stitching but… pretty much impossible to iron the inside of shoes. So loop finishes, instead of knots to minimise rubbing and keep it as flat as possible.

Finished 🌼🐝 #embroidery #handembroidery #shoes

One day I’m gonna invite someone over to “see where the magic happens ;)”

And just show them this

Working on shoes for my sister

Finished
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Finished the stitching part and moved onto the washing part.

So… my dad died last week. That’s… a whole thing I’m trying to process. Keeping busy is helping. Working on a gift for mum. 💙

“Queer people are annoying when they make it their whole personality.”
Me: *aggressively embroidering* THESE ARE MY PRIDE PANTS!