Handmade with Hate

Good news: I found a way to make one of my products at a much, much nicer quality!

Bad news: it takes WAY more time to do it than my old way, but now that I know I cannot possibly go back to the old method.

A black picture frame with a cross stitch that says "My tattoos don't like you either" in a tattoo-style font. The text is surrounded by a magenta and teal border.

Stitched this up as a present for @cosmocamtattoo.bsky.social as a thank you for being a rad tattoo artist

A woman with black hair and glasses in a white turtleneck top under pale pink corduroy overall dress. She is also wearing white over-the-knee socks and a metallic pink and black fanny pack with a small plush animal plague doctor hanging off of it.

Almost everyone forgot my birthday yesterday, but I'm choosing to focus on how cute my outfit is today.

In this house, we stitch inclusivity!

#crossstitch #xstitch #pride #prideflags #2SLGBTQIA #LGBT #handmade #crafts #transgenderpride #nonbinarypride #lesbianpride #asexualpride #polypride #pansexualpride #aromanticpride #gynosexualpride #agendepride #genderfluidpride #gaypride #burgers

Graphic with a background of light and dark pink nesting diamonds. At the top, it reads "February Markets". In cream-coloured banners accented with purple, the following events are listed: Valentine's Gay Market 44 Gaukel Street, Kitchener February 08 12pm-5pm Lonely Hearts Market Market Square, St. Catharines February 09 12pm-6pm PRFM Guelph x Satellite Collective 2 Gordon Street, Guelph February 23 11am-4pm

I've got some market dates coming up in February for anyone looking for a little in-person hate! If you happen to be in #Kitchener, #StCatharines, and/or #Guelph, come check out some awesome vendors!

A partially done cross stitch of overlapping patterned hearts done in various shades of red and pink. Smaller pink hearts surround the larger three main hearts of the design and a very pale pink background is partially stitched. At the top of the photo above the stitching, a bobbin of embroidery floss is visible with a needle threaded in the same colour floss as the bobbin leaning against it.

I can't sleep, so here's a super early morning #WIPWednesday shot of a test stitch I've been working on. This design is from a pattern series I'll be releasing this year with the first drop coming in February!

#crossstitch #xstitch

I'd love to be added please!

I have some Valentine markets coming up in early February, so I'm playing with some designs for little card sets like the ones you'd give out in elementary school. Only these are mean and definitely not meant for children #valentinesday #valentinescards #rudevalentines

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I made this morbid little cross stitch and some DIY fake blood to jazz up the frame

A brown teacup shih tzu sitting on a green chair while wearing a pink crocheted sweater.

Dogsitting for my mom and the poor thing can't stand the -20⁰ weather we've been having, so I whipped her up a little sweater 🧶 #crochet

#crossstitch #stitchsky help me find more cross stitch pattern makers!

I'm trying to get a good feed together for designers so it's easier to find new patterns. Comment and repost is the best way to get added.

I'm manually approving additions so we keep out the bot/AI sludge.

go.bsky.app/ypS1uD

Followed and would love to be included if you'll have me!

A cross stitch piece that reads "Jesus only likes me as a friend" with a border of hearts, vines, and leaves at the top and bottom of the text. The piece is framed in a black plastic square frame and is displayed on a brown wood table in front of a white wall.

An older pattern of mine, but I think sets the tone nicely for my first cross stitch post on Bluesky!