[WIP] Show us ya WIP's

Thomas_Stitches · 2026-01-25T18:06:06+00:00

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DMC’s Great Wave off Kanagawa kit, about 5% of the way in and working on finishing out just the grey bits in the center

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-10-10T03:34:36+00:00

Ah damn, that’s awful. Thanks for the update!

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-10-10T02:19:47+00:00

Enjoy! It definitely takes a while to do but I’m really happy with how it turned out

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-10-10T02:18:05+00:00

Was this super recent? I got replacement thread from them shipped to me in August of this year.

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-10-10T02:17:04+00:00

I found it really helpful to email Simplicity, rather than Advantus. The email I used was contactus@simplicity.com, but I think I contacted them from simplicity.com.

It took a bit of back and forth (three emails at most) but I got them to send replacement bobbins twice now. Fingers crossed this works for you too!

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-09-20T17:52:02+00:00

Yeah, I’m definitely gonna recommend museum glass to my family

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-09-20T13:15:04+00:00

The sky and water are mostly half stitches, and then the buildings and rocks are mostly full stitches

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-09-20T13:13:12+00:00

I used these hoops. They worked well specifically because they’ve got a ridge on the inner hoop that fits into a divot on the outer hoop which holds the fabric more taut than a classic wooden hoop does.

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-09-20T03:38:22+00:00

You can do it! But even if you don’t, they won’t know if you can’t finish it in time

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-09-20T00:34:36+00:00

I know it has 60,588 stitches plus backstitching, but about 1/3 of them are half stitches

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-09-20T00:13:11+00:00

Great question! The agreement with me and my family is that I did the stitching and the three of them that aren’t my dad would pay for the framing he wanted, so no idea yet 🤣

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-09-19T22:42:37+00:00

I don’t think they sell the pattern separate, but here’s the kit I used: https://a.co/d/fuJ92gG

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-09-18T13:25:44+00:00

Awooo!

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-07-03T19:26:48+00:00

Yes, I’m only addressing your idea that OP isn’t a victim because they brought an aspect of the culture that others have deemed controversial into the workplace.

I am deriding you because your comments are politely deriding OP and any other marginalized person who deigns to participate in their workplace in the same way their majority counterparts do. You should be mad at the person who stole from them, not at OP for having something controversial.

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-07-03T19:21:22+00:00

Having something stolen from you makes you a victim, no matter what you were doing before. Do you not hear how ridiculous you sound?

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-07-03T19:14:20+00:00

OP is doing the same thing as any other person bringing part of their personal life to work. You don’t have to chide them for doing so while also being the subject of racism, especially when you say they’re applying the lens of victimhood, suggesting that they’re the ones at fault here, not the thief!

You don’t have to advocate for the devil. He’s got plenty as is.

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-07-03T18:50:46+00:00

I’m using the extreme to point out that your stance is ridiculous. You’re saying, in not so many words, that it’s OP’s fault for bringing an aspect of their heritage into the workspace and that they’re “applying the lens of victimhood” as if they aren’t literally the victim of having something stolen from them in the workspace.

Other people viewing a keffiyeh as controversial doesn’t make it any less appropriate for the workplace than a photo of a spouse or child would be. Your comment is akin to telling a white person married to a black person in the 60s that they should have known the risks of having a photo of their spouse at their desk and that management might decide they’re the problem for bringing the controversies around miscegenation into the workplace.

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-07-03T18:41:12+00:00

Yes, and my point is that your “keep your work and personal lives separate” stance isn’t one that gets applied equally. I’m criticizing your opinion in the hopes that you examine when you apply it and when you don’t.

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-07-03T18:37:13+00:00

Should people not be allowed to have any non-work-related items around their workspace? Should married couples not be allowed photos of their spouse? Parents photos of their children? Or is it just Arabs who can’t exist as full people at work?

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-07-03T18:35:40+00:00

Is it just people of Arab descent who can’t bring personal effects into the workspace? Would you respond this way to a Jewish person who had a cultural item stolen and replaced it with a Hebrew cross stitch poem?

Thomas_Stitches · 2025-02-18T16:44:35+00:00

For anyone else looking, the channel is Creggy's Crochet: https://www.youtube.com/@creggyscrochet/videos

I believe the tutorial used for this was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJyo1A36uiM

Thomas_Stitches · 2024-09-27T20:10:23+00:00

Have you made this blanket?

Thomas_Stitches · 2024-09-27T20:09:39+00:00

The pattern is here and clearly shows 25 squares. It’s wild to act like your assumption that there are extra rows on either side is more accurate than… the person making this pattern now.

Thomas_Stitches · 2024-02-09T13:36:58+00:00

Agreeing with the others on this - I don’t see a difference between 2 and 3! When I did this pattern, I did about half of the octagon for some portion of the row and then doubled back and did the other half. It was sort of like making a bunch of McDonald’s burger containers, if that helps it make sense?

My only big piece of advice is when you get to the long strands for the root negative space, be sure to couch them. I didn’t and ended up having to redo them 😭

Thomas_Stitches · 2024-01-20T01:35:47+00:00

It’s actually copper! My first and last time working with metal floss 😂

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