Sunday, November 29, 2009

The Life Cycle of Cranberry Walnut Bread

The bread is mixed. This is like the embyro stage, I guess?

The bread rises. Larval stage. Sure.

It rises some more. Like some kind of... pupa? I don't know, this isn't an exact science or anything. Stop questioning my arbitrary cross-genre nomenclature decisions.

The bread is baked into a beautiful butterfly. I just looked it up; the adult stage of an insect which undergoes complete metamorphosis is called an "imago." SCIENCE!

The bread is then eaten so I have energy to make more bread.


Saturday, November 21, 2009

Closing in

You can finally see the vague outline of the whole thing! (Except for the text.) The end is near!

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Strange Arts

Enjoy this weird distorted batman. More Yoda tomorrow.

No Yoda this time

It's funny because I'm not a contributing member of society! Ha ha!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Three Days In

Not much to report. I made an executive decision and changed the color of his robe. The automatic online pattern generator I used had it as turquoise. He may have been introduced in 1980, but he's not that bad.

Oh, and I bought an embroidery hoop. Because I wasn't quite cool enough already.

Monday, November 16, 2009

He has a face now

I have to admit, I was a little worried about this yesterday. It certainly didn't look like the Yoda I know. However, it came together nicely when I started willing in the missing colors. My only gripe is that he doesn't seem like a very happy Yoda, but hopefully that will change with time to match the pattern (now pixelated for your convenience):

Another source of problems:

Do these colors look the same to you?
This suggests a fourth and fifth rule:

4. If colorblind, have someone check the colors for you.
5. (see rule 3)

Update The First

I have decided on a final design (above) and purchased my supplies. I was right about the cost: the base fabric, thread, and needles cost $5.08 in total.

And how far have I gotten in over 4 hours of work? I have gotten this far:


So class, what have we learned?

  1. Cross stitching takes fucking forever.
  2. Maybe choose a simpler design next time?
  3. You moron?

I will continue updating until I finish in mid-2015.