Futurama Cross Stitch Gift

For the past week, I have been working on this cross stitch from WeeLittleStitches.  All of the patterns are amazing!

Here it is, Futurama:

 
The pattern is *free*, so yay!  You can find it here.  Now, poor Hermes did not make it into the final product.  I'm stitching with a deadline!

This is the largest cross stitch project I have done so far, and it dragged on forever!  So many different colors of thread (some of which were actually the recommended colors) and ends to weave in.  I finished and stared at it for a good few minutes and then realized 1) the Professor didn't have any shoes, and 2) The top row of Amy's jumpsuit didn't have the second leg of the stitch.  After grappling with my inner lazy, I pulled the thread back out and fixed those two spots. 

Next up... IT Crowd!

"ooh wee ooh" TARDIS Cross Stitch

I recently decided that I need to craft more, because in the busyness of my senior year of college, I had stopped doing any crafts.  Cross stitch was the craft that called to me.  It took a few hours to find the perfect pattern, but I instantly knew when I saw it!

Here it is, the TARDIS.  I bought the pattern from Elf Stitch and was super excited to make it.  It took me almost 2 weeks to complete, and is my largest (completed...sorry Flying Spaghetti monster, you're just so much boring noodle-colored tentacles!)  project yet.

Oh, that border, it was almost the end of me!  It turned out looking great, but the border took longer than the actual TARDIS and text.  Note to self: seek out patterns with simpler borders.  I think one of the reasons it looks so cool is the backstitching on the TARDIS.  I thought about not doing it in a fit of laziness, but decided to just go for it (I'm a risk taker!).  So now I am all "Me + Backstitching Forevever!" 

Now I am working on some TARDIS ornaments from the pattern.  It's flying by!
 

Double Knit DNA Scarf

I wanted a new knitting project to work on, so I designed my own DNA scarf.  I'm making it with the double knitting technique, which means it will take twice as long as a normal scarf!  I'm usually the type that gets about 6" into a scarf and gets bored, but hopefully I'll power on through this one. 

I made a double-knit scarf before, which had the numbers of Pi on it, so I know I can beat this!  The technique takes some getting used to, however, since you have two strands but they can't wrap around each other.  I've been using one hand for each strand, so a combination of throwing and picking!