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Finished item first, a pic of the pattern trace second, and a few shots of work in progress.

"It's okay I have the blood of Akasha in me" from *The Vampire Lestat* inspired me!

It is a bit messy, but this was my first time embroidering text. Right now, I can only see what needs improving, but I hope I can be less critical of myself eventually 😅

And I hope the glue washes off, 'cause I couldn't think of any other way to get the trace onto the shirt.

How did I do this?

I played around with a font generator, picked my favourite, and carefully traced the letters off of my phone screen onto pattern paper, then taped the paper in place.

I used Quaker stitch, split stitch, and stem stitch. My original plan was to use Quaker stitch all around, but that did not work as well as I'd hoped for, so the plan changed.

It's happening!

This is my first time embroidering text, I have to redo "have" once I figure out how to undo embroidery stitches, overall it's not perfect but it's mine!

I hope it'll be more readable when it's done and I get all the tracing paper out of the way, but that was the only way I could think of to get the outline to stick

Someone mentioned work emails in a comment thread, and

I just finished my latest rewatch of season 1, and this meme came into my life when the ending song was still stuck in my head as an earworm. Enjoy!

Come get it, if you dare!

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I giggled all the way through building these, thinking about Armand and his priorities in packing

Brittknee also had some really Nazi ideas about Anne Frank's diary being fraudulent and how brown people don't belong in her neighbourhood.

...a new and improved ADHD title just dropped!

The widdle baby is adorable, but the others rising as well means that I didn't fuck up too badly when I watered the pot in February. Yay 😊