birding, photography and living with pet birds
Posted in cross-stitch on Jun 1st, 2011
It took over a year to make (because I have so many interests) and here it is. Behold Audrey! If you’re not familiar, I have software that converts pictures to cross stitch patterns. So I made a cross-stitch pattern for Audrey. Here’s a close-up. You can really tell that it’s Audrey and not just any [...]
Posted in cross-stitch on Oct 23rd, 2009
My mother has a blue-and-gold macaw named Suess. Isn’t he beautiful? He is not a fan of me. Below is a picture of him trying to kill me. Look at his colors! For Christmas last year, Jon gave me this wonderful software program called Stitches. Stitches takes a photo and generates a cross stitch pattern. [...]
Posted in cross-stitch on Sep 16th, 2009
Almost two years ago I took up cross stitching as a hobby. My first project came from a kit for a pillow. Below is the cross stitched part. I really like the pattern because, duh, they’re birds and because it’s similar to M.C. Esher in that the bird wings mesh together. It didn’t take too [...]