A thread for me to show off my stress-crafting. I've been doing embroidery, mostly fairly small embroidery pieces. These are all freehand, I'm not using patterns. Inspired by some photos I've seen online of landscape embroidery that are really WAY more impressive, tbh.

The first piece I did, in September. Looking at this now, the thing I'm probably happiest with is the texture of the French knots for the "vague suggestion of flowers" near the bottom.

My next piece: Mount Fuji.

I was much happier with this one.

From the beginning of October, a tree with autumn leaves. The best part of this are the falling leaves. Otherwise, I like this while also feeling like I was going for more realism than I hit.

A week later, sunset over water. I should probably get myself a pen that can draw on black fabric, because I would be able to do nice circular suns that actually came out right in my sunrise and sunset images. Also unsatisfying: the reflection lines in the water.

Northern Lights. I am still very happy with this one, even if you probably need the title to know what it's of.

Another autumn tree. This one looks like a brain, unfortunately.

Another sunrise, or maybe sunset. I like doing sunrises/sunsets because they give me an excuse to use a wide range of colors, and trying out different techniques is fun.

This is supposed to be another sunset. I love how this one came out -- in particular the textures of the different parts of the lanscape.

And my current work-in-progress. Yet another sunset. Really happy with this one. The water isn't done yet.

I never posted the finished version.

And here's this week's: