Hello, sugar covered marshmallow chickens!
I'm intending to do a YouTube summary of 2025 but just haven't found it in me to actually get it done. So, instead, here's the plans and goals. :) And maybe the YouTube thing will come in the near future.
Newest Patterns
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 Rogue from Hannah Alexander is now available to the Public |
I made a public Patreon post with images if you want to see them - mostly they are just preview images of what I'm talking about below. :) Otherwise the text is the same.
Alphonse Mucha's Moon (1902) didn't get done before the new year, but that's on me for thinking I could get any serious work done during the holidays. I did it in chunk portions, like the frame, and then the hair and flower crown, and had to take "serotonin breaks" between each. Earlier tonight I chopped out time to do her skin and - while I feel accomplished - I would rather start pretty much anything else than go on to the next step of the dress or background. I've actually done so much dishes and laundry in procrastinating-productivity while I sit on this pattern.
The moon and the stars on her dress will be metallics if I get my way! And I'm playing with the idea of using variegated threads within the frame to keep the color count from ballooning. I hope to carry these texture motifs through to the other three in her series.
I still have nine patterns left in Hannah Alexander's Pokemon series, at least until I can ask her for the newest ones she did last year. :) They are Flareon, Jolteon, Vaporeon, Drifloon, Litwik, and Mismagius for the ladies; and three sticker designs of the Kanto starters Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle.
I still have 131 patterns and tutorials that I need to properly revisit and bring up to date with the new PDF formatting and symbol checking. I highly prioritized bringing the Hannah Alexander designs up as part of her anniversary sale last year, and then refocused on creating new designs for the remaining months. Some of these will be much easier to revitalize than others, it's just a matter of me blocking out the time to do it properly. :)
Finishing up the Frenone WoW series has been itching at my brain. Each time I open up the folder I think about how I need to refresh the old PDFs. Especially on all the twirly fine greenery most of them have behind each character. My original intent was to match Frenone's artwork as closely as possible, and since she outlined all of the flower stems and swirls that was the approach I took! But I think it would be easier, and better for everyone, if the fine greenery was just backstitched.
I keep telling myself, "it's just eight - maybe nine if you do the angel! Just get them done!" But some take just as long as some Hannah Alexander designs with hardly any return. Getting them done falls into the "procrastinating-productivity" part of my brain and when I'm this spoiled for choice it's difficult for me to actually pick them up.
Last year I gave Hannah Alexander a LOT of love, and this year I would like to show that to Sunset Dragon. The majority of designs I have from her are mermaids but thankfully most of them don't have scales, which should make them quick to chart. :) And I think every year she makes even more of these so!! I really need to get on it!
There's some small Pokemon designs from Hanae Kariko on the plate as well. :) These shouldn't take very long to chart, but there are a lot of varied colors. When I do color picking with my mom it can be a day or two between our messages back and forth (just because of our time difference and life getting in the way). So while each of these individually is a quick pattern to do, the turn around time slows things down a bit. It might be useful in my planning to knock all these out in a batch while I work on a larger pattern, so that my productivity can keep rolling.
The next Early Access patterns will be at the end of March / start of April. I have yet to decide if I'll have time to put one up for vote or if I will release the Mysterious Trio I finished last year slightly early, but I'll decide soon. :)
Thank you everyone with all of my heart for your support and allowing me to continue doing what I love. Summer 2025 was a dire situation for me being able to keep stitching and you all really turned out to keep it alive. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Happy stitching!
Pinky
Ashley Mae
