Cross Stitching my Tamagotchi Memories

My finished piece took 11.5 hours of work

I learned to cross stitch when I was a teenager with patterns from The Lion King in a book that we got at a local craft store. I enjoyed it, but definitely didn't have the attention span at that time to try and ever finish a project.

Now as an adult, I don't have enough free time! The internet has unlimited amounts of patterns made by fellow nerds and I struggle to settle down and pick a pattern because I want to make them all right now.

I have learned that what works best for me are small projects because even those take hours and hours to complete. Cross stitching is a SLOW craft. I admire anyone who does this and sells their work because people outside of the craft will never understand how long it takes to make anything.

All the colors I'd be using in this project (I get my floss from EverythingCrossStitch.com)

I came across this pattern by Stitchy Kiddo and it was perfect for my goal of working on a nerdy and small project. Timing-wise, it fell in great with Crafting Geek's "30 for 30 Challenge" where you spend 30 minutes a day for 30 days working on a craft project. That challenge changed my outlook on how to craft. Instead of staring at a project and thinking I'll never finish it, chipping away a little each day made it completely doable.

Seeing the pattern come to life is exciting, especially when you get to the point where you can recognize it!

I've been into Tamagotchi life these last few years. In the 1990s, my sister had the original Tamagotchi and I was allowed to babysit it when she went to work after school. I was obsessed and so lucky that she gave it to me at one point to keep. (Then they were banned from school because we were all taking care of our tamas and not paying attention!)

I use the old school paper method for my projects and just color off rows as I stitch

It's much harder as an adult to take care of tamas because I have four real-life ones in the form of cats! But I occasionally pop in a new battery and spend a few weeks doing my best to be a tama mom.

Trying my best to keep the project area clean and to keep my stitches even is difficult for me

This cross stitch took me just over 11.5 hours of work to complete...and then it sat in a bag for six months before I told myself to put it in a frame!

I always take photos of my projects before putting the glass in - then you don't have to worry about glare!

I haven't decided what my next project will be - I have three or four bags with floss already separated out so I probably should start one of those, huh?

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