{"id":506,"date":"2008-09-03T07:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2011-01-18T21:01:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T01:01:02","slug":"link-dump-cross-stitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=506","title":{"rendered":"Link Dump: Cross-Stitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/skullduggery.jpg\" alt=\"Skullduggery\" title=\"Skullduggery\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>I enjoy cross-stitch because it&#8217;s comparatively fast and uncomplicated, plus it&#8217;s easy to stop in the middle and pick it back up later.  Here are some resources if you feel like stitching up something spooky.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.123stitch.com\/\">1-2-3 Stitch!<\/a> carries a large selection of &#8220;Halloween&#8221; cross-stitch kits, and for once they&#8217;re not all cutesy.  I particularly like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.123stitch.com\/cgi-bin\/itemdetail.pl?item=06-2359\">Skull-Duggery<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.123stitch.com\/cgi-bin\/itemdetail.pl?item=07-2439\">Sleepy Hollow<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.123stitch.com\/cgi-bin\/itemdetail.pl?item=98-1472\">Remember Me on Halloween<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Spazzmanda did a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spazzmanda.com\/2008\/02\/06\/how-could-i-forget-about-fargo\/\">cross-stitch version<\/a> of the <I>Fargo<\/I> movie poster by blowing up a JPG so big that she could see the individual pixels.  There are <EM>loads<\/EM> of great movie posters you could do something similar with if you&#8217;re suitably dedicated: <I>Halloween<\/I>, <I>Psycho<\/I>, and <I>Frankenstein<\/I> spring to mind.  If you don&#8217;t feel up to doing the whole poster, you could choose one or two iconic details and just stitch those.<\/p>\n<p>I love the &#8220;Hey, wait a minute&#8230;&#8221; effect of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idiotcomics.com\/digitalneedlepoint.gif\">this pattern<\/a>.  You could stitch a similar sentiment using just about any baby-themed design.  <I>(Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/memarielane.com\/\">Memarie Lane<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.subversivecrossstitch.com\/\">Subversive Crossstitch<\/a> offers kits and patterns for sentiments like &#8220;People Are Cattle&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t Make Me Cut You.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourpersonalizedpattern.com\/\">Your Personalized Pattern<\/a> &#8211; Enter text in the form and it will generate a cross-stitch pattern guide to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Not cross-stitch, but what the heck: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sublimestitching.com\/\">Sublime Stitching<\/a> has wonderful vintage-looking embroidery patterns with designs like vital organs and Day of the Dead calaveras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy cross-stitch because it&#8217;s comparatively fast and uncomplicated, plus it&#8217;s easy to stop in the middle and pick it back up later. Here are some resources if you feel like stitching up something spooky. 1-2-3 Stitch! carries a large selection of &#8220;Halloween&#8221; cross-stitch kits, and for once they&#8217;re not all cutesy. I particularly like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-dump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9737,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/9737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}