Firefly and cross-stitch philosophy

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It's the week before finals week - also known as me writing all the research papers I've had more than a month to do week. I've developed a twitch in my right eye. I've also been stress-sewing between hours of reading and writing. Cross-stitching is so freaking orderly.

This is from the very beginning of the Firefly series - when Wash is playing with his little plastic dinos. :) The dinos themselves are from a little boy's bib pattern in Special Occasion Designs and Borders by Dale Burdett. It's from 1990, and stolen from my mother. I changed the colors, and flipped the T-rex to be facing the letters. The alphabet is also from that book.

Before I actually post the full thing...I decided to do the stegosaurus one color at a time, rather than one region at a time, like I tend to do. (What can I say? Attention problems?)

It was actually really interesting to me to watch it come together. It's fascinating to me to see seemingly strange and alien patterns come together to make sense. I actually wish it hadn't looked so much like a the final product by the second color.

So, if you'll bear with me, five photos of my stegosaurus, adding one green at a time, and finally outlining it. Yeah, I know I'm a bit silly. It's finals week, remember? *twitchtwitch*











And here's the almost final product. Need to iron and frame it or something...but that will have to wait until I have an iron. I'll post an update eventually, probably tacked on to a different entry.