I switched to a different needle for 1 bit of thread for a touch up and oh wow the difference a thinner needle and eye make in doing the stitches. I use a bigger eye because I find too thin a needle a nightmare to thread but oh this is wonderful and I might be persuaded while the thread cooperates

The problem with white shades is that there is so much range when you compare them with each other but put each on their own in the space and it's just white why are you fussing over all these white colours??? But also Sylveon would look amazing with a pink leaning white!

Today is a pasta day out! Everyone has come out of the woodwork to ask about things now that news has gotten out about the hospitalisation/amputation happening with Dad so there has been a huge socialisation load without enough recovery time

Sometimes the only way to lessen the intense eye stabbing pain of a headache is to embrace the pirate life Waiting for the painkillers to kick in and I'll head to bed soon Not too much of a shock when everything is just stress stress stress at home right now. Oh I hate the stress causing symptoms

It is time to start back at sewing again! Ignore leafeon sulking in the corner, she has been demoted to least favourite child and will be the final panel because brain said no to going in that direction Sylveon the beautiful darling you are! Let's have some fun embroidering!

If I never wind another bobbin in my life, it will be too soon! Literally weeks - due to shipping time - of taking my reasonable pile of embroidery thread and rolling bobbins. Tip! Only do this if you're neurospicy. Its an insane task and needs tism focus I refuse to count them for my mental health

Gonna ignore all the shitty awful things happening in my life right now and do a manicure so I at least have pretty nails that have the added stability to not break and lose the little length keeping me from crying lol

I don't have any addictions but tell that to my brain because I have been winding embroidery floss on to bobbins for less tangles when stored and I literally have to cut myself off because my brain kept using the just 1 more logic trap FOR HOURS I look forward to revealing a pic of them all though!

The invisible unappreciated acts involved with taking care of an ill parent who doesn't appreciate the care given to him My mother and I just spent the entire day driving over town to do his errands he needs done while in hospital and we still have to go into the hospital to visit him I'm wrecked

The breakfast or champions everywhere - large iced coffee with caramel and oak milk and a bag of kid's apple rice cakes because everything tastes better when it's bite sized

Glaceon has emerged from the book press looking beautiful!!!! It's amazing how smooth the panel edges are after being pressed between books. The hoop tends to warp the fabric with the tension and time. The pressing honestly is magic! #embroidery #glaceon

In addition to my hot chocolate with a bit of coffee this morning, I have eaten 2 TWO solid food meals today I will be accepting standing ovations to the left please

Good morning! I came downstairs for my morning hot beverage and was chilling in the sitting room when I kept hearing a buzzing noise which was driving me mad! Took a minute but I found out what it was! There was a wasp trapped in the fireplace! (We have a door) I freed it but it was very scary!

It's 3am - I'm brushing teeth, lights off computer off for bed, FINISHED glaceon panel being pressed between so many heavy books, and I am AGGRESSIVELY manifesting a better tomorrow where I have hunger signs and eat solid food, I enjoy 1 thing, and I don't know give me 5 mins of not being depressed?

More glaceon progress! Ice is stunning but the process of trying to find whites and blues that blend well together is an ordeal! I somehow have hundreds of threads and yet colour blending is showing me the limits of my range I'm so close to finishing! It's just such a pretty scene 😍 #embroidery

A little treat for myself post therapy and a super stressful week I've had the little bottle of vodka in my fridge since January or thereabouts so decided to add it to my prebiotic soda After 1 sip - I forgot how much of a taste vodka has, I remember why I don't really drink it lol

Glaceon progress pics! I know I'm allowed to struggle and take breaks when big things are happening in life and mental health matters more but why can't things just go well so I can have fun and embroider pokemon instead of having to keep a dysfunctional household running emotionally? #embroidery

Psyching myself up to leave the house to do the post office, look around town to see if I find anything I need, maybe get some food, and try to visit dad in the hospital We are dressed, we can walk out the door

My mother was trying to describe the "hockey" romance show from amazon prime and the way I could not help her identify it because the ONLY hockey romance show I know of is Heated Rivalry Like what do you mean this popular sport could have TWO TV shows about it????? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

2 things happened today and 1 of them genuinely made me concerned for my mental health: I did the last 2 pokemon outlines! And My father went unplanned into hospital, was admitted, and went into surgery In my defence, flareon's leg was my 13th reason, I unpicked it 20 times #embroidery

The way I'm literally tearing my hair out trying to draw/sew the front legs for flareon in my embroidery because the reference image had weird lb shapes and it keeps not being right and I've ripped it out over a DOZEN TIMES It the final section but the limbs will drive me to madness 😭😭😭😭

BOOK! I'm so excited by this! I ordered this after starting watching Witch Hat Atelier and just loved it and the love and attention evident in the world that I needed to read the manga. And then I saw a pretty grimoire edition and I was gone! And now it's here !!!!!

I present 150 embroidery bobbins that somehow barely seemed to make a dent in my thread box slash pile lol I had to order a bunch more to continue another day. I ended up going wild in fear of running out again so 450 bobbins are on their way to me!

I just spent an entire day/evening rolling embroidery floss on to plastic bobbins so I can organise by colour easier and get less tangles, joined unexpectedly by mother I bought 150 bobbins and somehow my thread box looks unchanged even as my pile of filled bobbins was 150 BOBBINS HIGH 😱

I paid for water soluble mesh I could draw on and stick on fabric so I could do designs easier and embroider cooler stuff I decide to do a complex pokemon design I'm gonna follow the design I spent soooo long drawing, right????? So anyways, I've done some editing as I'm outlining 😂😂😂

Being whimsy has no age limit ✨🦋💗

dragon tales 🐲 #art #dragons

It's not fair that kids clothing gets to be fun and have cool graphics on them and then adult clothing is just BORING ADULT DESIGNS

We are trying to get some reading done today! I'm so much faster reading visually over audio so I really want to try and at least read 50 pages to make progress on the tbr and also have my goodreads goal progress slightly If I get into a flow, I'll have it finished by tonight, here's hoping!

Instead of colour work, while I await the delivery of bobbins to de-pot? Roll out? All my floss to be able to actually see colour without getting tangled, I am powering through with the outlining of all of them in black so I can enjoy colouring in the sections when I have lovely organised thread

In continued unexpected embroidery problems, I am trying to figure out leafeon's exact shades of green and then the closest thread I have, which combined with ND brain led me to buying 150 bobbin holders because the floppy OG packaging is so floppy and tangle-y - I cannot work in these conditions!

Welcome to all my new blue-sky people! I lay an offering at your feet of an embroidery update photo! Leafeon's body fabric mesh has worn away so much in spots! It will dissolve fully later. I think the hoop's fault I also decided to edit the drawing with thread which looks muddy in black and white 😂

* * #promosky * * Happy June! I'm Emily she/her 30 y/o autistic chronically ill girlie 🌸 Embroidery - current project an eeveelution dress decal 🌸 Reading - fantasy, dark academia, magic 🌸 Cats - specifically Cat the cat(pictured) 🌸TV shows - frieren, Witch Hat Atelier, Rivals Give me a ❤/follow

I am feeling so productive Room cleaned from the mental health slump state of untidiness! Desk has also been cleaned and organised, laundry brought down and washed and clean laundry put away, bed linens all changed, and lastly a hair shower for me It's giving clean!

Espeon panel is finished! I am now 1/4 of the way through the panels! (We are ignoring the border and badges in the calculation for now🤫) This was supposed to be the easier panel due to no seams and then colour matching happened and a car crash so not so simple after all 😂 #embroidery

Today began with therapy, middle was a nap and embroidery, and ended up with me rushing out of the house because my father got into a car accident He's okay and no one is seriously injured but jesus christ the universe said you are doing well at a task/hobby, let's give you something to stress about

I can hear a repeating bit of music but just the faintest sound of it, mainly a specific riff, and it is driving me to madness I literally have developed the worst headache from it just playing over and over again and i also cannot tell if it's just an autism thing like how I can hear electricity

I've finally begun posting regularly enoughthat I'm going to do the promo thing at the first of the month and totally was my own idea and not my bestie @smolleha.bsky.social who is a proper bluesky influencer 😘 I actually have a hobby now? The pokemon embroidery is progressing so much and so fast!

I agonised over what colour Espeon was and what thread I had was closest to it and then I went with a wild choice justifying it by going the sky will be so pink it will better settle in to the panel and then she has ended up the perfect colour, just the right lilac purple pink colour #embroidery

This is the exact kind of situation I play thread chicken to avoid but I ran out of thread so now have to re thread just to finish off this tiny little area The good news is that I can at least fill out the final stitched area to make it look fuller

A segment of the eeveelution circle has been completed! I did everything except umbreon in 1 day yesterday and oh my gosh being too productive is a punishment of its own! Umbreon came out both beautifully and disappointing from not being able to define limbs It will look amazing when it's all done!

When asked if I engage in any risky behaviour? Why yes! Just today I was playing thread chicken with multiple colours and I wasn't even sure if could get it through to the back of the fabric, let alone the tie off knot But also screw the idea of just threading up a new thread for 2 STITCHES!

Today I began the evolution portion of the circle and I did the very thing I said I wasn't going to do - do the colour gradient in the sky😵 I had to rip out part and get a hoop for better tension but I did get to enjoy the sun while I embroidered! It's so pretty, still an ordeal though #embroidery

Good morning! I swear the post outting fatigue sleeping is so satisfying. Coming out the other side is such a refreshing feeling and I just feel like I've gotten the energy back I lost from doing 2 big days in a row Now I'm enjoying an afternoon of embroidery and TV shows

I am sleeping like a cat the last few days It's the correction pendulum over correcting from the can't sleep immediate aftermath but oh wow am I literally just having the best sleep ever even if am being pretty bad at being a functioning human

I stg I am ready to murder my mother because why bother listening to me when I specify where she CANNOT CUT BECAUSE A FLOWER IS GROWING THERE and then not only does she immediately mow over it but then says its not ruined becauae 0.2 of a leaf stem remains when she just destroyed its food source

LOOK AT HOW BEAUTIFUL EEVEE IS!!!!!! The glitter thread has her sparkling so beautifully The shiniest non shiny eevee there ever was I think I did such a lovely job on colour choice that the rest of the circle is going to demand more than I initially promised lol #embroidery #eevee

Embroidery is something that both takes forever to fill in an area but also wow does the tiniest bit of colour make the design pop Eevee is looking so pretty in her center stage spot

The contrast between voting in Ireland and seeing how voting is in the USA makes me appreciate how important the right to vote is We get the voting cards mailed out to us, registering to vote was easy and also a big thing on college campus I hope voting continues to be something that brings me joy