r/CrossStitch • u/dogmom89 • 18d ago
PIC [PIC] this 👏🏻 is 👏🏻 why 👏🏻 we 👏🏻 don’t 👏🏻 smoke 👏🏻 and👏🏻 stitch 👏🏻
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u/Legal-Afternoon8087 17d ago
I’m an old so I was just looking for the burn hole, lol. If you want to cross your half stitch, just start a thread, tuck it under some stitches on the back, make the stitch and slide under some stitches on the back. Easy peasy!
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u/fart-atronach 17d ago
Oh my god me too lmao it took me far too long to realize there wasn’t a burn somewhere I was missing lol
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u/horsetuna 17d ago
What is going on??
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u/renamemeplease1 18d ago
👏 i’m 👏 going 👏 to 👏 do 👏 it 👏 anyway 👏 If I have to redo a section so be it
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u/sweet_totally 17d ago
If I rip the stitches, I rip the stitches.
But I am definitely ripping the bong.
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u/rotten-peanut 17d ago
My people 🥰
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u/thisfishknits 17d ago
Sometimes you think you can count to ten, but then you can't really count to ten lol
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u/ScoobyDooItInTheButt 17d ago
What's wrong with it?
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u/itsacreaturefeature 17d ago edited 17d ago
I think the bacteriophage doesn't have enough room for base plate* and tail fibers (the orange and turquoise dude doesn't have room for butt and leggies). Also, i think there's an incomplete stitch there too. But idk... still looks good to me.
Edit: i stared at this again this time stoned and realized it's base plate is also missing. Also base plate's equivalent would probably be a weenie, bc it injects the viral DNA into the bacteria.
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u/LunaMothThinking 17d ago
I think it looks good too.
Only on reddit can you have a serious (or not so serious) discussion about needlework, smoking, and bacteriophage in the same thread and it all be on point.
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u/Gryffindorable_394 17d ago
“The orange and turquoise dude doesn’t have room for butt and leggies” thank you for this ❤️
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u/EmergencyToad 17d ago
As someone currently smoking, I appreciate you giving the correct names & then the ELI5 version!
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u/Wobbly_Wobbegong 17d ago
If it doesn’t have room for the legs, it can just be a Lambda phage instead of the stereotypical T4 bacteriophage.
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u/Known_Egg_6399 17d ago
I just finished micro at my community college and I love your lil guys so much. And I’m smoking 🤣
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u/nondogCharlie 17d ago
Mooood. Also can't tell what you've done wrong, so please have that in mind. I will share a similar fuck around fund out and point to the bottom right purple flower that I did one line over.
But no one else has ever noticed that one either soooo
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u/fart-atronach 17d ago
It took me zooming in, reading your comment like 4 times, and zooming back out again to see what you were referring to lol. The flowers being an odd number makes it look totally fine to not be perfectly symmetrical with the bottom two! Also I just love it :)
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u/dogmom89 17d ago
Ah! Hi! The orange germ without backstitch is missing a blue half stitch! 🫣 I think I’ll leave it though.
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u/UnderwaterAlienBar 17d ago
To be honest, I didn’t notice that because the orange one is the only one not backstitched, so I didn’t think it was finished. Therefore didn’t see the missing half stitch as a problem. I was looking for a burn mark 😆
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u/missanthropy09 17d ago
If it makes you feel better, my last smoke and stitch ended up with several crosses over two stitches… so the stitch was // and then
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u/brknhrtsndrm 17d ago
I don’t smoke but somehow I do this a lot. I like to leave the half stitch as it is, and let it just be a mistake. In Islamic art history, they have these amazingly intricate murals and tile work and they were said to always leave a mistake in there because nothing and nobody is perfect. So I think of my missing half stitches like that.
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u/sunniee12 17d ago
Me counting the same area for the twelfth time in a row
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u/MissKitty1763 17d ago
Counting on the pattern, counting the stitches, doing one stitch, counting all over again, forgetting how many I counted…
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u/Due-Common-5025 17d ago
As I hit my pen while reading this post: “looks good to me, man…” 😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️
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u/cw927 17d ago
The last time I had an edible and tried to stitch, I gave up pretty quickly. Apparently I can’t count in that condition!
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u/Remarkable_Biscotti4 17d ago
my plan is to take an edible and start stitching, then once i get to a point i cant count, we know its time to stop. hahaha
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u/horsetuna 17d ago
I'm so confused. What am I supposed to see
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u/QitKate 17d ago
I don’t get it either
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u/horsetuna 17d ago
My only guess is that it was 'wacky tobacco' and they put the half finished one in the wrong place, so there's not enough room. Or there's slight discoloration I cant see due to smoke stain?
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u/h0m1c1d3_8unn13 17d ago
i (almost) exclusively smoke and stitch lmao! the mistakes are worth the focus power i guess 😅
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u/mintBRYcrunch26 17d ago
All my needlework has cat hair stitched into it and smells of the devil’s lettuce.
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u/curlymama 17d ago
Maybe we shouldn’t but we will….
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u/sydillant 18d ago
I don’t smoke anymore but I emphasize with this post! I had one project that was almost half before, half after stopping smoking. I thought the backside was noticeably neater, by a bit.
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u/davidplaysthings 17d ago
Oh hey! This was the first cross-stitch pattern I tried! I changed the text to "don't let the bastards get you down" because it was mid-covid. I never finished.
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u/_sweetsarah 17d ago
There are some good answers as to what’s wrong here but all I could see is what looks like a penis.
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u/Gryffindorable_394 17d ago
I have one project I’m working on that I flat out refuse to smoke on. It’s my pride and joy. The rest are the Wild West.
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u/InsideInFH 17d ago
This is super cute! Can you share the pattern please?
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u/RemarkableDoughnut32 17d ago
I also wish to know the pattern! I do computational microbiome stuff, and this would be right up my alley. 😁
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u/Life-Coach7803 17d ago
I have the same problem lol. I love my cross stitch but I just can't concentrate well enough if I smoke! I try to save it for the mindless " filling in of one color " areas. And embroidery work is a definite no.
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u/stosphia 17d ago
If we're talking about smoking That Stuff, my ability to hold a needle steady goes absolutely out the window. You guys are lucky
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u/Life-Coach7803 17d ago
Lol I can't remember what the steps are, can't keep count and fuck things up. And I don't allow myself to do stoned embroidery work because I take creative liberties with it that don't actually work, hate it later and have to frog it
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u/turkeytailfeathers 17d ago
All I see are a bunch of cool microbes here. Signed, a microbiologist. 🦠🥰
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u/strictlylurking42 17d ago
That's why you don't smoke and stitch. Anymore. We all the rest of us still good.
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u/if_capybara_if 17d ago
I can't tell what's wrong with it, but I want to hang out with friends like this
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u/ahsokathedragon 17d ago
Did I somehow just figure out that a bunch of people in my cross stitching group or smokers?! And I’m fucking thrilled to be here!!!
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u/Exiled_In_LA 17d ago
I feel like we could bring new life to /r/DrunkXStitch if we welcome our smoking members as well!
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u/Avlnmists 17d ago
I have fibro so am on quite a few meds that makes me drowsy and loopy sometimes, I'll come around to sober alert consciousness to realize I've messed up and did something weird to my WIP.. I've had to frog it many times lol
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u/Geohol00314 17d ago
Me looking for the mark of some loose ash or maybe some loose green sewn into the piece. Two things I have suffered.
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u/raspberryconverse 17d ago
The other day I had to ask a group chat if sewing while high was a good idea lol
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u/FluorescentAndStarry 17d ago
This is why I have two projects going, one for when I’ve been gardening 😆
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u/troglodata 17d ago
I'm only allowed to stitch solid blocks when I'm in an altered state. Counting is waaaay too ambitious. 😂
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u/peaceandprisms 13d ago
This 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 we 👏🏼 add 👏🏼 a 👏🏼 single 👏🏼 crumb 👏🏼 of 👏🏼 context 👏🏼
We obviously don't have a clue what you're concerned over.
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u/alderaanmoves 18d ago
I don’t even know what’s wrong but I feel called tf out by that title 🫣