[sinellia]

Hahaha this is an awesome gallery!  I haven't had time to make a compiled hoopla wall for this round yet, but hopefully work will give me a break and I can do it then

Anyway, on to my hoops!  This is the one I sent to sinellia- she said on her pinterest that she'd love an embroidered version of the Birth of Venus by Botticelli, but that would be awfully hard.  So I thought really hard and came up with the idea of doing an iron-on transfer, and then embroidering parts of that.  I've never done anything like that before, but I think it came out pretty well   I only stitched some of it, and even then, I sent kinda late 

Whole hoop:


Closeup of flowers:


My favorite part- closeup of the lady who is holding a blanket(?) to cover Venus' shameless nudity 


And this is the hoop that sinellia sent me:


I love all the colors and how all the critters look so happy and cozy!  It's even more perfect, since I just got back from a trip to the aquarium last week- so adorable    Thank you sinellia!

[thatcoolkidmitch]

I use plastic drawers like this:


They sell them for fairly cheap at places like Target, Walmart, Container Store.  Similar idea to plastic tubs, but I like them better because I can sort my yarn, instead of having a big tub to dig through.  I also use them to store finished things, so my cat doesn't get to them

thatcoolkidmitch, be happy that you only found your yarn scattered!  Mine would tangle it, tear it up, and then eat my yarn if he had the chance 

Pretty!  I've never seen that exact pattern in crochet, but I have made this afghan before, which could be similar if you used a color changing yarn instead of multiple colors: http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/60641.html?noImages=&r=1

Looks like what some places call chenille yarn, like this:


That one happens to be Lion Brand's Thick and Quick Chenille Yarn, but there are a bunch of companies that make similar things.  It's really thick and soft   I think it's acrylic yarn.

Hope that helps!

I am loving these hoops!  I've been updating our hoopla wall as the gallery expands, and it's great to look at each hoop one by one  Here's what we've got so far:



I'll upload a hi-res version at the end (or sooner, if anyone wants).  Let me know if you can't find your hoop- it's possible I missed some!

ETA The hoops are roughly sorted by (thread) color, in diagonals.  Black/white/red at top left corner, purple in the bottom right corner.

Okay, so here's our hoopla wall so far   Someone last time suggested old lady wallpaper as the background, as if they were all hanging in someone's house, so here it is!  I tried to pick something fairly dark and neutral, since most of the hoops are on light colored fabric.

They're roughly grouped in rainbow-order, but it seems like we have tons of blue and green hoops, with only a few of the other colors, but I'll rearrange as we go!

[DaisyTattoo]

DaisyTattoo and I received each other's hoops on the same day and we both made tree hoops for each other   It's an amazing hoop- her lines are so clean and the stitches are perfect (please disregard the distracting monkey fabric background):



I love the different shades of green, like the sun is shining down on it   And I really like celtic-style patterns, even though I didn't tell DaisyTattoo that!  Thank you so much- it's made my hoopla wall even more awesome!  Speaking of which, here's my wall so far (it's actually two facing walls but still):




And thank you guys for all the compliments on the white tree    There's actually 5 shades of various whites and really light pink, blue and beige in there:


I really liked how it came out and it was hard to let it go   Oh and the background fabric has a white on white leaf pattern too, which is what inspired me!

[Megzy818]

I received from Megzy818 a few days ago, but only just managed to take pictures since it's been raining all week.  They're amazing and are filled with so many careful stitches.  See...

Big hoop:


Little hoop:


Both hoops are enormous and I love the colors.  They're perfect- thank you so much, Meaghan!     

Wow, you guys are awesome   Gonna give me a big head with all your super nice comments- thanks everyone!    

And I'm pretty sure that the pattern was from a closeup from a real painting, but I haven't figured out where yet.  It took a long time, but the nice thing is that you can put it down any time and come back to it, and it doesn't take up much space

Samantha_McKay, you should give cross stitch a try!  It's really easy, but you can do lots of neat stuff with it.  And there are tons of free patterns online   It's addicting- I've already got my next project started 

I haven't cross stitched in at least 15 years, but I saw this pattern on etsy and had to try it   Started it August 2010, worked on it pretty much nonstop except for a month or so to make holiday gifts.  Here is the pretty lady, finally!  (The edges are really even, it looks wobbly because the fabric wasn't flat in the pic  )

It's on 14ct white aida, 126x166 stitches, 39 colors.



And some closeups (click to see full-size images):




Of course, I've already started my next project, bigger and twice as many colors!    Thanks for looking