The cow shirt is done and she loves it! 
I had to give up with the whole cross-stitching idea for a couple of reasons:
1) I realized I was stitching onto the fabric all wrong (ie. I was making my stitches WAY too small, thinking that I had a 20/20 grid to work with, when really it was a 10/10).
2) My tendonitis is acting up again (>_<)
So I bought 3 fabric pens and finished it up that way. It's not as fabulous as I'd hoped, but the Peach loves it and that's all that matters!
Here's my entry to November's Whiplash contest:
I took a picture of some graffiti under a bridge near my house, then uploaded it to PC Stitch, which in a matter of seconds spit out the pattern for me.
I cross-stitched on 14 count Aida cloth, and used DMC 25 floss in black (310)and dusty pink (316).
Here's a picture of the final product, proudly framed in shiny, hot pink.
Last Wednesday, I took a Cross Stitching workshop taught by the lovely Minato-san at the Rowan store. Of course I immediately became hooked, and have been x-stitching madly since then. I even took it to the next level by going out and spending lots o' dough on tools of the trade - like this handy-dandy fishing tackle box-like organizer (I'm such a geek!), and this wicked software called PC Stitch which lets you upload any image you want and it'll turn it into a Cross Stitch pattern for you!
Here are my first 3 projects:
This was our workshop project. It was good to learn how to add buttons and beads from the very beginning. It's actually going to be a bookmark that I'll probably give my Grandma for Christmas this year.
The bigger piece is a dragonfly for Momo, and the "N" is for my Mom.
It's been difficult trying to find "cool" Cross Stitching patterns. I bought Subversive Cross Stitching, by Julie Jackson, which just has a lot of F-this and F-that sayings instead of any unique graphics, which is kinda more what I'm looking for. That's why I decided to buy that software and make my own! I already have a bunch of ideas brewing...
So of course now that this has become my new obsession, I now have a really painful wrist on top of a sore forearm from knitting!
