No, said Aziraphale, it's ineffable.

In 2018 I fell in love with Dragon Friends and desperately wanted to stitch something for it, but my to do list was so long I couldn’t possibly. Finally, after deciding that in 2019 I wanted to experiment more with blackwork gradients, I realised I could “allow” myself to do a small Dragon Friends piece instead of any WIPs if I did as gradient practice. So I did! “Hello bees!” is one of my favourite SFW running gags in the show and it was the easy choice.

As a practice piece it was very helpful, because I don’t like it. There are 9 threads of different thickness/weight in this piece, and for the most part the gradient is too subtle for such discrete sections. This gradient would look much better as an unbroken section in a larger piece, and this piece would look much better with a less subtle gradient, perhaps using 7 or 5 threads instead.

From bottom to top, the threads I used are Gütermann bobbin; Gütermann sew-all; Gütermann cotton 30; DMC mouline special 25; Gütermann cotton 12; DMC coton a broder 25; DMC coton a broder 20; and DMC coton a broder 12 just for the south-most border.

zepeli asked:

In the Workman Publishing version of Good Omens there’s a photo of you and Sir Terry Pratchett on the back cover. Is that supposed to emulate Crowley and Aziraphale?

You mean this one? http://neil-gaiman.tumblr.com/post/126421858629/launchycat-remember-this-thats-right-its No, that was just me and Terry, how we looked. Or how I looked, anyway. Terry didn’t own a white jacket, so he had borrowed that one from Malcolm Edwards, our publisher. He was cold. But he said that if people looked at the back cover they would be able to tell that he was the good one, so if we got into trouble for Good Omens, when it was published, I’d be the one whose house people would firebomb.

I very much hoped he was joking.

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.