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Zyrustana
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Cross Stitcher | Small Business Owner | Woman in Tech
Self-taught cross-stitcher, making pretty pictures with string since the late '90s.
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Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Don't forget to swing by to check out the chart blowout sale we're having, too! It'll run for the next few weeks, or maybe pop by in between meal courses today 🍗
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Comic courtesy of @theoatmeal.bsky.social
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#shoplife #shopsmall #needlework #crossstitch #stitchsky
November 27, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Latest progress from this past weekend on the project being referred to as "trees in space" at this point. Hoping to have that 4th tree finished next session. And then, onto some specialty stitches! AND NO MORE TREES!

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#crossstitch #stitchsky #needlework
November 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Mmmmm, stash enhancement opp for folks in the DFW area (or anyone willing to take a road trip)!
stringtheoryneedlearts.com String Theory Needlearts @stringtheoryneedlearts.com · 15d
Come get your shopping fix at EGA’s National Seminar! 🎉 Pop-up shops at the Hilton Anatole, Grand Ballrooms A & B — open to the public (parking may cost). Tons of needlework, beading & more… and yep, we’ve got even more hiding under the tables 😜 egausa.org/event/ega-na...
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#xstitch #stitchsky
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Another mob of goblins has come and gone for the year! Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween! (yes, we're "that house" who hands out full size candy bars, since about 2004)
November 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Please donate if you can! Going to see about having the remainder of my #TwitchStitch sessions this month be in fundraiser mode, and see how that goes.
stringtheoryneedlearts.com String Theory Needlearts @stringtheoryneedlearts.com · Oct 16
Not my usual content, but this happened not far from us, and was all over the news here - Please consider a donation to Furkids, even if only to help them recoup from Monday's terrible accident. They're a wonderful organization, and no amount is too small.
More details @ mailchi.mp/furkids.org/...
October 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Straight from the Twitch Partner Discord, posted on 10/10/25

If you lurk more than a couple of streams, you won't be counted as a viewer in any of them.
We’ve gotten a lot of questions about viewership and the impact of our viewbot mitigations. And, we’ve heard from some creators that they’ve observed unusual drops in their viewcounts. When we made updates to our viewbot detection tools earlier this year, our goal was to make sure that viewcounts represent actual viewership, and aren’t artificially inflated in any way. Having accurate viewcounts is important for streamers who are trying to build their audiences, and for the livestream industry more broadly. We recognize that for a lot of our creators, Twitch is a livelihood, and we don’t take that lightly. Addressing viewbots is a balancing act — we want to identify artificial views without affecting real viewers, and that’s a constant tension. We continue to evolve our systems to get better at spotting and removing viewbots, while making sure we’re counting real views accurately. We really appreciate the feedback and questions, as they help us keep improving how we do this. We’ve seen a lot of different theories about why some viewcounts may have shifted and want to address some of the most prominent directly. There’s been a lot of conversation about how lurkers are counted. A lot of factors can impact viewership over time, including ad blockers, seasonality, and whether you recently hosted an event on your channel. After some investigation by our teams, we’ve identified one factor that may be impacting several streamers: Some viewers use third party browser extensions to view streams., For example, with one plug in, you feed in your Twitch follower list, and when a streamer from that list goes live, the plug in opens a tab for that stream. For years, we’ve counted a limited number of sessions per IP address towards viewcount. If you have a lot of streams (more than a normal viewer could reasonably watch) open in many different tabs, our systems may determine you are not actively watching, and you will not be counted in any of those streams as a viewer.
October 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Thanks for the great show tonight @neildegrassetyson.com and happy birthday! :)
October 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Community challenge redeemed to #crochet earlier this month - Finished last week but forgot to post: behold my trapezoidal placemat! Clearly missed the occasional stitch on a turn... We return to our regularly scheduled #TwitchStitch with my Chatelaine in a few hours, swing on by and say hi!
September 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Just gonna leave this awesome mashup here, on this day of days ;-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5fa...
Foo Fighters - Walk But It's September By Earth, Wind & Fire
YouTube video by William Maranci Mashups
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September 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Making progress on my Saturday #TwitchStitch - more/different trees to work on, but at least I appear to have moved on from all that teal!

Amazing Earth to Universe by Chatelaine Designs

chatelaine.de/downloads/on...

#stitchsky #crossstitch #chatelainestitching
September 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Sept's weeknight on-stream project, courtesy of a community challenge - #crochet coaster-turned-napkin, which is on its way to napkin-turned-placemat...and will probably end up a small table runner, as I plan to use up all the yarn for this project. Chatelaine #TwitchStitch coming on Saturday tho!
September 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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Weeknight #TwitchStitch this month is detouring for some yarnplay. Community Challenge is being redeemed - folks wanted me to #crochet. Punchline - I don't know how to crochet, but can RTFM. Many thanks for the co-parenting/coaching efforts from chat last night with my coaster-turned-placemat!
September 3, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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#AtlantaTraffic gives no reasons to smile, but seeing this on my morning commute today did! Alas, I don't have a dog, hope @weratedogs.com doesn't mind that I pay this fwd to anybody who needs to borrow it - Plz tell your pooch the person in the grey Mini Cooper says hi (and me, obvs)
September 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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So thrilled to be teaming up with makeitpink.net to provide custom bead packs for their charts! Please be patient, as these packs are a bit of new territory for us - but we have a foundation of beads ready for assembly, with more on the way!
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#shoplife #needlearts #crossstitch #ShopSmall
August 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Wrapped up July's #TwitchStitch on Thursday w/ this little dragon holding a mistletoe sprig - part of the ChristMYTH freebie #crossstitch series from DragonDreams.

Stitched w/ called-for DMC & Kreinik, on Ant. White Zweigart evenweave. Stork tweezers for scale 🤪

#stitchsky #needlework
August 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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FYI - will be submitting an order on Monday to restock twin-point tapestry needles, if anybody wants in on some (or anything else, obvs)? Four sizes available - 22/24/26/28. Thanks in advance and happy Friday!
#shoplife #crossstitch #needlework

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July 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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davidgerard.co.uk
to disable the fucking AI chatbot in Firefox:

* go to about:config
* set browser.ml.chat.enabled to false
July 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Latest #TwitchStitch - This Griffon (from 1999!) and its candy cane are part of the freebie Christmyth #crossstitch series by DragonDreams.

Stitched w/ called-for DMC & Kreinik, on Antique White evenweave from Zweigart (30ct, iirc) Stork tweezers for scale, as usual 🤪

#stitchsky #needlework
July 16, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I spent nearly 4 hours backstitching leaves in a tree during yesterday's #TwitchStitch. Can you tell from my potato photo? Yeah, me neither... BUT I only have 1 tree left so I've got that going for me.

Design - Amazing Earth and Universe by Chatelaine Designs

#crossstitch #chatelainestitching
July 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Enjoy up to 20% off select items, starting Friday July 4th through Monday the 7th. More details on the website, link's in the bio!
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#shoplife #BeWellAndStitch #needlearts #crossstitch #crossstitching #xstitch #xstitching #ShopSmall #ShopSmallATL #supportsmallbusiness
July 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Wrapped up June's #CrossStitch project at 52%! The big blocks of color are quite soothing to stitch for a change, even if the project will be fairly large once finished (14 inches square, 2 over 1 on 18ct Floba)

Design is "Box of Crayons" by CM Designs
July 2, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Happy Birthday, Bruce! 🦈
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · Jun 20
🦈 "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..."

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Jaws! Celebrate the blockbuster that redefined summer movies with this original 1975 TV spot from our collection.

🎬 Watch: archive.org/details/jaws... #Jaws50 #Jaws
June 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Just getting back from #Dogma 25th anniversary resurrection for date night! Loved the post-credits Q&Aaaaaaaaaa ;-) And the Lawrenceville @amctheaters.bsky.social location had comfy reclining seats! #atlanta
June 15, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Ahhh, memories of losing myself in webrings and Geocities...what's old is new again. This makes my #GenX heart happy.
archive.org Internet Archive @archive.org · Jun 11
🎉 Big update!
The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!

Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
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June 12, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Looks like Dimensions #crossstitch kits are impacted too (they're in DGA's product offerings). Oooof, That'll probably sting for a lot of American stitchers...
dallasnagata.bsky.social Dallas Nagata White @dallasnagata.bsky.social · Jun 6
So, apparently, the company that owns the Big 4 sewing pattern companies (and Perler fusible beads among other brands) just sold those assets to a liquidation company. Those are the last printers of tissue paper sewing patterns AFAIK. Kind of crazy.

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Parent Company of the Big 4 Sewing Pattern Brands Sold to a Liquidator - Craft Industry Alliance
The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidator.
craftindustryalliance.org
June 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM