Stitch for Syria

So the other day i was looking at my twitter time line and found a post by Mr X Stitch (if you don't know who he is, please check him out! a totally awesome cross stitcher!) about stitching for Syria. so i checked out the link and this is what i found:

From Concerned Worldwide: "In Lebanon, Concern helps Syrian refugees learn embroidery. these sessions give women a vital income and bring them hope and friendship. now you can support these women and get creative too! Sign up to this challenge and we'll email you one of their beautiful patterns. stitch and share it to show you care." here is the link for the challenge.

so i signed up for the challenge and got a pattern that Mr. X stitch created for the challenge. my finished cross stitch, i posted it on twitter, but i also mailed it back to Concerned Worldwide to show my support of the women who are learning embroidery. i know it's small and it's not money in the end. but knowing how much support means to me in my life, i wanted to show these women that they have support also. and if you you mail the cross stitch you've made, Concerned Worldwide will use it to make a special art project to show every's support for these women.

here is a picture of what i made for the challenge:

twitch cross stitch

so in the last couple of months i have discovered twitch and all it's amazingness. twitch is a big community from all over the world where people video themselves live doing things. playing video games, cooking, drawing, cross stitching and so much more. there are big name people on there like Felicia Day but then there are every day people like me and you on there also.

the amazing thing is that i have found a cross stitching community on there. and i love it. from watching other people cross stitch on twitch i have learned so much more about cross stitching that i probably wouldn't have learned otherwise.

from watching a streamer by the name of Sirithre i have learned how to make cross stitch key chains and so much more! Sirithre was the first person i followed on twitch that was a cross stitcher. she's great to watch and she makes some really cool stuff. (for the record, she does stream other stuff like playing video games).

there are a ton of people who are on twitch that cross stitch. from watching their streams and chatting with the community, i have learned where to get supplies, how to do certain things and about local cross stitching/twitch communities.

overall i've found a community of cross stitchers that i didn't have before. cross stitching isn't as big as crochet or knitting. and so finding this community has really helped me. it's nice to know that there are other people out there who love cross stitching as much as i do. so check twitch out. go to twitch and then find the creative board and you will find cross stitchers in there. you will find other people who are doing other amazing things, don't get me wrong. but you will find cross stitchers too. and hey maybe you'll see me in group chat. my twitch handle is plantlamp. so if you see that name, make sure you say hi!

Mayweather didn't get my money

so on saturday was the big mayweather vs pacquiao fight (which i did not watch. i went and saw the new avengers movie [it was great. love me some avengers and captain america]). i was reading my twitter account on sunday and the great sarah spain did a movement that instead of spending the $100 for the pay-per-view to see the boxing fight, spend the $100 on donating to domestic violence charities. this is because mayweather has multiple offenses of domestic violence against women - here's a story about it on deadspin. so sarah spain started a campaign on twitter suggesting to everyone that instead of spending the money to watch the big fight, that people should spend that money on domestic violence charities. and people responded in kind. some people spent the $100 and some just spent what they could. either way a message was put out there. people will not support a sports figure if they do things that are horrible to other human beings. and it was a good message to send. here's a story that SI wrote about sarah spain's campaign. sadly i didn't have the money to donate. i'm currently very strapped for cash (see comic convention). but i retweeted it and sent the message out. even if it was a day late, it's still a good message to send out. so i didn't mind sending the tweet out a day late.

cos-play photo database

so as you know i went to c2e2 a couple of weeks ago. and as you know i put pictures of my adventures at the con on my flickr page. well i was contacted by a person who has a website that links bunches of different peoples pictures of cos-playing. and this person wanted to add my pictures from c2e2. i was delighted and agreed. so you now can find my pictures along side other peoples pictures from c2e2. here's the link to the website. your going to have to scroll down to chicago comic entertainment expo (c2e2) it is alphabetical. my pictures are under the name little_egan. but please check out all the other photos that are listed from that weekend. there are some great ones. some very professional photos too. i love seeing all the cos-playing that people do. hope you enjoy the database.

#

i was at my mom's Superbowel party on sunday and my cousin told me a disturbing story. My cousin is a junior in high school and she said in her math class the teacher used the # sign. A student proceeded to ask her why she used the hashtag sign. the teacher explained to the kid that it wasn't the hashtag that it was the number symbol. i couldn't believe it when my cousin told me that. i was speechless. it just shows how much kids are on twitter. and how much social media is part of our society now. and how kids are today. sorry i just had to rant a little bit about that.