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Chilari
@chilari.bsky.social
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She/her. Autistic. British. Cross stitch designer, pixel artist, crocheter, occasional writer. Wife and mother. Trans rights are human rights. Support me at https://ko-fi.com/chilari or https://www.patreon.com/Chilari
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I don't often do #pixeldailies but today's prompt, #sprout, just had to be done, and it's the best little sprout there is: Quest Sprout! (created by @swordscomic.bsky.social ) #pixelart
Pixel art of a round green friend with two leaves sprouting from the top of his head, holding a wooden sword. Above his head is a speech balloon with "Qwest?" written in it.
December 8, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I've been working on my next cross stitch design. #crossstitch #christmas #pixelart
Cross stitch in progress of a Christmas stocking
December 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Hi, I'm Chilari and I design cross stitch patterns. I've only got two in my shop so far but I'm working on more. ko-fi.com/chilari/shop
Cross stitch of a Christmas tree Cross stitch of Santa
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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My favourite is bedroom 4 full bsth 43, which is just a corridor to a sink, with no window
A close up screen shot of the ai house plan, showing a perfectly reasonable bedroom 3; a "jack and jil fun bath #2" which is a small room with three sinks; "bedroom 4 full bsth 43" which is a long thin room with a sink at the end; "guest bath" which contains a narrow shower, a toilet and an unidentified rectangle; and a "huge walk / guest suite", which is a corner of a much larger room featuring a wardrobe and counter, I assume.
December 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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@basiclychris.bsky.social Dunelm. You might like.
A round mirror decorated to look like the death star. It is marked down from £30 to £21
December 1, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Looking for a quick and easy home-made Christmas tree decoration? Consider my #crossstitch patterns. Just £1 each! And the materials to do both should be around £10. ko-fi.com/chilari/shop
A cross stitch of Santa's face with a full beard, displayed in a 3-inch display hoop. A cross stitch of a rounded Christmas tree with a yellow star and a red pot, and decorations in the same two colours.
November 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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I've finished my Christmas tree cross stitch! Here it is in all its glory. Really happy with it. If you'd like to buy the pattern, check out my Ko-fi shop: ko-fi.com/s/1954b3d7d1 #crossstitch #pixelart #christmas
A cross stitch Christmas tree in a wood effect display hoop. It leans against a larger embroidery hoop. A magnetic needle minder is on the table next to it, a design by Botanical Craft Studio on Etsy featuring a frog in a teacup. The same Christmas tree cross stitch, now leaning against a crochet fox
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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I've made some more progress on my Christmas tree design today. Hoping to have the pattern finalised and in my Ko-fi shop by the end of the week. #crossstitch #pixelart #Christmas
Photo of a work in progress cross stitch Christmas tree. It is a smooth triangular shape with thick red curved lines for tinsel and little yellow pluses for ornaments. There's a chunky yellow star at the top. The piece is on white Aida and in a 4 inch hoop. Just visible in the shot in the top right is a magnetic needle minder featuring a frog in a teacup.
November 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Working on my next Christmas cross stitch design. Going well so far. This one is a Christmas tree. I've designed two more in Aseprite, ready to turn into patterns: a stocking and a pair of jingle bells. #pixelart #crossstitch #christmas
A cross stitch work in progress. White aida in a 4 inch hoop, with a yellow star, yellow crosses as ornaments, a red strip of tinsel, and a little bit of green tree completed at the top. In the top right corner a needle minder is visible: a happy little frog sitting on a lily pad within a teacup decorated with leaves (which came from Botanical Craft Studio on Etsy).
November 18, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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My local park a few weeks ago. It was such a lovely early autumn day I just had to get some photos. Most of them had my baby in them but this is a photo without, as we don't post photos of her online. She loves going there, especially the swings.
A hexagonal bandstand in the middle of a park. The sky is a gorgeous blue and the leaves on the trees are mostly green but just starting to show signs of turning. There are red, white and pink flowers in the flower beds. The grass looks recently mown.
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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I am now selling cross stitch kits! Available for £6 at Shelley's Creations in The Mall, Oakengates. Gonna get the digital pattern onto my kofi page soon too.
Photo of several cross stitch kits in a pink tray on a wooden counter. The design has a jolly round Santa face. Photo of the jolly round Santa cross stitch in a display hoop leaning against a pink box with the word "Christmas" written on it The same Santa cross stitch on a wooden surface, propped up on an embroidery hoop, with a needle on a magnetic needle minder next to it.
November 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Amazing flower! So beautiful. I tried pixel art of them a couple years back.
Pixel art of a snake's head fritillary in pastel tones.
October 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Who's solving the Louvre robbery? Right answers only.
Patrick Stewart as Jean Luc Picard in Star Trek, as Dixon Hill in a holonovel.
October 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Not my pet but one a met a couple years ago at a writing retreat.
A white and tabby cat looks in through a window. In another pane, a sheet of paper is stuck to the glass showing a photo of the same cat with the following message below: This is Ted. Ted is nice. We do not want Ted in the house. Ted wants to come in the house. Please do not let Ted in the house. He gets fed, we promise.
September 26, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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After a few audio issues at the start, we had a good stream today. I've caught up with #Septembit. A few bits in today's art I feel could be improved, but I'll have to revisit them another time. I did at least fix the car from a previous attempt. #PixelArt
Pixel art showing the Septembit 2025 template with the theme "mini city", with the first 16 slots filled in. Today I worked on 10 through 16 as follows 10 - path. A stone paving path. 11 - food stall - a little market stall with a striped awning 12 - construction - a digger, with a pile of dirt, two barrels and a wheelbarrow next to it 13 - fire hydrant - a traditional hydrant with a rounded top 14 - restaurant - a wood-framed building with a flat-roofed extension with giant windows. An unreadable italic-style sign is on top of the extension and an A board is outside. 15 - cash machine - a boxy machine with a screen, buttons and slots 16 - statue - a tiny recreation of one of my favourite pieces of art I've done: the Glasgow equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington, complete with traffic cones on the heads of both duke and horse.
September 16, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I love the shell. And your shark is great, but personally I prefer mine (made for Septembit 2020)
Black and white pixel art showing a white horizontal line with a three pixel high triangle, like the fin of a shark, above it, all on a black background.
September 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Continuing to work on #Septembit. I've added car, rail track, tree and shop to catch up to today. What do you think? What's your favourite so far? It's really tough getting things looking like what they are at this scale with just 2 colours. #PixelArt #Septembit2025 #MiniCity
The Septembit 2025 template with the first 9 prompts filled in: character, traffic cone, road, factory, sign, car, rail track, tree and shop. The palette evokes a blueprint, using mid blue and off-white. The shop has a peaked tiles roof, a little striped awning, and a sign hanging front the left wall.
September 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I've caught up with #Septembit but not done individual display cards for each one. #PixelArt #Septembit2025
Pixel art showing the Septembit 2025 template for the theme "mini city". The first five slots are filled out: character, traffic cone, road, factory, sign. The original palette for the challenge, blueprint blue and blueish off-white, is used.
September 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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#Septembit2025 has begun! Here's my entry for day 1: Character. #PixelArt #Septembit
Pixel art showing four angles on a little 1bit character at 16 pixels tall. She has a little cap and a ponytail. Above her are written "Septembit 2025: Mini City" and "1. Character". Below her is my bsky username.
September 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Wanna draw Marsha P Johnson on wplace? I've made a design! It's 32x48 pixels (1536 total, 12 hours 48 minutes' worth without buying top-ups) so it's not a multi-day project. Have at it! #pixelart #wplace #lgbtqi #lgbt #trans
Pixel art of Marsha P Johnson, a black trans woman who was one of the leading figures in Stonewall and fought for LGBT+ rights in the 1960s through to her death in 1992.
August 29, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Finished my #SlayTheSpire Strike cards on wplace! Might change the outline of the Defect's card to a slightly darker blue, but other than that, done! What do you reckon, @megacrit.com how have I done? #PixelArt
Pixel art on wplace of the four Strike cards for the four playable characters in Slay The Spire. They are staggered as they go right to avoid someone else's artwork above, the corner and some of the outline of which are visible. The background is the light blue that online maps use for the sea. The blue of the Defect's card outline is therefore a little hard to make out well.
August 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Pixel art of a xiphos sword using the Septembit 2021 palette: white, hot pink, and muted dark purple
August 28, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Browsing Rightmove (as you do) I came across this amazing listing. A "character property" in a "sought-after location" for £400k www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1... I recall seeing the listing a few months ago as well, so perhaps the sellers might consider a lower asking price? I'd give them £4.
Photo of a large brick house in a field. There is no glass in the windows, a plant is growing out of one of them, the roof is missing some tiles,, and the whole thing is utterly surrounded by a bed of nettles larger than the footprint of the house. Photo of the other side of the same brick house. There is a large hole in the roof and plants sprouting from the whole right side of it. The chimney is damaged. The one window has no glass; the doorway is empty, devoid of door. Nettles stand waist-high around the house, blocking the doorway. Beyond the field it stands in are trees as far as the horizon, and the railing of a narrow bridge over a brook or dip in the land.
August 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Progress on my Slay the Spire Strike cards on wplace. Three down, one in progress! Changed the colours on the yellow motion section on the Silent's card to make the palette colder. Not 100% on the Defect card's outline, might make it a slightly darker blue.
August 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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No new pictures, where are you at mentally?
Photo of a mourning dove, hunkered down with slightly fluffy feathers, against a garden backdrop. (Actually a screenshot from CaliforniaBirbs on twitch)
August 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM