I'm thinking about building an ark

Finished this a couple days ago for the secrets and codes challenge over at Sprite Stitch



July's Magda progress


Miss Lucy's Flower - farewell gift for a workmate
Tick that one off the August goals! Yay me!


k. That's all.

Unusual definition of frequent

Okay, so twice in the holidays I tried to update. Once my computer crashed and once the internet broke.

So, here I am. July goals were not an incredible success.

I finished my ornaments.

Unfinished: Madga, Quiltlet.

Secret birthday something ended up being purchased because I found the totally most perfect gift for the birthday boy. Detective Conan patterns ended up being shleved because I was taking too long and the requester decided to do them herself. Cat ear fleece hat didn't happen because my sewing machine and I are not on particularly friendly terms.

But I did get a couple of things done:

A Biscornu pincushion for my mum.



CTC19 - Rainbow
The dragon fractal from the chapter headings of Jurassic Park.



Claddagh for a workmate's wedding



I still have four days left, so I'm hoping to get the quiltlet and Magda goals done. I'll keep you posted.

Finally photos

June Quiltlet - Coffee


The Magdalene. Sort of depressing when you see it like this :( So much to doooooo...


CTC14 - Smile


CTC15 - Silence


CTC16 - Questioning (Cherchez la femme - Look for the woman)


CTC17 - Blood (Cross from Trinity Blood, manga)


New Goals tomorrow, cos somewhere in the world it isn't July yet...

Heroic Effort

This weekend I finished the quiltlet and May's goal for the Magdalene.

No pics yet cos the camera batteries are flat and they're both too big for the scanner. Expect pics sometime this week.

Also managed to finish two pattern requests and start another of the ctcs. For the benefit of those who have recently joined us, CTC is the 100 themes challenge. Check out the ctc tag for the beginning of the saga. 

And finished the four felt ornaments this morning. Can't forget that. So, given that the threads for the Lorikeet have to wait until I am, shall we say, more financially secure, by my calculations, that makes all the May goals done and dusted. ***I rock!***

In other news, my baby is turning nine on Tuesday. I don't know who gave him permission to turn nine. I didn't get that memo.

Okay, that's everything.

All the small things

Finished the secret birthday xs - yay me!

About 1/4 of the way through the may goal for the Magdalene.

Haven't so much as touched the ornaments

Might have to put off the draco bookmark because my pattern is a couple stitches too wide and if I mess iwth it too much its gonna look naff.

I think that's all.

Of mosquitos and megaman

I just got bit by two mosquitos. Thought you might like to know that. I got one of them. The other one is still humming around somewhere. I'll get that one too.

New patterns on the site - Megaman today. Lots and lots of megaman.

New pix on the blog. Yay! Enjoy.

 
This is the Magdalene with April goal completed. She's looking good.


Candlwick cushion with two daisies and poppies done. This one is killing me.
The thread keeps fluffing and shredding. Grrr.

Haven't stitched anything yet today. Off to do that now. Six days left in April and I'm a long way from finishing the goal on the secret birthday cross stitch. 

Wednesday is hump day

I know I said there'd be pics but there's not. I have finished the April goal for the Magdalene. Yay me! So no more about her until next month. I am mostly done with the daisies on the candlewick cushion. Haven't touched the secret brithday xs, because of the secret birthday person being around. Dug out another ufo that has been status-upgraded to wip. W00t!

So. I am off to watch Death note, vols 1 and 2. Unfortunately I do subs, not dubs, so I can't stitch while I watch. *sad face*

Ah well.

Catch you on the flip side.

Ooh, before I forget, I bought some plastic canvas today. No idea what I'm gonna do with it. Just bought it.

And updated the pattern site.

What is it about libraries?

The kids and I walked into town today. The weather turned to shite and we had two hours to kill so we headed for the library. I love our local library, it's modern and airy and has heaps of nooks and crannies to sit and read. The kids area has computers and toys and magazines and fabulous artworks. It can be packed but still has that quiet, very sensible feeling that libraries have.

So we chose some books and we sat and we read and boyo played on the computer and I almost fell asleep in the comfy chair. My daughter's friend turned up and they sat down and had a little giggle-fest, and you know, there's a reason they call it the living-room of the city. You walk in there and its like all the stress just sloughs off at the door. 

Libraries are special. There is nothing like a good library. Nothing at all.

So, I managed to get everything accomplished today that I needed to (apart from folding the washing). I am about fifty stitches away from the April goal on the Magdalene, and I have put the first 200 stitches into the secret birthday xs. No pics, cos its a secret. Magdalene pics tomorrow. 

Busy days with nothing much to do

Tidied a bit. Had a few visitors. Looked after one of the kids' friends from school. And suddenly its ten past seven and I've achieved 3/5 of SFA today. 



Here's the progress on the Magdalene. Which would have been more if I'd ever learned to count. The left hand side is a stitch out, from way way back when I was fed up with this and stopped working on it. I had to fudge a bit all the way up through the middle to make everything fit and not look too fragged.

Wonderful.  Having said all that, any day without backstitch is a good day ;)

Tomorrow I take my son to the hospital in the afternoon, then off to the craft shop to get the ingredients for the secret birthday xs and the other secret birthday thing. Which will be tricky given that one of the birthday people in question will be in attendance.  I am mother, see me multitask :)

Rhymes with pictures

Okay, so I remembered to bring the camera home and have taken some pix of my wips. Now we try le grande experiment and see if I can get the pix from my 'puter to my blog...

This is the pattern front of the Candlewick pillow and where I'm at with it. I'm a bit disappointed that so much of the white outline shows thru, but not disappointed enough to go back and rip the stitches out. :)



The wedding sampler. I finished the borders in the car today and am onto the backstitch. I hate backstitch.


The Magdalene. By the end of the month I want to have finished all the way up to the line. Lots of work to do on the left hand side there. She's so beautiful.


And lastly, my ornaments. I only have 45 more to cut out, then sew together, bead and make loops. Piece of cake.


So. There's the pix. I will post updated images as I update the pieces.

In other news, I now have a thread list for the secret birthday xs. Can't tell you what it is tho -it's a secret.

Mondays always suck

Started the little wedding sampler yesterday. No pics yet but  this is the pattern.


This is Devotion by Janlynn - the one I call the Magdalene. I've done the bottom half to just above her eyes. She uses 6 shades of brown on black aida. I can't work on her for more than a couple hours at a time cos she makes my brain hurt. I'm about halfway through April's goal for this pattern.

Haven't looked at the super secret birthday thingee yet. I'll get there. I need to convert the thread numbers to DMC and I'm stalling. 

April quiltlet all but finished. I am so in the zone.

I will remember to bring my camera home from work this week to take some shots of my progress. I really will.

April Goals

I'm hoping it gets easier to do this because, to tell the truth, this blogging thing feels kind of dumb.

Anyway, mojo's blog has exactly one goal. To reduce my UFO pile and make sure I get things finished on time. I imagine that there'll be a fair bit of editorialising along the way. 

My current WIP list is displayed at right. By the end of April I plan to have:

*Worked 500 stitches on the Magdalene. (It isn't really the Magdalene, it's a kit that's called something like Serenity, but to me, she's always been the Magdalene)
*Finished the fourth flower set on the candlewick cushion
*Worked at least 1000 stitches on the secret birthday xs (green)
*Completed the weding sampler
*Finished April's quiltlet

Pictures coming soon.