Rhymes with slacker

Okay, so its been a busy week.

Three days in Wellington with the girlygirl, and lots of car time. Much cross stitch was accomplished.

News of the week - my purple biscornu won the Stitching Pirates 5 colours or less competition on deviant Art. I am doing some serious happy dancing on the inside.

Last week I finally finished the August quiltlet. September's theme is Dreams and Aspirations *whisper*whichkindofmakesmegag*/whisper*.



Also, finished another gifty thing:


And CTC20 - Fortitude


And CTC21 - Vacation


Details of all of these, as always, on my deviant art site

More pics to come sometime in the next week, or whenever.

Website update will be needed sometime soon too, but that's a wee way down the priorities list right nao.

Catch you on the rebound :)

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...

Just the pix, ma'am.

The secret birthday something. W00t!



The May Quiltlet
They tell me, all the wise women that I know, that it doesn't matter how old they are, when your children are in pain the mother in you cries out.

I tell them, all the wise women that I know, that when your mother is in pain, it doesn't matter how old you are, the child in you cries out.

**

Trying to represent pain is not an easy thing to do. Chronic, long term pain is insidious, it tears holes in the most carefully ordered of lives. Taking a steak knife to something you just spend three hours quilting is also not an easy thing to do.




CTC10 - Breathe Again
Think Toni Braxton and you'll get there eventually...


CTC11 - Memory
"Midnight. Something something something streetlights..." Meh.


Hoping y'all are having a good week.

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.

April Quiltlet

On the theme of New Beginnings.

Read the whole story here

Short version: visualisation taken from Media Player.




Some more backstitch done on the wedding sampler.

Thursdays are hard.

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.