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.

Yay me!

Finished the wedding sampler. Backstitch damn near killed me. Grrr. Anyway, done now. Pic is crooked. My bad. 


I play a little game called "could have, would have" with finished pieces. Goes a little like this:
I could have used one strand of thread to do the back stitch, would have made the lines and grids a little clearer. But the grey was too light to see with only one strand. Solutions: could have used a darker colour, or could have used a lower count fabric - two strand might have looked better on 12 or 14 count. If I was going to do this pattern again, I'd probably choose 14 count white aida, and still use two strand of the grey. Not that I'm ever doing this pattern again. Ever.



Finished one ornament, mainly to see how long they are going to take. Did the machine sewing on the other four I had cut out. Looks a bit funky in the pics, but it's done with a variable colour thread that looks divine irl.

TGIF

Progress on the wedding sampler. It's starting to look pretty good.



In New Zealand, it is the end of the first school term. We now have two weeks break before term two. I have never looked forward to a term break as much as I have this one. Expect lots of progress updates, some new patterns and a much nicer mojo to have around.

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.

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.

Long days

During my commute today, I finished most of the full stitch border on the wedding sampler.

I have about 100 stitches to put in and then it's onto the backstitch. I hate back stitch.

Still no photos. Still no colour chart for the secret birthday xs.

On the Anime xs front, I got three requests today - pokeballs, which I uploaded tonight, and two characters from Gravitation - Hiro and Tohma. I found the coolest pic of Tohma to chart up. Still looking for a decent ref of Hiro.

I might be liking this blogging business.

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.