CTC19 - Gray

Just what it says. Finally, a ctc update.

Not much of anything else, tho. Little website update yesterday. Yadda yadda.

Sick.

With a cold. Or the flu. Or something that has turned me into a walking, moaning snot factory. Took a day off work on friday and I didn't even stitch anything - just slept. How rude is that??

Having said that, I managed to have a productive day yesterday, and the week wasn't so bad, so here goes:

Ornament 1: The Christmas star


The Other, Other Secret Birthday Something - Smokey the Cat


Ornament 2 (and 3 and 4) - Mittens


CTC12 - Insanity. King Lear vs the Fool.


CTC13 - Misfortune. A tukutuku pattern showing the story of roimata toroa - the tears of the albatross.


The pattern website will be pretty static till I get my shit together, which isn't looking likely any time soon.

I think that's all.

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.

Weekends that suck

I have finished April's goal for the candlewick pillow. Pics later. That's everything done for April, 3 days before deadline. I am Legend.

Heaps done on the secret birthday xs which looks shit hot, I have to say.

Thinking about changing the pattern site over to a paid server because sooner or later my isp's gonna realise that my 3mb homepage has 50mb and well over 2 gigs of traffic a month. We'll see.

Tomorrow I will unveil the new project, because I'm too tired to do it tonight. Suffice it to say missy has a lot to answer for :)

What else. Um, new patterns and new gallery pics on the site and the leaky cauldron is linking to my HP patterns. w00t!

In other news, I had to put my dog down on Saturday. And I miss his warm head against my leg as I write my blog at night.

Ok, 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. 

Website update

Holidays make me happy.

Elisabeth sending me pictures of cross stitches she's finished from my patterns makes me happy.

missy-tannenbaum sending me a new pattern to host on the site makes me happy.

Kirby... well, Kirby makes a lot of other people happy. That counts.

Holidays and Saturdays and Elisabeths and missys and it is a good day.

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.