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.

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.

And No Returns

Okay, so its June. Two pics - one of the xmastree ornaments from last month and a snowflake one that I did today towards this month's total.




Goals for June -
1. two sets of symbols from the Magdalene in the new section. Pics this week, I promise.
2. ten ornaments or I will never get the damn things done in time
3. secret birthday something by the 8th
4. other secret birthday something by the 28th

Keeping it short this month because its going to be a long one at work. Also, taking some steps back form the website because it is an enormous time sink.

Anyway, I've had my first play with plastic canvas in the last week, and I'm liking it. Not the fiddly cutting out stuff, but the scope for free form 3-d stuff. Expect to see more of it here in the future. 

And last but not least - CTC 8 and 9

Innocence

“That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end” - Lise Hand

Drive


Catch you on the flipside

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.

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.

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.