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 :)

Nothing to see here

Just trying to get my head around what gifty things I need to get done before I can start working on xmas. Feel free to ignore this one.

L - pillow - just needs making up
J - xwordstitch, shoes - need framing
A - blessing - needs framing
IM - willow - pattern made

Not started
JB
S
V

I'm sorry, mojo can't come to the phone right now, she's having a panic attack...

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.

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.

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.

CTC#4 - Dark

Dark Mark from Harry Potter, dedicated to Boo.



Secret birthday xs is coming along nicely.  You can see it in about three weeks. :)

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. 

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 :)