Sew Dance

Well, the year is over. I know I did a December post, but I felt like I should do a bookend post to mirror this one . So, I stitched from my stash and really didn't buy anything new until November. That's when I used the exemption and went a bit crazy. In my defense, I did finish 6 things I bought at that time. Beginning of the year I had a run on fabric, and the summer was a major yarn haul. Key: Bold = current WIP Italic = kit Strikethrough = finished Red = started this year Cross-stitch and other needle crafts: Argentine Tango - RTO Beauty From the Deep Best Friend Black Stallion Buterfly Pillow (needlepoint) Cat Purse (plastic canvas) Cat stocking Cats...  Cats on the Quilts (longstitch) Celestial Dragon Dance Me Out Dancing Couple Dragon Carousel Fairy Melody Fairy Spell Fantastic Landscape Fantasy Triptych Felted Penguin Flowers Foxtrot - RTO Frog Pile Grand Ball Horses of the Apocalypse In the Garden 'insanity...

Has it really been a year since I started this challenge? I think I did pretty well, with the exception of my "exemption month". It's probably a good thing next years edition doesn't include one of those. Anyway, this is what I've worked on this month. Peacocks.   Divine Hat Two Mill Hill Ornaments   3 dimensions ornaments with one still left before Christmas.  "Hoot" the owl. And part of my threads that I ordered on Black Friday arrived.

First off, I'm calling exemption. I started off the month with a plan to use some money I received as a gift with the instructions "use it for something fun" and it quickly went beyond that. Oops. So here's where I am with the projects I worked on this month. I've managed to attach all my heptagons to the afghan and work a row of black around the whole thing. I also started making half circles on top. It's been so long I forget if I did the original one with a 4.00 or 4.25 hook. I'm using 4.25 this time around but think I may go down. I'm also using two strands so I don't know if it'll really make that much of a difference. We'll see when I pick it up next. I finished my second whirl lapghan. Frogged the outer part as I realized the pattern was written incorrectly and the corners were placed wrong. I finished two pages of Fantasy Triptych, minus special stitches, over ones, and beads.  I picked up Insanity again. A...