Sew Dance

I haven't updated in a while. Oops. Started with Cirque des Circles. Switched over to Once Upon a Fairytale for a while. I was stitching along and got to an 09 in the blue which looked odd. So I ripped out most of the 09 I had already done and restitched. By that point I wasn't into the pattern anymore. Started a new one Lord Melton the Stitching Dragon. I didn't get very far because of all the quarter stitches plus being somewhat braindead that week didn't mix. So onto RTO's Tango. Worked on this for about two weeks while trying to finish the latest draft of a script. Finished the draft and now want to work on something else. So I picked up Royal Games I just now. Also got a dragon on a spellbook. Rather large at 18x18.  

Page 2 is complete. Few stray stitches near the edges that I'll fill in with the neighboring pages. Then finished part 7 of the Mystery SAL. Still think it's a bird of some sort. And the dice picked this. May continue, may roll again. Did the gingerbread, candy cane, and spearamint on the right side. Next part is the heel... Some Clyde photos I took this week. Only place I've been is my parents. Was going to start a new job Monday, but have pushed back that start date until things are safer health-wise. I would have been commuting into Manhattan... Also bought stash, mostly to make/finish patterns already in my possession.

I caught up with the Lanarte Mystery SAL. Part 6 was quick and I finished that Friday. I made the tassels and attached them to the Wonderland Wrap CAL. I left it as is because it would've taken more time to figure out which 2 rows to remove. And back to OUaF and it's books. Didn't get as much time stitching on this because the very annoying noise caused in some capacity from a pipe behind my wall by my couch was being super annoying. So I went and read in my bed.

Books have appeared on page 2 of Once Upon a Fairytale.  I also finished part 4 of the Wonderland Wrap CAL. And since my Mystery SAL kit came Friday, I started stitching that. Managed to get part 1 done. Part 5 comes out Friday so hopefully part 5 of the Wrap doesn't take too long so I can get back to OUaF at some point this week. Don't know if anyone noticed, but I redid my 'pages' on my blog. I replaced my stash list page with projects. It should be more neatly organized and not have so many broken links. I started with in progress ones that I've worked on since I started my blog. I will continue to update with other WIPs, finished, and the rest of my stash. Also did some organizing/inventorying of my cross stitch fabrics. I pulled out my "bag of fabric" and made a list of the sizes. I have a better idea of the hand-dyed ones and hopefully can pair them with some no background pieces (Rudolph and Purple Dragon come to mind). I also m...

So I made the baseball to go with the basketball. And then the dice had me inventorying one of my fabric drawers. It was filled with remnants, linings, and over four yards of a stretch leopard. I figured I had projects in mind for the lining fabrics, and possibly the leopard. This isn't all of them, but it'll give you a good example of what's in my stash. Next roll brought me to a box. I knew which one I was going to work on, and it was right on top. So, one plastic canvas kit complete. Next project was Spirit of the Black Leopard which was my vacation project last year. I finished the first page. And now I'm back to Once Upon a Fairytale. I'm not doing good sticking to not buying stash. A rare 54% off sale at HAED allowed me to buy PDFs of most of my paper charts for less than the upgrade price. Which I couldn't use anyway because they were bought from a different retailer. And then I bought 3 new ones. And Clyde...

This is where I finished on Once Upon a Fairytale. Just shy of a page finish, but those colors wander onto adjacent pages. My first roll of the dice brought me to A Dragon's Best Friend, one of my rotation from last year. I did the top half of the second page. Next two rolls were some organizing/inventorying. I made this section of my apartment a tiny bit neater than this photo. And found these lovely skeins in a bin of ribbon ruffle yarn. Made  a post  to keep track of it and the eventual project. Next up, Oriental Butterfly. I've had this in my stash for a very long time and haven't worked on it in over 8 years as I had deemed it a travel project. I haven't traveled too much since then. Finished it up with the bottom third, the Chinese characters on the side, and of course, the backstitching. My first finish of 2020 and it's not an ornament. One New Year's Resolution complete. Two more organization rolls yesterday before the final rol...

.5% to 1.13% just from stitching cross country with Pattern Keeper for a week. Almost done with the first page. And my setup. Found a 10" Tab 4 at my parents. My dad wasn't using it anymore and it had the right OS version (barely). Bought a cheap cover for it to prop it up and reduce the glare from my lamp. Clyde enjoying a sunbeam in his tree during the almost 70 degree weather.

Current progress on Once Upon a Fairytale (.5%). I've started using Pattern Keeper on this one because my print out it unreadable on some tiny symbols. So far so good, but I will need a tablet to fully do a piece with the program. Was trying to use my old kindle fire, but the operating system is too old. Currently researching cheap androids so I don't have to deal with putting Google Play on it. Suggestions welcome. As I'm going to have some free time, is there other content you'd like to see from me? On the days my dice roll has me inventorying my stash, I figure I'd make a post about some of the yarn/fabric I'm not sure what project to make with it. Suggestions welcome, even if I would have to spin it off into another blog.

I finished page 2 of Waterfall Dragons. Next project is Once Upon a Fairytale, supersized max color. What have I gotten myself into? And this is a Christmas present I made, a hooded unicorn blanket. The recipient loved it and it was big enough for her to grow into it for a while.