Sew Dance

Let me start with my minimal update to Waterfall Dragons. I don't know whether it's the colors or the fact that I was parking with them, I had trouble wanting to continue this piece. I did ten rows then switched projects. The dice gave me a tree skirt which I then used for January's 24 Hours of Cross Stitch marathon challenge. Before and After photos: And this is the size of the fabric I'm working with. Very stiff 11 count Aida. I have large pieces of fabric, but they're all evenweaves and will easily roll up out of the way. Fabric is actually folded in half. That side remains unstitched. I really want to buy yarn/cross stitch kits and am testing my willpower. I have shopping carts on various sites but haven't pressed the order button, yet...

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...

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.

So close to a page finish with Waterfall Dragons. I'm getting really tired of the dark colors but I will push through the last 15 rows. And a bit of an early Christmas present to myself. The HAED Christmas addicts packet arrived with all these goodies inside. So, spent some time baking this weekend for Christmas Eve. All this... Turned into these... I spent a fair amount of time at my parents so you get fun photos and videos of Clyde. I think I woke him up. I had to pick up the tree skirt because he kept attacking it. The beads were coming undone and going everywhere, partially my fault, mainly his. He still sits under the tree. I call this one "sniff, sniff, zoom" Excuse my zooming, I was trying to zoom out, but one finger was on the slider that I didn't realize was in the middle of the screen. This is the look I got after I sneezed. For the record, I average about 8 in a row and sound like a cat. Did I say something to ...

I'm about 1/3 of the way through page 2 of Waterfall Dragons now. But I took a small break to make a new ornament. Also spent time rearranging how things were stored in my craft closet (of doom) So I could use this as a way of picking my next project. Almost everything ends with a roll of a D20. And saw Clyde. Here he is in his tree. Looking into getting him a new (taller) one for Christmas. Maybe not in Beige.

I did finish another crocheted item, but that's a Christmas present so I shall post it later. In the meantime, back to Waterfall Dragons and the attempt to finish the 10,000 stitch HAED challenge. I need to do another 20 rows or so by Christmas Eve. And believe it or not, my parents have never put up a Christmas tree with Clyde. This is his third Christmas with us and his first tree. He likes sitting under it (as did Onyx), but seems confused otherwise. Did nibble on the 'needles' a bit when I first put it up. But as it's a 30 year old artificial tree, I don't think it tasted very good. He did however like the pile of Xmas stuff bins we had on the stairs.

I finished page 1 of Waterfall Dragons. And I finally got a picture of Clyde in his hiding spot when the guys redoing the kitchen start banging and drilling. Poor kitty.

I don't feel like I accomplished much this week. Ended up playing on my phone more than working on this: Started something new and so far that's held my attention. Clyde's dealing with the kitchen construction and getting ready for Halloween.

I finished the Study of Planet Earth CAL. Yay! Another project done. However I did buy the yarn this year. After putting my last bit of stash in my craft closet (of doom) I'm pretty sure I have more than I started the year with. Oh well. Plenty of time to catch up on some things before the end of the year with the way my job search is going. And this is progress on my friend's afghan. However the temp climbed up and this one is getting a bit large so back to cross stitching. So, I made a  facebook page  for my Lilla Rose business. I've been thinking, they make good shawl pins. Use one to keep your shawl on at a wedding, then when you warm up from dancing, pin your hair up. Hehe. No nibbles on the job front quite yet, despite the increased views on my LinkedIn . Might start looking for places to be a vendor, assuming they don't have a big upfront cost.

So this is all I got to for Waterfall Dragons before developing a crick in my neck for a few days. Which led to going back to this until it started getting a little too warm. And then starting this which is a wedding present for a former co-worker. She chose the yarn and pattern. I was worried the pattern would get lost in the yarn, but it's turning into a nice gradient. So, not sure what Clyde was looking at here. But I did get him on TV for Black Cat Appreciation day. Speaking of work, I will no longer have a job by the middle of November. A contract was not renewed so my services (along with about 150 other people) will no longer be required. The closure many people, including governors in two states, weighing in as a local TV news outlet will be disappearing. That being said, I've started job hunting again. Any help would be appreciated and I will really have to stick to my "no stash buying" rule I tried to implement earlier this month.....