Sew Dance

Part 3 of the Wonderland Wrap CAL took a lot longer than expected. I kept messing up which didn't help. The pattern wasn't that hard but I would on occasion forget a puff or forget to secure the second puff. Finished another block of 10 across all 6 pages. Was starting the next row of blocks and suddenly got hit with, 'I'm tired of seeing dark colors.' So back to the dice. Rolled 'organized/inventory bin 5. Which included the yarn for the sports pillows. I knew I had the pattern in a different bin so I finished up the basketball which I had started years ago. I got the kit in 2015. Made half, though it looked weird with the rippling, stopped. Apparently I never blogged about it. And stuffing a 14" round pillow form into something only 10" wide took care of the rippling. Hardest part was trying to get the backstitching straight on something that was made in the round. I tried, but still a little wonky. Someone posted about a mystery SAL...

Finally finished converting The Accolade from parking to cross country. Yay! It took a bit longer because my yarn order came and I started the Hobbii CAL, Wonderland Wrap. My yarn order. May have gone overboard, but I do have a project in mind for everything. And Clyde. Just because.

The non-counted cross stitch wasn't too bad at first. Tried to follow the stitching via the backstitching. Figured I could fudge a bit here and there. Ribbons fine, forelock: decent. Main: ugh. I don't know if I need to fudge the main, start one stitch lower, bring up what I had already put on the blue ribbon. Anyway, this is back in my closet. Picked up The Accolade, but realized the PDF I was sent was a different version. Original 6 patterns from GK were pre-password. While waiting for the correct one I made my Mom a scarf for her birthday. I called it Sully because it reminded me of the character from Monsters Inc. And progress on The Accolade now that I have it working on Pattern Keeper. Arab Tent and Insanity have different symbols, but seem to match up pattern-wise. Easier to redo my floss cards than to try and mess with the files. Plus, I can put the blends in the same order as PK and make them easier to find. And on a different note, I got Clyde a new c...

Almost got through the first page. I would've kept going with this piece but my left index finger was protesting. The last knuckle is somewhat double jointed and I may have strained it gripping the needle to pull 6/12 strands of floss through the holes on this really stiff aida. so, back to the dice. I managed 20 diamonds for this 'ozark star mandala afhgan' pattern. But constantly repeating 3 rounds was boring. So the dice brought me to my linen closet stash and this came out, an ebay purchase of an old kit. It's billed as counted cross stitch but... Wish me luck. Contains bullions, french knots, lasy daisies, and smyrna crosses. And I know I said no stash, but I had a hard week dealing with my health insurance company and needed a present. So I bought yarn. It should arrive sometime this week. At least I have a project in mind for every skein?

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 have four balls of this yarn for about 780 yards in total. I think I initially bought it for a scarf, thinking the colors looked kind of fall-ish. As most scarf patterns call for roughly half, I can either pair it with a matching hat or find something else entirely. This post will be updated when I figure out what to do with it. Suggestions welcome.