Sew Dance

Happy New Year! Today is the start of a new year of craft projects. And I already have my first finish. A round crochet owl pillow. Isn't he cute? Not too happy he took up nearly 3/4 of a bag of fiberfill to stuff him though... Currently working on the square sibling. May buy a pillow form and stuff around that.

Well, today in New York it was almost 70 degrees in the middle of December. Very strange. I didn't get much crafting done. An interview (didn't get the job), and putting up the tree, along with facebook being a distraction, made for very little done this week. But I can show you something I finished last week.  Isn't it cute? Next owl is almost done. And speaking of the tree, look who I found under it. Why? Oh, forgot last week (almost forgot this week too) I won threads from a contest tiffstitch held. Aren't they pretty?

I've finished another page. It's a small page, but it completes row 2. Started the border of the CAL. And made a friend for my bunny from last week. I also won a chart from the Counted Wishes Festival.  I chose Ms. Sable from Blueladie Designs . I also caved and bought the following. Halloween Fairy, Sunflower Fairy, and Crystal Tree chart downloads and Lilac Fairy, a Vervaco kit that's been on m y wishlist for a while. All from Herrschners. I also decided last minute to participate in Camp NaNoWriMo. My goal is 10,000 words for the month. It's more an exercise into writing daily than to try and get a first draft of a novella out.

My progress so far on Fantasy Triptych. So happy I get to work with a colors other than gold/brown and "stone". Started another afhgan. Have to make 98 of these spirals before joining.   Also picked up the cathdral rose window afghan and ran out of gemstone. It's sort of discontinued. Pick up a skein on Ebay, it's close enough even with the longer color changes. Thankfully, it's going to be used on 'heptagons'. I can intersperse the newer yarn with the older and hopefully no one will be able to tell. (kinked yarn in the newer one) Also started the Leaflines shawlette. I have tried this one twice before and finally am happy with the yarn and color changes. Ideally the color changes wouldn't be quite so long. Saturday afternoon, there were 3 deer, a mohter and two babies eating mushrooms outside my house. I took a few pictures through the window.   I then went to work. Came home the following morning to this guy walking...