Sew Dance

I have it all this week. First, I finished my dragon filet crochet. I switched to a new cross-stitch. And I started some new crochet. A necklace, A mandala, and a shawl (with marino wool!) I also got a new catalog in the mail (for some reason it was addressed to my mom) from The Stitchery. Lots of lovely patterns but I'm resisting. I also resisted buying anything at a local yarn store I popped into. Too much wool and unhappy with the colors of one yarn I wanted to buy. However I've done practically nothing today because I've been fighting with the McCall website due to it's extreme sluggishness. The 99 cent out of print sale may have something to do with that. But it's made it hard to look at the patterns then cull them. In the meantime, I've made yarn lists on two other websites, one of which I will be purchasing. (Help me?) There are just too many lovely things I want to make.

I've made progress on my projects. Maybe not so much on the cross-stitch this week... But definitely on the dragon filet... And I even got the motif on the ocean vista dress done after realizing row 11 & 12 were not written correctly. Mainly 11. Now to make sure my gauge is correct for the Tunisian parts.

My progress on Dancing Couple. The dragon filet. And look! I finished the lacy cami. A little too poofy for my tastes now that I finished it. Onto etsy it goes. Oh, if the 'skirt' looks different from the last time I posted it, it is. I ripped it out completely and redid it after realizing the 'v-stitch' directions were wrong. (They said ch 1, the remaining instructions always referred to ch 2) The change made the it a much looser, less poofy fabric. I still required an extra ball of yarn than the directions said I would. I didn't get as much done this week as I usually do. I had a two day job as a videographer for an equestrian event. Up at 4am, be there at 6am, show started about 8am, done around 5pm. I've included some pictures I took of the course (in between horses). The first picture is of my company for the morning of the first day. After this I'm really convinced I need to find a full-time...

I worked on four projects this week. Only three of which I have photos. First up, my cross-stitch. My tunisian tee, which for some reason has the wrong orientation. And the last picture is of the dragon filet. The one I don't have a photo of is the neapolitan ripple afghan.

A little bit of cross-stitch too. Started 'Dancing Couple' although my focus this week was still crochet. These were my two main projects for the week, both I was having trouble figuring out the patterns. Dragon filet and the tunisian tshirt. The dragon had a small mistake and with the tee, the loop on the hook already counted as the first stitch. I tried starting the Ocean Vista dress but I'm having trouble with the motif pattern beyond the small size. It doesn't help that the pictures I can find are not for the larger sizes. The directions for one row are making it unsymmetrical. I also bought a yarn winder because I had to make size 10 skeins be center pull balls. So they went from looking like the ones on the left to the ones on the right. So much nicer, and quicker, than my own hand wound balls.