Sew Dance

I finished frog pile! Here's a pictures without backstitching. And one with backstitching and a few french knots. I'm going to do a bit of crochet for a while. Build up my inventory for my Etsy page.

My current progress on my frogs. Several things happened this week. Tuesday, my phone dropped onto the driveway, landing screen down and it cracked. I need to find a place to replace it. Thankfully everything else on the phone is functional. My rosebush is in bloom. A bit later than usual this year due to the weather. And finally, my partner and I participated in a competition yesterday. We got a 3rd and a 2nd in the Samba, Cha Cha, Rumba rounds and won both Jive contests.

All 11 frogs have been started. I'm getting close to finishing all of the stitches. Then to backstitch. I also had to buy a new Daylight lamp this week. I had two of the same design I bought about 10 years ago. One I kept at home, the other in my dorm room. The same thing happened to both, the foot switch stopped working from use. There was a loose connection so I opened the housing, but after I put it together again, it would take several tries to get it to switch on again. Lately, it got even more tedious to turn it on. I even exposed the actual switch the past few days but could feel it was dying. So, I bought the latest version. The old lamp is in front, the newer one is the one in back. I'm happy to announce the switch is a normal lamp switch and not a foot switch. Additionally, the height of the lampshade is adjustable. I am not happy about the new length and placement of the pattern holder and magnifying glass. The older one had them on the tray and the...

First the finish. One of my travel patterns that lives in my purse. Came with 'dog' charted and 'cat' as the alternate. Now for my frogs. I started on the 2nd page of my working chart. And as a bonus photo, Onyx doing her imitation of a hobo. For some reason she had been lying like this for a while. Silly kitty.

Not much has changed since last week. My job took up a good chunk of the week. Barely had time to sleep by the time I got home and then had to get up again to return to the set.  Had a lot of downtime on Friday and worked on one of my travel kits. I'll post that next week. Something I forgot to mention last week. I started to look through HEAD's website, and make a wishlist. I somehow came upon 505 charts I wanted to stitch. Yeah... Not going to happen. I will eventually make it through and bump some higher on the list but didn't have enough time. Although, I did convince a co-worker to try cross-stitch. She bought a kit and I'll teach her during some downtime on our final day Monday/Tuesday.

This post can alternatively be called. I have no luck lately. Last week, the tops of the frogs were barely visible. This week, you can see four and I've started on the fifth. I also broke down and bought some yarn. I got everything pictured for under $20 from Goodwill. All cotton, a combination of Glace, Cabled Mercerised Cotton, and Nice, the latter two are discontinued. My best haul was the six balls of blue cabled pictured at the top. As for the no luck, for almost a month I've been dealing with the ramifications of being caught in a fraud scam. That reared it's head again a few days ago and today I got rear-ended while stopped for a light. That's on top of still not having a job. I do have something this coming week, but it's unpaid for five 12-16 hour days, including two overnight shoots. So my current mood is a combination of depressed and annoyed.

I started the week by going back to In the Garden. By Thursday, after working on it a bit. I realized I was tired of the color scheme (grey/blues) and decided to switch. I went to my next random number and it was one I hadn't started yet. Say hello to Frog Pile. Nice bright colors. Not bad progress for about two days of work.