Sew Dance

I have a page finish and a bit more to complete the latest HAED 10,000 stitches challenge. Here's what Pattern Keeper looks like after zooming out. I have a long way to go. 3799 has over 100,000 stitches just on it's own... But, onto the next project. I do have to catch up with the Lanarte Mystery SAL. But I spent some time this week on my stash cataloging (check out my projects page). I have a lot of patterns in my bottom drawer (and I just ordered a few more). I think I mentioned last week I'm going to take photos of my hand-dyed collection and try and pair them with some of my no-background charts. And I've been thinking about participating in Stitch Maynia this year. However I don't know if that would be a variation on my dice rolling, or suspend it. I actually have the material to start 30 HAED charts. However I think I'd stick to kits and some pieces that were given in whole skeins only. Still up in the air for now. Maybe I'll do a...

I didn't continue with the stocking. Wound up with a new knitting project. Got this far before pinching my finger with my tripod making it uncomfortable for me to hold the needle. So, new project, again. The dice gave me a new crochet kit. The most easily accessible on being this afghan which I don't really remember buying. Oops. It happens to be Tunisian crochet. I haven't done much of that technique, but while simple enough, getting gauge correct was a PITA. It's not wide enough, yet it's too tall. Given the mosaic nature, if I can't get it correct, the piece won't look good. I didn't feel like dealing with it given so many others that wouldn't frustrate me, so I rolled again. New cross stitch. It's Only Forever SSMC. This was my bead stash that came in for 5 different projects. Also caved to the HAED sale. Most are no background to pair with my hand dyed fabric. The Spangler was because I missed baseball. ...