Sew Dance

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.

So finished up a few more ornaments this week. Switched to a bigger project since I'm off this week. Went to my rotation and got this one out. Fun fact, page 2 contains the halfway mark for the width. Haven't made it that far for a HAED before. And more stash. This came in three packages, all left from Chicago at the same time. One arrived last Thursday. One got diverted to Albany somehow and arrived Saturday. And the third took a detour through North Carolina. Given the state of the bag, it may have gotten caught on something else, thus the road trip. I have patterns picked out for some of these, others are still up in the air. Pattern suggestions welcome. The pink, red/black, and black/pink/gray have a metallic thread running through them.

So, as I said, my HAED challenge piece has a very uninteresting first page (or two, three, seven...) However it did get cool for a few days so I did some crochet. Started this one. And restarted this one. Still can't get gauge, but I don't care. Maybe it'll stretch out with weight/rounds. Some new stash I mentioned. This was a mystery pack of an alpaca/silk blend from Expression Fiber Arts. I like the colors. Also came in the cute (matching) owl envelope behind it. And new fabrics. No clue what I'm putting on them. Maybe the MAP mystery from Ink Circles on the top right? More stash in the mail.

...has appeared. Haha. If you thought the title was referring to my craft closet (of doom), you get a point. Only because I need to fix that again. I held off buying anything this week again, although I was tempted. Also tried to sell some crochet at ta tag sale. Wrong crowd. No sales, handed out cards, and got a sunburn on my left arm (forgot sunscreen). I did get some free yarn though. DMC #10, Red Heart TLC, and some fuzzy yarn I've never heard of. All of which is currently hiding in a closet.

I've gotten into a book series which has eaten into my crafting time this week. Page is almost done, just haven't finished it off, yet. Started a shawl.   And a shirt. And my yarn order came.  These were free gift, I think.   And here's some fabric I picked up. Mostly cotton with lycra. These are the colors for an afghan for a friend, but I'm not happy with the 2nd to last colors. Have another one coming. If that doesn't match better I'll just pick one because I'm out of options at that point. Although my camera makes it look like the bottom matches a bit better than I thought.  

The 2nd peacock.   Also made this. And here's Onyx laying between 2 pillows and a folded afghan. I also succumbed to ABC Stitch's 20% off sale. I did stick to the clearance page. I had been perusing it a week ago. A few things I saw had gone by the time I decided to actually order something.    Also bought yarn for a Mystery CAL . Rather, my mom bought it. She picked out the colors. She's been wanting an afghan for a while but could never tell me exactly what she wanted. Yarn on the left is the main color.

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...

It's really the end of August already? Sheesh. Anyway, spent a bit more time this week on my cross stitch. Finished a shawl. It's currently being blocked. The rest of my yarn came. The patterns, the needles and the pink yarn on the left was a free gift due to a promotion when I ordered the rest of the stuff. And I started something new. Well, two new things but one ended up having mistakes in the pattern so I'm waiting on a response from the company.   This cute little kitten was hanging around the location I was filming at last Sunday. Bit skittish but I got it to bump it's nose against my finger. There was another cat, that I assume was it's mother, who was much more friendly.

Not much more done with the cross-stitch. But I only work on it a day or two. I finished two things. First is the Sun Blossom Mandala Doily. And I just finished this one about 10 minutes ago, 'Yes, Yes Shawl' made with Red Heart's Unforgettable in Tidal. Still working on this shawl. Got a little stuck because of an error. Will have to redo the last 3 rows. Then here's part 1 of the stash I ordered Sunday. All cotton except for the blue cashmere/linen on the top left and the silks to the right of that. And all fingering/lace weight except for the purple DK at the top right. And the sewing patterns. 64, whittled down from 82 I believe. At some point this week, I'll put them on my pinterest board. Back to work on some things I've already started before beginning something with my new yarn.