Sew Dance

Well, I changed projects again. As I only added one more row to The Accolade, there's no reason to take a new picture. I did start this one again. I'm pretty near the end but I didn't have much time to work on it this week. I got through the first week of classes. My classes, although detracting time from my crafting, don't seem too bad, certainly easier than my undergraduate degree. I have scriptwriting, post-production management, a television studio class where I get to learn all the equipment and jobs to run a live TV show, and then how to use After Effects and video editing using Final Cut Pro 7. Of course NY decided to be freezing this week and caused me not to explore the neighborhood around my school too much just because I didn't want to freeze. I did however come across a candy shop across the street which I will check out later.

Well, maybe not new on the cross-stitch front. Still working on The Accolade. I finished 11 more rows this past week. The sleeve has a lot of color changes. I now have 109 rows completed out of 425 making me about 25% complete on this piece. Another 3289 stitches completed and an estimated 380 hours of work so far. I don't know how much longer I'll keep working on this piece. The dark background is starting to get to me but at least by going across all 6 pages it's kept my attention. There are way too many pure background pages with nothing interesting going on in them in this piece. I went dancing for four hours last Sunday. Ended up not being able to move well until Thursday when the muscles around my hips/butt stopped hurting. I realize they end up being sore when I'm not using proper technique or am dancing on bent knees for a while. I may end up going to this party while I'm going to school unless I can find a practice partner. Tuesday is the start of cl...

I pulled out The Accolade from GK this week. I managed to complete 10 rows this week. 2,990 stitches. And I didn't even work on it Friday. I've managed to nearly complete the cuff on her arm and another face over to the right. I'll be happy when I get rid of that dark background but that won't be for a while yet. I probably could have taken a better picture. A week from Tuesday I start classes for my masters degree so I'll have a bit less time for my crafts. I got my books Friday and then went to see Newsies on Broadway. It made me wish I was singing and dancing on the stage myself. I miss that.

I finished Sebastian with Roses. Isn't he cute? I had my first and final dance lesson of the year the other day. At least for a while. Between going back to school and no income, it's hard to pay for dance lessons. I'm going to miss it but I will be trying to find some way to keep dancing, even if I'm not taking lessons. I came home to find Onyx on my computer chair. If I hadn't turned on the light, I might have sat on her. This morning I found her sleeping on the floor vent of my parents room. Silly kitty. I was crocheting a small order of scarves today. I should be finished with them later tonight. I put some more thought into my stitching goals for the year. I've decided to work on The Accolade (I noticed GK released a new version that is lighter and includes the upper window) and my insanity piece. I'm also going to try to finish Peacock Tapestry but I have to be in the right mindset to start that one again due to have to frog almost al...

Happy New Year! And a happy birthday to me. I have been crocheting afghans all week. I bought my missing yarn for the one I had been working on and picked up what was needed for one I saw earlier. My circular afghan in Barrington, Tudor, Regency, and Mixed Berries. It is really soft, and really large. I haven't measured it but the pattern said it's about 54" across. Then there's this hexagonal pinwheel-ish afghan in Quartz. It's considerably smaller and is more a lapghan than and afghan. Both are made with Homespun. Onyx was really looking cute the other day as she lay next to me. (Please ignore my messy bed)   Today (ok, it was 11pm on new year's eve) I started Sebastian with Roses. I need to choose which GK WIP I'll work on through the year. I have a choice of mainly browns, or blue/green. Or I could always go back to In the Garden but that's almost all gray/black. I may start a new TW, or I could fix what I did wrong and try a...

I started this blog one year ago today. I figure I might as well sum up the past year. While I feel 2012 was a bad year for me in general, it was a good year for my crafting. These were my resolutions for last year: 1. Lose another 10 lbs. 2. Finish at least one cross-stitch project that I have in my stash. 3. Organize my craft closet. While I didn't complete #1, I did lose a few pounds. They all came off the first two weeks in December while I did nothing but work on my crafts in my bed while watching Murder She Wrote via Netflix. Go figure. As for #2, I exceeded this goal by finishing five cross-stitch pieces. Granted three of them were acquired after I made that resolution and weren't in my stash... I really outdid myself if you count all the scarves I made. I did complete #3, everything was nicely organized and put away. Then I got more yarn and it got messy again. Oh well. As for my blog, I got over 7,500 views. My most popular posts were my opinions on Dancin...

I was going to post this on Saturday, but it got too late. Sunday I just forgot about it. Then it was Christmas Eve so I decided to delay the posting just in case I got something crafty for Christmas. I didn't, but I did get a donut maker. Maybe I'll get something for my birthday next week. Anyway, onto the craft updates. I was working on this felt stocking for the beginning of the week until I got another order of scarves that needed to be done for Christmas presents. Its close to being finished. I'm planning on selling it on Etsy for next Christmas. So the name at the top and the back will be on hold until then. I had to pick up a few colors for the scarves I didn't have so I decided to get the yarn to make an afghan. I had seen a pattern for on the back of of homespun label. A preview of it is below in the colors I chose. I ran out of yarn and will have to buy some tomorrow. It's a simple circular afghan in four colors. I then pulled this counted nee...