plugging along

No pictures today! I've been working on Follow Me, and I even put a few stitches on Cougar. That had me thinking. Cougar has been a UFO for at least 5 years, possibly more. When I was putting the stitches in, it felt different than what I remember. I do believe that when I bought cougar, it was really close to the time I started using Linen/evenweaves rather than aida. Probably not the best project to start on for a linen novice. It was also my first time in a real LNS. (which sadly is no more.) I'm much more confident on the linen now and really feel I can get this thing done so long as I keep working at it.

I also used to tape the edges. Cougar is all taped up and I'm cringing at it hahah. I stopped doing that ages ago!

Since I made the goal of no new stash (must.. resist..maybe something for my birthday? that's OK right? RIGHT?) and no finishing this year, I am getting a rather neat pile of rolled up stitching. For some reason I think that is really cool and I like looking at it when I open the drawer. I never thought I'd be the type to have finishes laying around, but here I am!

Well I better wrap this up, I'm taking Mom out to go for a bit of clothes shopping. Oh yeah, I totally have a rant about that. Why do clothing places think that the heavier you weigh, the taller you must be? And I mean this is from stores that make their money from clothes meant for larger women, so they should KNOW their clientele. 20 years ago when I bought pants, I was considered regular height. Now I have to shop in petites and I'm still 5'5" tall. That's not petite. I didn't suddenly shrink. rabblerabblerabble!

Take care!

Paladin finish!

Yay Paladin is finally done. On Thursday I was super stoked to work on him thanks to everyone's motivation! Friday was a bust, thanks to MINECRAFT. I had full intention to work on it but Tim logged in earlier than he normally does and we ended up playing til I had work. Work was a full 6 hours packed with back to back clients. Then I came home and played MINECRAFT again til after 1am. Really cuts into stitching time so I don't recommend getting it hahah.

This morning I finished up the last bits I had. And would you believe I stitched and frogged the top part of his head 3 times? I did. I also made the mistake of watching/listening to NY INK on TLC and there was this really happy story about this girl who got implants in her ears that enable her to hear after 29 years of being deaf and I ended up crying through that. I'm a total sap.

I guess I should show paladin eh?

don't mind the cat butt

Happy Dance!

Another weekend flew by

and I feel like I've accomplished nothing. For stitching anyway. I did do a lot of cleaning and laundry and spent a lot of time with my mom. I also got sucked into playing Minecraft for hours on end. What's fun about Minecraft is that you can make things with cross stitch patterns! My friend and I made this Pony from a pattern I found:

On to the updates! Paladin is really close to being done, and I keep waffling on working on it! mm waffles.

And I did a teeny bit more on Follow Me

That's about it for now. Hopefully by next update I'll have that darn dragon DONE! :)

Follow me

I started Follow Me by Primitive Needle today. I couldn't stand having it in my to-do drawer any longer, not with my new Hardwicke Manor hoops sitting idle and that really yummy Belle Soie fiber sitting there. It is amazing to work with, and so soft. Too bad the stuff is like 7 dollars a skein. Wayy too expensive for this gal, if I had to use more than one colour, that is. I'm using the same fabric I'm doing Paladin on, Stormy Gray 28 count evenweave. I figured since it was supposed to be like a tombstone, it should be on a gray fabric. :)

I actually meant to save this project for October, but yeah. I'm glad I'm doing it now haha. Who knows, I might just stash it away til then now that I have gotten my new start fix in! That is the 8.5 inch hoop there. I'm really glad I bought them. They feel so nice!

Weezi wasn't ready for his close up apparently. Either that or the Ott-Lite was too bright for him haha.

I hope everyone is having a great Caturday! :)

I wanna be the very BEST

Well remember all those Pokepatterns I found? I stitched up Umbreon!

Isn't it cute? That's one down, 3 more to go! Next up are Flareon, Evee, and Espeon.

I have a gripe with Michaels. You see, I was there the other day, and their thread section left a lot to be desired. I ended up having Tim order the rest of the thread that was needed to finish his pokemon because they were out of like all the colours I went there for. Grrr.

I also got my Hardwicke Manor Hoops, and I lubs them. I'm also very impressed with Traditional Stitches. They're based in Alberta (yay Canada) and Janice answered my questions I had about the hoops in a very timely manner, AND shipped them within 24 hours of ordering. She also packaged them very nicely. Overall I won't hesitate to do business again with her. As for the hoops, I got the 6 inch (5/16 width) and the 8.5" and 10" (5/8 width). The 10 is for cougar pretty much once I've dug her out of the craft storage.

I haven't been neglecting paladin!

In retrospect, I should have sucked it up and found where I made the error, because trying to work around it is driving me crazy (very short drive...). I'll be glad once it's done.

That's about it! Happy Stitching :)

Weekend!

It's my weekend, yaaay. We had a bit of a snowfall overnight, which I can now enjoy. When I have to drive in it, I'm a complete mess anxiety-wise.

My vehicle is hiding behind our Christmas tree. I like having a potted one like that, we can bring it in during the holidays, and put it out for the birds to play in the rest of the year!

Here is my progress on paladin. Pre-Tudors. I'll be watching that all day while I stitch haha.

So here is the website to all the pokemon patterns. I had my friend pick out three that he liked. Espeon, Evee, and Umbreon. I'll be stitching up those three for him, and he picked out one more that he's going to attempt to stitch himself! That's right, he's going to learn to stitch! When I'm finished and ready to mail them to him, I'll also be sending fabric, the threads, needle, and hoop to get him started on his project. I also have a small DMC kit (very small) that I got from signing up for some cross stitch club they had a few years back to help teach other people to stitch that I'll send along as well.

I am a horrible teacher, but he's a smart cookie so I'm sure it won't be that hard. :D Once the snow clears a bit I'll head down to Michaels to pick up the supplies I need for the three four!


I hope everyone is having a great day. :)

I'm pretty awesome

I was fooling around with blogspot settings the other day and disabled the comments link. Thankfully my friend Amanda emailed me about it lol. Whoops!

Still chugging along on paladin, but no pics just yet. I am a bit off on the pattern but I'm working around it. :)

I found a bunch of pokemon patterns (uh oh) and I know who is perfect for them. Which then led me to search for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic patterns.

I'm in trouble.