WIPocalypse 2015 - September

Harvest Moon, Super Moon, Blood Moon, Total eclipse of the Moon! And all celebrating the death of my pizza stone (the stone cracked from side to side, to paraphrase the Scottish Play!) and my birthday! What an event. 

And now it's time to report in for WIPocalypse, where the topic of the moon is "Where do you buy most of your stitching supplies?"

Sadly, online, when I do buy, as we have no local needlework shop and the big box stores aren't very good about keeping what stock they do have up to date. 

I have a fairly large stash of DMC and Anchor which I "shop". so, lately,  I haven't bought much except for the odd skein of DMC when I find I have none of the right color (This shortage, by the way, is becoming more and more frequent.). I try to shop the DMC store online if possible for threads.

I do subscribe to a number of magazines and a few online sites, and, in the rare event that a pattern appeals to me (most, sadly, do not - altogether too twee for my taste), I will use them as my chart source. I rarely buy kits anymore if I can help it as I'm no fan of being shorted on threads or fabric (which has happened all too often in the past) and I try to avoid AIDA  (which most kits come with) at all costs.

As for fabric, I've been shopping my stash, although I am running low on the larger cuts and evenweaves so may have to splurge out in 2016. 

When I do buy charts, fabric and/or specialty threads, my shop of choice  is Needle in a Haystack in Alameda, CA (a treasure trove of goodies and a staff without equal! If they don't have it, they will try and find it, and I can't fault them for their service or their quality.).

So, last WIPocalypse, I set the following goals:

• September block for the Crazy Quilt Journal/ Bead Journal Projects (the block is assembled --- embellishment with stitchery and beads is all (yeah, all!) that is required = DONE

• Start on "Rematch of Roll Your Own", trying to get at least the outline completed and placement of "Revenge" and "Return" established. = Placement DONE

• and "Revenge" outline underway. Here is what it looks like now:
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I did divert from my goals, however, to complete a plastic canvas ornament which will be

part of a card/gift swap next month, and that meant I didn't stitch much at all on my two

BAPs.

So I will reset those goals, modify them somewhat, and add a few more for next month! My goals will be (not necessarily in the order listed):

• finish outline of "Revenge"
• put some stitches into "Save the Stitches" blackwork
• Design and prepare the base blocks for the Crazy Quilt/Bead Journal Project for October, November and December
• Complete the October blocks for the Crazy Quilt/Bead Journal Project
•  Quilt three placemats for the quilt guild holiday project

All this assumes that a weekend away at a papercrafting class and two football games (both mid-week night games) don't chase away my still rather fragile stitching mojo!