Kimono Revisited is Complete!

The finished piece is 15" X 18" on 24 ct. pale blue Congress cloth (24 ct), using various ThreadWorX, DMC (cotton, rayon *and* metallic) and Carrie's Creations (Black Cherry) threads and several shades of Kreinik #8 and #12 braid. The color scheme is called "Electric Blue" with the purple is my "spin" on the original thread collection. It was a Shining Needle Society on-line class from John Waddell which started last December 1, 2011.

Now to figure out how to finish it...

2012 - A Year of Challenges - Week Forty-One

I haven't touched "Birds of a Feather" in over two weeks, and TAST - week 41 is barely in progress. It's been a busy week off the needle and all I have accomplished, really, is completion of a Mitten & Mini-Sock. But I can share the latest update on "Kimono-Revisited" which I caught up on October 8:

2012 - A Year of Challenges - Week Thirty-NIne

First of all, I finished week thirty-nine of Take a Stitch Tuesday - the Knotted Buttonhole Stitch:

Here is the page with the September stitches:

And I also stitched the September installments of "Kimono- Revisited":

In all, a pretty productive week, I think!

WIPocalypse for August's "Blue Moon"!

What did I do this past "moon"? 

Well, there were 

• the Take a Stitch Tuesday stitches: Cast On stitch, Pekinese Stitch, Linked Double Chain and sheaf stitch. The completed TAST "page" for August is:

• The August Stash Buster from Janet Perry 
• The August Mittens & Mini-Socks form Janet Perry --- both a mitten and a sock 
• The August Color Through the Ages from Janet Perry 
• the August parts for "Kimono - Revisited":

• The August Color Palette Challenge/Crazy Quilt Journal/Bead Journal Project block
• and quite a bit on "Birds of a Feather":

Basically caught up, but tomorrow there will e more Kimono sections, Tuesday will bring another TAST, and there are certainly Mittens & Mini-socks, Color through the Ages twinchies and stash busters waiting n the wings as well.

I'm already collecting charts and ideas for next year's fair theme (Kitchens and cookery) sand hope to start kitting up a few of those soon (and other entry candidates) soon. Meanwhile, my craft space is crying out for a little heavy-duty clean-up and organize time.