WIP myself into shape, Week 51

and nothing to show for it --- Christmas is getting in the way of stitching!

Anyone have any clue as to why my photos are disappearing and will NOT reload from my computer? I haven't heard from customer service and it's bugging me!

Problems with this blog

For some reason, photos are disappearing from both blog posts and photo albums... in a somewhat random manner. The ones with issues are the 2011 album http://thatyankstitches.multiply.com/photos/album/19/My_2011_Stitchery, the Bargello Club album  http://thatyankstitches.multiply.com/photos/album/22/Janet_Perry_Bargello_Club_2011and two blog posts here: http://thatyankstitches.multiply.com/journal/item/209/Two_of_the_bonus_Bargello_pieces_complete and here: http://thatyankstitches.multiply.com/journal/item/204/WIP_myself_into_shape_Week_31 (After half an hour and five attempts, I managed to fix a third blog post...)

Attempts at reloading the pictures are failing. So if you are looking at my site, apologies! I have a request for help into customer service --- who knows how long that will take...

Cupcake I, the December Bargello Club entry

Think devils-food cake cupcakes with butter cream icing...


There's a "second" model in the instructions with a background but I need different colors to work that as my canvas is white and white next to that white icing won't work, I think.

The last Bead Journal piece for 2011...

December "Holidays"--- done in turquoise (since that is the birthstone for the month) and adorned with a rather pathetic free-form poinsettia!

WIP myself into shape, Week 50

Nothing to show for this week. I worked, off and on, on the December BJP and it's not ready yet...

WIP myself into shape, Week 49

Sewing with Mama! --- 

the background stitchery is finished (unless I fond a missing stitch when doing the top stitching, that is... that often happens). I even got in some of the blending filament work (Cross stitched a pair of scissors near the sewing machine needle) and all the French knots (pin heads on the pin cushion to the right of the machine, because they used the same blending thread as the scissors,  as well as attached to the machine arm, and four on the sewing machine balance wheel, just because!)! Now to decipher the very cryptic backstitch. straight stitch, and couching directions since all the lines on the stitching chart are of the same color, weight and thickness, one has to be able to determine just what constitutes an item like "heavy" straight stitches on the sewing machine, etc...

I suspect it will sit this weekend through since I did a thorough count of kitted up pieces: 8 Learn a Stitch stockings from Janet Perry, one Bargello Club piece, two Stash Busting Club pieces, and the December BJP await! And the messages and tutorials are already flying in the Kimono-revisted class. I did get the the "Frog Pile" framed and the Christmas gift box lid assembled through. The exchange is December 20, so they need gift wrapping now!

WIP myself into shape, Week 48

Working on the printed "fabric" to the left --- driving me nuts as that is where I need to do a LOT of fudging due to the one counting mistake I made way back in August - a counting mistake which has compounded itself as time passed! Still, that piece is pretty abstract and fudging won't make much of a difference (I hope!). 


The second installment of the Stash Busting Club arrived yesterday and I haven't even kitted out the first one yet! AAACK! These are larger pieces than the Bargello Club studies and all have purposes which are not my usual stitching goals. We shall see if I can convert them to my purpose. And December BJP is calling out to me --- maybe this weekend, after Christmas cards and the like!...