Take A Stitch Tuesday 2012 Challenge - Week 28

This is the Up - and- Down (or Mirror) Buttonhole (or blanket) stitch;

I found the stitch pleasing and easy to do but I still have issues with circles!

Color Palette/Crazy Quilt Journal/Bead Journal Project for July...

The color palette comes from Judy Laquidara's Patchwork TImes and at Vicki Welsh's Field Trips in Fiber while the grid for the basic block was based on  Block 57 of the "I dropped the Button Box" crazy quilt at Pin Tangle. I used a lot more beads this time since I felt that the previous blocks had been getting skimpy with regard to the bead journal project part of things.

2102 - A Year of Challenges, Week 27

In the past week, I have completed a) three Christmas ornaments on perforated paper, b) one rather tacky attempt at TAST week 27, and c) the latest lesson from the Stash Busters. I took my fair entry form (five categories this year so I won't make my money back, even if I won first in all five) in to the fair office and I paid my entry fees.

On Sunday, I started a new project which I have had kitted up for some time - "Birds of a Feather", designed by by Yvonne Horn of Papillon Creations which was published in The Gift of Stitching. I'm stitching this on 32 ct pewter linen (not because I think it's the right color choice but it was the only piece of 32 ct I had that was large enough):

The border is basically half-done now...

I also started on my July Color Palette/Crazy Quit Journal/Bead Journal Project: 

The color challenge was based on a Picasso pastel shown and posted on Judy Laquidara's Patchwork TImes and at Vicki Welsh's Field Trips in Fiber: Funny thing was, as I was piecing together the block (based on Block 57 of the "I dropped the Button Box" crazy quilt at Pin Tangle), what kept coming to mind was a tee shirt I own from the University of Florida --- at least until I put in the yellow piece! LOL Go Gators!

Since it is so dratted HOT (100 before NOON, for gosh sakes ---I thought I'd left this kind of heat behind when we left Saudi Arabia!), I plan on stitching this afternoon after I get all my computer tasks done --- assuming, of course that my laptop stops dropping out --- so far, iPhoto has crashed twice and Safari once in less than 30 minutes!

Anyway on the stitching agenda today is "Kimono- Revisited" --- the instructor is getting antsy since it appears the entire class has slowed to a screeching halt on this thing, and has threatened dire consequences if we don't start posting pictures again!

Stash Buster completion...

Another in Janet Perry's Stash-busting Projects. It's called Gran's Afghan:


I was thinking of doing it all in shades of brown/beige/tan, of which I have a surfeit in my stash scraps but, when I realized how many blues I had in the last stash buster, I decided maybe a little Blue Delft made more sense. Trouble was, I only had 12 blues and I didn't want to repeat a color II have enough problems with random as it is) so I tossed a mental coin between greens (again, a surfeit) and purples and purple came up trumps (I had seven of them, JUST enough to use each one once the way this pattern worked out in a 4 x 4 inch square). So, DMC floss, ecru as the borders, blues as the larger "ring" and purples as the inner ring.

This one is meant to be a card case but, as with the others which had a specific " purpose", I went with an ornament size instead.

Take a Stitch Tuesday 2012 - week 27

The stitch was the bonnet stitch...

I KNOW that stitching with floss is not recomended for this stitch but it's what I have so,,,

It wasn't that hard of a stitch to do if I paid attention but I did have to back up and start a gain a few times as I'd lose my place...

My stitching reminds me of how a little kid, just learning to print, makes letters all wonky. Check out that circle --- and I actually drew a circle on the fabric too!  It can't ALL be the fault of the floss (or the fabric). It has to be me!

WIPocalypse 2012 - July 3, 2012

Hmmm... progress? Well, I have more or less caught up with everything except the "Kimono-Revisited" project which has stalled out at the place last reported.

Ornaments ala Round is done and framed and ready to register at the fair. Ditto "Sewing with Mama", the "set of "Purrfect" and "CatPack", and three sets of ornaments (one cross stitched, one on plastic canvas and one on perforated paper).

Color Through the Ages and Mittens & Mini-Socks are up to date as is the Stitch Guide class (which really doesn't have any stitching associated with it).

Take A Stitch Tuesday is up to date (not counting week 27 which arrived today)/

Stash Busters has a new piece to work on as does Color Palette/Crazy Quilt Journal/Bead Journal Project.

My new start is "Birds of a Feather", a design by Yvonne Horn of Papillon Creations from the late lamented Gift of Stitching, which I have kitted out and put on a frame. No real photo to show here...

Three more ornaments

I have never stitched on perforated card before so these are a first:


The shapes are from Tokens & Trifles (they are, respectively Style 2005 Kugels - left and center,  and 2006 Kugels - right), stitched in one strand DMC, and backed with blank sewing cards of the same shape. The pattern on all three is based on a design by Tricia Wilson Nguyen of Thistle Threads, for Redefined, Inc. All they need is a hanger and they are good to go for the fair!