Of course, this is the only thng I've started recently that i don't have a goal in mind for. It's pretty much free to a good home.

Tags: cross-stitch

This month, when I am not at work freaking out about deadlines, I am at home freaking out about redoing my cousin's sampler. The top half was unfinished, and I had to lay out the date and names and text. It's all here, in the set

I am gradually converting the lower half of the sampler into 'correct' cross stitch. My grandmother's stitching is awful, which hurts to pull out. She was exquisite. Her projects are amazing. I hate my aunt for stealing my bell pull from me, because it was mine and it is gorgeous, and she did it perfectly. But I digress into my hatred. That's not the point. The point is, my grandmother did beautiful work. Much fancier stuff than I do, and she finished them.

This one is not perfect. I will cut tag this because it is huge. but:
( Read more... )

And here's the new bit:


I will finish the bit of the sky I am working on, and then I will start on the grass--I am tired of blue at the moment.

This will take me forever.

Tags: cross-stitch

Okay, so I'm not allowed to buy any more cross-stitch for a while. (My mother does inform me that she sent up most of the stuff I had in the box. I can specifically remember a few that I'm not quite finished with, but I suppose I can wait until Xmas to get them.)

The german tablecloth is a stamped cross stitch, which I'm not so much a fan of (particularly since it is actually printed on even weave, and thus about the easiest thing ever to count.), with instructions only in german (and I think they're amazingly un-useful instructions anyways, not that cross stitch usually needs details, really), and no actual graph telling me what colors to do the flowers and leaves in, so i have to look at the pictures (distant and not very distinct) and guess. So it's being tabled for now. (hee! Tabling the tablecloth!)

I did win both the little birds and the set of 4 little kits, in addition to the three others I have (the orchids, the table cloth, and the swedish table runner.) I think I will start the runner as soon as I get it. In the mean time, I've been working a little more on a small Bucilla cottage kit my mom got me supercheap for Xmas one year. It's the right colors for me--the Bastin ones are driving me crazy with their pastelness--but it's also super complicated, which I appreciate for the finished project, but hate when I'm in the middle of it sometimes. So I'll jump back and forth between them for now, and start the runner when it gets here. I think I will do the orchids seperately (I'm seeing them going up the wall along a staircase in my mind, for which three seperates would be best. So I'll probably need to get new fabric for that or do some serious counting (and if I get new fabric, I may get a slightly different color/sort of fabric, I haven't decided.), and figure out how to adapt the framing border so it works on a single flower, which should be easy. And my mother would like one of the little kits, but I promised nothing until I see them.

Tags: cross-stitch
Current Music: KCRW.com - Magnet - Lonely No More

I just found an error on the finished product picture on a cross stitch project. Right on the chart though, so mine should be fine. i hope.

Tags: cross-stitch

Well, except for the outlining, but my mom is very fussy about what gets outlined, so I'm just going to give it to her to handle that part of it. There's a lot of outlining in the plan for it, but most of it seems to be stupid--around the flowers on the house, for example, or the edge of the roof. But there's also some that probably does make sense--the cross-hatching on the window so as to look like it's diamond paned.

Anyways, I'm tired of it, so I'll let my mom figure out that stuff, and in the meantime I started work on a little easy pattern of a cardinal. No pictures of it yet. Maybe I'll remember today. And I still have the rest of the scarf to do, but there is major MAJOR crankiness with the pig, so my mom's revamping that part.

Oh, and I should mention that I've tagged all the rest of the picture posts with cross-stitch as well, so you can see it grow. :)

Tags: cross-stitch

The right side is now all done but for three pink stitches in the red flowering bush. I also have to fill in the blue cloud-ish thing completely, but other than that and some outlining (haven't decided how much, since the plants are all looking pretty good without the ridiculous amount of outlining the plan calls for.) and I'm officially done with half of it.

Also, I would just like to remind people that Kukla Boogie Moon is still one of my favorite stories ever.

Tags: cross-stitch

Technically there have been a couple of days working on this, but they were lazy days where I'd just do one or two little things. Yesterday I did a good bit of work, though, so new picture! The walkway is looking a little odd. I'm worried about it. The greens, though, look fine when i don't know which are wrong, and the roof looks good too.

Tags: cross-stitch

It looks like I got miles done, but really, it's just that I didn't need to spend large bits of time sorting out exactly where each color goes--it was mostly just 'fill in the empty bit. I bought a 'pale rust' today--you'll notice that it's actually more of a gold color. It looks great on the roof, I'm just a little worried about it on the walk--I matched it against the rust shades, but the walk is mostly terracottas, so we'll have to see if they blend okay. I'm *almost* done with the right side, now. I've just got variations of green left to do. oh, and three stitches of pink. We'll have to see if my wrist feels okay enough tomorrow--it was a little owie as i was sewing, and it always stiffens up overnight.

I bought DVDs today. Nothing I *needed*, but some good stuff--a Labrynith DVD, Equilibrium, and "Stella" which is the new show with Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black (and probably Ken Marino too. He's too pretty for them to leave out.) I also bought a new pillow and cream for dinner and got a couple of library books. I wanted a new comforter cover. My current cover is going down for the third time, but my blanket was so cheap I object to the idea of spending a fortune on something fancy. I may need to figure out if I can get to the Ikea from here.

Dinner was pasta with tomato cream sauce. It turned out perfectly this time. It was also eaten almost instantly by my housemates. They did say very nice things to me about it, at least, though I wouldn't mind if the people who eat a meal I cook maybe thought, 'gosh, I could wash a pan for her, that would make her more likely to do this again." Oh, and this afternoon (between shopping and dinner) I watched V for Vendetta. It was...it was good. I approve of it. Made me cry, a little, but overall, good.

Tags: cross-stitch

I've messed up another set of colors, but I'm not telling you which ones. :)

I now get a half an hour to rewrite my cover letter, and then I sleep. Tomorrow I need to go through my library books and figure out what order to read them in. I need to go clothing shopping on Saturday--I think H&M and Gap, and if I'm still feeling like doing things, Garment District on Sunday. I may put a note on the fridge about one or both of the trips, to see if anyone wants to go shopping as well.. I loathe shopping by myself. I expect to want very much to be drinking by Saturday evening, but I don't think there are any parties on the horizon.

Happy birthday, those of you who have birthdays today.

ETA: Good news: I apparently saved a copy of the cover letter that went to Thompson on my Bostonworks account. Better news: I got the interview even though I misspelled the name of my current company, and had at least one sentence that changed course midway to the period. So I may yet get it cleaned up enough for tomorrow.

Tags: cross-stitch
Current Music: Pete Yorn - Bandstand in The Sky

Latest picture:



Slacked off all evening, as usual. It's raining outside my window. I'll go to sleep shortly.

I have, in my emails, a request for me to do a self evaluation as to why I should be allowed to live in the house for another year. It's not so much that they'd kick me out, just a chance for me to think about things I should be doing better with regards to the house. And it's true, there are some. So I'll get to think about that over the next two weeks. bleh. And my freaking cover letter that I still hate. HATE.

Tags: cross-stitch