I mean, "Hooray! July is here!"
*ahem*
I meant to write yesterday. The day got away from me. I spent the evening working on my bunny stitch.
I told my hubby that the closer I come to completing this stitch the more goof ups I make.
Over the weekend I started stitching up the bee.
And quickly realized I had made some mistakes stitching up the leaves. I thought "I can make this work." until I realized I couldn't make it work.
Bah!
So yesterday I spent my lunch hour ripping out stitches.
Ugh ... no matter how I try to rip out a large number of stitches, it turns into a mess and then the mess takes longer to clean up than if I had been able to just take the threads out.
Last night I diligently worked on this little bee and put the final stitches in around 9 p.m.
This cross stitch project has been my main focus.
When I wasn't working on my February Lady Sweater. Mostly I've been working on my sweater in the mornings, before getting ready for the day and work.
I am done with the sweater body. Yay! Time to start the sleeves. I have just over four skeins of the Temu yarn to work with. I'm optimistic that each sleeve will need only 2 skeins each.
I had the idea that I would write a post at the beginning of the month stating what active projects I have, and what I hoped to get done by the end of the month. Overly enthusiastic, perhaps. The list will help me get things in perspective since I'm still kind of all over the place, project-wise. Frankly, until I get this bit sorted out I don't feel I can move forward and make a flosstube.
So things that are currently in the works/percolating along.
Knits
February Lady Sweater - I would like to get this complete by the end of the month
Monkey socks - Another project I'd like to get done by the end of the month.
Princess Passenger socks - No deadline since I'm only going to work on them when I'm a passenger. I will pick up stitches on the heel flap in the house. I don't think I'd be able to do so in a bouncy vehicle.
Quilts
Sandpiper quilt - I have the top all sewn together and the backing sewn together. I'm debating on whether to put a label on, or not. The binding still needs to be cut. I would like to have this done by the end of the month.
Just picture all my squares with sashing and borders around them.
Yes, this is my quilt backing, all in a heap. I think the color will look fantastic with the front.
Dancing stars quilt - I have about half the quilts squares to sew, still. ... I think I'm going to hold this one until August, unless I get the other things done.
I have no current photos of completed squares. Sorry.
Sewing projects
I now have fabric for five WIP project bags. I want to make them by the end of the month. I could maybe accomplish this. It's something to strive for.
Spinning
My spinning has been pushed so far to the back burner that I haven't touched it in months. I would like to spend one evening each week of July spinning my little heart away. Currently the Tour de Fleece is going on. I've never been good at following any kind of a-long, so I didn't even try to start it this year.
No current photos of the wool I'm working with.
Cross Stitch
Currently there are three cross stitch projects going.
Bunny stitch before the back stitching.
Where One Piece is. I haven't touched it in a while. The goal is to get it done by Christmas, at least. If not, then February next year.
You may be surprised to read that I *finally* started my porkie cross stitch. I decided to make it a birthday start. Well ... I started it during my birthday week.
It's not much but it is a start. I was still a bit intimidated to start it, and then I just went ahead and set up the aida cloth on my q-snap and started it.
All the colors ... all 49 of them.
I've been on the hunt for a porcupine needle minder. Most of what I find are hedgehogs or images that really don't look like porcupines. I may end up making my own. Though I'm not sure how I will go about it.
Started: June 2024, during my birthday week,
Against my better judgement I kinda kitted up a few more cross stitches up that have come across my social media the last month or so. ... I'm really tempted to clear the cache, so to speak and take them out of the bucket until I get less projects on my plate. As I keep reminding myself, there are no deadlines or urgent reasons to work these projects. So I just may file the floss back in to my storage system and put the charts away for now.
My WIP bucket. My February Lady Sweater is in the blue daisy bag.
A month ago, or so, I saw something on a few flosstubes and I thought "Hey, that's a good idea."
What, you may be wondering ...
Putting a master set of floss on floss drops and sorting them by color families.
I don't remember who came up with the idea but it took flosstube by storm, I think.
This is a set of floss from Temu. The colors match DMC. It's amazing!
So my idea is to use this floss for my master set of colors and fill in the few that may be missing with regular DMC. Also, if I need some floss in a pinch, I can use the floss from my master set.
I think it will also be helpful to make color subs in the event I'm not wild about a color listed on a chart.
I don't know how many I have put on floss drops yet. I sort of burned out on it after a weekend of punching out floss drops. I think I might have done some damage to my punch. Or, the card stock I was using for making themed floss drops was thicker than what I'm used to.
Something just happened and I lost the tail-end of my blog post. I guess that is my cue to go work on my back stitching.
2 comments:
I love your cross stitch! It's so cute!
I used to love to knit socks, and hand knit was all I ever wore, but when we started having to wear steel toed boots at work, I find that the toes wear out way too fast to make it worth the time. I really hope that sentence made sense. It's way past my bedtime!
Thanks!
I love knitting socks because they are *so* portable. I understood your sentence :-)
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