WIPocalypse For October

The full Moon has come and in a month and a half the world is ending!  So I've been stitching my little heart out.  How about you?  As usual there's too much stash and not enough time!!!  Here's my progress since the last full moon.

Good Things

cLizzie*Kate

Stitched on mystery 32ct evenweave from a Silkweaver grab bag

Stitched using recommended DMC

First of all, I had a Happy Dance!  On Monday night!  This is a travelling pattern though one of my groups on FB.  I needed to finish by Tuesday so I could pass it onto Kathy in person on Tuesday.  Kathy is heading South real soon, and it has become tradition that we get together for dinner at our favorite restaurant, The Lone Star.  This time she also joined me at my stitching group, so it was more than a meal together but a few hours of stitching too!  I think I'll finish this piece to hang on the wall near my stitching chair next to my "Don't Bug Me I'm Stitching" piece.

I had a couple of other finishes I've already shown you such as:

Delightful Dragon Fob front & back Teresa Wentzler

Sun Dragon - Teresa Wentzler

I have two ornaments and one larger piece I still can't share with you yet as they're for exchanges in the near future!  I'm also working on another ornament exchange, again can't share!

I've also been very busy finishing!  I've finished:

 Pomegranates & Pears Needlebook - Jeannette Douglas

Count Your Blessings - Shakespeare's Peddler finished as a flat fold

French Country Scardey Cats - JBW Designs finished as a pillow

And I've picked up a few things I've recently had done for me:

My Friendship Quilt

Enchantment of Winter - Dimples Designs Framed

Finally my current WIPs (that I can share!):

Kathy's ABC Sampler 

 Cirque des Circles, finished my first "Cirque"

The Accolade ... almost finished page 3!

Fantastic IHSW!!!

Well, I had such a great IHSW that I had to report before going to bed tonight, instead of putting it off until tomorrow night.  Honestly I don't know what I'm going to feel up to doing tomorrow.  We're having a 10th Anniversary celebration at work tomorrow... which takes place after a full day of work.  So coming home and flaking out might be very tempting!

Delightful Dragon Fob - Front

c2008 Teresa Wentzler

Stitched on 25ct Ivory Lugana

Stitched with DMC, Kreinik #4 Braid & Cord, Mill Hill Beads

First up, on Saturday I had a little finish!!!  I wrapped up the front on Dragon Fob I showed you Saturday morning.  That evening I got a start on the back.

Delightful Dragon Fob - Back

Which I'm very happy to say I finished off this evening.  Now these two pieces are awaiting finishing.

Count Your Blessings - Shakespeare's Peddler

Speaking of finishing, I seem to have found my "finishative" lately!  This morning I pulled out a finish from earlier this year, this is one of the travelling patterns going about lately.  I finished it into a flat fold, it is backed with the red plaid fabric its sitting on.  I haven't quite decided where its going yet.  I could put it in the prayer corner of my LC at work (Learning Commons, forget the term Library... its outdated now!) or I'm tempted to give it to someone, I have a couple of people in mind.  Things of a Religious nature aren't really my thing, I just wanted to be part of a travelling pattern.

ABC Sampler

This evening after finishing up my TW, I didn't work on any of the projects I showed you in my previous post.  I pulled out something "new-ish" instead.  This piece belongs to Kathy, she sent it out as a UFO RR and not as much of it got done as she hoped.  She made a comment back in September that she would just love it if this piece reappeared almost finished.  Apparently anyone who works on this is not allowed to touch the "N" for Nutcracker block!  I worked on gold outlining tonight, everything you see above Holly was put in tonight.  This gold is going to have to be done in fits and spurts, its not bad metallic but not the best either.

April WIPocalypse Report

The full moon is here and the World is coming to an end so its time to kill those WIPs!  Here's my progress report for what I've worked on in the last moon cycle.

I have been VERY good and I have worked on The Accolade every day.  Each day before I've picked up my focus project, I've completed a 10x10 area on The Accolade.  This BAP has been moving along nicely since I've started doing this religiously.

 The Accolade - March

 The Accolade - April

Since my last report I've started working away at Ink Circles Winter Mandala.  The filling in is taking longer than I thought it would.  I honestly thought I would fly with this piece once all the black was stitched.  For some reason I'm having trouble "getting into" this project.  For some reason the colours came out very faded in this picture.

Seasonal Mandalas - Winter

I've also puttered with Spring as well, putting in the odd thread length of black outlining.

Seasonal Mandalas - Spring

I had a Happy Dance today!  This project was one of my January 15.  I had been carrying it around as my travel project and suddenly had the urge to get this one out of my stitching bag/purse!

Gone Fishing - Kit

cJane Greenoff

Stitched on: Mystery Fabric

Stitched with: DMC

Since the last report I've also finished the following:

 Count Your Blessings

 Reindeer

Prairie Schooler Freebie

Wow, I had a productive month!

The Travelling Pattern Is Ready To Move On!

Just a short while ago I was lucky to be selected by Julie of Julie's Stitchyknitter Journal to be the next recipient of one of the Travelling Patterns out there in the blogosphere.  I stitched it up in pretty quick order, and finished it up on Sunday

Here's what mine looks like all stitched up:

 Count Your Blessings

c2009 Shakespeare's Peddler

Stitched with: GAST where I had it DMC where I didn't

Stitched on 28ct Vintage Linen

If you would like to be the next Travelling Pattern stitcher there are a few rules that need to be adhered to :

1. Comment on this post saying you would like to be part of The Stitcherhood

2. By leaving the above comment you agree (if you are chosen) to stitch the design and send it along to the next person in a timely manner. If this means dropping everything in your rotation to concentrate on this project, so be it. If you cant bring yourself to do this don't sign up.

3. You must have an active blog to participate. if you have a blog but never post to it you wont be chosen to be the next stitcher.

4. This is a giveaway type traveling pattern. That means you must follow it from blogger to blogger to enter each time it is ready to send along. Commenting on this post doesn't make you a guaranteed part of The Stitcherhood.

This Travelling Pattern has been a quite a globe trotter and so far been stitched by:-

1. Sharon of its daffycat Oklahoma USA
2. Karen of Karens Handiwork, South Carolina USA
3. Patty of Hanging on by a thread, Florida USA
4. Terrri of chocolates for breakfast, stitching for lunch USA
5. Lynda of a cozy little place for stitching, Oregon USA
6. Nataly of Natalys needle creations, Massachusetts, USA
7. Erin of fairy tales and french knots, NY USA
8. Jo of Serendipititous stitching, Suffolk UK
9. Mouse of tales of a a stitching mouse, South Yorkshire UK
10. Sally of stitchyangels treasures, East Yorkshire UK
11. Lesleyanne of Lesleyannes life of stitches, Northamptonshire, UK
12. Michelle of stitchercraftplace, Staffordshire, UK
13. Kath of kaths stitching heaven, Barnsley, South Yorkshire UK
14. Christine of The Alchymyst's Study, Cornwall, UK
15. Kate of Kate's Flossbox, Tyne & Wear, UK
16. Julie of Julie's Stitcherknitter Journal, Leicester, UK
17 Dani Black Belt Stitching Wizard, Ontario, CAN

You have until Wednesday April 4th (one week) to leave a comment if you're interested

After I finished up the Travelling Pattern, I wanted a quick little Easter stitch.  I had received this little freebie from another blogger some time ago and thought it was the perfect little stitch.  Sorry its a crappy picture!

Prarie Schooler 2011 Freebie

Stitched with: DMC

Stitched on 28ct Black Jubilee

Post IHSW Report

I definitely had lots of stitching time this weekend, and it was well used!  Here's the progress I made on all three projects this weekend.

Ink Circles - Seasonal Mandalas, I finished all the black outline on Winter

Shakespeare's Peddler - Count Your Blessings, finished all the red on the house

Gitta's - The Accolade, finished a row on my current page

Pre-IHSW Report & Retro PhotoHunt

This upcoming weekend is the IHSW... and I'm off to the Knowledge and Needles retreat, so not a lot of opportunities to hermit, but I have been hermitting a lot of this week while I've been on March Break.

I can see myself potentially working on three different projects this weekend and here's where they stand as of today.

The Accolade

Count Your Blessings

Seasonal Mandalas - Winter

Back on March 27, 2010 the PhotoHunt theme was Fresh

I came across this pot with tomatoes growing in it one summer when I was parked in a lot behind an apartment building.  I just love the character of the brick wall in contrast to the green plant!

Playing PhotoHunt Catch Up & A New Start

I haven't been playing nicely at all lately when it comes to the Saturday PhotoHunt, in fact I haven't played since February 4th.  So I've taken some time today, sat down at my computer and went through my photos to make up for the last 5 weeks!

Here's from latest to oldest...

Saturday March 10th - Symbolic

This is a photo of the henna tattoo I got on the beach when I was in the Dominican Republic a few weeks ago near the end of February.  I was there with a group of students, who I was taking on a Third World Experience.  "Together" became our motto on this trip, so we all decided to get the Spanish word for together "Juntos" as a temporary tattoo at the beach to symbolize this trip.

Saturday March 3rd - Drop

This picture I took in the fall over Thanksgiving Day Weekend.  Its a picture of the locks that connect the Rideau Canal to the Ottawa River downtown Ottawa... the Capital of Canada.  These sets of locks will drop a boat several levels to get down to the Ottawa River.

February 25th - Loud

This photo was taken this past summer at Ottawa Bluesfest, one of my favourite Canadian bands Billy Talent!  There's nothing much louder than a good rock concert!

February 18th - Point

This photo was taken at the end of July during our trip to Quebec City.  We were on the walls of Vieux Quebec.  You can just imagine Todd pointing and shouting "fire".

February 11th - Heart

This photo was taken last year in the Dominican Republic.  Nothing is more manly than a heart shaped lollipop!

On Monday I received one of the Travelling Patterns that is out there in Blogland from Julie, this pattern initially started out with Sharon (aka Daffycat).  Yesterday I got a small start on it, and took it with me to Tuesday Night Stitching (which I would like to start going to more often now that the better weather is here and I have a more reliable car!).  It was perfect to work on because I'm stitching it on 28ct and the light isn't the best at the church the Tuesday Stitchers meet at.