Spring Break # 1...

Sunday I was helping my brother move... Well, it was more like helping his girlfriend... Don't get me wrong... I love the girl to death, but she has way too much shit... I am not kidding... There were two storage units worth of boxes, and we moved the vast majority of them into the basement of a townhouse on the south side of the city that day... As well as a heavy-ass sectional couch, the kitchen table (*CRIES!!!!!*), and various large bookcases... Not fun!

So, safe to say I was sleepy Sunday night... And of course, I ignored the fact that I had an early shift at work the next day... What did I then do at 10 pm-ish? Pull out Summer Break, organize the whole bloody thing and stitch a quick 10 X 10 block to see what it looked like on the fabric... Yes, I never said I was smart...

This is not that 10 x 10 block... This is more like 1200 stitches... It's sad to say that so much work produces such a little thing... And to think I still have about 41,000 stitches to go? At least there's no backstitch or specialties... I think that would break me... Much like many boxes broke my back on Sunday... But I do like it's smudgy quality... Like watercolouring painting...

By the way... "Teardrop" by Massive Attack... Yes, it's the House theme song, but it's a bloody good track... Go download it now...

A Star Danced...

I stitched this today... It's going to be for Jenn for her birthday, which is the Ides of March... Figured I would get a headstart on her presents this year...

It's called "A Star Danced" and it's designed by Sharon (Daffycat)... She offered it as a free chart on her blog (http://itsdaffycat.blogspot.com/) and it was quite lovely to stitch... Well, I ended up frogging the 'you' because I messed up the placement... But other then that it was great... A very good afternoon stitch... This was also my first attempt on an evenweave fabric and I quite liked it... I used a piece of 28-count tea coloured monaco... My picture taking skills could use a bit of practice though, because this shot does not do the stitching any justice...

Exotic Orchid # 4...

Still waiting for that one colour of thread... But it's the last thing I need to do with this... Until then I'm just gonna wait... Well, and start something else that is... Heh heh heh...

Exotic Orchid # 3...

So, here is my orchid as of today, January 18th, 2009... It's getting there, but there really isn't much hope of it actually being done this month... That one colour of thread is still MIA... You can see in the bottom left petal where it should be... I have other projects to be done if I end up having to wait for the thread to come in... I will not be detered from my objectives...

I sent in my passport application... I don't know why I felt like mentioning it, but I do...

My knee feels like something is catching in my kneecap... I'll be walking around, and it's like my kneecap comes out of joint and back into joint within a step... When I kneel there is great pain... I've spent this past weekend avoiding doing anything to irritate my knee... I hope that this helps... Rest may be all that it needs... *crosses fingers*...

And, to end on a good note... Below is a picture of Archie... No, he does not live in a box on a regular basis... But this was just too cute of a picture to pass up... He's usually orange, but I changed the settings on my camera...

Sea Kittens?

PETA, why are you mocking yourself? Sea Kittens? Seriously? Be ashamed... Really... Hang your head...

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Okay, now that's out of my system, on to stitchy news... I've been unable to find a specific colour of the threads I need to finish my Exotic Orchid... Not that I'm waiting on that thread alone to work on this thing... I still have other stitching to do on it... But I'm depressed that I can't get the thread, and that the DMC equivalent doesn't match at all... It's more a pink-purple then the blue-purple that I need... *pout*...

However, I did get about a thousand stitches put in today... And we'll see how much I get done tomorrow... I'll post a picture then... Nite... :)

Exotic Orchid # 2...

I'm more then half-way done this thing! Yay me! Isn't it just so purty? ;)

Exotic Orchid # 1...

Well, here's a picture of what I did a few months ago... I frogged the whole thing in a snit because I didn't like the way the coverage was in two strands...

And here's what I started a couple of days ago... It looks so much better... But it's using so much thread with the three strands... I've already gone through one skein of white, and I know I'm going to need another couple of the lightest purple... A trip to the Wal-Mart craft section will be required tomorrow or Saturday...

And here's something that was finished a few years ago and is dragged out at Christmas on an annual basis... Okay, it's not quite finished... Technically, it should be pointed, and tasseled, but I was too lazy at the time, and I quite like it this way, anyway...