Incoherent Scribblings

Welcome Holidailies readers! My name is Renée and I am your blogger. I was going to write an intro, but considering I have been blogging for almost five years, I have done plenty of “about me” posts. Here are some of the best ones:

http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/about/
http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/about/100-useless-things-about-me/
http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2008/11/six-random-things/
http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2008/08/mosaic-fun/
http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2008/03/middle-name-meme/
http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2007/02/five-things/
http://blog.blondelibrarian.net/archives/2005/03/abcs-of-me/

For my regular readers, I would like to point you to the happy dance below. Yes, I finished “Cool Cats” this evening!

Cool Cats
by Margaret Sherry
from The Cross Stitcher, December 2007
December 24, 2007 – December 5, 2008
28 count Lambswool Jobelan
Stitch Time: 54 hours
DMC Fibers

Let me repeat that… I love vacation because I get to stitch! After I did the requisite errands today so I can head off to Arkansas tomorrow and I took a little nap, I spent the rest of my day stitching. (Warning to any burglars thinking about breaking in and robbing me while I am gone: I have four attack cats that will rip you to shreds if you step over my threshold and I am taking all my expensive/important things with me. So nah, nah, n’a boo boo on you!)

Anyway, today I worked on my “Cool Fall Cat” and got all of the cross stitching done. Obviously I still need to backstitch, but once I do that I will have a pretty big happy dance because the fall cat is the last of the four cats! I started it last December… in fact, I started it last time I was visiting Dawn. How appropriate that I will finish it there as well.

I did notice however that for some odd reason I seem to have backstitched the winter cat in 3799. The chart calls for the cats to be backstitched in black and that is what I used to backstitch the spring and summer cats, so I have no idea what I what possessed me to backstitch the winter one (it was the first one I stitched) in 3799 instead.

I am trying to decide if I should rip the 3799 out and re-backstitch it in black or just leave it. All four cats are on one piece of fabric, but unless you are really looking it isn’t that obvious that the winter cat is backstitched in a different color. I will ask Dawn her opinion when I see her, but as of now I am leaning towards leaving it because it is such a pain in the ass to frog backstitching.

Eh, we’ll see…

I have plans later this evening which involve dinner and wine so I doubt I will have a chance to post later.

Although I haven’t stitched very much this week due to work, class, and the ever-closer term paper (it’s due Wednesday), I have stitched a little bit on “Cool Fall Cat” so I thought I would quickly show my progress.

I haven’t stitched on “Summer’s Magic” for over a week, but since I had the camera out I thought I would show the progress I have made on it too, so here you go.

Wow! What a quick way to get my NaBloPoMo post in for the day! Now I am off to get ready for dinner!

I know it’s only November 2, but this is already my 3rd post this month! Yea NaBloPoMo for motivating me to blog… and stitch! (Since cross stitching is a major component of this blog, if I am going to have something to blog about I also need to have some stitching to show off, right?)

Anyway, as you can probably deduce from the progress picture I have decided to go for the quick stitching fix… yep, it’s a Margaret Sherry pattern! It’s “Cool Cats” by Margaret Sherry from the December 2007 issue of The Cross Stitcher and of all my current WIPs, is the one that is closest to being finished. I already have the other three cats/seasons done so as soon as I finish this little guy (Fall) I will have a happy dance.

Thanks to everyone who wished me a happy birthday. I have to be honest: Due in large part to He-Who-Must-Not-Yet-Be-Named, this year’s birthday was one of the best I have had in many years. And we aren’t finished celebrating yet! The birthday activities will conclude on Monday with a trip to the theatre to see the long-awaited return of Indiana Jones.

And now… on to the stitching report!

This week I have been working on Margaret Sherry’s “Cool Cats” and managed to finish up Summer this evening. I don’t really have much to say regarding Summer because in typical Margaret Sherry fashion it is a fun and smooth stitch. I really like Summer’s sunglasses and her ice cream cone. The only thing that would make her more stereotypical summer would be if she were wearing flip flops!

Well, because of the Kreinik situation, Dawn and I weren’t able to finish “Harvest Witch” by my birthday. However, since they finally arrived tomorrow we will be heading back to our SAL… Of course, I am not sure how much I will get done since I am attending a wedding reception with He-Who-Must-Not-Yet-Be-Named (Boy that is getting to be a pain to spell out! I either need to name him or abbreviate him, huh?) tomorrow evening, but I am sure I can at least get a few stitches in.