Incoherent Scribblings

Disappearing Act

This summer seems to be disappearing rather quickly. I can’t believe I have only posted four times this entire month! (OK, counting this post five)

However, I guess I do have an excuse… I have been spending most of my time reading, writing, and trying to have a social life. In fact, tonight I was caught up with my homework and could have stitched, but instead I went out to dinner with a friend and afterward we took a nice long walk.

Anyway, although I haven’t stitched much over the past six weeks, as you can see by the picture I have managed to stitch a bit on “Summer’s Magic,” my latest SAL with Dawn.

Friday is the last day of my second summer class, so maybe I will have time to stitch and blog a little more in August… here’s hoping anyway!

House Cleaning

Yesterday Dawn and I started our new SAL piece “Summer’s Magic” by Dragon Dreams. We hadn’t intended to have two SAL pieces going at the same time, but since we are still waiting for the Kreiniks to finish “Harvest Witch” it was either start something new or take a break from the whole SAL business. Of course, since neither one of us is usually opposed to starting something new, we chose that option!

Anyway…

Over the weekend I decided to clean house concerning my WIPs and moved a couple out of my rotation. Although I don’t really like having UFOs, one thing that a rotation has taught me is that if you have a project that you keep ignoring when it comes up in the rotation, perhaps you should examine why you keep ignoring said project.

In my case, the projects that I keep ignoring and have decided to move out of my rotation are “In Cupid’s Garden” and “Four Seasons Cats.”

I am not really sure why I haven’t wanted to work on “In Cupid’s Garden” since I began it during Guilt Free January, but I haven’t. I thought that if I ordered the beads for it I might get motivated to work on it, but that really didn’t help either. Therefore I have decided to remove from my rotation.

It isn’t a very large piece and I honestly think that if I get the urge to stitch it I can complete it in a relatively short amount of time. So instead of designating it as an official UFO, I am just going to let it be until I feel the need to complete it.

As for “Four Seasons Cats,” I originally bought it for a seasonal round robin that I was in, but when the chart arrived I felt greedy and decided that instead of using it for the round robin, I wanted to stitch all of the cats myself. Unfortunately as I worked on the borders for each cat the desire to stitch the entire piece diminished until I was completely uninterested in working on it.

However, given the state that the piece is in (one completed square, finished borders) perhaps I should organize a round robin and use it as I had initially planned. Anyone interested? (Actually, I am serious here. If I can get three people who are interested in joining me, maybe we could do a UFO robin or something. Leave me a comment!)

Bearly a Happy Dance

Bearly a Wizard
by Dragon Dreams
February 26, 2008-March 7, 2008
28 Count Black Evenweave
DMC Fibers, Kreinik Metallics

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Look what I just finished! I loved stitching this little guy! In addition to using regular DMC instead of DMC rayon and a couple of Kreiniks I had on hand, I modified the backstitching a little bit so it would show up on the black fabric better and added a star charm I already had in my stash instead of the one called for.

A Little Bear

Although I am technically not on The Wagon anymore, I have been trying to keep my stash acquisition under control.

However, I never technically rewarded myself for finishing my 26 Projects Challenge, so when I finally found “Bearly a Wizard” by Dragon Dreams on eBay a couple of weeks ago I couldn’t resist bidding. “Bearly a Wizard” has been on my wishlist since I first typed it up so, needless to say, when I won the auction I was quite excited.

I was so excited that when the chart arrived in the mail on Tuesday I dropped all pretense of working on my WIPs, kitted it up, and started it immediately. Of course I didn’t have the DMC rayon it calls for or the Kreiniks, but that didn’t stop me! I substituted regular DMC for the rayon (I am not a big fan of rayon floss anyway… too slippery), chose a couple of Kreiniks from my stash, started stitching away, and after 6 hours, this is my progress.