Posted in Cross Stitch, Knitting, Spinning on Feb 7th, 2008
Here’s another progress shot on the Columbine. Other than the endless spinning, this is the only thing I’m working on. Next week I think I’ll do a lot of dyeing and, maybe, some sewing. The columbine is coming along pretty fast, which is surprising since I haven’t really been working on it much except while [...]
Posted in Cross Stitch, Politics, weather on Feb 4th, 2008
I can’t believe tomorrow is Super Tuesday already. I’m still undecided on who to vote for, but I’m leaning Obama, though that could change, this morning I was leaning Clinton. Speaking of Clinton, I went and saw Bill Clinton give his stump speech for Hillary Saturday night. You can see my whole set of [...]
Posted in Cross Stitch, Knitting, Personal on Jan 28th, 2008
This weekend was all about finishing. I finished the Iris and I finished my Tangled Yoke Cardigan (but I didn’t get it blocked). I’ll have some pictures of the cardigan later, but here’s the Iris. If you measure right around the frame it’s 4.75×8.5 inches. I plan on getting some nice, plain frames, either black [...]
Posted in Cross Stitch, Knitting on Jan 24th, 2008
I spun and spun for hours today and I don’t feel like I got anything done except make my legs sore, so I switched to cross stitch. I started this piece last night, it will eventually be an Iris with a frame around it. The chart is from a book called Art Nouveau Cross Stitch [...]
Posted in Cross Stitch, Personal on Jan 23rd, 2008
I’ve been busy over the past week doing non crafty, non bloggy, uninteresting things, so I haven’t had much time to post. Today I spent the day spinning (sock yarn) and I didn’t do much of anything yesterday. But over the weekend, I stitched this little sampler. And I do mean little, it’s two inches [...]
