A Finish!!

No, not the wall. (sigh)  But the Halloween Hat is done!  Many things I could say that would seem witty to me.  I’ll settle for its done and I like it more than not.

And what have I started in its place?  Nothing.  I have this picture in mind but after substituting fabric and shades of variegated floss I discovered I didn’t have the color for the face.  Typical.  Lucky for me there’s a Michaels near the library and I have books to return today. J

So no pictures of the Retro Cat (or even the wall) this time.  Next time that and my new start.

Happy stitching World.

Things that aren't progressing as well as they could

You would not believe how hard I tried not to get anything done on the Retro Cat this week.  But you will believe how well it worked.  Ha.

 The Halloween Hat is coming closer to being finished.  Right now I’m thinking of finishing the purple first then the other colors.  This of course could change by tomorrow. J

Speaking of changing (as in my mind), I’ve been reading some other blogs that talk about bucket lists.  I can’t do it.  The other day I went leafing through some of the magazines I’ve collected over the last couple of decades. (?!)  In the space of two issues I came up with about 30 things I’d like to do.  Sigh.  Guess I’d better get busy.  Besides if I start more things I’ll have an even better reason to join the WIPocalypse.  Check Measi’s Musings blog for all the details. Look here. It sounds like fun.

I’m off to work more on the wall section.  Honest.  I want to progress on that before I start something new for my birthday next weekend.  Naturally this won’t stop me if I don’t get it done, but it would be nice.

Saturday, August 27

Where do the days go?  Around here I think they melt away, it’s been so hot.

I did make some progress.  More purple to the wall on the Retro Cat, next comes another stem.  Or is it a pole?  Different color at any rate.  For some reason I want to start on the orange chair but plan to try to finish the wall section before that happens.

Compared to that, the Halloween Hat is really coming along.  Another orange square on the bottom and I filled in the crescent moon on the hat.  I do like it, dye lots aside, but I’ll be glad when it’s done.

I’ll be thinking of the East Coast this weekend.  Hope it’s not as bad as they think it could be.  I was in New York City this past May and the concept of trying to evacuate even part of it is mind boggling.

Finally, thanks for all your kind words everyone.  They are much appreciated and motivational.

Happy stitching World.

Monday

My first “official” stitching weekend has come to a close and I believe I’ll call it a success.  Lately I tend to want to work a little bit on a lot of different things.  This weekend proved to be more of the same.  I had to run over to the library to check out more books than I’ll make time to read and I was a bit distracted by the online broadcast of the Hugo awards Saturday night (thank you Reno!) but progress has been made.  I’ve finished the first batch of leaves and started on the purple wall behind them.  The 211 seems to blend in with the color of the pole but it looks ok in the picture.  Then I added an orange square to my Halloween Hat picture.  I’m not too sure about this one.  For one thing I can’t remember when I started it so I couldn’t tell you how long it’s been in that hoop.  Then because I sat it aside for so long when I started working on it again I ended up with a different shade of 550.  Dye lots, sigh.  Still it’s coming along now so maybe this time I’ll finish.

I’m off now to have a look at everyone’s progress.

Have a fabulous week World and happy stitching.