WIPocalypse September 2013

Two colors of progress, purple and orange!!!

 

Now the cat is sitting on something besides air. J

 Happy stitching World

Wipocalypse August Update

I’ve made an adjustment.  I’ve combined my Wipocalypse and YOTA projects.  For the rest of the year I will just work on the Retro Cat for both reports.  So the Retro Cat looks like this.

 

While I had it out for the picture I even managed to put a few more stitches on it.  Plus, I realized the next YOTA report isn’t this coming Saturday but the one after.  This could be the beginning of some beautiful progress. J

Happy stitching World

WIPocalypse June - Cats and Doctors

Here’s my progress on Do Not Disturb.

 

More on the sunglasses and book.  It’s tempting to start on the actual cat, but I need to finish this bottom section first.

As Dork Stitch mentioned, she was kind enough to give me early access to her 6^th Doctor pattern.  Colin Baker was a guest at Denver Comic Con this year and I thought it would be a nice way to celebrate. Here’s how he turned out.

 

How cool, right?  I picked up the tag at the con, I thought they went well together.  Thanks for another great pattern, Dork Stitch!!

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse May

In an effort to avoid a, “Whoops I forgot to stitch on this” post, I took out Do Not Disturb on Sunday.  Freed from its hiding place, I added some more sand on the right side.

 

Once I was stitching, it was easy to make plans for more progress.  It was just as easy to put away again for my other distractions.  Some of which I plan to post before the week is done.  All while hoping I remember to take the Retro Cat out so I don’t have to make a Whoops post for YOTA this Saturday. J

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse April

I haven’t worked on Do Not Disturb this month at all.  Not quite the backlash I expected from working on it so much last month, but there you go.

Of course, I have worked on other things.  Today, I’m working on this.

 

Spells by The Stitcherhood as found in the 2012 JCS Halloween special issue.  It will be done as soon as I give up and put in the last color on the pattern and stop trying to change it.  This would be a good thing since the SAL I’m participating in calls for it to be finished (as in ornament) by tomorrow. Sure thing!

Do Not Disturb will be back next month bigger and better than ever.  Slightly bigger at least.

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse March 2013

Using Do Not Disturb as one of my March madness pieces for Theme-a-licious really gave it a lot of attention this month.

 

I’ll have to try that again in the not too distant future.

Check out all the WIPocalypse updates here .

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse Update Feb. 2013

One month I’ll keep this out and work on it more.  This was not that month. J  I’m pretty sure I’ve finished the lightest color of sand across the bottom.

 

 

The easiest way to know that for sure is to do the next color – of sand.  Sigh.  I shouldn’t say that.  After all there’s not as much of the second (and third) color.  I’ll be on to that can that fits into the space on the other end in no time.

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse Jan 2013

Welcome to the first full moon of the year and the beginning of WIPocalypse, the sequel.

This year I decided to concentrate on just one project which is Do Not Disturb.  Not that there’s much sign of concentration so far. J

Jan 1:

 Jan 26:

Just that much more fun for next month!

Check out all the WIPocalypse participants at Measi's Musings .

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse - December

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas.

WIPocalypse projects didn’t see too much activity this month.  On the Ballroom picture I filled in a few stitches along the edge and added a little dark brown.

 

On Do Not Disturb I finished the light green on the flip flops. (I know – WOWJ)

 

Mythical Dragon sort of fell by the wayside, but these things will happen.

In the end, no matter how far I didn’t get, everything is farther than it was.  How can you not like that?

I’m thinking of signing up for the sequel.  Next year I’ll just focus on Do Not Disturb.  In between all the other distractions that is!

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse November

It makes perfect sense right?  I finally make a copy of Do Not Disturb so I can mark off where I am on the sand and what do I work on – the flip flops!

 

Kind of nice though.  It has more color.  And I know where I am with the sand now too. J

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse October

To prove I know it’s not Monday anymore, J let me start by saying:

         HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Also, I hope everyone in the Northeast made it through Sandy ok.

Now for stitching.  I took out Don Not Disturb and put a few more stitches on that over the weekend.

 

 I was thinking of switching colors just to help it look different.  What I settled for was finishing the light sand color.  At least in the first 20 rows. J  Plenty more fun to come.  Right after I stop looking at all the pretty Christmas patterns.

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse September

Not a lot of WIPocalypse progress but a great stitching month.  Earlier in the month I finished Betty and a couple of days ago I finished my Sunset Oval.

 

I’ve made progress on the Retro Cat.

 

Last month I wanted to test out this DMC color variation shade (4124) and see if it made a good pumpkin shade.  I think it did. J

 

 

The piece is by Glory Bee and is called Pumpkin Man. (catchy title)

Now that Halloween is taken care of it’s time to think about Christmas.  Kate at Momuboocrea Island has very kindly included me in her exchange.  So we’re going to do our 2^nd annual Santa exchange.  Unlike her, I haven’t picked the pattern yet, but I do have some ideas.

And then I can always work on my WIPocalypse pieces too.

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse August - Part 2

My serial starting ways were in remission this month (for the most part).  I did of course find enough other things to distract myself with to make sure I didn’t get too far with the Summer Ball.

 

 

The good thing is when I make it through the confetti in this little section I’ll be into blocks of longer lines.  Those are much better for my sense of progress. J

 Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse August Part 1

Stunning things would happen to this – if I worked on it more. J

That might be considered a side effect of starting too many things.  But I’m pretty sure there’s no cure for that except to just keep stitching!

Happy stitching World!

July WIPocalypse

Welcome to the first month of the last half of the year.  June ended much as it began, with my wandering eye looking at things to start rather than continue.  I am pleased with the progress I did make.  On the Ballroom picture I have finished the mirror over the fireplace and moved on to the wall.  Look – dark green! J

 More sand and flip flops to show on Do Not Disturb.

 So now onward to see what the next month has in store.

Happy stitching World.

Short, sweet and a little late

Don’t you just love good intentions?  They’re as cute as days of the week and as slippery.  I got a case of start-itis after my last WIPocalypse post, and while trying to fight that off (except for Fragile) didn’t work on much of anything.  Certainly not every day.  I did get the Ball room picture out and managed to get it back to, and a tiny bit beyond where it was before.

So my goal for June is to just keep stitching. J Hope you all have a great month with your WIPocalypse projects.

Happy stitching World

May WIPocalypse, Mini Mystery SAL and more.

First up: May WIPocalypse.  A small but steady advance on Do Not Disturb.  I’ve decided (once again) to try to focus on this project.  It’s worked for the first five days of the month so who knows what could happen!

Manka is hosting a mini mystery SAL on her blog. (Here)  After taking forever to pick out colors I can happily report that I’ve completed the first part.  I’m looking forward to finishing and trying again with different colors.

Now for that other thing I keep mentioning – the Retro Cat.  Progress! I’ve finished the widest portion of blue and made it down to the break for the building.  Such excitement. J  All I have to do now is make sure I have enough 792 to finish the whole section.  I know, it’s always something.

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse April

Let’s jump in:

Ballroom:

I think there was more progress on this before I went to work on it again. That’s when I discovered there were two extra rows in it.  (I blame those stitching elves – such pranksters!)  The best part (?) is that the two rows were over in the white and blue section on the edge. So now I can fix those two stitches I put in with the wrong color earlier. Joy. J

Mythical Dragon:

I’m not sure about this one.  Working with all that filament is just not fun.  I use that Thread Heaven which helps some but it just doesn’t look good to me.  I’ll have to find a different way to work this.

Do Not Disturb:

Nothing much new with this one. I did get a little farther on the flip flops.  Next I may try to go back to the sand.

That’s all for this month.

 Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse March

Wow, nothing like a due date to point out what you’ve been doing for the last month.  In terms of the Ballroom and Dragon pictures that equals nothing.  Do Not disturb faired a little better.  I put in more sand and some green for the flip flops (so I could see something besides sand).  I need to try a little harder on this one.  My friend’s birthday is in July and it would be nice to have it done by then.  J

Happy stitching World.

WIPocalypse - Feb - Tiki Stitches

Project 1 – Ballroom

There are two things about this that are hard to believe.  One is that after all those years of sitting around it’s become twice as large as it was.  The second is that I’ve messed it up already.  Actually that part I believe.  For the sake of progress those two stitches will just have to stay the way they are.

Project 2 – Mythical Dragon

I thought I could move this out in two directions.  Quickly learning the error of my ways I settled for one.  So now we have the top of one wing.  Part of it anyway.  Very soon I should be able to answer the question of which is more annoying – confetti stitches or half stitches in 3 or 4 strands.

Project 3 – Do Not Disturb

It looks like I took the title a little too seriously.  Still there’s some sand on the bottom.  If I need a different color I can start on the green flip flops.

That’s all for this month.

Happy stitching World.