Happy Day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone.

Hope you all have a great IHSW weekend.

See you Monday.

It's Done! It's Done! aka the return of the Retro Cat.

“Don’t Worry Be Hippie” by Barbara Ana is complete.  Huzzah!!

So now it’s on to, or rather back to the Retro Cat.  Here’s what it looked like when last seen.

Admittedly it still looks the same since I haven’t worked on it yet. J But there’s a new week of stitching to look forward to so I plan to make some progress on that blue of the window.

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.

More of the same.

I was going to complain about this not being done yet but that’s just a waste of time.  Kind of like yesterday when I managed not to stitch at all.  Not the kind of March madness to indulge in.

So today I stitched.  And to prove it all the stitching is in.  All there is left is the backstitch.  Which should be easy but given the way I go about these things who knows? J

Happy stitching World.

She's got legs!

The girl that is, not the bird.  The bird has a body though so that’s something.

I’d really like to get this finished soon before I start too many other things. J

At any rate my WIPocalypse projects need attention so maybe that will keep the starting bug at bay.  Till the next full moon at least.

Happy stitching World.

IHSW February

Every time I look at Be Hippie I think it’s close to being finished.  If I was stitching on it every time I looked at it, it probably would be. J

Still it’s coming along.  A little more done on the top and the bottom.  I changed the flower in her hair from white to variegated and was pleased (?) to find the white in the bird doesn’t show up any better.  They both get backstitched so that should help.

Nothing else new to report.  Have a great week.

Happy stitching World.

Stitch, Rip, Repeat

That was my yesterday.  Stitch the part, notice it didn’t line up, rip it out and try again.  Now I finally notice that the reason it still wasn’t right was because the first part wasn’t right. Sigh.  There was only one thing to do – move on to something else. J

So I added some to Be Hippie.  I only had to redo one ray on the sun.  The bottom of her top (?) and the flower were variegated.  Apparently one stitch at a time was easier for me to follow.  Did I have the headband in last time?  I liked the colors in the word hippie so much I blended them together.

Today I went back to what I was working on yesterday.  I took out the offending section (scissors are my friend) and started over.  Then I kept going.  You’ll never guess what happened next.  I finished!

That’s all for now.

Happy stitching World.