An Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny

Progress report.  Yesterday was the WIPocalypse report after all.

Today, then, a Retro Cat update.  I’ve finished 6 rows of the 8 to the next star.  Not bad and there’s plenty more blue to look forward to. J

Hope everyone is having a nice Easter weekend.

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.

Three stars in the sky.

Three stars in the sky of the Retro Cat. This means its picture worthy this week:

Only 8 more rows of blue until the next star space! After that I’ll have to pay attention (?) because there are more stars. And a building. The building I understand but I’m not sure why there aren’t more stars higher up. Who knows? Anyway, as usual, I want to work on something else. Like the purple in the next section or something completely new. So far I’ve been saved by not being able to decide which shade of purple to do first. Then, of course, the WIPocalypse update is next week and I want more progress to report next time. Just to help keep that from happening, I’m off to the library today to do more Christmas stitching with my friend. Not exactly too new, but different.

May April Fool’s Day not play too many tricks on any of us. J

Happy stitching World.

Some progress, an award and random things.

I’ve managed to add a few more rows of blue to the Retro cat. Not exactly picture worthy at the moment.  We’ll see what next week brings.

The very kind Topcho has nominated me for the Liebster award.  Thank you Topcho! I believe if I read this right, the purpose of this award is to promote blogs with under 200 followers.  A very worthwhile endeavor.  So now I’m supposed to nominate five more people to pass the award onto.  Teensy problem with that. Ok, maybe two problems. Most of the blogs I would nominate have recently been given the award by someone else. J Small world I guess.  The other is that I’m still new in the blogging world.  More lurking and stalking than commenting if you will.  So I’m not sure if they would appreciate it if I suddenly popped up and said “Here, have an award.” With that said I will still offer you a few choices of blogs I follow, or intend to soon.  You can check them out and decide for yourselves whether or not to follow them. :-)

The Stitching Reaper

Chris' cross stitch mania

Scully's cross stitching

Love stitching!

HAED addict

Bouncing Bellies & Flashing Fingers

Ft Ft Ft Stitch

If that leaves you wanting more, every full moon (next one is April 6) check out the WIPocalypse updates at Measi's Musings.  And on the third weekend of every month check out (or better still join) IHSW at Random Ramblings.

Whew! Talk, talk talk. One more thing.  I’m supposed to list 5 random things you don’t know about me.  Hope you’re sitting down. J Let’s go from worst to best.

I hate rotations. The minute I decide on one I get bored. It doesn’t stop me from trying though!

I like to make lists.  There has to be some use for all this paper I have around.

I like science fiction.

I like to collect things: cross stitch patterns, books, bookmarks, key chains etc.

I love chocolate!

Happy stitching World!

IHSW Monday

Hope everyone had a great stitching weekend.  Mine seemed a bit more successful than normal for me.  My friend and I got together at the library on Saturday to stitch.  We were supposed to be doing Christmas pieces but I snuck in another one.  I managed to finish it later when I got home so I was happy. The piece is from Lizzie Kate’s flip- it series.

On Sunday the retro cat really did return.  I put in the next four rows of blue and made it down to the next star.  It was nice to work on it again.  We’ll see how long that lasts. J

Happy stitching World.

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.