Random Update
Stash:
Yesterday I ordered from European Cross Stitch two of the patterns from Der Feine Faden: Sommerlaune and Kreuz und Quer. This was my first order from ECS and I'm pretty impressed with the prices and the service so far. I had a question about my order and Cindy wrote me back immediately with an answer. The prices are also decent, considering that shipping is free, and the charts I ordered seem to be tough to find outside of expensive kits in Europe. I am looking forward to getting these charts. I already have Stieffmütterchen and plan to work on it as a Stitch-Along with Renee soon.
I need to pick up flosses now, and my local A.C. Moore is having their 8 skeins for a dollar sale until Tuesday. I will either try to get over there this weekend or on Monday. I need fabric, too, but I think I'll wait on that until I can get to the Thistle in Glastonbury.
Stitching:
I'm a little frustrated because I am STILL stitching on the Round Robin and it's just going so slowly. The design is 63x63 solid stitches (only whole stitches, not even any back stitches), and wow. I really expected it to take about half the amount of time it has.
This has really made me aware of what a slow stitcher I am. I'm not really sure what to do about it. I do think I've gotten a lot faster since I started stitching again (around a year ago) but I'm still amazed at how quickly some other stitchers seem to finish things -- and BIG things, too (Carol and Kim come to mind). I do realize they both spend more time stitching than I do -- Carol stitches daily without fail (and has since the beginning of 2004) and Kim stitches an average of almost 20 hours a week. I don't think I'm approaching that in a normal week.
But I wonder sometimes, if my actual stitch-by-stitch rate is really as slow as it seems to me.
Stuff:
This has been a long week at work and I'm hoping to use the weekend to rest a little, although of course there's plenty of housework, etc, that needs to be done. It's raining like crazy out there today and it's supposed to continue for most of the weekend, so let me just say... I'm grateful it isn't snow!
3 Comments:
I really love that quilt blocks-looking pattern, the first you linked.
I kind of dropped the stitching ball after I finished my last project (which I still haven't even photographed yet. eek!). I've been geeking out on my new computer :D But I think i'm going to dive back in. Have you ever stitched an afghan? I've got a great pattern (which I can't find online to link :-/) and I want to do it for my mom for Christmas, but I'm a little intimidated, especially by trying to make the pattern look as close to the front as possible on the back, too.
Hey Kyla,
I've never stitched an afghan -- I would be intimidated by the size of it! Also, the bare back of it. What does the design look like? I've seen some really cute Christmas afghan designs.
I think you are a much faster stitcher than I am, too. Those tulips would have taken me forever, and you did them in like one day!
Those tulips were a good way to fill up a rainy weekend ;D
The afghan pattern is 12 separate little houses, almost all whole stitches, designed to look like rustic little buildings (post office, school, church, feed store, etc.). It's adorable, and I really want to make it for my mom. I don't know, though how to gauge the amount of floss needed for something that big, etc. And, I need to find the right kind of afghan to stitch it on. I'm thinking at this point it might be a good Christmas 2006 gift ;-)
There's a great pattern in the Herschnerr's catalog - a bunch of little snow-dressed penguins all in a row. It finishes at, like, 3 feet wide. Crazyness, but SO darn cute. I've been really tempted to do that as a wintery/Christmas project.
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