Progress

Just a quick update.

I have finished the stitching on my sisters' cross stitch peice. I still have to stain it with tea and get a frame, but the majority of the work is done two months ahead of schedule, yay me!

On the pineapple shawl, it has been set aside until I can afford to make a trip out to Hobby Lobby to buy another skein of thread. Hopefully I can add it as a small "birthday" gift to myself.

As I now find some time on my hands, I am pulling out a cross stitch project I started and stopped after just a few days work. It is a Parcheesi Board, the second game board that I have designed and stitched. The first was a chess board I gave to my brother, which took me over two years to stitch! I really hope I get this board done much quicker than that, as I would like to give this to my grandmother, who taught me how to play Parcheesi.

W.I.P's

I have several W.I.P's right now. They include;

A light crocheted shawl in a very pretty light blue Omega thread and the pineapple pattern.

A cross stitched gift for my sister for her birthday in May.

And a tatted bracelet that has been itching to get started, but has yet to progress beyond threading the beads onto the thread.

Lots of work ahead of me, and I no longer have a tv to occupy my mind with while my hands are busy. Luckily, I do have half an audio book left to listen to, one audio book that I just downloaded (legaly from Audible) and one more credit for Audible, which probably won't get used before I get next months credit.

New Blog for New Crafts

Hi All!

This is a new blog for all of my crafting endevors, since there are quite a few.

The latest craft I have taken up is needle tatting, which I have been learning now for about two weeks, and am already trying to design my own jewlry with it. This craft looks like it will be good for this summer, since crochet is so out because of the heat. Thou, it will have to share time with my many cross stitch projects.