Monday, June 13, 2016

What's Up Pussycats?

Struggling along with life!  Aren't we all?  I bet you are as well, but fear not!  Change is hard, but there is this little sign I have at work that says in order to achieve something we have never before achieved we must do things we have never before done.

I have been doing these things and using the learning experiences from the past to help guide me from making historical mistakes and I have to say.....it is truly a blessing to be where I'm at now and to KNOW where I'm going.

It's my personal opinion that any human being needs a goal.  Some might need more than one, or many, in order to achieve the giant goal they have set for themselves.  Just as long as one remembers that things don't always work out the way you imagined they would but the end result is usually what you were going for or better.  In my case, it is so much better.

Lately I've been noticing that no one wants to hear me drone on and on about the latest particulars so I won't do that here.  To sum up, I have cleaned up my credit, packed everything and put it in storage, my daughter found a lovely condo we will be inhabiting at the end of June and life is grande.

How about we take a peek at what I've created since the last blog post?  If you don't follow me on DeviantArt then this will be quite a treat for you!


This lovely thing is for my friend Ashley (aka Pinky the Pink who has an Etsy store called Make It Pink)  I purchased the Breast Cancer Awareness biscornu pattern from Rainburst Embroidery and altered it slightly to make it pink.  So incredibly perfect.


For the Neglected Floss SAL for May I stitched up another biscornu using Magical's lovely pattern but had to leave off the spirograph back stitching as it wouldn't lay properly.  




Continuing with my Sunday Slow Stitch reporting on my progress for the Stitching Pirate's Ship pattern, I grabbed it up and began posting irregular updates on dA to show the painfully slow progress.  The great thing is there is a little stitching challenge going on over at the Stitch George Washington FB group right now so I've been trying to get some stitching in every day since last Friday.  Today I am at a little over 1,000 stitches and hope to get well over 2500 by Wednesday which is the cut off date for this event.  I want to fill my sails!



Back again to dA and May 1st saw the start of a new stitching contest called Ye Olde Sampler Contest.  Since I am one of the judges my entries don't count, but I wanted to put something in there just for funzies and found this tiny little Lizzie Kate pattern in the Unseen Things series.  The larger Unseen Things pattern is one of my WIPs which I will get to next once the ship has sailed (hurr hurr har har arrrrg).



Along came the Neglected Floss SAL for June and with it another beautifully crafted pattern by our spirograph master Magical!  She said she created this with me in mind as my organized life has been off kilter for a bit.  I loved it so much I stitched it up six times! Once I completed the sixth it was so tempting to just continue onward, but I had a mission at this point......TO MAKE A CUBE.  If you will notice, the pattern itself is only slightly off....just a little.  So I named my cube the CUBE OF OBLIQUE.  Fancy name for a fancy cube. 


You all know that for me this is not very much stitching, but I assure you I have been very busy....NOT stitching ha, ha.  


Every summer seems to have many things going on so I suppose I'm either ahead of the game for stitching or right on track.  Either way, I love what I have done and am excited about the finishes.

I'm hoping that I can get back to blogging more and keeping up with my SALs.  Blogging took a back seat and I've missed it so very much!

Until next time.....Keep on Stitchin'!

16 comments:

  1. Welcome back :) It has been a long time.

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    1. Thank you! I have missed everyone in the blog world and hope to be caught up on reading by the end of next weekend :D

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  2. Gosh, I had almost forgotten how many awesome finished you had these past month with everything else going on in your life! That cube is so awesome ^_^ I hope to see much great progress on your stuff again soon!

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    1. Awww Shucks! thank you so much Leonore. I know all of us have been so busy DOING that we haven't really spent much time talking with each other.

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  3. I still think it should be the cube of awesomeness! It is amazing and I really can't believe it looks so good but it does <3 (my imagination was not able to create an image that lives up to how good yours is you see ;) )Your colour choices are wonderful and it is beautifully stitched :D

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    1. Pish posh! I KNOW what you create in your mind, but I really love the compliment just the same :D I'm nervous about July's pattern, but we must learn new things!

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  4. Wow so many great finishes! I'm glad your life is going so great right now :) your post made me happy you sound so excited!

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    1. You have no idea how excited I am! I just really LOVE how wonderful everything is moving along. I have my daughter to thank for the latest great thing which is the condo find, and by sitting back and having her make important decisions is showing me that my girl is a force to be reckoned with!

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  5. Lovely finishes and your cube is awesome. Sounds like things are looking up all round for you.

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    1. Thank you! The cube reminded me of the Quaker Ball which I still have to stitch up, but now that I have done the cube I'm very confident I'll be able to put together the ball. :D

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  6. Yay, new blog (wait, does that mean I have to update mine?) You've been so busy with non stitchy stuff lately and yet look how much you accomplished despite that. And that cube, that wonderful cube, I am going to have to pick your brain about putting that cube together as I have IDEAS

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    1. hit me with your ideas! It was super easy and I'm ashamed to say I had not thought of this before!

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  7. Your cube is ultra awesome! Great job. And great job on the rest of your stitching, too!

    And I'm glad you've made changes that make you happy. It is awesome that you can say your life is grande.

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    1. Thank you! Generally speaking life is always grande, with a few bumps here and there, but if you see me complaining SLAP ME because it really isn't anything worth getting worked up about :D MORE stitching, less complaining! ha ha!

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  8. Great work on the cube! The obliqueness would bother me LOL I love the colours you've chosen too.

    I made a cube myself this month and now Christine has suggested I make a dodecahedron with a monthly series of designs. Care to join me?

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    1. Gosh! I would love to but as you can see by the lateness of my response I have been super busy doing things I'd rather not be doing ha ha! I will, of course, be watching what you! I haven't even done anything for the Halloween Ornie SAL!

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