TT Sun Worshipper Cat 3 - Complete!

Yay!!! Now I move on to Dark Cherry. The SAL on the board this week is faces. Here's where I left off with her last June.


On another note, my DH's neice had her baby yesterday. It's a boy they named Cadin Liam... I don't have all the particulars yet as my DH spoke to his sister on the phone and men never remember details. I just know that Mom and Baby are doing well.

TT Sun Worshipper Cat 3

Thanks to the HAED BB UFO/SWIP SAL last week, I brought this little guy out of hiding. He is a Tiny Treasure (because he is only 1, plus a little, pages long) artist Katherine Barber (retired from HAED), 28 ct Opalescent Lugana, color Cashmere Glitz from Silkweaver, DMC 1 X 1. Started in March of 2008.
Yeah, tiny treasure... 3 years later, I might be close to a finish!!!!

The SAL this week on the BB is the Detail/Confetti stitch SAL, so I will continue work on him. As I was working on him last night I noticed that I had gone wrong somewhere, long ago... If you look closely in this picture just where the stitched background ends on the right you will see the back of the cat is 2 stitches off. How did I do that? So some of the evening was spent figuring out what was wrong with that and fixing it. I am glad to say that now he looks much better, and I feel much better.

I recently replied to a post on the BB about the wips we all have on the go. It was in writing my reply there that I realized that I have 11 HAEDs going. ELEVEN! That's just HAEDs, not counting any other little wips I have started over the years in my madness. Granted, 5 of those 11 are SALs that I signed up for on the BB, Lord knows I can't miss out on any of those. But it brought me to the realization that I must finish some of these. The most logical thing to do is finish off the ones that are BB SALs, since they are smaller in size, therefore they should be the easiest and closest to their finishes. Also, I didn't finish a single thing in 2010! Not one! So I am in desperate need of getting something, anything finished, and soon, my wip bins are taking over my house! ;-)

So... I will be focusing on the projects that look like they are closest to the finish line for the foreseeable future. You will see a lot of small pieces coming out of the woodwork, and hopefully some finishes soon!!!!

Stitching Update Tiny Treasures

I have a little update. I worked on this over the weekend. He is truly a UFO. If it weren't for the HAED SWIP/UFO SALs he would never be worked on! This is Sun Worshiper Cat 3, atrist Katherine Barber. (retired from HAED) On the left the original artwork, on the right my WIP. So happy to see this little guy's face! Interestingly enough, I noticed that he bears a striking resemblance to Simba! Weird, since he was started a very long time ago...











Stats: Started March 2008
Silkweaver 28 ct. Opalescent Lugana, color Chashmere Glitz
Stitched 1 X 1 DMC

Other stitchy news: I am experiencening the Frog Plague with QS Arthur. First I didn't like the fabric, so I re-started it on different fabric. Now I'm having an issue with one of the colors in the background. It doesn't look like the picture and I'm not exactly sure what's wrong with it. The color is DMC #3856 (see the bright orange color below). I checked with Michele at HAED and my chart is correct, but she agrees that is doesn't look right. Could be a dye lot issue, it's just too dark. However, all the 3856 I have looks the same. What to do???? My only option now is to frog it all, and re-restart (yes, re-restart) in the middle of the chart, then maybe not stitch the background at all. I should have done that in the first place. I've been drooling over everyone's wips of their moggies on the HAED BB for weeks, and complaining that I wouldn't get to see any detail on mine for a while since I had started in the upper left corner. Can you imagine frogging 900 stitches, 1 X 1, from my gorgeous Passione Ricamo 30 ct. evenweave linen? It's a nightmare. I started last night and frogged for about 3 hours, and it's not all out yet, of course I am trying be be so very careful, so as to not damage the fabric.

2 Stitchy Updates

First up, my progress on Goblin Tree, from Aug. 31st, after the retired artists SAL. Linda Ravenscroft is no longer retired from HAED (YAY!), but this chart is.

Next, some small progress on Tiny Treasures Sun Worshiper Cat 3 - Katherine Barber. This weekend was SWIP/UFO (slow work in progress or unfinished objects). This one is a UFO. The last time I stitched on this was March 2008! YIKES! I was digging through my WIPs and realized I had forgotten all about this little one. I started in the middle this time.
Stats: Silkweaver 28 ct. Opalescent Lugana, color Chashmere Glitz, stitched 1 X 1 DMC.


This is the original.

Sun Worshipper Cat3

A small start. This is progress from Tiny Treasure Tuesday. 28 ct. Opalesent, but I don't have the color name in front of me right now. DMC 1 X 1 full cross. I staerted in the middle this time.

Dream Double Flip-it Finish

I think I'll try to complete one word a week.



Today is Tiny Treasures Tuesday over at the HAED BB. I have Sun Worshipper Cat3 (artist Katherine Barber) all kitted up and ready for today. That's the cat on the right in this pic.