The no stitch stich along

well no stitching on the joint project that is.  My BFF needed some extra time on a to be gifted project so we paused the bluebell woods.

I had intended to start a similarly themed project also intended as a gift but my head was not in starting from scratch.

So I worked on something that has had little teaser updates here and there in other posts.

Still just a little look at last nights addition.

Things went quite quickly with the project when I first started then things slowed as the world changed and as the light in the dinning room got gradually dimmer. Which I did not fully realise till the dark night were well in.

I really enjoyed working on this last night it has been awhile since I was doing something other than cross stitch or quilting when working with thread.

Here is The Link over to my BFF's blog.

The time paradox

 the closer the finish of a pattern the slower the stitching begins to feel.

You have the same amount of time doing the sewing as normal, in this case two hours, give or take the chatting that happens.

And indeed many a stitch goes in, you hold it up and keep seeing not what has been done, as in earlier stages, but now it becomes more a thought of  look how much is left to go.

I know I do it, I know it is all in my head but that is how it feels.

So a tiny bit of big tree, I will get them done eventually.

It was two different variegated threads from those used previously.

Link to BFF's update

November Gifted Gorgeousness link up

 So on the 15th of each month Jo has instigated a sharing of pictures of gifts, either given or to be gifted.

I don't often manage to link up, I tend to be a bit forgetful.

Anyway this month I have recalled and this item falls into both categories.

I was given it some time ago and it resurfaced today when I was searching for a pattern for a birth sampler.

Not what I was looking for nether the less now felt like the time to make a start. It should be interesting as the kit has become separated from the pattern and I am working it out from the picture.

Now as it is intended for a gift this will be the only share of it until it is finished and gifted.

At the moment it most closely resembles the "no more Mr Nice Baby" from a certain washing up liquid's advert. 

update on the above Click Here

so if you did not visit me from Jo's blog then pop on over to see her and all her delightfully gifty stitches and links to the other participants.

click here for the link

A small session

 on the tall trees.

So we missed last week, that one was on me, there was a birthday for my mother with an 0 on the end, that came after some health issues earlier in the week.

This week whilst we did manage to get together is was for a much shorter period of time than normal , my BFF's turn to need the adjustment after a very busy day with a lot of zooming in one way or another. She may tell you more or she may not.

So here is the progress.

Here is the link to my friends blog the link

The ninth cat

that is the title of my brothers most recent album of music.  Now that is not a mainstream thing, no big record label and if you were to hear ir on the radio we would all be well beyond shocked.

He does the recording and the vast majority of the music himself, and the vocals and the writing. He even does video which he has his wife and passing friends participate in as they can.

So I find out about his most recent album, as titled above from face book which has a close up of the new cover, I click on the link and see a bit more of it before I realised it was familiar for a reason.

He has used a close up of the cat I stitched for him and his wife.

So the original   Rainbow Cat

Which they christened the psychedelic cat 

And the cover 

and the link to his music, for which I get no commission and which I take no responsibility at all, his musical influences are eclectic and so is his music..mind this is maybe a bit 60's and why they picked the psychedelic cat.

LINK for music  which has a free track preview option should you be curious keeping in mind what curiosity did to the cat! LOL.

Trick or Treat ? Halloween blog hop 2020

 here we are in this most strange of years doing familiar things which give us a certain comfort.

In  this instance the Halloween hop as arranged by Jo over at Serendipitous Stitching. Click here for link. Now if you have not arrived here having hopped your way from Jo's blog you might like to go there to get the starting point for the blog and your letter collecting.

This year I completed a small stich from a free pattern which oddly enough was gridded fifteen by fifteen stitches not the normal ten by ten! Which I did not notice till I started, it was quite odd.

I also changed the spiders silk which on the original was in full stitches to the single strand, and a bit of a change to its legs for the same reason.

I stitched it on white, but played around with the filter option on the edit to give it a little bit more spook for the occasion.

Now had I not already sewn it ready I might have tried to complete Durene Jones free Halloween Sal when it came out. You may recall I used one of her designs for last years hop.  Maybe another year I will give that a go. This year it would have been a little too much for me to have felt confident I would get it finished in time unless I worked my fingers..

to the bone, as the saying goes. The above is a little peek at an ongoing project of mine.

Here is my letter and punctuation mark (note that latter is important) punctuation is always important.

 

I hope you can see the letter and punctuation mark this tiny backstitch black cat and its ball of wool represent ...but just in case (as it was quite typically one of the less clear letters in the cat alphabet) here it is again in a more legible if less fun format E,

Now you have your letter head off to the next stop in the hop theflashingscissors to collect further parts of the target word or maybe it is a phrase this year and enter it at Jo's blog.

Good luck....

An impulse purchase

 I bought this spool of fine cord from a charity shop.

the picture shows a normal sized spool for comparison

I had no idea what I was going to do with it, there was a brown "rust" stain on the bottom which was perhaps why it was priced at 50p.

I thought why not, even if I just have it to hand when I want a bit of string it will be worth it and when the brown bits arrive, well that's string for the garden.

It has however found another purpose in a long term project, and for that alone it was worth the price.

There are times I have seen things in charity shops and think I should not get something unless I have a planned project to use them on like the The Hat rather than just adding to the stash.

Quite often I regret those strange  decisions and the items left behind.

In this instance I am pleased it came home with me.

I am not quite ready to post the project that it is forming part of...that's for the future.

The joys of nature

 lie in their infinite variation, well that's what I say every time I find I have made a small mistake in the bark of a tree or the foliage or the grass on this pattern.

Well its nature, no one is going to notice, not even me after a bit of time has passed.

So what was tonight's progress?

Well my friend and I worked separately on whatever took out fancy at first and I did

A bit more tree, these big trees take time to grow you know.

A bit of path, in the same shade as the tree.

Some big Bluebell leaves.

Some small of the very small bluebells in the light shade and then  as the spaces under the medium trees was getting on my nerves we turned to one of the variegated threads. Previously we had used this as one strand, this time it was two.

I managed to finish all of that colour before the night was done.

It has not added to the overall look of the image at this point.  Indeed the large Bluebells have lost some of their impact.  I trust that the backstitching will bring it back.

Mind I was impressed to have managed what I did due to a level of hilarity disrupting our normal stitching calm prompted by a little technological experiment. 

As the tech girl, the coding ninja I am leaving it to my BFF to give you details.

LINK to BFF's Post

 

Too tired

 to think of anything to say this week so here is the progress picture

imagine it painting those thousand words.....

oh and here is The Link my BFF may be feeling a bit more with it!

Unlike a Siberian Tiger

I am not embracing trees.

I did start out doing some tree trunk, going on up into the sky but stopped to finish my apple trees (well that's what they have become in my version) and had good intentions of going back to those big trees.

Perhaps if I had a length of the brown cut I might have managed it. However there was no brown cut and I just did not want to be working on those trees.

Or grass

or green (there is some variegated to go bottom left of the same shade as the trees top left  but noooo)

I wanted something different

I wanted blue....

BIG bluebells, that what my heart yearned for now.

so that's what I did

the BIG bluebells are made up of three shades of blue. I have completed the two darker shades, just some light bits and the flowers will be finished.

Then mostly it will be back to the greens and browns (oh and the variegated).

Now my post today skirts a song lyric or two (not sure if you have spotted them, it is tenuous ) but to find out about the one song that the pale grass brings to mind week in and out pop on over to my BFF's blog and see her progress by clicking on THE LINK