Wednesday 18 September 2024

BFF 16 white and pink

 

you can't really see the white in this picture but my BFF commented that the boat was looking a little bit fuller.

I think there might be green next.

And no I still have not got around to getting the missing threads.

click HERE to pop over to my BFF's blog for this weeks post.


Sunday 15 September 2024

Sunday Stitchings meets Gifted Gorgeousness

 so as the 15th of the month falls on a Sunday and the item that I am currently working on on Sundays happens to be a kit gifted to me this post happily is both.



Still working in brown although I think I might have finished all of the stitches in this shade, there may of course be ninjas lurking about waiting to catch me unaware!

Ah and talking of ninja stitches today was also Stake Conference, its too long a combined time of sitting for my mother so we watched from home via you tube and I thought I might get out my normal conference stitch and work on that. On the World and THAT comet.

I did get it out, and each celestial body got a few stitches however, I am still struggling with "seeing" just where I am and what stitches need to be in what shade where! So I took the few as a win and turned back to something nice and friendly on 14 count.




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Wednesday 11 September 2024

BFF SAL 16 my turn

 to be in the pink..

and making a start on little houses.












Felt like good progress.

Click here to see how my BFF is progressing.

Sunday 8 September 2024

Sunday Stitching

 a less obvious amount of progress but still there were stitches added and none needed to be taken away.



Wednesday 4 September 2024

BFF SAL 16 and light golden brown

 was still the go to shade set for me. Some area defining work and then just before we were done for the evening some satisfying filling it.


I think the rest of the filling in for this section will be something I can do whilst listening to a nice Forestella mix, perhaps even the ones for singing along to, although goodness knows what my mispronounced Korean, Spanish or indeed Italian is actually saying but I will have fun with it.

Click here to see my BFF's progress on her chosen section of the pattern.

You can almost see what the whole thing might look like.

Her square and my rectangle.

Sunday 1 September 2024

Sunday Stitchings a new month

but still working on the same shade.  The left side is sorted but there is still more of this shade to go on the right side.


 At the moment a particular breed of the animal emerging springs to mind. However, that is not the case at all.

Things went quite smoothly  this week, I spotted a small miscount in the last four stitches from last time before it could grow into a bigger issue. That felt like a win.


Thursday 29 August 2024

BFF SAL 16 complementing

 missing bits. We don't plan it this way, honest we don't. We just stitch in whatever colour or direction we want.

And in this case also how much of the original pattern we want. That it ends up with my part being bits that are not as yet stitched by my BFF and visa versa just happens.

Although this time I am particularly amused that I stitched in the black bollards as jumping off points for the houses and steps and then looking at my friends update to get the link to add below realised that is the only bit of the houses and steps she still has left to do!


My picture is likewise a little less posed than usual, and you can no doubt see I don't leave a lot of room at the edges. It is rare that I do.

You will also note I now have five part boats, I really must get that missing thread.

To compare and contrast Click Here to see my BFF's current position.

Now it may not look like it but she is still closer to completion than I am so I still have additional allowance for off joint session stitching time.



Sunday 25 August 2024

Sunday Stitchings a new shade

 of beige/brown and the project grows a little.


It was the usual length of time and probably the usual amount of stitches completed but for some reason it did not feel like as much progress.

Sometimes it just feels like that.

Wednesday 21 August 2024

No Sunday Stitching and no BFF Sal 16

 Why, well Sunday I was not well and so no stitching occurred and as for the SAL it was one of those rare evenings when we just did not have the emotional or physical energy to do it. 

It happens, and quite often when it does we are each feeling the same way, which ever one of us mentions it first.

I do however had that non camera allowance on this BFF SAL so I do have an update to share before next weeks get together.


Quite a lot of blue, some of it single strand but still a full cross stitch.  And yet another "not all there yet" mode of transport.

You are right I keep forgetting I need threads for this.

At some point I wont be able to keep working around their absence and will have to get that sorted out.

I would note that the ohps has been successfully "fudged" inside that swathe of blue.


Wednesday 14 August 2024

BFF SAL 16 more blue

 blue in a little off screen time and blue this evening with a touch of red.


A thought about one of those reds and the number of  that shade.

The colours that come numerically before it are shades of greyish ness and those that come after it are green.

So the choice of this red shade to its colour number shows a biblical themed touch of humour.

It is of course 666.

I still have not got around to buying the threads I am short of  so what gets stitched next is still influenced by what I can stitch next.

Click here to see how my BFF is getting on.