BFF SAL 21 feeling dotty

 if you have visited my blog recently you know I have been doing a complicated design with confetti, lots of blue dotting about.

So it was nice to be stitching something other than blue.

However, the greens also dotted about and felt more irritating here than in the blue.

The first green went in as a single strand by mistake, or perhaps habit. Once I realised the mistake I left it for the green I made the mistake with.

Still some cross stitches to go and the backstitching that will make all of the difference.

Pop over to my BFF's blog, there is a link in the blog list to the right and see how her stitching is going.

There is going to be

 a lot of hunting Ninja stitches on this I can tell.

I have indulged myself with another bit of the knot work, which is very soothingly in the one shade, as I have made steady progress on the dragon.

 

It is very satisfying when a ninja is found and eliminated.

Even better if like pulling up buttercup plants, one leads to another.

And a link to a piece of music interpreted by the Leader of FORESTELLA . 

It felt appropriate. 

Sunday Stitching

 well it was done on a Sunday, just not one at church. That is still a bit hit and miss between health and transport.

We watched the Remembrance Sunday Service and parade at the Cenotaph on the TV and I only stitched in poppy colours of red and black.

 

which had a rather interesting result.

Hands

 are never easy.

Felt hands certainly are not. I had the two hands done with the core wool, then I started adding the skin tone on the left hand and it went wrong.

the reasonable hand shape went all mitten on me and then it just kept getting bigger. Which is odd. I had not added more wool to it but instead of getting tighter and smaller it just felt looser. I am going to have to start that hand /arm again and be more careful with the right hand when I get that far!

No BFF anything

this evening as the lurgy has found its way to my BFF's home.

So out with the mini harpoons once more (there has been a bit of work since last I shared this. However there is still quite a long way to go.

 

Much more shading and stabby stabby with little harpoons.

I know one thing this is not a mobile hobby.

Blue

 many stitches in many shades of blue.

With the occasional touch of gold knot

Both feel reflective and appropriate just now.

Congratulations

 to my BFF on her new job. Gave me something else to try my metallic paints on.

A little card for the occasion.

As for the fist time in over 35 years we won't be working for the same employer, yet we sort of still will be?

The Frogs and Toads are a running joke since her OU days.

Halloween and a pumpkin

 

This is on black paper, with metallic watercolours. 

It has a look of a chalk painting here.

I am having fun with these little pictures with metallic paint.

I'd not thought of adding paintings into the blog before this. 

Possibly as these little paintings are for adding to other things  that I thought of it at this time. The pumpkin went onto note paper for a letter to my pen pal for instance.

Maybe, as I come across them I might share some previous paintings, and perhaps I might get back into doing some on occasion just because? Because I have paint and brushes and well why not.

I don't have a pumpkin song link so the song from Ghost in the shell it is. And because I am drawn to it even when some of the blending sounds are not my usual thing still I delight in them.

If you would rather have cross-stitches on a Halloween theme, you can search using the Halloween label or the search bar. There are some pumpkins!

BFF RAL after all

prewarned that Roni's ta da stitching finish needed more time for a fully finish so we might RAL not SAL. I hunted out my wire, plyers and a long waiting project.

And little harpoon and stabby stabby needle felting commenced.

and there was chatting and laughing and the very odd but satisfying sound of the needle felting.

As I was in full on stabby mode when Roni finished her "TaDA" we did not switch to the SAL, which had been the original intention, I kept on with the stabby stabby, thank goodness for leather finger protectors, and Roni picked up a "something different" project of her own.

Not sure when she will post an update, she is busy busy but here is a link to her blog for when she does.

Click HERE

 

Sometimes

 I need an easy stitch when things are not going quite how I would like them to do in my life beyond the crafts. And sometimes I need something so complicated and bitty it can help to shut out all the argh and negative thoughts trying to take over.

In this instance I am going for the latter.

The dragon begins to take shape

I need to go back to the neck ninjas and not get too drawn into the wing, after all I am approaching the area that was the starting point of my first attempt (the one I had to pick out).

Tomorrow we will be back to the SAL as Roni has had a Ta Da finish with her time sensitive project.