Hello. I have very nearly finished the "new" sampler. So, now I need something else to stitch that fits within time constraints ( Read more... )

Somehow I thought this would be a small, managable piece to do while I was at Knit and Knatter (a slighty more genteel Stitch And Bitch). The design is called "Bessie" and is by Little House Needleworks and the colour choices are my own. The red on the flowers etc is a bit more subdued in the real world. It was stitched on (extremely floopy) ( Read more... )

Hello there. I exist! Just not on the internet at this moment. I've had the no-posting guilt/ anxiety/ extra guilt thing. Around two weeks ago, I had my first seizure in forever and it was in front of my computer (which I probably shouldn't have been on) and now everyone in my life talks about limited computer time and I have been using the ( Read more... )

What I said above ( Read more... )

Life has not been high in excitement here ( Read more... )

I am trying to make one of these:

15-sided biscornu

I might be a little crazy.

Still with the down-ness right here. Trying to avoid deep thinking about a)the Future and b) the Present, and obsessing about c) the past

There are upswings (many upswings) so:

1. Have started the cross stitch project I should had done on holiday except for the bit where the fabric didn't get packed (see, nice neutral blame-free comment) and am ( Read more... )

I'm alive ( Read more... )

All I need do now is work out how to post EQ's incredibly late present.

I need to get dosk to photograph it first.

Uhm, that's all the excitement for today.

UPDATE: things have got better, other ladies with thread recruited

There's a very nice lady on the cross-stitch comm who really needs some thread to finish up a project. The thread manufacture progress has changed since she bought the kit so she can't just buy some more, add in that this is obscure hand-dyed thread and you've got a sticky wicket. I've ( Read more... )