Aloha! Here we are with another installment for Jo's Gifted Gorgeousness. I feel like I have a lot of giftedness to show today so I will just dive on in!
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Brachydios Mio! Another square for the husband cube! I so very much enjoyed working on this guy. The pattern was great (tooting my own horn there), the colors were great, and he's just all around great. I'm already thinking I want to make a little case for either my DS or games or something, just to have an excuse to stitch him again!
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Three down, three to go! I have yet to decide on the next square. I am going to guess either Nargacuga or Zinogre. Or maybe Lagiacrus. Or the pickle. I'll let the giftee decide and absolve myself of difficult things.
Edit: He decided Zinogre! I've tweaked up the image into a chart but I am not happy with the colors (again). We shall go floss diving!
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Next up, here is the finished baby blanket for the lady who set up our knitting group at the library! Sorry these colors aren't quite optimal; they were taken under the library florescent lighting and at a rather weird angle. I like the way it was finished up but I do not envy the lady who finished it! All of our squares were different stitch counts and tensions haha. But she did a great job with what she had and the blanket is so soft and snuggly. :) My squares are the top middle white (tiles) and the bottom right yellow (triangles).
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Next-next, also for Mr. Husband, I worked on a few more motifs for the speaker cozies... finally! It really seems to fly when I work on the individual little bits before putting them together. Plus it creates a nice sense of accomplishment having little parts done. This particular cozy will be for one of the towers and will be 4x5 motifs. I will need 10 of each color of these little inner parts... and this little inner part is only 1/3 of a full motif... and I will need four 4x5 motifs...... I'll kindly let you do the math as I'd rather not think about how many more I will be making LOL. (They really are enjoyable though; especially the delft blue.)
Whew! Gifts are fun. I have another gift to show but it has yet to reach its giftee so maybe the next GG~
I do have a question for you all before I scurry away. Assuming a miracle happens and you manage to not lose your needle for many projects, what do you do with the needle when it gets tarnished and "squeaks" through fabric? These are just basic non-gold needles. I assume pitching them but it seems a waste? And a bit dangerous to put needles, even blunt tapestries, in the garbage!
