Guess what, guys! It finally went
one whole week without raining! YAY. Of course, it is supposed to get very hot now so not sure if I'm 100% on board with this change. The grass will still grow, and mowing in extreme heat is probably one of the grossest, most tiring, foolish things ever. Don't worry, I take a ton of breaks so I don't suffer heat stroke but it still turns one half of the yard into a whole day affair. Maybe I should just xeriscape. Or create a wildebeest habitat à la Jo.
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I have a bit of progress on the double-knit potholder, being worked up for a friend. I thought it was a great project to take to craft group, especially now that the "main" image is complete.
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Of course, when you get to talking you stop paying attention and wind up with a glaring mistake that will have to be removed. I've no idea how it happened as this should just be alternating colors at this point! I
do not like mistakes in double knitting; it's very tedious to undo them. Instead of pulling out the stitches, I "tink" or unknit everything, one stitch at a time. Cross stitch is so much easier (but probably not any less demoralizing) with a snip-snip!
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So now this project is in time out to think about the error of its ways.
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Lastly, here is the next giveaway and the winner of the last chart! The winner of The Bee Book chart from last month is
RJ at Stitching Friends Forever! They're having an
amazing giveaway of their own now if you'd like to check that out. RJ, I don't have your address so drop an email when you can and I'll get it sent out.
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| giveaway as stitched by me! |
The pattern up for grabs this month is Southwest Spirit, a design by Gloria Eriksen and is one I have actually stitched, way back in 2010! I picked it up in a thrift store, along with the already-started fabric. I finished off the stitch and loved it, especially that little brown pot on the left. It was a highly enjoyable piece to work on, maybe because the colors are so soothing. The original owner unfortunately did not make a working copy of the pattern and so, there are
pen marks on it, crossing out stitched places. This is mostly on the buildings in the upper left. Since the piece has some fairly large bricks of color, it doesn't make it difficult to know what color to use, nor where to use it. Just keep in mind this is not going to be a very pristine chart!
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| Southwest Spirit |
Since I did it on the original 14-count Aida, it worked out to be 13" x 10" which at the time was really, really big for my ventures into cross-stitching haha! This is also the first piece I ever did on my floor stand and caused me to fall in love with two-handed stitching! You will not be receiving the efforts of my hard work, however. My mother liked this stitch very much! :)
Gifted Gorgeousness Giveaway Guidelines
- Be a
minion follower (upper right corner of my blog)! Feedly, bloglovin', etc. do not count as there is no way to show it! I am sorry; blame blogger for this one.
- Comment and tell me you would like to be included in the drawing!
- Open worldwide!
- No winning twice in a row (example: the winner of October's drawing would not be eligible for November's).
- Closing date: July 29th, 2019 23:59 CST.
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And that is all for this edition of Ishkabibble Babble!
