Sew Dance

I figured I'd only do a weekly post on my Maynia stitching since I'm bombarding everyone with fabric pairing posts during this time. However I did start a flosstube channel, so if you can't wait a week, please go to Crafting with Katie . Before I get to Maynia, here's up to part 11 on Lanarte's Mystery SAL. Part 12, which I haven't finished yet, confirms it's a bird. Maynia Day 1: Hazel Fun Witch Mouse I think this one is so cute, and it's going to be one of the few finishes I have. The pieces: And the finish. It's so cute! Apparnetly it's one of 3, but as they were limited edition, finding the other two will be difficult. Maynia Day 2: You are Unforgettable. It took me an hour and a half to sort and card these threads. I think they were trying to be helpful with the color swatch, but the browns don't match at all. Only reason I could sort them properly was my old color card with thread. Also found a very strang...

Turns out I only stitched Lanarte kits this week. Caught up with the Mystery SAL, although I still have to do the part that came out Friday. Then I started this one. Here's where I was before the 24 Hours of cross-stitch weekend. I did 24 hours of work. Mostly with slippery gold threads. Isn't this so pretty the way they presented it? I don't think I've had a kit wrapped in tissue paper before. Also did a tiny bit of jewelry making. But I need a better set of tools. I'm supposed to cut that thick chain, but the clippers I have barely clip the wire. Pattern suggestions welcome for this thread. It's size 5. I thought it would be size 10 when I ordered it. I guess I can make doilies, but not sure. And Clyde was being silly this week. Not sure what this pose was about.

The dice picked out a Christmas Ornament kit. I finished one design, but was getting "aida burn" on the knuckle of my left ring finger from how I was placing my hand on the rough fabric. So, I went back to Lanarte's Mystery SAL. I finished Part 8, but I still have 9 and 10 to do to catch up. Shouldn't take that long. I did figure out what I'm going to do for Stitch Maynia. I've compiled a list of projects that are ready to go. I have three columns: was only given whole skeins, kits, and BAPS. Roll regular die for major column choice, then appropriate sized die to select from there. I have 25 in the 1st, 2 'areas' in the 2nd, and 17 in the 3rd. I've been preparing as much as I can. Mostly when the tapping noise from the heating pipe gets too annoying. I'm also going to do a post each day with a no background pattern and possibly fabric. Feel free to chime in on those. They're actually all done and scheduled to post on the appropr...

Page 2 is complete. Few stray stitches near the edges that I'll fill in with the neighboring pages. Then finished part 7 of the Mystery SAL. Still think it's a bird of some sort. And the dice picked this. May continue, may roll again. Did the gingerbread, candy cane, and spearamint on the right side. Next part is the heel... Some Clyde photos I took this week. Only place I've been is my parents. Was going to start a new job Monday, but have pushed back that start date until things are safer health-wise. I would have been commuting into Manhattan... Also bought stash, mostly to make/finish patterns already in my possession.

I caught up with the Lanarte Mystery SAL. Part 6 was quick and I finished that Friday. I made the tassels and attached them to the Wonderland Wrap CAL. I left it as is because it would've taken more time to figure out which 2 rows to remove. And back to OUaF and it's books. Didn't get as much time stitching on this because the very annoying noise caused in some capacity from a pipe behind my wall by my couch was being super annoying. So I went and read in my bed.

Just finished part 4 of Lanarte's Mystery SAL. Pictures of parts 2-4 below. This took all week minus Monday which was for the Wonderland CAL. My second cake had a longer color in the middle making my navy ends off. Still debating to rip and take two rows out, leave it, or make the sides uneven by doing two more rows. Either way, the tassels are the last part tomorrow. Also finished adding complete and in progress projects to that page, at least ones that I've posted about since I started this blog in 2012 (8 years!). A few I'm still deciding whether they should be wips or finished. Also I don't have ornaments listed. That would take up too much space.

Books have appeared on page 2 of Once Upon a Fairytale.  I also finished part 4 of the Wonderland Wrap CAL. And since my Mystery SAL kit came Friday, I started stitching that. Managed to get part 1 done. Part 5 comes out Friday so hopefully part 5 of the Wrap doesn't take too long so I can get back to OUaF at some point this week. Don't know if anyone noticed, but I redid my 'pages' on my blog. I replaced my stash list page with projects. It should be more neatly organized and not have so many broken links. I started with in progress ones that I've worked on since I started my blog. I will continue to update with other WIPs, finished, and the rest of my stash. Also did some organizing/inventorying of my cross stitch fabrics. I pulled out my "bag of fabric" and made a list of the sizes. I have a better idea of the hand-dyed ones and hopefully can pair them with some no background pieces (Rudolph and Purple Dragon come to mind). I also m...