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Windy Rainy May WIPocalypse

Posted by Jan

Greetings fellow WIP stitchers! I'm afraid to say I haven't accomplished much this last month when it comes to stitching. My health issues keep annoying me (read as... so fatigued I can't get out of bed for days). Anyway I hunted around for something small from my WIP pile to work on and pulled out my "Bikers Vest Patch". It's been a ~~choke! 1year 5months~~ long time since it's seen the light of day. I managed some more green and got as far as the gray in the tapestry needle this time around. Speaking of "around" I really must get a rotational schedule printed out and stick to it.

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And now for our favorite part of the show --- this month's topic question.

May 21 – Topic: What were you stitching this time last year and have you finished it? (via Jo)

The short answer is: I haven't a clue and probably not.

So I went to my trusty blog archive list and checked the date one year ago. And the answer is...... Mother Skunk and Babies, and no it's still a WIP.

I will be scheduling this to auto post at 6am Saturday as I will be gutting this computer for its 3 year cleaning Thursday night. If everything goes as planned I should be up and running by Saturday evening.

That's it for this blog blurb.

Jan
Slow as a snail stitcher....
A Stitch In Thyme Website
My BAP Blog

Category: Bikers Patch, Mother Skunk and Babies, WIPocalypse 2016 0 comments

A Drive by Posting....

Posted by Jan

Between chronic depression, giving up looking for a job after 2 years with no luck, my boyfriend dumping me 3 months ago with no explanation, and my allergies making what's left of my life hell. I've had no desire to stitch. The little I have done on the skunk's tail was over the last month and a half. As seen in the before and after snaps and my TUSAL orts.

I don't know if I'll do anymore stitching the rest of the year or not. But if I do I will post something here. Before I go I'll answer the last two WIPocalypse topic questions that I missed for April and May.

April 4 - Topic: Which specialty stitches do you love doing on projects? Which do you dread?

Well I've never met a specialty stitch I didn't like, and it's safe to say I haven't done many. I can say that sometimes I dread French knots, I find it easer to replace them with glass beads to give a little sparkle to my project.

May 3 - Topic: I would like to know if you look for LNS’s when you travel. What is the favorite shop you’ve ever found?

I don't do any physical traveling so I can't look for shops on the road as it were. But if I were to surf the net for Brick n' mortar shops, my favorite would have to be "Needle In A Haystack".

Thanks for dropping by......

Category: Mother Skunk and Babies, TUSAL, WIPocalypse 2015 5 comments

Ta - Ta - Ta TUSAL Time...

Posted by Jan

Well fellow stitchers we have a full plate today - New Moon, Spring Equinox, Blood Moon Eclipse, depending on where you are in the world.

As you can see from my beaker the threads have been smashed down to make way for the next WiP orts. They're kind of hard to see as they're a single ply of black floss.

I started the project back in 2001 and last worked on it in 2004. Its plaintive cries died out to a ghostly whimper long ago. So I thought I would give it some much needed loving. When I started this I was using a hoop and the fabric now has a dirty hoop-ring hue. I have managed to iron out the hoop-ring ghosts and have put it on my last available scroll frame.

Here are the before and after progress pictures.