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Just to note - at this stage, if you happen to see 3 comments left on the pay it forward post and are thinking “oh..3 people have already signed up and I’ve missed out”…think again.. No-one’s signed up yet.

And as for my TAST projects…I’m steadily losing hope that I’ll ever catch up…but I’m still having fun with it and learning heaps anyway.  Which is the point, I think.  So I’ve been working on bonnet stitch, which is so sweetly named, don’t you think?   I quite liked this stitch , although I found it difficult to get the tension right so that the loop part of the stich stayed flat.  Nothing that a bit of vigorous ironing won’t fix, eh?  Well, actually, in some cases the ironing didn’t fix it, but I quite like the effect anyway.  So here it it is.

I’m also working on the “Notre Dame” jumper, designed by Veronik Avery.  I love her designs, almost every time I stop to have another look at a design when flicking through Interweave Knits, it will be one of hers.

And I also plyed my first balls of spindle spun wool.  Now I know they are a bit uneven still.  But I think I’ll be able to knit a little scarf out of them.  And if that doesn’t work I can always felt it and make a knitted purse/wallet.

I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew here.  I’m up to the Cross  Stitch week in TAST and I thought, as I’m sure that someone else has thought before, that cross stitch could work a little like cross hatching.  As I like drawing, I thought I’d turn one of my sketches into a cross- stitch piece.  It’s taking a long time and I don’t think I’ll know if I’ve been successful or not until I’ve finished… But… well… here is the piece so far (thought I’d better post it so I don’t get bumped off TAST - please don’t bump me off….)

On an unrelated matter  - here is my house with a tree on it after the “rare and unconnected to global warming” storms we had last weekend.  We were very lucky.

What a frustrating morning! _ Somehow I’ve lost full controll of my podcast blog! It’s not connected to the dashboard of this one anymore.  Don’t know how I did it or what to do about it.  Almost cried - instead I contacted support - Let’s hope they write back soon.  This cross stitch sort of represents a little frustration too.  I like doing it BUT it is taking Sooooo long!

And here is the lastest TAST - Algerian Eye stitch sample.  This is my consolation - I like this one.

Not ’sick of trying”; not “sick and tired”; not “too sick to try” nor “tired try-hard’… well, maybe “tired try-hard”.  Certainly I do try hard and today I’m tired.  I’m also a bit sick, which perhaps explains the nonsense spilling out of my brain. 

But, though I have no pictures to speak of I have images running around in my brain.  I had a dream last night in which I had started a story on this blog, as a page.  Sort of a continuing selection of short stories or prose with yarns or threads linking them.  I might try it.  We’ll see.  Could crash and burn. But, since it’s a blog and no-body knows me, and possibly not many people read me (or it)…why not try, eh?

Now in terms of crafty updates:

• I’ve finished knitting the fair isle cushion cover but I can’t afford a pillow insert until next week, so I haven’t had the motivation to sew it up yet.  That will probably happen next week and then I’ll have a pretty picture of that.
• I’ve started a new stitch for Take a Stitch Tuesday - detached chain stitch - which I, well…don’t like so well.  Perhaps I’m not dexterous enough for this one. Or perhaps it’s harder than I thought to embroider a felted bowl.
• I’ve started a new cushion cover (I may not have mentioned that we are in dire need of cushion covers as the ones we have now are falling apart - a shame really as they were lovely ones that my sister-in law gave me a few years ago - but now they are in a sorry, well - worn shape with threads bubbled up and beads falling off  - I’m saving the beads, thrifty person that I am)  The cushion cover is made from left over yarn from two jumpers, mine and my partners.  So it will be a true cuddle cushion though it may end up that the concept is better than the yarn combination. But I can live with a good concept.
• And I’m still working on “that” cross stitch.  It feels like I will be for the rest of my life!
• I’ve sent off my ATC’s and I hope they reach their destination on time!  I’ve allowed two weeks but they’ve got to travel around the other side of the world. Will I be blacklisted if they don’t arrive on time?  Will this be the final curtain on my ATC experience?

Be kind.  Be gentle for this is my first post.  I am a beginner and do not know how to do this properly yet.  I don’t even  know why I am doing this.  But here I am.  Here you are.  But we may not be here together.  When I was little I always remembered how to spell that word, “together”, by breaking it into the smaller words ” to get her”.  

They are coming to get her.

I’m not sure what I intend for this blog.  I might try to thread together some pieces of arty crafty work and see if they make any sense.  At this stage I pass the time with some knitting, embroidery, cross-stitch, drawing and writing.  I also should be continuing to work on carving a walking stick. 

It’s coming to get her

So we’re away.  I’ll have to upload some pictures.  I’ll have to take some pictures, then upload them. 

Good wishes to all,

C