Conglomoration Post

 oi, if I load the pics first I can't find where to type.  Ok first pic to get my London key chain in the pic.
2nd pic I managed to finish the 1st page and a bit of London during the London 2012 Olympics
3rd, just watched morning session of Athletics for the London 2012 Paralympics.  Hope to get another page done for these games.  Already took 9/9 off to watch the closing and catch up on things.  Haven't watched the Opening Ceremony yet :p
4th TUSAL it finally broke along the crack and I had to use epoxy glue to stick it back together.  What's with all my TUSAL's breaking?
The mound of floss in the back was for a stocking project.  Probably won't start it this year but the floss at JA's is on sale 4 for $1.  Then I checked Love Quilts and forgot I had signed up for another child so I'll have to check if I have all the floss for that one and make another run before Monday :)
I promise September to be a better blogger.  If I don't blog on Wednesday, Friday or Saturday someone come round to facebook and bonk me on the head ;)  or e-mail me @yahoo.com

London 2012 Start

I started at 3 today when the Olympic Opening Ceremony actually started in London and did 100 stitches.  There is actually two different colors of blue but you can barely tell the difference between the 825 and the 517.  I'm really wishing the fabric I had bought had been big enough but it was an inch too short all around.  I had to cut a 22 by 18 piece of 14 count Aida.  So lots and lots of blue.  The resulting image will be Tower Bridge, I'm wondering how I can throw in the Olympic Rings like they displayed them on the bridge but the pic is at a bit of an angle.

Conglomoration WIPacolypse, TUSAL and sorta Themealious post

Hi, I'm Ziggy and I'm addicted to Pogo.  If you don't know what that is I shouldn't tell you as games are really addicting.I haven't been neglectful of my stitching and did get the Love Quilt Square for Cristobal done and mailed.  I just uploaded pics and didn't realize it was tilted :p

 I had been doing it at work and I brought it around to show.  I told one of the guys that it was going to be a quilt square for a child and he started asking me how much it would cost me to do one.  I was thinking like others he wanted me to stitch something for him.  However, he basically wanted to sponsor me to do a quilt square!  I couldn't justify the price that I normally would have charged so I told him 20 and the cost of stitching and the 3 dollars for the donation.  (Which reminds me I forgot to send 3 bux for the other square.)  I was going to wait till the beginning of Aug when the new children were released but there was a call for stitchers to fill the last 2 quilts.  So I jumped on the chance to do a sports theme but I took the book for my coworker to decide and when I got back home it was too late.  The other square was still open so I jumped on that one and had to run to buy fabric so he owed me 7 more dollars.  The patterns have to be 9X9 and if I had used the fabric I had it was going to be too big so I had to buy smaller count but that's what coupons are for.  So here is the beginning of Noah's Ark.

 I got all the floss wound and it's in the box with my London colors  I was looking at the fabric to see what size to cut when I was going to do Noah's Ark and I realized then the blue fabric was way too small.  But I think the blue fabric only comes in 14 count at that size so I may have to use white after all.  I'll be putting a pause in Ark while the games go on.  I'm a little torn right now because the Opening Ceremonies don't start till Friday but some of the games have all ready started.  I guess I'll find the Olympic Colors in the pattern and stitch on  that.

Here is TUSAL, filling up nicely.  With so much floss in the box I don't have a place for orts so I'll have to bring it to work so it gets filled up with Ark and London.
I don't really have anything to go with the Jolly July Theme but the Noah's Ark is pretty happy. 
Also, did stitch on Computer Dragon on Saturday at my stitch with the girls.  I need to do something on it other than stitch across the top row I feel like a typewriter starting at one end and working my way across the top to the right.  I was saying 'ding' as I started over with a different color. 
I also finished my Ferret Friday over 4th of July weekend when we went up to see my MIL and family.  Her husband had fallen off a ladder and broke his pelvis in 2 places.
A friend suggested I put Pratchett's name on the piece and I think I'll do that so still have a little to do on the ferret that should have been done in June but I didn't stitch on it on Friday's :p
I'll keep better progress of my projects over the Olympics I swear!
Speaking of which does anyone know what happened to Milly?  I sent her my Olympic Relay Pattern and she got it and then when I had been checking blogs she's completely gone?!

Going to be a New Year

I promise next year will be a good year for blogging! Yeah we'll see about that ;)
I will have to post every new moon for TUSAL
I need to get my last pic of Jim up. I stopped posting around what June July? He looks to be a pretty good rectangular rainbow tribble but I think George from last year is a little bit bigger. I'm still debating on creating another rectangular rainbow tribble or filling an ornament that I got from Hobby Lobby for decoration next year.

I have signed up to do Measi's WIPocalypse
So during a break on my hockey game I found a little altered book that a friend had made me and I listed on each page 10 WIP's (works in progress)
1. Computer Dragon
2. Rivalry
3. Best Stressed - Dolly Mama
4. Merry Catmas - Dolly Mama
5. Have to Wrap - Dolly Mama
6. Mardi Gras Motif's (a 'feb' stitch from last year)
7. Wine Coasters (I don't even want to think about when I started these)
8. Welcome Friends
9. Dragon Wintzler (sp?) (also a feb stitch from last year)
10. Winter Snowman Bell Pull

When I got to Winter Snowman which was a bell pull series in Cross Stitch and Needlework 2010 that reminded me somewhere was the mag for Autumn that I didn't start. So I have 10 things I have to start this year too. It was almost 9 because I didn't have enough pages but I did front and back of the ornaments. Which should technically be WIP's because I did make them for my Mom, Dad, Granny and I did finish friend 2, and an aunt and uncle. The Aunt and Uncle I think need beads and finishing. One of the friends one I washed and the overdye ran so it's not good and the other friend that I made it for fell off the face of the earth. I guess if I ever see her or hear from her she'll get one but I've started communicating some more with my other friend so maybe I'll redo hers :p
Anyhoooo Here is the 10 things I want to start this year.

1. Autumn Snowman (if anyone has this it was Sept 2010 if I can't find my mag!)
2. Monopoly (remind me to send money I don't think I ever did!)
3. Ferret
4. London (to be Started May 18th when they start the marathon)
5. Ornaments Aunts
6. Ornaments Uncles
7. Tree of Stitches (get back on that site and find out how much it is!)
8. Wedding Sampler (there's a mag image somewhere I need to dig out)
9. Wine Apron
10. Wine Country

9 and 10 were my Christmas presents from my friend. I don't think the kit is called that but it's wine themed and last year she got me the apron and I just bought the thread over Thanksgiving. Everything else I pretty much have thread for, might need to get more fabric but I won't buy any new patterns! Now the hard part will not be dling free ones! London is a freebie pattern I will search for the link. I don't think I have anything for it yet. Ok that appears to be it I think I printed off Tower Bridge and one other one but I don't know which I will stitch yet.

Should I be crazy and do my own SAL (stitch a long) in May for the Olympics? Surely someone else out there has one all ready? Well I didn't find a SAL but I did find some patterns.

Ok this blog post is long enough. I'm going to take a picture of Jim and all the Christmas Decorations. I work from 8-4:30 tomorrow (cross your fingers for Early Release! No one call your cell service provider tomorrow :p ) so when I get home I hope to craft. My desire is to craft something every day. Even if it's just putting 10 stitches in a project.

Christmas Stitch-A-Long

Let's try this again :p

My CSAL Goal


My CSAL progress


I stitched on it all this week along with my husband's 10year anny present. We'll be married 6 years this year but it's a HUGE project. I've been watching all our movies but I'm only on the recently purchased Big Bang S2 and debating on watching the other seasons on DL or moving on to the next movie which is Big Fish. I'll post a progress picture of the Anny project when I finish the last movie starting with the letter B :D

I might stitch on the CSAL more during hockey games and during the Olympic hockey games but I put together another project for the Olympics. This way I hope it's done by Spring and I can hang it up :D