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.

Noah's Ark

Getting there.  I had dome some words at work but when I was stitching with my friends I found that it was in the wrong place so I had to frog.
Tomorrow I'll go to JA's and see if there is blue fabric in the size I need.  Other wise I'll be stitching a lot of blue!
Also, I put in to have Sunday the 12 off for the closing ceremonies so I have a whole day to sit and stitch and get progress on it.

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?!

Milly's Giveaway

I was neglectful of blog following and I almost missed Milly's Giveaway.  Go check it out for the most adorable bunny.  When you check the rest of the blog there's some pretty fabrics and patterns the bunny is bringing too.  My colors too!  A lavender, yellow and green color which is what I painted my new storage cubes (ok hubs helped and his look better than mine)  Also, love bunnies ;)  I have a nice bookshelf that could hold craft stuff that instead holds a plethora of Eeyores and bunnies.

TUSAL

 I've been working some overtime instead of blogging.   This first pic is my Dad's card that I quickly stitched for him and then sent out late.  Last years was early so this one makes up for that :p

 TUSAL for June.  I cracked the tribble maker but it's still good to go.  Plastic is the way to go people!

 Theme update, working on my dragon still, it's a bit of an animal.  I feel like a typewriter, I go across the top filling in the top square in the first row so I can try to roll down the piece and I keep going back and forth.  Oh and I found another spot I messed up on near where that big blob of blue is and it's part of the dragon face too. :p  I hope it turns out OK if I work around it, I'm not ripping anything out of this!

Close up of the corner where you can see I filled in.

I feel so bad, I haven't been paying attention to other blogs and the Traveling Pattern is with Kay.  It went with her to Italy and she's taken some fun pics of her trip and with the stitching, who ever thought the Traveling Pattern would actually get to Travel!

Milly, has posted that she has received the Olympic Relay Pattern.  No posts yet but she had some gorgeous needle rolls on her blog you should check out. :)  Today at work there was a TV near by and I got to see some of the Olympic Trials in diving and track.

Besides OT I've been trying to put together my craft room which looks like Dorothy Gale came through in her house.  I hope I don't get squashed with my feet sticking out from under the mess. 
How do you store your floss and patterns?  I would like ideas because throwing it all at the shelf won't help. :p  I have the floss sorted in baggies (mostly) and then in a large black bag that I have to dig through and then most of it doesn't end back in the baggies.

Traveling Pattern Goes too...

Kay!  of Kay's Random World!  Is next in the Traveling Stitcherhood.  Sorry Gray Tail you'll have to stalk her blog now, the random number generator chose comment number 5.