The Turtle Trot

The lovely lady at BAP Attack  (and if you think my WIP list is huge, you've seen NOTHING until you've seen hers!)  is hosting a SAL called 'The Turtle Trot'.

For this SAL you pick 13 projects that are going to take a while - you don't have to finish them.  Just post a pic of them, and then whatever progress you may have made on the 13th of every month.

Here are the first four of mine all gotten out before I did anything to them - only Fred has gotten a few stitches so far.

This is Mirabilia's 'Archangel', L and L's 'Angel of Grace', 'Frederick the Literate', and QS 'Lovers'.

Wow, Lovers is really tiny!

The others on my list are:

5. Chang Wufei



6. Gettysburg



7. Celtic Christmas



8. Snowing (just started)



9. Guardian Angel (starting sometime this week, gridded it up today - is that a start?)



10. Erestor



11. 23rd Psalm
 


12. Mary Wigham



13. QS Cardinal Song
 


All of these have quite a bit to do - I think Angel of Grace is closest to a finish.

Snowing - It Begins

Remember this adorable guy?



Well, Evalina bought the pattern, too, and we have started a SAL!  She's much further than I am, which should suprise exactly no one.

Here's my tiny start - I did most of this on January 1st, which was when I began - he is my traditional New Year's start! - and then I spent most of the rest of the week in bed asleep.  He's gotten a little further, but not too much.



I'm stitching him one-over-one on 28ct, so he's going to be pretty tiny!  I'm also trying out parking for the first time, so that's slowing me down a little bit.  It's kind of fun, but I don't know if I could handle a lot of colors.  So far I'm only using six needles.

In related news, I've cleaned up my WIP page - it's gone from 84 down to 77.  I did delete 'God Bless America' even though it's not quite done, because I didn't feel like coming back and doing it later, and also because I want to try and finish it up this evening.  So really I have 78 WIPs right now.  Yikes.

Oh, yeah, and Snowing is one of the soon-to-be-gone patterns by WSnB - see previous post!

Witch Stitch and Bits is Closing! :C

Witch Stitch and Bits has announced that the site is closing as of January 31st.
Some of the charts will be available on another site (at a different price!) but most of the ones on my list won't be, so I'll be spending a bit more than usual to get my list done.
They are super cheap to start with, but are 25% off right now!  So grab them before they're gone, if you had your eye on any!

I got these so far, and I'm combing through my list to see if I really want some of the others - I had 22 left on it, and most of them I still like.  But I can't grab them all - at least not this payday :D  I have a HAED layaway to pay off this month.

Howling


Moment's Thought


Ginger


Fallen Angel


Christmas Eve


Lost


Aquarium


Glass Window Owl


Of course, this is going to make me add another hundred years or so to the length of time I need to live to stitch them... but that may be a bonus!

**Edit**  Also, the price goes down a little more when you pay with PayPal - eight patterns ended up being $14.90 in US dollars.

**EDIT AGAIN**
Since I'm showing stash pics, I thought I'd add the two HAEDs I got during Christmas!

Butterfly Rose Cross



Patchouli



Very pretty, yes?  I was tickled to get them.  My Mum picked the top one and my sis the bottom one, and both really reflect their own tastes - is it a hint, maybe?

Landing Gear Down

So I'm really, really late posting again.

It's been since last year!  (wow, I bet lots of people have used that joke...)

Anyway, I have a tolerably good few excuses.  I've had to work a lot, and I've had what I thought was a horrible, horrible cold but that the Dr informs me is walking pneumonia   Yick.  I used to get that all the time in the winter, but it's been awhile and I had forgotten just how icky it is.

Anyway - Eagle!

Due to sleeping most of my spare time away, he's not done.  But he is very, very close!

Here's the last four colors:  Dark Red


Dark Cocoa Brown (I think that's what it was called)


And I flubbed at the end and apparently didn't take a pic with just Very Dark Red added, so here is Very Dark Red and Very Dark Brown to finish all the cross stitching off!  This pic was taken on December 31st, to show how far behind I am on posting XD


And if you think that pic looks prettier - yes, it does.  It's with my very brand new wonderful (so far) camera :D  Yay for Christmas prezzies!  I haven't gotten the focus perfected but the colors are MUCH less washed out.

Only the Backstitching is left and I'm about halfway done. (There is a LOT!  All those feathers!)  I hope to finish up tomorrow or the day after.  So there will be another post soon!  I also have some new stitching starts and one wee finish to show you guys.

Coming in on Approach

I've been soooooooooo busy!

I had to work all of last week except for Thursday, when I spent all day at the dentist.  This week I had to work all day Sunday and then spent Monday with Mum's family and Tuesday with Dad's.

So, of course, the Eagle is not done, but I'm getting closer!

Here's the result from IHSW - added Medium Grey


and then I got about half of the Dark Grey done and finished up later:


Since then I've added Medium Golden Brown:


And while stitching that, discovered I had skipped some quarter stitches of Medium Yellow up among the feathers of his wingtip, and that I had completely ignored the line of Golden Brown (the lightest shade) that highlights his wing.  So I added those and a few quarter stitches that I had also managed to skip on his head:


Now I have only four colors left!  Two shades of brown, two shades of red, and then on to the backstitching!  (And a couple of dark grey stitches I only just now saw were missing!)  I'm currently working on a red, and although I had to work today and I have to work the next four days, two of them are at the job site that I'm allowed to stitch, so I have some high hopes!

Also, there was a payday, therefore there was WSnB!

Eye Spy


and Afternoon Promenade


And I'm trying to decide which chart to knock off my wishlist in the HAED sale that starts tomorrow!  I'd love to do another layaway, but I swore I'd pay one off first.  Anyone else going to grab one?

Posting Soon!

I'll try to have my IHSW post tomorrow - worked all day, went to a Christmas Party, and came home to a house with no power.  Just came back on @ 12:30 am! (My blog time is about 3 hours off, must figure out how to fix that!)  Have to work all day tomorrow and then four hours tomorrow evening for another job, but if I'm alive once I get home, I'll post :D

More Eagle

Added Medium Yellow:


Light Yellow:


and Dark Gold:


I have now moved on to the second shade of grey.

Here's my mother's afghan, in all its poor, half-finished glory.  A little over half, actually.  Still a long way to go, though.


I have also added a new page with my afghan plans for 2013!  They are a bit ...um, insane? lol!

I'll have more Eagle pics in a day or two, I hope!  I'm going to bite the bullet and focus on it during IHSW, and then get back to Lovers in January.