Headed Home

FH, the critters, and I are finally headed home today. While we're on the road for three hours and then unloading critters and their necessities here's a picture of Heller House framed.
See you again soon!

Stitching Done!

I'll be framing it tomorrow but don't know if I will have a chance to post about it since we're headed south for the party.
Now to go collapse in bed.

More Stitching

Here's where I am as of this moment on Dad's birthday gift.
I've just got a bit of back stitching to do on the right side and need to put the name (Frank Llyod Wright) under the quotation. With any luck I'll be washing and blocking this piece Thursday evening.

Stitching or Pixelated Vision?

The Flowerpot Kitty piece is done! One of my guild members had the right black floss to finish the back stitching. We had a meeting at her home on Wednesday and she happened to have the floss in her stash. She very much wanted me to finish a project. I guess my habit of having multiple projects going at once scandalized her. (She never starts a new project without finishing the one she's already started.)
I will be framing this and the Dalmation puppy over the weekend.

Next up is my mother's birthday gift. I started it on Monday of this week and had the stitching done Wednesday afternoon. The framing was put off until Thursday due to a lack of acid free adhesives in the house. A quick trip to the scrapbooking store fixed the issue and framing was a breeze.
I should note that the decorative mat and frame were part of the kit. It's part of the Daydreams collection by Dimensions.

Third we have the project I started to keep my hands busy while I looked for replacement thread for the kitty. It's also a Dimensions kit and meant to have a surname and year stitched in the middle. I'm not sure if I'm keeping this one or giving it to my in-laws, but I can figure that out once I get to the year.

Last is the old Frank Lloyd Wright piece I started last year. It was supposed to be a Yule gift for my dad, but I got distracted when Uncle Will died. The goal is to finish this up and get it framed for his 90th birthday next weekend.
Luckily I had gotten quite a bit done before life got in the way. The only cross stitching left is the light green blocks around the left side and bottom. Then it's all back stitching.

More Progress

Where's the kitty?
As you can see everyone loves FH's new hat. Confetti thinks it's nice and warm.

But you came for crafting updates, so here we go:

Yesterday I made this scarf for my mother-in-law for Yule. I have three more to make in different colors. I used Lion Brand's Homespun yarn and a pattern from their website. It took me about one and a half football games to get it finished. I don't think I'll ever use an acrylic crochet hook again. Ugh.
Here's a picture of the Frank Lloyd Wright cross stitch sampler. I'm trying to work on it in the evenings and leave the daytime for crochet and minis.
I did get Beau's vest started. The back and left front pieces are finished. I'm working on the right front currently.

I'm hoping to get at least halfway through the hood by tomorrow evening. I would like to get this one finished and the yarn purchased for the third one on Friday.

I can't show any minis right now. But I can say I've been coming up with ideas that meet the requirements of Rosana's swap challenge.

Time to get back to the grind. I want to get as much done on the right front portion of Beau's vest before dinner. Then it's back to the sampler.

More Mixed Media

The Cthulhu toque for FH is finished.I will have to do at least one more. I have a feeling the "where's mine?"'s will start soon. I've got supplies for a second that's already spoken for, but I can get more easily.

The zippers I ordered are here with one caveat. Somehow I measured wrong and none that I purchased are long enough. As you can see, I need another 1 to 2 inches for this vest. I checked the website where I ordered the other ones and they have the longer zippers, just none in the correct color. Currently I'm waiting on an email back from the company with an answer about the color and size I want. Worst can scenario is I order a bunch of even longer ones and cut them to size. It's not difficult, but it is annoying.

The stitcher's guild ornament is currently in the dryer on my drying rack (love that feature!) getting to a damp dry so I can iron it. I'm going to rummage through my stash and find some fabric to back it with.

I'll be doing that, some stitching on the sampler for my dad, and starting Beau's vest tonight.

Multiple Projects in Different Media, Me? Never! ;-)

Stitching and hooking. That's what I'm doing currently.

First is a piece that will become an ornament for my stitching guild's ornament exchange.
I have some buttons to sew on in a few places. Then I can turn it into an ornament.

Next is the first of two hats I have to make. One for FH and one for his best friend. Anything that can be considered geeky I have to make two of. It's about like giving gifts to children. This hat pattern is based on H.P.Lovecraft's Cthulhu. I bought the pattern from this nice lady on Ravelry.
I'm about 60% of the way through it. I needed something to keep me occupied while I was waiting for the yarn shop to be open so I could buy:

The colors I needed for Baby Beau's vest. I will hopefully be starting on that either tonight or tomorrow.

I've started another stitching project that I do not have a picture for yet since there are only 120 stitches in place. It's base on stained glass window designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. I'm working it up for my dad.

To sooth the lack of picture for that project, have a look at a piece that's in hibernation (pardon the soon-to-be obvious pun). I started it last summer (2008) for FH and got about this far before the kit ran out of the dark grey and black I needed to finish filling in the bear.

Luckily I figured out which DMC color I needed for the grey. Now If I can just get done with all the other stitching and such. It's easier to rotate between one stitching project and minis. It's harder when there's lots of non-mini projects. Not to mention that I will eventually have to get back to the period clothing. I was all too happy to put most of it away when my parents came for a visit in September and I've gleefully not drug it back out. ;-)

That's it for today. I've got to get back to it.