Stitching update. October 2016

Going down with my WIPs.

Only seven at this very moment.

1. Mirabilia's Stargazer - ready to be beaded

2. Patchwork sampler - 1/3 is done, working on page 6. 

3. Nice to have some faces on the Animal Advent Calendar from BrookesBooks

4. Some little progress on TW Tea Scene - just 4 hours during this month.

5. Even less progress on XiuCrafts Wisteria - the same 4 hours but it takes more effort.

6. Weekend progress on Naturlich Rot cushion top II - working on the second corner.

7. And the tiniest progress on Permin mini, looks like tree (?)

Slippers

I am not a swatch person, too lazy. That's why many of my knitting projects are borderline disasters.

I started those slippers three times and still managed to screw up.... Not entirely though.

Had a small ball of Berroco Suede (nylon). The plan was to make slippers to wear over wooly socks for protection. Good thing I can also crochet. This saved the situation. 

In the end they turned out kind of cute. 

Mill Hill finish

I am down to 7 WIPs as of today.

Mill Hill's Olive Oil is finished. It was such a pleasure to stitch, especially beads.

This is how it looked like before beading

And here is when done

Pure joy!

Oh-oh. Just noticed a couple of beads missing on the bottle. Back to work!

Calendar. September

This year I found out that there are a lot of very talented designers who are ready to share their work with the world for free. Below is a wonderful example of this.

Free Joyful World calendar charts from The Snowflower Diaries. 

This was a real joy to stitch!

Autumn

How do I know that the  winter is really coming (or at least autumn)? The moment I feel comfortable enough to dig out my wooly crafty projects.

The pink shawl is slowly moving along. More than a half is woven.

Half of the Mondrian latch hook rug is waiting for its second half since April.

A lot needs to be done with the Vermont Winter hooked rug. It came to a halt after unexpectedly I ran out of black wool. I guess this means that I did something wrong, probably, I hooked a bit too tight. Another worry is that I may run out of other colours too.

And the last wooly thing. My nice and warm KnitPicks Palette socks need mending. I may try to sqeeze another year out of them. 

Rainbow dilemma

This was my first again.

First locks, first carding.

I am not sure I did everything right, maybe this is the reason I am not quite satisfied with the result.

It was spinning with difficulties and ended up uneven and itchy (English Leicester).

In any case, I promised myself to try this again later with a different fleece. 

I spun the colours rendomly but I spun them too thin for using as singles. 

Need to ply.

My question is whether I should ply the wool on itself thus creating even crazier yarn or shoud I spun some natural wool singles and combine them with coloured ones?

Box of Delights

I am done with my Box of Delights. This is a free chart from a wonderful, talented and very generous lady - Elizabeth Almond. It was a pleasure all the way. Stitched from 26 July to 18 September 2016.

I stitched the chocolates on 32 ct Jobelan. Unfortunately, my evenweave stopped being even somewhere in the process. It's more 33/31 than 32, but who said that the box should be square, they come in different sizes and forms. I only used leftover floss from different projects but mainly DMC variegated and DMC rayon plus silks from Victoria Sampler's Gingerbread House.
If you are interested, I am putting floss numbers below with block by block pictures.

Outline of chocolates, flower motives between chocolates and border are done in Dimensions black floss 18403.

Block one

1. DMC 30321

2. DMC 30700 + Anchor Marlitt 822

3. DMC 4220

4. DMC 4240

5. DMC 30798 + Anchor Marlitt 815

6. DMC 30310 + 30915

Block two

1. DMC 4240 + 4040

2. DMC 30741 + 30434

3. DMC 4050

4. DMC 4240 + 4180

5. DMC 30798 + NPI silk blue

Block three

1. DMC 30310 +30666

2. Valdani blue-grey

3. DMC 30798 + 30915

4. DMC 30553 + Anchor Marlitt 815

5. DMC 4240 + Needles Necessities 140

6. DMC 4120

Block four

1. Kreinik Mori silk turquoise

2. DMC 30704

3. Au ver a Soie silk cinnamon + NPI silk yellow

4. Au ver a Soie silk red + Kreinik Mori silk black

5. Kreinik Mori silk black + DMC 30915 

6. Needles Necessities 140

Block five

1. Kreinik Mori silk black + NPI silk brick red

2. Au ver a Soie silk red + Kreinik Mori silk black

3. DMC 30798 + 4020

4. Kreinik Mori silk turquoise

5. NPI silk brick red + DMC 4120

6. Needles Necessities 126

Block six

1. Dinkey Dyes 135 + DMC 4050

2. DMC 4240 + 30798

3. DMC 30915 + 33325

4. Needles Necessities 170

5. Kreinik Mori silk olive green + NPI silk blue

6. Anchor Marlitt 815 + DMC 30915