MondayLunchCrew

I’ve been finding it hard to find time to do some cross-stitching lately. I can’t really figure out a reason why. I think it’s partly the lack of motivation. I’ve been meaning to start a new project as a New Year Start but cannot get around to doing it either. At least For that, I [...]

Summary of crafty works in the past year. Finished Items January Wooly Zipper by Bent Creek Subversive cross stitch Les copines by Rue du Port Free DMC needlepoint Latte

As mentioned previously, I had put down the Lizzie*Kate I was working on for the last month or so. I ended up making a decision and decided to rip all the wrong parts. I guess it was just about the whole thing. But hey, now I can work on it some what. Here’s an updated [...]

I have always loved reading. However, I know that sometimes it’s hard to read even when you want to. I find that these days, without a commute, I actually have to make more of an effort to read. For some people, picking up a book isn’t really an option, and the folks at DailyLit.com has [...]

Sorry for not ironing the piece before photography, I just got too excited to share the finish. Start Date: Can’t remember. January 2006? Maybe sometime late 2005? Finish Date: November 1st, 2006 Design: John Clayton International – Paris (Heritage Stitchcraft) Comments: This is a very dense piece. Every square is filled with at least one [...]

While I’ve no finishes to show off, I thought I’d show some work in progress. I’ve been working this piece on and off for quite a long time now. In fact, since I finished Savannah’s Curtsy I have put off a new start for the sake of finishing this one. Here’s where I am of [...]

As I’ve mentioned before, this was the first year in many that I found classes I wanted to take and some interest in going to the CreativFestival. Weekend of October 20-22 was the event at the Metro Toronto Convention Center South Building. I was signed on for two knitting classes, both on Cables, one with [...]

This past Canadian Thanksgiving I packed my suitcase and took myself to NYC to visit all my friends. It was the first trip in over a year, (I’m shocked myself!) and it was well overdued. I stayed with two friends, Cynthia in Brooklyn at her new apartment and Theresa in her apt in Manhattan. As [...]

The Commerical Version: 2 trips into New Jersey via PATH (Hoboken and Jersey City) 1 Metrostitcher Stitching Event. 1 haircut Checking out The Point, Purl, Purl Patchworks. 2 lbs of Super Chocolate Coffee from Agatha and Valentina. 1 Walk around the old neighbourhood (Upper East Side) 1 detour on the cross town M79 bus Catch [...]

In time for Halloween, the Bent Creek Boo Z25 kit is done! Again, a fun and fast stitch. Yes, I managed to mess up something on it, but it’s about enjoying the process and not needing to make it perfect, so I left it ‘wrong’. I still like it. I had a nice meeting of [...]

Okay, they are now famous! They get a cameo in yarn harlot’s post about her brooklyn talk. Alison gets a photo and a mention with her mets sock. In this photo, I certainly see someone I know! Photo is quite fuzzy, who else was there?! Too cool!

Looks like I’m ready to start the Mirabilia, “Scent of Old Roses” after a trip to Michael’s for the missing floss. To be fair however, just because I’m ready to start doesn’t mean I will soon. I have been working the Eiffel Tower piece and it’s been going so well that I feel a little [...]

My sweater in the works has been on hold for a while. It’s officially September and I’ve no new fall sweater. I do have a cotton one which does need to be worn that I had knitted a while back, but the pooling of colours is not great, but I will spend some time this [...]

For the first time in ages, I found classes at the Creativ Festival (formerly creative sewing and needlework festival) that I want to attend. Fall Show this year is October 19 – 22 and I just signed up for some knitting classes on cables. Since I do enjoy cables quite a lot, I decided to [...]

I decided that I’ll start a new cross-stitch project after my big finish. With no piece in mind, I start going through the stash. At one point, G says to me: Just how much stash do you have? Me: Well, not too much, but enough that now I’m finish one project, I’m looking in my [...]

Jenny was right, it was a giant Mirabilia. It took I think about 5-6 years to finish. Granted, I put it down for most of those years. Since I put it down last week, it probably only had an hour’s worth of work on it. Mostly in trying to find the stitch here and there [...]

I was so swayed by Chelly’s comment that I started to look for a new project to start. I went digging in my oversized pile of stash to look for frames. This is when I saw an UFO. All it needed was beading, some back-stitching and filling in some missing stitches! It won’t be long [...]

I took a few days off from knitting given the most recent setback. I decided that I needed a cross stitch break and best yet, a simple quick project. So I went into my stash and found the Shepherd’s Bush Spooky Sheep. It was started on Thursday night and put down after a few stitches. [...]

When I’m watching tv, I tend to knit since I can watch and knit at the same time. To make progress on my cross stitch, I’ve got to listen to something. The ideal is to get sucked into an audiobook and I’ll spend the hours happily on my couch crouched over my stitching and deep [...]

Just realized that one of the Bent Creek that I finished a while ago did not get a “finish” photo: Was organizing looking through, digging through, feeling up my yarn stash and rediscovered the Mission Falls wool that I got at Frolic. I immediately did up a swatch with my Denise needles (the fact that [...]