I can haz stash!
It’s always great when your favourite local yarn store is holding a sale on yarn. Today I got enough yarn to make a pretty strappy top and matching wrap for less than £15.
Now all I have to do is find the time to knit it! :p
Cross Stitcher In Residence [WIP] — #2
Further on the Lizzie*Kate design, “Cross Stitcher In Residence” — actually, this has been sitting around here for a good few days after I reached the point shown in the photo below, but I have had a lot of other stuff going on. The PC died for one thing, and who knew that it would take over a week to get sorted? *sighs* But still, here be the current progress update:
Sadly though, it looks like I will have to take a break from crafts for a little while. :( My right hand has been sore of late, and when I began sobbing with pain on Saturday, AJV whisked me to the hospital pretty darn quick. Several x-rays later and it seems that I have a foreign body in my hand, and so will need an operation to remove it. Currently, the docs think it is the by-product of an encounter my hand had with a glass window back in 2004 (!) and that this sliver of glass has been sitting in my hand ever since, waiting for an opportune moment to wake up… Gah!
Thus, I’m currently wearing a protective bandage which is a little hampering for cross stitch. I haven’t checked to see if I can knit with it yet, but given that I will probably be wearing an even more restrictive bandage post-op, I’m not holding out much hope. :( That said, though, we currently don’t know when the op will be — hopefully, we will be able to find out later on in the day.
Best do what I can while I can then, yea? ;)
Cross Stitcher In Residence [WIP]
I have been working on a Lizzie*Kate design this weekend, a relatively quick chart which is delightful in its simplicity. As I did not have the colours which the original chart required — and preferring to modify some of them anyway (e.g. red instead of blue) — I swapped some of the colours for ones which resonated more strongly with me. After all, this one will be for me! :)
This is also a new experience for me — I am stitching on linen for the first time ever. In this case, it’s a subtly mottled cream linen, 28-count (specifically, it’s Zweigart’s Cashel Vintage Linen, in “Country Cream”). I am pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to stitch “over two” — which I’d always intellectually understood in the past, but the concept of physically doing so freaked me out so much I had a mental block for quite some time!
And so, after four hours I had completed the hillside, house, roof, and trees — which I thought wasn’t bad! Here I am at the five-and-three-quarter-hours mark.
When I finish the entire piece I’ll probably write more about the colour substitutions I’ve made, but for now I’m just looking forward to seeing how it all develops…