This past week has been a blast crafting-wise. I got a year older and finished the first two Discworld books (in order of release). I got more comfortable with crochet as well but we’re stitching here and that’s more important.
My secret project for November is way ahead of schedule. Which is great, I have two months to wash, iron, and frame. The cross stitching is done with only the backstitch left. First round is also almost done with two-strands in black. What remains is the finer accents with one strand in 351, as well as the off-white accents.
The Greenhouse of Oddities progress has slowed down a bit but it’s still visible. We have the silhouette of a victim of the deadly plants, taking refuge in that corner of the greenhouse. Not sure why but I’m particularly proud of the deadly nightshade plant in the bottom right corner. I had to substitute the colours, and I did it with a different brand. I love how it turned out!
How has your week been? Anything interesting happening? Have you managed to work on your projects?
Ooh yay welcome to Discworld! And belated happy birthday! So much progress on your greenhouse since I last saw it, you’re a way faster stitcher than me that’s for sure.
I am back from holidays and have been feeling very sad, but the last couple of days I started picking up the crafts again. Today I spent some time in the car in a hospital car park (nothing dramatic, just time-consuming) so took the opportunity to frog an old bit of test stitching so I can reuse the tiny corner of fabric for something else!
Too frugal? Maybe. Idc 😅
After much deliberation I only packed one cross stitch project for the cruise and that ended up being a good decision as I worked on it for all of five minutes. To combat the post-holiday depression we did a LotR marathon on Saturday though and I managed most of a whale, so that’s officially decent progress!
Welcome back! I hope the cruise went well. I really like how the whale turned out 🐳
Too frugal?
Never! I take pride in doing good work with what I have lying around instead of buying new and expensive stuff… Although I sometimes get lazy and hop to the store 😅
Cruise was amazing, I am honestly so so sad to be home 😭
Kinda amazed that little corner of fabric even fit in the hoop, though admittedly “fit” is an exggeration it’s sort of barely clinging on at the sides. I’ll figure that part out later though. The frugal mind finds a way!
