TUSAL Tuesday~the (should be) weekly ORT report!

I have been stitching!! Albeit only today so orts for this week are small and not really photoworthy.

I have been stitching on Super Mario with that dreaded green background colour, DMC 3364 and I have about 6 orts in my jar so far...

Progress will be revealed tomorrow :)

Weather-wise the UK has been sunshiny and wonderful, yesterday's rain shower & thunderstorm being the exception, but then aren't there always exceptions to every rule?

That's pretty much all my news for today so I'll sign off now.

xX Fiona Xx

TUSAL Tuesday

Well it's TUSAL Tuesday, so I guess it's time for a weekly ORT report...

sadly last week's stitching/hooking progress was slow to almost non-existent, so without further ado...here are my ort's from last week.

Pitiful I know, still all that means is that is definite room for improvement this week!! I'm on holiday from work for the next 12 days so I really have no excuse!!

See you tomorrow for another WIP Wednesday update!! I'm off to put some stitches into something, anything!!

xX Fiona Xx

Monday Musings~ July Goals

Wow it's the first of July already (and for once the sun has been shining this weekend!)


Theme-a-licious 2013 theme is 'Jubilee July' this month, that's holiday/celebration related stitching so I shall be stitching on my summery kits that I kitted up last month and possibly some 4th July freebies I know I have somewhere....

WIPocalypse 2013 goals for July:

•  hit the water on page 3 of Super Mario
• finish keep our air clean in LK Green Series
• finish the border of Dandy Dreams
• finish June Stamp

Other Goals

• July Stamp
• finish a strip of small squares on anything goes throw

See you tomorrow for TUSAL Tuesday, I warn you know they aren't amazing, I've been playing Animal Crossing New Leaf a lot this week!!

xX Fiona Xx

WIP Wednesday

Hard to believe we're halfway through the year already, but to 'celebrate' I thought I'd do this WIP Wednesday a little differently. Instead of showing what I've been working on this week *ahem...* I thought I'd show you what all of my stitching WIP's look like as of today :) I'll do the same at New Year's and we'll see how many are still here :)

So My WIP's are:

Super Mario:

 Halloween Rules:

Dandy Dreams:

Green Series:

June Stamp:

So there we go, that's my stitching WIP's for the year so far, how are your WIP Pile's looking??

Till next time, happy stitching!!

xX Fiona Xx

Sunday Stitchings IHSW edition

not much to show off for this month's IHSW I'm afraid.

Saturday was spend running car loads of clothes to the charity shop and clearing out the garage, left me too shattered to pick up a needle and then Sunday I worked. Boo :(

I did manage to finish the border on June Stamp and made a start on the actual image itself. I'll have to get a shift-on if I want to finish it before July!!

See you tomorrow for TUSAL Tuesday :) I'm off to try and add some stitches to my pitiful project!!

xX Fiona Xx

*sigh* and I was doing so well...

nothing really to report this week, the weather has been overcast but humid the last few days and as such any sort of needlework/hookyness has just been too sticky to even contemplate.

My Summer fob kit arrived though *yay!* All I need to do is find a similar coloured aida to the linen that came with the kit and for the weather to cool off a little and I can start.

(just one good rain shower is all it needs to kill off some of this humidity!)

I have been stirring those creative juices though...I was reading hooked on needles talking about her Sudoku inspired quilt and the crochet bug in me went 'we can do that'. So that is yet another throw waiting to happen, should be fairly straight forward. 9 colours of stylecraft DK, crocheted into 5round granny squares and joined to form 9 large 3x3 square blocks and then joined together so that each vertical & horizontal row in the 9x9 throw has one small 5round square of each colour. Like a Sudoku puzzle :)

Gah if it wasn't so humid I'd start it now.

June stamp has an almost completed border but really there's not much else to add...

See you after IHSW if I manage to get anything done!!

Needles Thursday & Friday Finishes!

Ok, so I'm a day late with my Needles Thursday post, reason being that I ended up having to work late and then I forgot when I got home.

Got to my knitting group yesterday and was told that I needed to find a basic sock pattern to work from, how did I expect to knit socks with out a pattern after all?! Was also told that my 'leg' wasn't long enough really and would ended up being a very short sock. So I added a couple of rounds while I was there and hopefully I'll be able to work on adding a heel next week after I find a 'basic' sock pattern, Ravelry here I come!!

So Friday Finishes then, been a while since we've had one of these sorts of posts but as I mentioned back on Wednesday I have a finish to share this week!!

Life's A Beach by Lizzie Kate, stitched on my favourite 16ct Aida (seriously I use it for everything!) using the  recommended GAST, Weeks & alternative DMC threads.

It's Father's Day here in the UK this Sunday, sadly I shall be working instead of spending the day with my family but we might go out for a meal or something in the evening :)

xX Fiona Xx

P.S see you all on Sunday for Sunday Stitchings!!