#92 ~ Quick update and a new page

I'm spending quite a bit of time in the garden, and stitching is minimal this weekend, but here's the latest update on my Crow on Crescent Hill (aka Colin) from last night.

I've decided to add another page to the blog, which you can find in the header, called Project Garden, as I wasn't sure how many of you would be interested in my work in progress English Country Garden ... or at least it will be one day when I've heaved bags of rubbish and dug for victory!

I hope you are all having a glorious weekend.

Hugs

Kay x

#91 ~ The one in which I have turned into a grumpy old Victorian Lord

... and the reason for that is Gout .... OUCH OUCH OUCH!!  Seriously, I can see why they depict Victorian Lords in novels as grumpy as hell.

Even worse than that, it's also seriously interrupted my stitching, but here's progress so far - I should finish this current diagonal this week if I don't get another attack.

The attack also put a stop to gardening and my SMSL homework, and I only managed 3 out of the 5 tasks last week, which is an utter bummer.

Good news, for all my moaning, I've broken the 5k barrier on the #racefor10k and I only have around 21,000 stitches to do to reach my goal of #50xstitchchallenge.

Fingers crossed I can get a slip-on shoe on tomorrow as I want to go back into the office as it is one of my co-worker's (and friend) last week at work as she's moving on to pastures new.  I will her so much, but it won't be the end of our friendship, and I will be excited to hear how she's getting on at her new place of work.  I am sure they will love her as much as we do.

Oh well, it's bed time for me as my foot is swelling up again.

Keep calm and carry on stitchin'.

Hugs

Kay x

#90 ~ SMSL homework completed

Progress as at 16 June 2019

HAED Crow on Crescent Hill (aka Colin)

... and a really decent amount of progress.

I've reached the left-hand edge of page two a couple of diagonals ago, and you can now see the feathery grass at the top and seed heads on the left-hand edge.

It's been confetti hell, and could have been a complete car crash if it wasn't for diagonal stitching, working row by row.  

Thanks to Karen the Needle Bug, I've also learnt to do the underline cast on, and have almost mastered the underline cast off (although I think I need to watch her video one more time to get it bang on).  It certainly makes it easier to park threads when you haven't got massive amounts of waste threads, or in a confetti hell area every given space used up with pin stitches.

Also, now that I have learnt to split the screen on Foxit PDF reader, it has made continuing diagonals across pages a utter breeze.

Realistically, I can't see Colin coming off the frame any time soon, and I apologise for this.  I need to check out whether in the Race for 10k challenge on For the Love of Diagonal Stitching FB group it is allowable to swap projects, and if it is I might swap over to Alwyn the Alpaca as I am 115 stitches away from half-way through the challenge and Alwyn would be much easier as whilst it has confetti it's not too many colours on the background ... is that cheating?  Technically, I guess not if you can swap projects!!!

Life update:  youngest is back from Uni for a week - it was a surprise for Papa, who had no idea he was coming home for Father's Day and was delighted when he opened the door when we got back home from the train station.  Also, number one son had a birthday last week and we went out en famille last night to Zizi's in Tunbridge Wells, where a good time was had by all.  

Hugs

Kay xx

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#89 ~ For the Love of Diagonal Stitching Race for 10K check in day

Week 4 check in with 792 stitches for the week and 4,099 cumulative stitches for this challenge.

#88 ~ School of Magical Stitches Homework - Year 4 Week 6

Progress as at 10 June 2019 after 1 night's stitching on homework

HAED:  Crow on Crescent Hill (Aka Colin)

#magicalstitches homework is up, and I managed a whopping 81 stitches towards it last night.

The actual task is below, and I'm hoping to do a goodly amount this week if I can hit some background...

"Students,

Please check your belongings!!! The House Elves decided that they wanted everyone to participate in Task 2 of the Tournament. So they took it upon themselves to take your most loved project and hide it in the lake. Don’t worry they used a protection spell so it wouldn’t get ruined! Thank goodness for small favors! As you check your for your missing project, classes will be postponed. In order to retrieve your lost project from the lake you must:

1) Stitch on the project the house elves stole from you and write a short explanation (2-3 sentences) of why it is the project you love the most. You will receive 1 point for every 100 stitches that you complete for a maximum of 10 points/1000 stitches." 

Hugs

Kay xx 

#87 ~ Page 2 is breached ...

HAED:  Crow on Crescent Hill (aka Colin)

Progress as at 9/6/19

Yay, page 2 is underway, and finding out about splitting the screen for separate pages is going to make the world of difference.

Progress is slow, but the stitches are counting towards #magicalstitches homework as well as FTLDS FB Group #raceto10k.  I am seriously in love with this project.

By the way of full disclosure, the left-hand flower head is a bit funky as I went wrong and couldn't be bothered to frog it out.  I will probably go back in and over-stitch some stitches in brown to see if I can make it look a bit better.  Although, when the whole thing is done I don't think it will really notice.

We've been in the garden this afternoon ... it's all looking a bit better out there, and in fact I was delighted to find that the soil is lovely, which was surprising.

I hope you've all had a brilliant weekend and I will check back in later in the week with progress.

Hugs

Kay

xx

#86 ~ The hair clip has been deployed ...

Progress as at 2 June 2019

... because I got fed up with threads flopping all over the place when I flipped my frame over. Not that I do that much, but today for some reason I've had a problem with tangling threads and had to do it about 3 or 4 times.

If you are keeping abreast of progress on this one, then you would certainly be valid in saying that I am working really slowly.  True, but I've become aware tat I am really a process stitcher and I also work at a snails pace when confetti is involved - this weekend has only seen 88 stitches on Saturday and 83 today.  This HAED is probably not hard but it has concentrated areas of grass that slow it down, but I'm almost to a background section on this current diagonal so it should speed up a little.  I'm seriously loving it though.

I hope you have all had a happy weekend.

Hugs

Kay x