Needle Chick

Santa, 1 1/2 hours later

Well, I've lost my color key. Wow, that took brains. Okay, let's get to reality. the pattern was printed, orinigally, on a 5 x 5 block, allscrunched together, with the itsy0bitsy color key underneathe it. I took it to Kinko's, to enlarge the pattern, it was an old magazine, I got it off of Ebay. It's somewhere. It's probably moved to storage, after my son installed the drumset in the basement.

  When I took it to Kinko's, they said they couldn't run it, due to the copyright law, and there was no note saying I could run a personal copy of it, for my own use. I told them, I knew the copy right laws, well, and I'd never do anything illegal, nor would I have kinko's do it. (I now own a scanner, which enlarges). Kinko's did run the copy for me. I have not given it to anyone, and it's one of only a few that exists on this earth, I think. After I said, I was allowed to have an enlarged copy, as long as I don't  give it to anyone else, and considered it a defaced copy when finished. Ofcourse, it's a defaced copy, who would want it? There's highlights, and colors, and notes, and stuff all over it.

  I took it home, and begin it's tedious task. It's taken me about 3 years to get to this point. There's only 5-6 colors left, cause there's only 5-6 symbols. When the pattern was written, they didn't have metalics or glow in the dark thread, or anything but DMC basic floss. I knew I'd change it.

  Recently, DMC came out with their light effects. Some of their colors resemble the fine colors of Rainbow Gallery. When I discovered no color key, which I probably will  find in the next couple of days, I really didn't sweat it, I just rewrote it, with the metalics and glow in the dark. Baby Jesus needs a glowing halo.

  During What Not To Wear, I finished the hay. It was pretty much one color, anyway, in the colors, so I knew which color I had used. I kept all the oclors together.

  That's all the stitching for tonight. I did it on 18 count, I have to use my Visual mate, cause it blinds me. Santa would go alot faster had I done it on 16 count, which I prefer. My son comes home from Boy Scout Camp tomorrw, and I'm supposed to work on the Democratic campaigne in the moorning. I'm extremely tired from work today (no  CNA's, 3 nurse, 40 residents, one med tech. They are killing me.) No time to eat lunch, and no sitting down, until we start our charts. Hey,the woman who is the present superviser wanted it that way, and it's killing her, too. With power comes sacrifice and also if power is mispresented, or handled in a poor manor, it kills the soul.

Santa and Baby Jesus

After my EGA meeting last night, I realize I can finish something. Several women there,  finished beautiful samplers that had been  sitting around their houses for years. If I take over 100 stitches almost nightly, I can get it up to the boarder quickly. The boarder is monotonous, but I can finish it. It's a peice of cake.

Socks

sometimes socks are fun, like the first pair I made. But, this pair isn't so fun. I did most of the foot, found it too wide, and took it apart. I did most of the ankle, and then a perfect heel, couldn't figure out the pattern, and took it apart.

  Finally, I went to the yarn store, and I bought another skein of sock yarn (uh, rule number one: buy two skeins, from this moment on, of sock yarn, if you intend to make two socks that aren't ankle  sock size. )

I grabbed a Knitting pure and Simple beginning sock pattern, and it's turning out great. Wow, what a well written patttern. Each and every heel stitch is printed, and there's no way I can mess it up.

  Hopefully, there won't be heel holes. I will remain pateint and am anticipating a nice pair of pretty socks very soon.

Finished!!

Finished!!

Camp songs

I bought the Monsterbubbkles chart Waddlee-acha, and it got me thinking about camp songs. I always remember two of the funnest song we in Cmap fire Girls, being a song about the Titanic, with the chorus

"Uncles and Aunts little children lost their pants", and also the fried ham song. well, I was bored, and I looked up the Titanic song, that, eventualy, the Campfire organization banned because of distaste, and I found those lyrics and more. I can't beleive they are all over the internet, how cool is that? Looks like the fun songs won't be forgotten.

http://www.scoutxing.com/songs/songs_1425.htm

http://www.camplowden.org/songs/index.html

http://www.beachnet.com/~jeanettem/songs.html

Mason-Dixon dishcloth

This is my dishcloth. It's from the book Mason Dixon Knitting. One of my favorite books, next to the Stitch and Bitch books. Mason Dixon Knitting has no socks or sweaters in it.

I love this dishcloth. I'd like to change my entire decor in my bathroom to match this dishcloth, and make towels in the same colors. I'd like a rug like this dishcloth. It was with this dishcloth I realized I had knitting ADD. I'd like to start most of the projects in the book, yet, I'm working on a Rob Zombie knitted rockstar, and my second sock.

Purple Cow

This is one of my favorite freebie sites: And, this is one of my favorite freebies (link):

Archive to 2003, and scroll down.

I never saw a purple cow, and never hope to see one. But I can tell you this right now, I'd rather see than be one.

http://silepointcompte.free.fr/crea/crea.htm

Then, look closely for the rest of the cows:

http://silepointcompte.free.fr/ope%20jmfmv/grilles%20ope%20jmfmv.htm

There's over 200 cows. I like each and every one, and if there was time, I'd stitch every one. If she'd publish these in a book of the Best Cows, I'd buy it.

I also like the gallery work, cause those women do  beautiful needlework.

Lamb

It's hard taking a picture wuith glass in front. The picture does not do the framing justice. It looks alot better in person.

http://needlechick.typepad.com/photos/current_project/fscn0198.html

Fibonacci Sampler

I'm finally finished. I rushed through, or thought I'd rush through, the last band of this small sampler. I thought, I'll quickly finish it, and off to the framer's it'll go.

by rhonlynn

Well, it took me over and hour to complete one of those x's, on the bottom row. I knew I was in for it, when, a few weeks ago (before I had my framer), I put it aside. I finally had to place a ruler on  each row, lengthwise, and stitch it from the length of the band. You can't tell I did it, cause I used Linn's favorite thread, Dinky dyes.

     I have a framer, now, and her work is phenomenal. She is in the Embroidery Guild. To really do cross stitch, and this I've known forever, you need a framer who knows how to frame needlework. If you don't have a framer who knows how to frame needlework, they might mess it up, and probably will.

  Unless what I stitch by Linn is a bell pull, it deserves to be framed.

Bad Art

Heh, heh, this is funny: http://www.museumofbadart.org/