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| Last week's progress vs today's progress Do you know what it is? |
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| Progression of the bruise and swelling. Photos from Thursday morning, Thursday evening, and Sunday evening |
Happy Stitching!
Wednesday, 8 March 2017
WIP Wednesday
This week I've been continuing to work on my piece for the A to Z challenge. I'm determined to have it finished, and the blog posts written, before April even starts. I've finished off the middle row, and have made a good start on the last two rows.
I've been forced to stop and do a lot of stitching this week. Last Thursday I slipped when getting out of the shower and fell head over heals. My shower is a shower-over-bath so I fell over the top of that - I smacked my ankle on the edge of the bath, banged and grazed my knee on the floorboards, and knocked my shoulder on the wall. My ankle swelled and started to bruise almost immediately, and is still rather tender to walk on by the end of the day. I've been finding bruises everywhere. The physiotherapist taped up my shoulder on Saturday after telling me I had a shoulder strain. However, I did manage to not hit my head and didn't knock myself out when I fell - which I was very glad about as I live alone and was scared about how long it would have taken anyone to find me. The result of all this is that I spent even more time than usual this weekend (and most afternoons) sitting on the couch and stitching. My brother came over Saturday afternoon to make sure I was okay and helped do the washing, which was much appreciated.
An anti-slip mat for the bath is on the shopping list, as soon as I can find one!
Happy Stitching!
Happy Stitching!
Friday, 3 March 2017
Feature Pattern Friday - Game of Thrones
It's time for Feature Pattern Friday which today is the Game of Thrones Alphabet
This has to have been the most requested pattern suggestion of the last couple of years, and it made it to my shop about 6 months ago.
I have a confession to make - I don't watch Game of Thrones. I watched the pilot episode and decided it wasn't my thing - child murder, incest, rape... nope, really not me. No judgement against those who do watch it (each to their own, and I've been told it improves a lot in later episodes) but I couldn't get past the pilot... which did make coming up with this alphabet a little difficult! I had to make best-guesses for some of the characters and their outfits (all approved by my GoT friends and family). However, don't forget you can always request a customised pattern if your favourite character or outfit is missing.
Happy stitching!
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| Game of Thrones Alphabet |
I have a confession to make - I don't watch Game of Thrones. I watched the pilot episode and decided it wasn't my thing - child murder, incest, rape... nope, really not me. No judgement against those who do watch it (each to their own, and I've been told it improves a lot in later episodes) but I couldn't get past the pilot... which did make coming up with this alphabet a little difficult! I had to make best-guesses for some of the characters and their outfits (all approved by my GoT friends and family). However, don't forget you can always request a customised pattern if your favourite character or outfit is missing.
Happy stitching!
Wednesday, 1 March 2017
WIP Wednesday
Checking in on my current Works In Progress.
I've continued to work on my A to Z piece for the April blogging challenge. I'm making pretty good progress on it, and am about half-way through - first two rows are finished, and the middle row is about half finished.
That's all I've been working on from a stitching point-of-view.
In other areas, I've had a couple of customised requests come in this week which I've finished and sent off - one was a sentence rework on the Star Trek Original Series pattern which was a quick thing to do.
I love getting customised pattern requests - people have such amazing ideas, and sometimes what started out as a customised requests get added to my regular pattern line up. Other times it's just nice to work on something different and unusual. It can be a lot of hard work sometimes trying to understand what a client is asking for (particularly as everything is discussed via email, and there's usually a delay in communications due to time differences) but the end product makes up for it - when I print the PDF and can say "yes, that's something I'm proud of."
The first round of Conventions is almost here (April), and I need to get cracking on fixing/updating my stock, pattern catalogues, and mini kits. I need to start pulling some of that out this weekend to have a look at where I'm at so I can put in orders for needed materials. Only problem with getting ready for Conventions is that it eats into my stitching time. Good thing I love doing them! :)
Happy stitching
I've continued to work on my A to Z piece for the April blogging challenge. I'm making pretty good progress on it, and am about half-way through - first two rows are finished, and the middle row is about half finished.
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| A to Z Challenge piece |
That's all I've been working on from a stitching point-of-view.
In other areas, I've had a couple of customised requests come in this week which I've finished and sent off - one was a sentence rework on the Star Trek Original Series pattern which was a quick thing to do.
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| Customised quote on the Star Trek piece |
The first round of Conventions is almost here (April), and I need to get cracking on fixing/updating my stock, pattern catalogues, and mini kits. I need to start pulling some of that out this weekend to have a look at where I'm at so I can put in orders for needed materials. Only problem with getting ready for Conventions is that it eats into my stitching time. Good thing I love doing them! :)
Happy stitching
Friday, 24 February 2017
Feature Pattern Friday - It's a Slayer Thing
Each Friday I am sharing a pattern from my Etsy store - new, nearly new, and were-new-once.
The thirdever Feature Pattern Friday and I'm already changing things. Today, rather than feature just one new pattern, I'm showing off a set of new patterns. They're all in the one theme though, so surely that counts (of course it counts - this is my event so I can set and change the rules as I like :))
Today's Feature Pattern Set features quotes from the cult television show Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
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| Buffy and Dawn |
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| Buffy's Valentine |
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| The Slayerettes |
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| Spike and Dru |
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| Spike |
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| Xander |
Although they haven't been overly popular on Etsy, these patterns are a big hit at the Conventions. I'm expecting them to be pretty popular at the next two conventions I'm attending because...
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| Watch the video here |
Happy stitching (and slaying)!
Thursday, 23 February 2017
WIP Wednesday on a Thursday
Second week of doing WIP Wednesday, and I'm already running late! I've got no idea what happened to yesterday. I went for a massive (for me) walk hunting Pokemon last night, which did eat into the early evening and by the time I got home... well, basically I forgot!
Anyway...
I haven't made any progress on the two projects I shared last week, because the fabric arrived for my A-Z Challenge pattern and I started work on it instead. :)
After a lot of umming and ahhing and back and forth I finally settled on the piece I want to stitch. I'm not giving anything away though until the reveal date, so all you're going to get is photos of the backside. April is going to be a crazy-busy month so I'm starting this piece now in the hope to have the stitching finished, and blog posts written and scheduled before the 1st of April.
What's happening in April you ask? Well:
I'm already tired just thinking about it! Plus there's all the usuals, including working full time. I've already told a few friends they probably won't see me for the month of April (apart from that first week)! Anyway, you can see why I need to get the A-Z Challenge done before 1st April!
Happy stitching!
Anyway...
I haven't made any progress on the two projects I shared last week, because the fabric arrived for my A-Z Challenge pattern and I started work on it instead. :)
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| Need to remember not to photograph this fabric at night cause the lights have a weird effect on the colour |
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| This is how the fabric really looks. Backside view 22.02.17 |
- 7th - my mum and her friend come to Brisbane and are staying with me for the weekend
- 8th - we're going to see "Grease" and "My Fair Lady"
- 10th-17th (ish) - my brother and his girlfriend are visiting from Melbourne, mum's still here and dad's coming down at some point
- 14th-17th - the whole family are heading to Mt Tamborine to celebrate my dad's 60th birthday
- 18th - I have a prac student start a 9 week placement with me at work (and my parents are still here)
- 21st-23rd - Gold Coast SupaNova
- 28th-1st May - Melbourne SupaNova
I'm already tired just thinking about it! Plus there's all the usuals, including working full time. I've already told a few friends they probably won't see me for the month of April (apart from that first week)! Anyway, you can see why I need to get the A-Z Challenge done before 1st April!
Happy stitching!
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