Sacrifice - Page 2

 In late April, I suddenly felt an urge to work on my full coverage projects again, so I pulled out Sacrifice, my tentacle lady.

It feels like ages since I worked on her, and I know why...this corner I started in is so confetti-y! All the little waves and tentacle bits. Other areas of the design have bigger waves and tentacles so will be quicker. Or so I hope! 

 Either way, I stuck it out and finished the second page (although it almost broke me). But it does look sooo good, doesn't it? I can't wait to see more of this! This is just 4.35% of the whole design, so I got a long way to go yet, and page #3 will still be pretty intense...

Yipyip - it's a Martian attack!

 I still owe you one of my April finishes - actually, I've been meaning to get a better picture of him, be he's a little shy and keeps turning away! This is the best I could get:

 Isn't he fun?! A friend of mine discovered the pattern last year, and I just had to make one. It just took me way longer to get around to finishing him than it should have! He got table tennis balls for eyes, pipe cleaners for antenna, and the lining is made from some old pajama pants (so I lucked out of having to do all the sewing I'd have had to do using plain fabric). Not sure what I'll store in his stomach yet...maybe socks?

Here comes Octonaut!

 I've been trying to balance working on my WIPs with some small new starts this year, and last month, it was time for another new start! Tiffstitch over at Tiffstitches Blog is doing a hundred starts this year, and through her posts I discovered a couple new designers and I might have picked up a couple patterns along the way! One of them being this cute little space octopus, or Octonaut, by SonovaStitch. He's so sweet, and I had the perfect fabric in my stash from an ornaments pack by Under the Sea Fabrics, so I just had to get and stitch him!

 

 He was a fairly quick stitch, and I really like how he turned out, but now I gotta figure out what to do with him! What holiday do you use an octopus ornament for, is what I'm asking myself...?

April WIPocalypse

I feel like I'm finally getting back into a good rhythm with my blogging, and if that means WIPocalypse psots fall into the next month, I'm okay with that! 

Are you having a good spring this far? April went by in a flash, but I did get a lot of stuff done, so I'm not complaining. I had a couple finishes - the baby bonnet, the lace scarf, and one more that I still got to show you - and one start - a new pair of socks - so my total WIP count moved down to 53. It still sounds and feels like way too much, but I'm happy with the progress I've been making , so I try to focus on that.

Now the question of the month is What is your oldest WIP? Tell us a little bit about it. I think I've already brought this up a couple times this year - my oldest WIP, and the only WIP pre-this blog, so also the only one I can't properly date, is this pretty blue table cloth!

 I've been working away on it during focus event these past year, and it is absolutely on my to-finish-list this year! As you can see, it's stamped cross stitch, and I just don't enjoy that too mucht  the printed stitches never properly line up with the fabric, it's annoying. But this is my last WIP of the kind, so that will soon be behind me. Hopefully!

Linda the Lace Scarf

 Over the last couple weeks I finished my oldest knitting WIP. Isn't it strange how some things have to linger for years until they finally grip you and you just breeze through? This is what happend with "Linda", a kit for a lace scarf I bought in 2016 from GemachtMitLiebe, a designer sadly no longer with us. 

 This very simple, straight forward lace pattern caught my attention back when I was pretty much a knitting beginner, and even though it's an easy repeat, I struggled with it a bit. I could do it, but it needed my full attention, which is not the best combination when you need to do hundreds and hundreds of rows of a particular pattern! I think I got about 15cm into the scarf back then before it went away. Over the years, I picked it up a couple times, realizing it goes quickly once I focus on it for a while, but still, when I picked it back up in March, I only had about 30 cm done. But I wanted to make a birthday gift for a friend of my grandma's, whose favourite colour is blue, and while going through my stash, thinking what I could start, I came across this and thought this would be perfect.

So Linda became my focus knitting piece for the month, and suddenly, it moved along very quickly! I used 3 25g skeins of Lang Merino Lace 400, which is a beautiful share of blue and very, very soft, and last weekend managed to finish a scarf of very respectable length.

 I think it was finally her time to shine, and am very happy to now have another finish that has been ten years in the making!