Sunday, January 12, 2014

a new challenger appears!

Just kidding, it's an old WIP.  I'll get to that in a minute, but first, I've finished my monthly goal for stitching on Just Nan's Floral Fifteen!  All the green squares are complete, finally.  I love these designs but the number of color changes is gonna kill me...


With that done, the original plan was to finish Bluebeard's Princess, but when I was sorting my new fabric stash (purchased last year, I have been sticking to the Stitch from Stash rules this year!!) for photos, I found my WIP of Chatelaine's Spring Knotgarden.  It hadn't been touched in about a year and a half.  SHAME!  I rescued it from the fabric box and got to work.

Here's the full image and a closeup of the corner I'm working on.  Most of the blue background was missing when I first dug it out, but it worked up really fast and now I'm beading the corner. :)


So with that, I'm changing my goal to "finish stitching Bluebeard's Princess" to "finish part 2 of Spring Knotgarden" ...aka the two giant and obvious empty spaces you can see in the zoomed out picture. :)

And finally, I've spent my stash budget for the month. :p  Here's what I got!

1.  Emozioni by Renato Parolin ($13.82)
2.  Poinsettia Star by Faby Reilly ($4.50)
3.  Afterglow shawl pattern by Diana Rozenshteyn ($5.00)

I wasn't sure if I should count the shawl since that's knitting and not cross stitch, but in the spirit of things I figured why not?  And yes, I already had the yarn, so I'm not cheating by counting the pattern and not the (super expensive silk, thx!) yarn. :p



 I have $1.68 left for January but I think I'll save that for next time. ;)

6 comments:

  1. Lovely progress on your stitching!

    I'm doing ok so far, I spent £2 this month! My card has also been eaten by the atm last week so that is preventing me from spending!!

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  2. Your WIPs look great! That shawl is going to be fantastic. Are you going with the orangey-gold or another colour?

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    1. I'm using this color from my stash. :)
      http://www.ravelry.com/people/Rahenna/stash/sea-silk

      Hopefully the link works, Ravelry is somewhat limited if you don't have an account.

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  3. It's going to be fun to see how everyone spends their stitching allowance. Love your choices! (and your current stitching)

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    1. Thanks! I've seen some charts since I did my shopping that are making me regret using up my budget so early in the month, but I MUST STAY STRONG. XD

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