The Continuing Saga of Eeyore
To distract from the lack of scarf photos, I present you with my further progress on Eeyore.
I only have a bit of blue left to do on the outside of his ear, but it’s mostly fractional stitches and it’s a total pain in the ass. I recently made a mistake on the ear and fixing it was really annoying. Then, if that wasn’t enough, I got a knot in my floss and wanted to undo it instead of snipping it and starting a new piece, and that took me fifteen minutes of something approaching microsurgery. Technically, I didn’t undo it, I just managed to extract one of the strands from the knot. When two strands were involved in the knot, it created a bulge, but no one will notice the knot in just one strand at the back of the fabric, which is a good thing, because I think this guy is the only person who could possibly undo it. After the blue is finished, I have just a little bit of black cross stitching and a lot of backstitching.
Ria asked what I was going to do with the Freedom Spirit yarn. The ball of Energy is tentatively slated to become a hat. (I know it should take a particle accelerator to turn energy into tiny subatomic particles, but damnit, I want to use needles to convert Energy into something as big as a hat.) The woman at the yarn store recommended a pattern for a roll-brim hat from the September 2006 issue of Creative Knitting, and I thought I’d actually try that because she said she had made that hat herself with only one ball of the same yarn and it looked nice. I have this pattern, but if I try using the Energy for it and then run out of yarn, I will kick myself. Hard. I have no idea what I plan to do with the Earth (but this seems like a pretty good place for you to insert your own joke).
Yesterday Zellers had a buy one, get one free special on all balls of yarn, so I got some Bernat Handicrafter Cotton and some Bernat Haven. I also got a tiny Pirates of the Caribbean cross stitch kit that was on clearance at Michaels. At the risk of pointing out the obvious, it rocks when things are on sale.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Are you doing your cross-stitch on Aida cloth? I used to hate doing 3/4 stitches on Aida; they were also so fiddly. Then I discovered cloths for cross-stitch that had a higher thread count, so the squares were smaller, and stitches were generally worked across 4 squares instead of 1. It left the overall look of the project the same, but made the fractional stitches much easier to handle.
You’re making me want to get back into cross-stitch now. I have a half-finished (not even half, really) lying somewhere in this apartment; I ought to dig it out and get back to it.
March 5th, 2007 at 9:02 am
Pretend the above comment is me. Stupid computer remembering my old information. :/