Slow Sunday Stitching - November 20, 2022

 Hopping on early to activate this post before I dash off to church.  Bells are playing this week for the second (larger) service.  It's been so great to get back to a full choir.   

It's been a busy week crafting wise as it has been an easy work week.  Forecast was for our first snow of the year on Tuesday, so we all got to work from home that day in addition to our usual days.   It was more sleet than snow, so I was glad to not have to drive in it!  Freezing rain is always so nasty.   Give me real snow, please!

First up, I put in some more work on the Blackbird Designs piece.   It's now got 20 hours in.  I do like the purple and yellow flowers in the basket.   All the stems are there now, but lots of leaves, buds and flowers and background circle motifs yet to go on the bottom half of this piece

I've been working on the Unicorn Pillow every Friday for about an hour and a half to two hours to meet the Full Coverage Fanatics (on Facebook) challenges.  This week, I got to my two hours and there was just about 45 min left to finish off the rest of the background, so I put some time on Saturday and voila - all done but the remaining goldwork and making it into an actual pillow.

So this project will continue with the couching on the horn as the 'not counted thread' project and next Friday, I will get a new start on a full coverage piece.   I have two kitted up and will start on the smaller one - a Sugar Skull for a work friend who is of Hispanic descent and loves the 'Day of the Dead"/All Saints and All Souls.  I'll share a picture of the set up and pattern cover next week.  

Remember when I was in the early stages of the project how I was grousing how off register the printing was on this and how much better a hand painted canvas is?   Proof is in the final corner.

Square?  Not in MY book!  Two stitches off over just 14 inches!  BOTH dimensions even.

Knitting.  Thank you to those who recommended in comments and IMs that I should work in the ends on the shawl as I go.   I went back and caught myself up.  This is about 2/3 of the way through the peach colored stripe.   The rows get ever longer, though, so not very far into the knitting at all. 

Unfortunately, I am not as far on getting the ends woven in on my other knitting project.

But the fact that I am weaving them in at all means that the re-work on Bob's Christmas Stocking is DONE.   Which is a good thing since I will have to return both of the stockings back to my sister at Thanksgiving dinner later this week.   Kimi's on the left c 1979.   Bob's on the right.    Kimi's is slightly less dense yarn and a slightly tighter gauge.   I was not so good with my colorwork tension back then either.   But the gauges are not too far off considering there's 40 plus years between them!

All those ends are waiting for me inside Bob's stocking.  I'll be catching up with the SSS crew (link to the current round up) and working on those ends when I get back from church in a bit.