St Patrick's Day SAL

I started my St Pat's SAL in March, and finished it yesterday.

Anyone who watched my last video knows about the floss related issue I had with this pattern, but apart from that it was really easy to stitch.

And now it's finished.
Only thing left to do is to get it framed.
Because it's a memorial piece I want it done properly, so now I have to find somewhere in Sydney that frames cross stitch.

My Grandfather was a great person and he meant a lot to me. Sadly he passed away late 2012.
His birthday was St Patrick's Day, so I thought about doing a memorial piece for the Stitch A Long with Cross Stitch It's Fun.
I trawled Pinterest and google until I found something that would be easy to modify, and wasn't too cliche'd.

So here it is :)
Unframed as of yet, but finished :)

I stitched this on 18 count aida, from Colour Cascades Fabrics on Silver Springs.
The flosses were from Weeks Dye Works, and if you want to stitch this one yourself, get yourself 2 skeins of the green colour, Lucky. I used all but four strands of a short length for this.

I made a Q Snap cover!

First time I've used a sewing machine since 2001 and that was for maybe 4 hours in total. 

Now to learn to switch the threads so I won't have to stitch everything in white...

Life Updates!

I've been absent again.

It has been one of those time periods where a whole bunch is going on, a whole bunch needs to be done and my stitchy bug takes a break.

So I spent most of my time this month sleeping/attempting to sleep after having run around shopping, doing other crafty stuff, fighting with my ISP to get my internet fixed (never mess with a gamer's internet!) and trying to work out what to do with myself.

So I saw a career advisor with my local TAFE to chat about options for wheelchair friendly professions. I already had a few ideas in mind, some of which I doubted would be wheelchair friendly.

So I came to the decision and I will be returning to TAFE to study full time.

I will be starting off with a Certificate 4 in Youth Work and then I'm going to see if I can do a dual discipline in both Mental Health and in Disabilities. 

I really hope I can get both at the same time. 

It will be a bigger workload, yes, but overall will be quicker than doing 2 different courses after each other.

So have some photos, and I will be filming some cross stitch updates in the next few days :)

Check out the hot chocolate porn!

Made my first ever pulled Pork. It didn't last long.

Strawberries and Cream cupcakes before icing, and choc mint muffins :)

Didn't get pictures of the sugar cookies before they went. I made them in bat and cat shapes :p

That's an Air Con, not a bed. 

One of our awesome Flosstubers was in hospital for a little while, so I surprised her with a card :)

I bought a card making kit off ebay, put all the pieces together, found a kitty picture which I printed out and then coloured with watercolour paints :)

And this little butterfly pendant was the little gift I sent along as well :)

I stitched it with 2 Fiberlicious hand dyed flosses, and one Dinky Dyes hand dyed floss :)

I spent most of the month stitching on my St Patricks day SAL. I didn't finish it. 

But I'm not going to rant about it here, I'm going to wait for the video :p

Made a friend of mine a Star Trek Communication Badge :)

Made the little pattern based off an image off Google.

I should mention I know nothing of Star Trek. At all :p

The pattern for this is on my Etsy as well

Andrew getting his hacksaw on at Bunnings :)

And what I made with those hacksawed pieces of PVC pipe :)

Still learning to two hand stitch, but it's so good to not have to hold it :p

I'm very quickly becoming a Qsnap convert!

Tie Dying some shirts. Some turned out, others didn't. And then my washing machine screwed them all up.

Pizza scrolls and some trial Nutella and Coconut scrolls :)

Stitching!

Little lacewing I rescued from my room before Illidan got ahold of him.