Crafts and Life

Okay so this may look a bit like a mangled face flannel! But I promise you it IS the start of the back of a sweater, I seem to have finally got the knack of this and I am now working away at it slowly but surely, if I can do a couple of rows (minimum) a week then hopefully by the next Knit and Natter I will be able to cast of for the sleeves and maybe even start shaping the neck (starts to panic already *grin*).

This is obviously the needlepoint, I hope you can see that I have started working on a medallion, my goal is to get all of this colour finished (so that is the medallions and the pale green further up the pattern) by the end of June, I think that is easily achievable (mind you this coming from someone that did no crafting at all for two weeks due to pain and stress *sigh*).

Finally the cross stitch, this is actually the hardest for two reasons, firstly using the smaller needles hurts my hands …. a lot, and secondly I need space to lay out the pattern and we don't HAVE that at home! and so I can only work on this at the crafty afternoon and I have only been three times this year (due to the aforementioned stress, illness, the only day appointments could happen, and asteroid hitting the earth … well maybe not that last one! but things do seem to have conspired to stop me going.)

So ongoing plans, as stated by the end of June I would like

1. To have the knitting at the cast on the arms or even be up to the neck shaping
2. To have the pale green finished on the needlepoint
3. To have all the outlines finished on the cross stitch so that I can start working on the characters (even better would be to have the boxes AND the writing done – but see how I do).

Right, I have a mug of tea, I need to find my glasses, get the stand in the right place and then STITCH!