October and November Update

Finally a chance to update everything! Hope everyone had a good last couple months. I ended up catching something again near the end of October and was out of commission for the first few weeks of November as well. 

I didn't get much done on Starry Night because a friend lost their beloved cat and I decided to try and start a memorial project for her. Eventually it will look like this:

And I managed a few days on it, so it looks like this so far:

Orange Cat by BananiStitchery (Etsy)

stitched 2 over 2 as charted with DMC on Galaxy 28ct by BeStitchMe

I was able to upload this into Pattern Keeper with a little finangling, and that made it a lot easier. Apparently I'm not great with paper patterns any more for anything larger than a Mill Hill. ;)

I didn't bring this when we went on vacation over US Thanksgiving week, so it hasn't been touched in a while. I had an urgent knitting project to finish, so I worked on that instead. I mentioned in my last post I wanted to make some socks for my brother, and I didn't have that much time to work on them before I saw him over the last full week of November. He lives out west, so I don't see him that often. He had a big birthday this year, so I had a few other little gifts I'd found, but I really wanted to get these socks completed. 

I finished them on the day before he had to fly back home, so that was good timing! I had one sock mostly done, but needed to make sure the toe fit well, so had waited to close it up until I could try it on his foot. So it wasn't a surprise after that, but I did get them finished!

Vanilla sock pattern with WYS Holly Berry, about size 11 men's

Since we've been back, things have been a little busy with band concerts, etc., so I decided to pick up Animal Parade again and maybe get it finished if I can stick with it. Here's where it's at right now:

Animal Parade by Lanarte

stitched 1 over 1 with included threads on kit fabric

I'm also debating about starting Wisteria Garden by Chatelaine. I have some fabric I think will work, and I ordered the threads from European Cross Stitch. They took a while, apparently Gloriana takes forever to get threads to them, but I have everything now. Here's the floss toss:

I tried to set up the fabric in my scroll frame, but it's not tight enough, so I ordered some larger Qsnaps to try. Hopefully that will work. Everything I've read about Chatelaines recommends keeping the fabric tight for the specialty stitches, so we'll see how it goes. 

I think that's it for me for now, I'll keep working on finishing Animal Parade for now and maybe can get a few other little projects completed before the end of this year. 

Happy Stitching!

Tiffstitch