Not a lot of knitting going on here. That sock is going to be put away and I’ll work on it slowly but surely. It’s hard to work on something that you don’t love, or that gets monotnous. I have other things I want to do and feel that will move pretty quickly.. so thats what I shall do. In the meantime.. we had another embroidery pow wow today. Two soccer moms, a full pot of coffee & a raspberry crumb crake… and needles & thread. How does that sound for a good morning? We practiced french knots today which are really hard and I maybe did two.. and Danielle is the best at french knots… it just may be her calling. As for me, I’m all about the back stitch… and this is what the back stitch does –
Not bad huh? I love it. The flames I totally dig. The pan, not so much, but that’ll improve. YAY ME! Wiith that said.. I’m going to pack up the princess and on this rainy pre-fall day and do some running around minus one child in tow.
How in heck is it Friday again already? It is scary when time goes by this fast!! I can’t keep up. Well, Thursday came and went with a little bit more practice on the ol embroidery. I get lots o knots.. the back of the work is horrendous and I need to learn to get that nice & tidy as well as making the front presentable at the same time. Knitting is MUCH easier. But, I shall keep at it. This is what I did so far.. I did everything but the cloud.. I would do the work and hate it, so I’d rip it out…and do it again and again. By the time I was somewhat satisfied with what you see here — 
ignore the yellow on it, that was what I traced the pattern with so I could actually see what I was doing. After doing this for a while, I found the cutest stuff (more stuff) I’d love to make. knitting. My queue on my Ravelry gets bigger and bigger and bigger by the day. I have yet to start the sweater for Mia .. and I better get on that. I put it off, considering it’s going to be in the high 80′s with a jillion percent humidity over the weekend, but at the same time.. we are starting to see the leaves change and fall to the ground.
The weekend is another one jam packed full of family fun. I tell ya.. the fun never stops.
Happy weekend everyone.
Ok. it’s not as easy it looked. I have to remember that I can’t be perfect at embroidery the first time I ever try it.. but screw that. I WANT TO BE PERFECT AT EMBROIDERY RIGHT NOW! Tea Towels for everyone! Once I get the freakin’ needle threaded, I should be good to go.
My amiga Danielle came over, without her soon to be 4 year old boy.. Mia’s buddy.. since he started pre-k ..she’s rockin’ the free world an was able to come and sit and enjoy your badass self. We drank coffee. We ate cinnabons. We traced, we learned, we embroidered. She did really well. Show off. She almost finished her whole pattern. What was I doing the whole time, she was stitchin’ it up? Oh, I was trying to thread my needle. Dumbass. But, like a good friend does, she pointed and laughed. What-evs.
So, I think I’ll like this new little craft once I get the hang of it. What is that saying about practicing and perfection? Or Patience being a virtue? Those things that I say to my kids all the time. Or that other saying that I love to hate… “practice what you preach!”
Off I go to try and thread my needle again.
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