August's Miss Wisdom is coming along slowly. She was a bear to do as her fleece was made up of a rather complicated pattern-at least for me. It doesn't take much to confuse me these days. Counting seems to be a skill that's slowly fading away.
My adventure with crewel has been hit or miss. It's been fun learning the new stitches but working with that dried out vintage yarn has not been fun. It's splitty which makes all the stitches look pretty wonky. I doubt at this stage I could make nice regular stitches anyway so I won't complain too much. I'll just carry on with this practice piece that's made up of mostly chain stitches at this point.
One of you nice readers sent me the link to this project kit that just arrived. It's the knitting mouse I've been looking for. Mercifully you only have to stitch in her apron and her shawl. The rest is printed on. The yarn looks much nicer than the yarn in the leaf kit so I'm looking forward to tackling this as soon as I get more practice on those blankety blank leaves.
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Love that knitting mouse with the intense look on her face. Reminds me of my lace chart knitting face. :-)
ReplyDeleteThose leaves look good to me! Love the colors. Knitty Mouse is too cute!
ReplyDeleteI think you're doing great with the leaves. I haven't done crewel work since my 20's. It doesn't even call to me anymore. Now cross-stitch, that's another story. I need more walls so I stopped stitching.
ReplyDeleteLove that sweet, sweet mouse. I'm glad you found her.
Blessings,
Betsy
I have trouble counting too and have never overly enjoyed 'fiddly' cross stitch designs. I much prefer big blocks of color. Your Wisdom looks great though and the knitting mouse is adorable!
ReplyDeleteThat little mouse is so cute!
ReplyDeleteMiss Wisdom is looking very pretty as is the leaf in the crewel project! Love the colors of the yarn in your leaf project. Those colors just scream fall to me and that is a wonderful thought on this hot, muggy day.
ReplyDeleteHow exciting that you found the knitting mouse!
ReplyDeleteaw lil Bunny will be so cute
ReplyDeleteWhat are you talking about?! Your leaf is stunning! That kind of dense stitching takes a LOT of patience! Nice work going on!
ReplyDeleteI'm working on a counted cross stitch piece for a Christmas present - looking at your little sheep I can say I understand how that wool could be difficult. I use a neck lamp to work now because I can never seem to get enough light these days to work. The little Missy Mousie is too cute!
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