Woe is me! Do you remember last week when I said I was just sure I would have an FO this week.....well....I worked my little tail off and I was so close but alas.....no cigar! This is a very sad tale so you might want to grab some Kleenex.
I finished knitting all my star points, took a tutorial and learned how to properly block, I cleaned my new blocking mat (one), I washed my star points in Eucalan wool wash and used a million pins to block all 10 of them. I took them off the the blocking mat yesterday morning and spent a majority of the day learning and stitching the mattress stitch and sewed all of them together! Ta Da!...........except for one tiny little error............I sewed too much.....up one side and down the other.........when in reality I should have only sewn halfway up the from the point on each side. Granted...the instructions did not specify but had I looked at the picture of the pattern it would have been fairly obvious........
This is what I have...............
This is what it should be..........(stuffed and finished).....I told you it was a sad tale.........oh well......on the bright side I learned several techniques............beading, blocking and the mattress stitch. I will make this ornament some day......just not today.........(there is no way I can remove that mattress stitch as I did such a good job I can't even see it so they are officially ruined....I can't even reclaim the yarn)
As for some other WIP's.............I have finished the heel flap on sock #2 and I daresay I would like to have that finished by next Sunday but I certainly don't want to jinx myself so I won't say anything...........
I already fell off of the YOP wagon too.........I started a new project! But in my defense, I had no T.V. project to work on.........the socks were at the heel, the star points needed focusing on and I found it difficult to work on my cross stitch with my reading glasses because then I couldn't see the t.v.
So, you see, I really had no choice and when Becki showed the Happy CAL Place project of the kitty cat blanket I was a goner! See the little kitty cats? Aren't they cute? This project is fun, easily memorized and you only change colors every 3 rows.....LOVE!
I did not get much cross stitch done this week so I will show you next week. I really needed to watch t.v. because I was hooked on The Crown on Netflix. I finished it last night and I wished it would have gone on and on it was so good! I will most probably watch it again and again.
I'm off to search out the next Christmas ornament to work on......it's July and I have 1 pair of socks done out of a dozen by the end of the year, I have no ornaments done out of a dozen by the end of the year.........I told you.........woe is me! LOL! I hope you all had a more successful week than I did!
Happy Trails!
