Frogpile Pic and latest update

This is still the fresh off the frame pic, but here is FrogPile. Finished, and off to family. 14ct aida, that I had started a while back. Click it to enlarge to see the detail.


And uh, I know I've been absent.......this medical stuff was quite a blow. I ended up with more surgeries, and am still recovering. I have only been able to pick up stitching in the last week, and boy that felt good! Working on just the solid black on White Rose.

The website plans have tentatively moved to June 1. That may still change, depending on my recovery, and all the things I am behind on!

Another Punch

Well, it's been a little while since I last posted. And nothing new really as far as stitching. I haven't been able to. I went in for a somewhat minor surgery before Christmas......and ended up in the ER Christmas Day, since it didn't hold. I'll spare the gory details, but I am only recently home, and have a long recovery ahead still. I'm lucky to hit 130lbs on a bad day, but have been graced with basically a gastric bypass type surgery, and repairing a collapsed lung, plus all the infectious stuff you can imagine that might go with that. I have daily meds to take for a while, some through an IV line that is still in my right arm. I haven't tried to stitch yet, but I have a feeling that it will only be in short bursts until that comes out(in a couple more weeks). Yuck.

My energy level is low, but as I get a chance, I will try to get to some pics. I had made a little progress before XMAS, and at this rate, it will be a bit before I have anything else significant to show.

I will still be working on my bigger stitching plans, although I think I need to move the opening date to something more like April 1. A few other thoughts....but that will have to wait a few days until I post again with a clearer head!

Hope everyone had better holidays than I did, and got in some good stitching!!!

October Birthstone, Frogpile

Ha, it's a small start. On FB, there is a pattern a month event, and I joined in. I have so many things I really want to have stitched, finished, for this next year, so I am trying to get on board and stay on track. I can pick my own patterns and whatnot, so there is no issue with trying to fit in something new, past what I want to get done. And good thing it can keep running into the next month....So, this will be the one to start matching up with that event. It is Mystic Stitch, small October Birthstone. On 18ct white. Just barely started it this week. It probably won't get much more along until after XMAS. These are some of the related items I want to have stitched up to sell, so I should be getting to all in the series, sometime.

Another note, Frogpile is finished!! This has been spoken for by family, meh. I had to get it done and out of the way. It's not off the frame or washed yet, so I will get a full picture posted once it is.

Other than that, I feel like I am getting nothing done! Such is life for the holidays.

Lily Pool, Misc Order, Jingit

Ha, well...ok, I at least got around to posting some copies(2) of Lily Pool, on one of my more obscure listing areas. This is a full size and readily available chart, by Ruth Sanderson. Only, you can't order it directly from HAED, this is a shops exclusive chart. RF is $17, my discount makes it $14.45, $2 shipping, in the US.

I'd be happy to get more copies, I'd love to place an order with HAED before the 15th, and grab a few Jessica Galbreth before they are gone, as well.

I will be changing up my website offerings, I don't think Artfire is going to serve my needs once I open up the stitch for sale site. They continue to change direction, and I don't think that will be for me. I'll still use the same one that Lily Pool is on....and ebay, plus the new site after the beginning of the year(and the stitcher FAQ one).

Really hoping to get past the holidays and concentrate back on stitching, etc. I don't seem to be getting much of anything done in that direction, getting a little anxious. Excited, too!

Anyway, I am still plugging away with my little click places, to make a little money on the side, all going well, will update on that later. But you may or may not have noticed, that I added Jingit, and it's pretty cool. Basic idea, you make at least $5 every week, watching some quick videos. And, you can load it to a debit card they issue--I have mine. Since I am absolutely in need of making more cash, at home, this has been really nice so far, I've done this for about a month. You need to have a correctly filled in Facebook account linked(just for info), US only.

Life Interrupted. WTF

Well, let's see. In starting this little upcoming adventure, I thought I pretty much had all my ducks in a row. A couple hiccups, but nothing much really. Finally. Life would be settled down, and at least for a good period of time, I could put most all my attention towards this stitching adventure.

But NOOOOO, again, things have gone crazy. In the last way I expected. And perhaps, almost, the last way they ever will. I hate it when life blows apart. My concentration isn't what it should be right now--I'm trying, but it's just going to take a little bit. And my plans haven't particularly changed. Slowed down perhaps. I wish they could actually go a lot faster, faster than the track I had planned, but I don't have the surrounding support right now to make that happen. In the mean time, it will be several months minimum until I am truly back on an even keel. I'm still working on things, and trying to stitch, and will be as much as I can...

So, hang tight. I'm trying to figure out how to make it all work, not all the pieces have fallen into place yet.....and it may be a little extra time before they do.

Oh, and I did update the stitcher's site some(link on the left always)Stitch for Me , but I have not done any work on the website. I probably won't work on that until hmmm, January, or at least until I am about ready, here, to go live...since that will be a cost now, to do any more work on it. That will be on hold a little bit, I'm going to have to hold tight on the bucks, and a little rushed to just get it published when the time comes.

Some Progress, Pics, Order?

Ok, so some pictures finally. The weather is a little weird here, not that it usually means much....but good for any picture taking is hit and miss. I was hoping to have one more picture, but maybe in a few days. Anyway, SK Treasures at the bottom, not a lot of stitching. Once again, not sure I will finish it--I have sooo many other things going on (and for pay) that it may get put away for quite some time. SK Blossoms in the middle, tried to adjust the colors, but still not quite it. I haven't worked on it in the last week or so at all, but it's been coming along nicely; not as confetti heavy as I thought(top and bottom, middle is easier). And at the top, my blue fractal. Lightened that a little too, so you could see some detail better. That is what I have been working on the most right now. BAP for sure, but enjoying the big blocks of color, and a nice scattering of other colors as they come along. Really thinking I would like to get this finished in a reasonable amount of time.

No big progress on Summer, either, so no pic there. And I do have Forgiveness on the frame, so maybe I'll have something worth showing next month!

I've been resisting buying charts that are being retired. Really hard with Julie Fain, but I did not buy any and do not have any of hers. Now Drazenka Kimpel, that's another story. I did buy Purple Orchid already, so I am not totally distressed(still need the Anchor threads). That is on my bucket list, and probably my favorite on my bucket list. But I am very big into faces, bodies.....and I love her stuff. Most of it. Still torn over HAVE TO HAVE Breath & Lady of the Camellias . Luna was on the list for a while, but I think I can pass on that one. So, anybody up for an order? I need to place an order anyway, but I wasn't for sure planning before 11/15. I will not be getting extras, so if you want one, 15% off, plus shipping, prepaid on paypal---let me know!

And yes, I do need to place an order, soooon. I've been on the fence where I wanted to order my next ones, and it looks like it will be HAED, not sure I can manage an order from two places at once right now. So, next couple days on the retiring charts please. I specifically want to get some of the charts for the new site in the works. Frustrated that I don't hardly have those here. Some are BAP, too, wow.

I will be doing some updates and revisions to my info page(see link on left, to stitch), and the website itself. I may publish the full website soon, and just let it hang out for a couple of months, tweaking it, before being really ready at the start of the year. This includes a tiny bit higher pay amounts, and longer deadline times. Also, I hope to get/make a list of acceptable chart submissions, for the smaller sizes. Not talking about mini's--yet. But the SK, PAB, QS, small items, for those alternate misc projects, that I would like to see most. And some that just stitch up faster.

And the mini's. Whheee. Great idea for HAED. Little dismayed that it will all be about mini's now though. Working a BAP will be for old timers and stubborn......hey! that's me, all the way. The jury is out. I'll accept them in the Misc section of my new site, but am otherwise on the fence. And I don't know of anyone working both a full size and a matching mini, the exact same way, for a comparison. I wasn't thrilled with the mini mockups. More on that later. But certainly, more than nearly anyone anyway, I am all about FINISHES. Completed work. So, we'll see.

Basic FAQ for interested stitchers

So I've created a page, website..... for those thinking about stitching for me. There is a little more to add to it, but for now, the basic idea is up and rolling. I've had some interest already, (yes, interested enough to do it), and some other inquiries. At this point, there will not be a limit to how many can stitch. I may, however, have to restrict some categories, the smaller, easier ones. I have to have the BAP's worked on, and some variety--plenty with the options I've made. So it doesn't matter if I have 5 stitchers, or 15, or 50.....there's room. I will work on the sales end, as long as the product is available, and/or requested. (Of course, the longer you wait, the longer it will take!! And this is definitely the slow race.) Stitch For Me

Anyway, I've been trying to stitch. Bad timing, just getting hard with the holidays and end of year stuff coming up. I should be putting the finishing stitching into Frogpile(not yet), and working SK Treasures(nooo),Summer(barely), and the felt XMAS stocking I started while I was resting......but alas. I have, however, done a bunch on SK Blossoms, pulled out the bap blue fractal. And I need to finish SOMETHING, anything....but I can tell I will get Forgiveness on the frame, any day, I just can't stand it any more. I'll see if I can get a couple progress pics up later this week.