Tiny Stitches

The house is the cleanest it has ever been, Though it still needs a little work before the open house this weekend. Today I am touch up painting and doing various little jobs like cleaning bugs out of light fixtures.

 A bad photo...

 I had a few hours of free time and started working again on a counted cross-stitch. This is from a garage sale, and it is from 1995. An interesting subject matter but very stereo typically cross-stitchy. It takes so long to make any amount of progress... but since I have a lot of stuff packed, i thought it would be a good idea. It is harder to watch movies, etc, but I have been listening to lots of audio-books.

Baby Hat

Here is a little hat I made to go along with the blue sweater. I had a little extra of the yarn. The pattern is here. It is a great little pattern and I'm sure I will use it again. I believe the sweater and hat are both the 12 month size, though babies vary so much, so I don't know. The baby is due in July, so hopefully they will stretch or maybe he can wear it in the cool mornings. Haha. 

I have been trying to keep this one a secret until I give it to the mom, so am posting it after the shower.

Sweater & Socks

Two finished projects!

Baby sweater, I finished it a while back but had to block it and get better photos. It is so cute, I would like to make another one someday. (This photo is after it had been folded for a while).

The buttons are grey.  

Here are the rainbow toddler socks. I know I made mistakes, but the pattern helps hide them. I think one is also a little longer than the other, oops.  I may make another pair, I have a lot of rainbow yarn left. I think in a more solid color or even bigger stripes, it could look really cool. 

We have been busy packing and cleaning our apartment, in two weekends there will be an open house, so everything has to be in tip-top shape. Not a lot of crafting has been happening. 

I have finished another project but it is a surprise so I cannot share it quite yet. 

Packing

I have finished a baby sweater and another little baby present. Just waiting to get better photos. I just cast on for some manly fingerless mitts, I have been slowly working on the bright green/blue socks and the spiral rainbow kid socks. I have done a tiny amount on an embroidery project - counted cross stitch. 

Meanwhile, we are packing to move. Packing 90% of our things. (Packed my knitting pattern for fingerless mitts so I had to find another one online- I hope I like it.) Also trying to pack up the studio. Not sure where to put 3 organs, and a variety of keyboards, lots of other stuff, etc. It feels like we are running very low on time, since we don't know where we are moving to. 

I'm trying to decide on and prep some craft projects so I can continue to knit and embroider even if we have a lot of stuff in storage. Depending on where we live we may have less Internet so I will need books and crafts!

The future goal is to buy a house but the market is discouraging and finding room for one with a studio just complicates everything. I may be posting less frequently for a while, but I will still try to get photos up for finished projects. I am averaging about 2-3 finished projects a month, though i have longer ongoing projects like the socks. I'm trying to plan ahead on some birthday/Xmas presents if I can this year.