Textileophile

 It's been about a week since my last post, and my crafting landscape has changed drastically since then. After I finished my Stephen West Painting Bricks shawl: I abandoned all of my knitting WIPs and reverted back to cross stitching. You read that right, I'm back to endlessly stitching pokemon!  I'm not actually sure where I was when I last talked about this.  I may have mentioned that I've done the first panel of the third row (panel number 11).  I found my footing again, and really decided to run with it. On this day, I went a little crazy with the black work.  Sometimes I like to do the framing stitches, and other times I don't.  It can make it easier to keep track and to count. It can also be a disaster if I lose count.  Fortunately that did not happen this time. I think this was two days of work, instead of one.  I had a day where I could only stitch for a little while, and it didn't seem worth it to take a picture. This was the end of last night's pr

 Morning blog! I know, it's been a few weeks since my last confession err, blog post.  Things are happening around here. By that I mean, I've been lazing about with Zac the last few weeks that he's had off of work and I've done almost no knitting done at all. I blame August. And I decided to replay final fantasy nine again.  I'm about to send them through the Shimmering Island to Terra.  I have to level up my chocobo first. Last I left you all, I was contemplating casting on a sweater for Hazel.  I had two other WIPs happening and I know I mentioned thinking about casting on a sock. Well, I did cast on a sweater for Hazel: It's the Campside pullover that I've modified into a cardigan.  And as you may be able to tell, the yarn is a little warbly.  It's yarn that was frogged remains of a sweater I knit for myself last year that was ill-fitting.  I think I talked about it here, but I never shared a finished object picture because I wore it a few times and r