Textileophile

Hey folks!  It's almost October! how exciting! Well, only because the kids have a few weeks off starting next week and I'm so looking forward to having all the sleep ins.  Zac's got a few days off this weekend, too, and I'm looking forward to those especially.  His schedule has evened out, but he still has more overtime than he ever used to. I... well, I took a week off to play final fantasy 10.  I was thoroughly enjoying it, but now I'm just about to the final part of the final bosses and I kind of don't want to.  I probably would have to go get some of the ultimate weapons and it just looks like a lot of work. Before I got thoroughly wrapped up in new game, I was working quite diligently on the cross stitch, so we'll start there. Last I wrote, I was getting through the hair on Garnet/Dagger.  Well, I ended up having to rip it all out because I miscounted where she went next to Freya.  In fact I think I mentioned here that I should have made an extra patter

 Hey friends! I feel like I'm due for a new post, here!  Like usual, I'm not sure how to introduce things, so I suppose I'll just jump in! I finished my handspun fire socks! I didn't get one of the fancee pictures with the sock blockers, but I think you can see the effect nicely here anyway.  I adore the way these turned out.  And fortunately the temperature is finally starting to come down a ways.  Last week one of the highs during the day was 117!  (recorded at the elementary school)  And today the high is only 81! It hasn't been that cool since May. I actually don't mind summer all that much, but when you're talking weeks of 100+ degree weather, I get a bit cranky.  The place we're in right now has terrible insulation and it's expensive just doing the barest minimum staying comfortable.  And speaking of moving house, I have a few updates on the house! Here's where it was about two weeks ago, right around the time I last posted. And here's

Hey there friends! It's been a few weeks, and I have things to share! Last we spoke, I was well on my way to finishing the Final Fantasy IX title on my cross stitch, and I'm pleased to say that I crossed that finish line a few days ago!   There's not an enormous amount of new information or things to say about it. I got started on the first character on the right, Freya Crescent: This one has a few things to mention.  The pattern maker seemed to mistranslate one of the colors.  It was a free pattern maker, so I'm not too fussed, but I did have an issue to work out. One of the symbols, which was a major component of the cloak and hat, is meant to be an orangey coral, and for whatever reason, the pattern maker made it a bright orange.  We're talking fluorescent. It was bad. I started off with that symbol in the hat just doing the orange as written, because as a friend said to me "simultaneous contrast is a thing"  Which I had to look up, but it was on my min