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#84 - Spiked Knotted Cable Chain: http://pintangle.com/2013/10/01/take-a-s titch-tuesday-84-spiked-knotted-cable-ch ain/ My somewhat "wrong" version of stitch #84: and I think I know where I went wrong on this one...

I made a particular attempt this week to start catching up with various deadlines so, after stitching a few days on the blackwork "Puppy Dog" - and completing the first page of fill patterns: I kitted up and started stitching on the September 2013 Bead

My September butterfly for the Bead Journal Project. I call it Autumn Leaves but, as my husband so kindly informed me, I put it on the wrong background. This butterfly has assumed camoflage!

The last of the monochromatic reds: Experimented with "ribbon embroidery" although it doesn't work as well with the ribbons I had as it would have done if I had had silk ribbon but... -there is a dragonfly more(or less) "after" the one described by

After finishing the September BJP and the October Crazy Quilt Journal blocks early in the week, I spent a day gathering together projects to take to the quilt guild retreat and then the weekend working on them and a little bit more. Retreat was entitled

This stitch, the Raised Cup Stitch is the latest in the Take a Stitch series of tutorials. My attempt is somewhat pathetic --- I have trouble seeing the stitches and am not sure but that I made my knots too tight and too close together. The second one,

For October 2013, the WIPocaplypse themes are: Designer – Ink Circles, Style – Autumn, and Colors – Black and Orange. I do have some Ink Circles in my to do bag --- 8 different mandalas along the same theme, with pone more to come --- an online class

This past week (and this International Hermit and Stitch Weekend) were spent on catch-up projects. I started the week - and ended the weekend - by stitching away on the blackwork "Puppy Dog": Most of the weekend, however, was spent on my October Bead

This week's stitch was the Turkman stitch and here is my sample: Again, it looks sort of, but not quite like, the example in the tutorial...

Another week and not a lot to show for it. Inability to sleep through the night and inability to stay awake during the day probably has something to do with it. Still, I did complete this week's TAST and I stitched on "Puppy Dog", finishing the blackwork

Sort of! There are still three online classes/stitchalongs I haven't started yet but I do have the Bead Journal Project all caught up! The missing beads arrived yesterday and while their "matte" patina is a little more matte than the ones I started with,