Cat Door Stop

My youngest son loves animals. So when I decided to bite the bullet and make a door stop already so I don't have to use random crap to hold the door open we decided on a cat. I googled cat images. Cats are kinda lumpy bumpy and I really wanted to use a Milo tin to hold the dirt for weight. Not very lumpy bumpy. One of the images led me to Wee Folk Art where they had a stylistic cylindrical cat. So I used that as a jumping point.

I used suede type material coz it feels kinda furry without being too furry. Felt on the bottom coz it'll be a bit harder wearing (I hope). Wadding around the tin (so it's not so hard) covered by the material with polyfilling in the head cavity. Machine stitched the lines with thick thread on top normal thread on the bottom. Hand stitched the nose with embroidery thread.  I forgot to put the whiskers on. I was going to use fine fishing line knotted with a bead on the inside so they'd stick out like real whiskers but I got ahead of myself and only remembered after I'd finished sewing the bottom on... that's a lot to undo. I've got plenty of materials to make more... I just need to drink more Milo :P

Progress

Husband has become fascinated with Derren Brown. I hope he doesn't use his powers for evil.

Modern Technology

I thought computers were supposed to make things easier.
Image this imagine the other way up and cropped a little.

Oh Look! You don't have to imagine because it actually did what I asked it just didn't show me it did what I asked... Good Grief Charlie Brown!

Back into the Fray

It's been a while. I didn't achieve my goal of having the ornaments done by Christmas... but there's always next Christmas!

I have a reason!

We've been away. I did take some projects to do while i was away but there were other outdoorsy things to be done so they didn't happen.
I did about a dozen stitches last night and I had to fight to get those done. I'd forgotten about a meeting I had to go to. There's no picture because the camera crapped itself.
I am a happy positive person. I am a happy positive person. I am a happy positive person.

Change of pace

Later the same day

While watching some of my backlog of Once Upon a Time and then Flushed Away sans kids. 

Haircuts

I had to drop everything and give hubby his haircut.

Next!

Hubbie played Quantum Conundrum again and his language deteriorated the longer he played it... it's getting difficult.
I, on the other hand, finished the snowflake and have moved on to the next one.

Once Upon A Time

I watched way too many episodes and was saved by my Handsome Prince wanting to play Quantum Conundrum (awesome, by the way).

ahhh. hi

I can't remember stuff. I'm tired and Team America sucks balls.

Fe Fi Fiddily

Tricky stuff now. Stars with metallic thread.  Hubbie was channel flicking. Settled on a hippy simpsons. blah.

Speed of Life

I think I've finished the cross stitching on this one. Next bit is the fiddly stuff; ribbon, beads and metallic thread.
Watched "Speed of Life" which was pretty cool except for the overly dramatic music.

At this rate

I might be finished for Christmas 2013.

ergh, boy germs

Hubbie has a cold. I feel doomed.  Watched Big Bang Theory.   The one where Penny takes a "stand".  I do enjoy them.

Sick kids suck

Eldest had a fever for 5 days and then had an earache for one day (yay for not turning into something worse) and he's sneezing and coughing and snotty and germy and I really really really really don't want youngest or myself to catch it... or hubbie, but he has less chance coz he gets to go out of the house.  My hands have cracked from all the handwashing.
Decided that even though I'm tired and grumpy I needed to do something just for me so here is tonight's progress whilst watching Once Upon A Time.  It's very convoluted and I hope they don't screw me over like Lost did.

Stormy Weather

Set the alarm tonight so I can go to bed at a decent hour hence the unfinished thread.  Hopefully we'll get some sleep since it's supposed to be really stormy tonight.

Channel Flicking

So many channels and nothing on. Finally settled on a NCIS repeat of flashbacks, blah!

Here we go

7 pounds is not a good movie to watch whilst stitching. There's too many visual clues that I missed. And where does that pound of flesh saying come from anyway, and I can't remember what it is exactly either.

Where we're at

Since I intend to continue on with the Christmas Ornaments I figured I should let you see where I'm up to. There's 6 ornaments that when finished are mounted on a cardboard shape with felt backing and a ribbon loop to hang it on the tree. They're quite large for a tree ornament, 15cm or so. I've stitched and beaded and gold ribboned 4 of the 6 and am currently stitching the 5th. I'm planning to do the mounting all at the same time. Or at least one after the other :P so that hopefully they'll look similar.