Flower Necklace

Here is the other cross stitch piece I did. I decided to turn this one into a necklace as well.

It's the middle of June and only in the 50's outside. What the crap, Oregon!

Diamond Necklace

A few months back I did some little cross stitch pieces with the intention of making some kind of wearable things out of them. I finally got to work on one of those today.

It's a diamond necklace! Get it? Jokes!

You can see a pic of it on at my Flickr account. I'm not sure about the gold chain or the length, but I haven't totally secured the backing yet so I might change it out. I'm not really even positive if I like it as a necklace.

I've been so drowsy the past few days. The weather has been great but since moving here I've developed allergies and all I want to do is nap and blow my nose and sneeze. It's pretty lame.

Stitches

Variations of an arch stitch and a lace stitch. Switched the blog layout up a wee bit. I like keeping it simple! Now I have to go get ready to meet the husband and friends downtown. Happy Friday, dudes!

Progress

Right now I have four projects in progress and I'm some how being productive on all of them. Usually I will start something and then get bored and move on. (Sorry all you unfinished things in the craft room!)

This is the newest project that I for some reason felt I needed to start over the weekend. I have another afghan in progress that is going to take a looooong loooooong time and I'm in no rush to finish. I wanted to start something that I could do relatively quickly. It's going to be a baby blanket and I have no idea what I am going to do with it when it's done. Sell it maybe?



This is the afghan that I am going to be working on for a long time. This isn't even one of each block yet. It's the Weekend in Stockholm Throw by Debbie Stoller. Casie ripped the pattern out of an issue of Bust that she had a while back. I'm using Cotton-Ease yarn (my new favorite yarn!) by Lion Brand and I absolutely love how the blocks are coming out but the pattern is written so weird. I'm glad that the copy of the pattern I have also has a diagram and that I know how to read them because I would be insanely frustrated. I think they're going to take me a while because doing a crap load of triple crochets tires my hands the eff out.


Here is the progress on my paper piecing. I guess I don't really have anything else to say about that!


Last but not least I am working on thank you cards for the wedding but I'm not going to share those until they have been finished and sent out!

Hand quilting

So Monday was my birthday and I wasn't feeling so well. I had grand plans of snacks and board games with friends but when it came down to it, I was just too tired. Adam and I made some strawberry cupcakes in our new Kitchenaid mixer and some salsa and plopped on the couch to marathon some X Files. (Thanks Netflix instant watch!)

One of my gifts from Adam is a quilting class that I'm going to try and sign up for for July. I'm so excited about learning how to quilt that I decided to finally try out some paper piecing in the mean time. It was on my list of projects to try out after all the wedding stuff was done. I know that probably the easiest way to start out would be with what seems to be the most common shape for paper piecing - hexagons. But I decided I don't much care for hexagons quite as much as I like triangles, so I watched a tutorial on hexes and diamonds...and made triangles.

So here was the start on Monday:

And here is where I'm at as of yesterday's mini marathon of sewing and Torchwood (what? That show is ridiculous!):

Annnnd here are just some closeups:

My mom called this "typical Sarah" - wanting to just dive into a craft project without learning a whole lot about it first. I know it's probably impatient of me, but I feel like practicing is sometimes a waste of time that I could be putting into a finished piece. That's bad, I know, I know. Crafting is probably the only thing that I do where I feel comfortable diving in and sometimes totally crashing and burning.

Anyway, I'm having a blast. I think this is going to end up being a cover for a throw pillow or something. I'm already getting pumped up about other color combinations and shapes!

Crazy weeks

Wow, what a nutty couple of weeks it's been. I know I already mentioned it but Adam and I got married on May 15th. The pic below is from the preview pics our photographer, Erin Wallace, posted on her blog a few weeks ago. You should totally check out her photography blog as well as her personal one.

Adam looked oh so handsome! It really was such a perfect day and everything went so smoothly. Everyone was so happy and I think they all had lots of fun. I didn't get to take as many pics of the decor as I would have liked but luckily other people did! My pal Casie, who was one of my bridesmaids, has some great posts over at her blog about the wedding weekend and set up and hang outs and all that good stuff  here, here and here! (It's a three-parter!) When I have more pictures of decor collected I'll make a post about all the stuff my family and I made. As it turns out, big brothers are excellent at making paper flowers and putting up decorations.

Oh and here is one pic from honeymoonin'. We drove all over the place but here is a pic from the top of Cadillac Mountian looking down on Bar Harbor.

Ok, I'll be back with another post about a new project I started a little later!