Peacock Feathers Finish-Finish

My blogging has been very sporadic lately, I know. I don’t expect it to get better any time soon, either. I’ve just been really, really scatterbrained lately. I can’t seem to focus on any other thing for more than a few minutes and then I flit off to something else. I’m starting to wonder if I suffer from ADD. I think it’s more than that, though. I get jittery, like I’ve had caffeine (which affects me very strongly – just a single soda, a cup of tea or some Excedrin will do it), my body kinda quivers on the inside and my brain just goes nuts, like it’s on complete overload.

Despite all of the strangeness, though, I have been stitching. I’ve also been compiling all of your comments on the stash organization software that I’m going to write. I just need to organize my thoughts (which should be fun, given the way that my brain is currently functioning), write up the technical specifications, write some pseudo-code, setup the back-end database and then I’ll be ready to start writing the code in earnest. All in my spare time, of course. 😉

Back to the stitching, I finished Janie Hubble Designs’ Peacock Feathers design into another bookmark, like The Flower Juggler’s Bookmark:

Front

Back

It turned out okay, though the tail and tassel are a bit anemic. I was trying to use some leftover threads and conserve the overdyeds, so they are sparse, but should do the job just fine.

I’ve also stitched up a Christmas ornament, which will be one of a set of three, but I haven’t fluffed the Wisper thread yet, so I didn’t take a picture of it. Anna, if you happen to see this and are going to stitching on Friday, could you bring your fluffer gadget dohickey thing?

I also mounted Lizzie Kate’s Dog Lessons for People onto scroll bars, but the fabric doesn’t quite fit the bars I’m using. I’ll limp along for now while I wait for another set to come in. It’s coming from the UK, so probably won’t show up until sometime next week, I expect. Even then, I will probably end up using that frame for starting the Chatelaine micro mandalas. I have the charts for Micro 01 and Micro 02 and the supplies for Micro 01. The specialty kit for Micro 02 will ship this week and I have signed up for Micro 03, which starts in May. There are going to be a total of 4 of the designs, so I purchased enough fabric to do then in a square formation, which is why I need some wide scroll bars. I could have taken off one of the large projects that is hogging my current sets of bars, but I’m afraid that if I take one off, I will be even less likely to rotate around to it any time in the near future. Not that I’m actually working on anything other than smalls that I’m working in hand right now, but that’s a whole other topic.

I’ll be lining up another 2 posts or so for the next couple of days, so this blog will have a sudden flurry of activity and then probably go quiet again for a little while. I hope that you have subscribed to my feed via a blog reader so that you catch my posts as they come out, whenever I get around to posting!