April TUSAL

April TUSAL
Originally uploaded by polyrhythmic

Here's the bowl of bits for this month's Totally Useless StitchALong.

I squished down the orts from last month, so the fluffy ones on top are more obvious. Fewer orts this month. A bit from Storyteller, and some white and orange and brown for a surprise new quick project I didn't exactly mean to stitch on, but is almost done anyway.

March TUSAL

March TUSAL
Originally uploaded by polyrhythmic

Here's a shot of the Totally Useless StitchALong bowl after 4 more weeks. Definitely a month full of stitching. All on Storyteller, so there are lots of blues and greens, and a layer of yellows.

February TUSAL

Originally uploaded by polyrhythmic

I spent the snowstorm at a friends house. When I got home yesterday, there was a drift as tall as my snow shovel to get through. Then I slept.

So finally, now that I've gotten to it, is the Totally Useless StitchALong bowl, with substantially more orts in it than before. There are some scraps of the blue yarn from the hat I finished knitting, some red, and green and blue and white from a tiny ornament that took me days to finish, and some more subtle yellows, brown, purples, etc from much work on a Teresa Wentzler WIP.

What's missing are the orts from the small Daydreams kit I took to the friends house for snowed in stitching.

Pics of new projects and progres since I pulled out the WIPS will appear after I get through the pics of the WIPs themselves.

TUSAL January

I'll be using the Totally Useless StitchALong to give some public accountability to my new commitment to more stitching and knitting this year.  The idea is to save the orts (various scraps) from your stitching in a glass container and take a picture each new moon.  I've no scraps yet this year, so this is the empty cut (pressed?) glass bowl I'll be using.


I don't even know what projects I will stitch this year.  I've got a few unfinished from the last time I did cross stitch, probably more than 10 years ago.   I'm more excited by the new patterns I see online these days.  Maybe I'll become excited by my stash when I look into it.