Amethyst Project Bag Completion

After TWO YEARS of working on this on and off, I finally finished the gosh darn thing! Meet the Amethyst Project bag. Pattern by Sew Sweetness.

I'm happy to announce that I actually finished two of the three that I was working on and they have been transferred to the person for which they were intended. I did not think to get a photo of the second one before passing it along. I only have one more to go. This one is for me and it should only take me a couple of dedicated hours to complete. 

Is Spring Here Yet?

Happy Daylight Saving Time all and if you are as cranky as I am about it, check and see if your state legislature has a bill pending to remove the twice-yearly time change. Mine does - it seems like we get this going on every year and we've yet to have one pass - which means its probably time to send some nastygrams to the Capitol Building and demand that they pass it this time around. 

In case you're wondering what your hours of daylight would look like without DST, here's a really interesting article on the topic: Here's How Daylight Saving Time Affects Your Part of the Country by Michele Debczak

I personally would have happily done away with it years ago, but now that I've got a toddler who already doesn't sleep well, I'm even more militant about the need to abolish such an archaic and hazardous practice. For example, did you know that the number of car accidents skyrockets in the week following a time change?

Okay, give me a second to put my soapbox away... hang on...

Alrighty. On to the more interesting topics. For your viewing please, Tiger Chilling Out. This is an older picture but one that I hadn't remembered to share before now (I think). I'll be pulling this one out for this week's homework on my School of Magical Stitches SAL. The task is was to stitch on something with claws, because Buckbeak has claws. I'm hoping to polish off the tiger and make some headway on the half-stitches in the water this week.

The other half of the homework was to stitch something in brown, for the chocolate used to help heal from Dementor attacks, so I was able to actually start Hogwarts in a Bottle and I got quite a lot done! 

I am however, excited to hopefully fill on some of the other colors later this week so that it actually starts looking like something other than brown blobs.

Its been a month of "New Starts" as I was also able to tie the Camelot Sample into last week's homework and make a decent start on it. I wish I could show you the thread list for this (I won't, because of copyright). The colors and blends take up 1.5 three-column pages. It's a doozy and it doesn't look like much now but I think it'll be stunning once I fill it in a bit.

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It's March!

Well, I've gotten back into a little crafting this week. We've been fighting a round of the stomach flu last week and any of you who've had a toddler with the stomach flu can imagine how miserable things have been. The Smidget is feeling pretty good again now and up to his usual pesty shenanigans, so as long as I don't catch it, I think we're good to go. 

I had a new start: The Triumphant Ride by Charting Creations. I'm stitching this 2 over 1 tent on 32 count. I'm not thrilled with the look of the sparser areas but I think the solid stitching is coming along very nicely. We've already had one section that I've exerted creative license on because its mostly impossible to frog on 32 count. I won't point it out and y'all pretend that you can't see it ;)

My newest crafty acquisition is my TARDIS mug. IT HOLDS HALF A POT OF COFFEE (30oz) and was a Christmas present from my niece. It is really super cool awesome, I love it, and I'm downing more coffee than ever...*twitch* Regular sized mug for scale.

I've made a start on Ultraviolet of Change by Frank O'Randle. You can find his pattern on Ravelry. Ultraviolet of Change is a paid pattern but there are several free ones available if you want to give them a try. I'd also recommend joining his Facebook group, as he's available to answer any questions you have about the patterns. I'm not going to have quite enough colored yarn for it so I think I'm just going to convert a color section to black and it will work great.

I'm now halfway done with Mini Cuppa by Charting Creations. This is one of my easiest projects to work on, because its just one color and doesn't require a lot of concentration. It is coming out wonderfully and I'm looking forward to actually finishing it at some point. 

Finally, with Easter coming up, I would like to remind you to stock up on those Cadbury eggs. I wish I knew who to credit this meme too but I'm afraid I couldn't find the original author.