Did it! The four-peat is complete!
It's the wee hours of Sunday morning and I am done! Phew! I love Nano!
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IHSW--November Edition--Before & After
International Hermit and Stitch Weekend : HAED Eternal Promise(Stewart--retired) Before: Eternal promise 18nov11 , a photo by KnitterinProgress on Flickr. After: Eternal Promise 22nov11 , a photo by KnitterinProgress on Flickr. I will be keeping this piece out unti I finish this page. I seem to have an amazing talent for choosing HAED charts that are chucked full of confetti--it is a good thing I enjoy a challenge. I am also competing in National Novel Writing Month this month which takes up almost all of my free time, I am at 26,208 words of my 50,000. I am a little behind but I am quickly gaining ground. I hope to be done by next weekend.
Chalean Extreme--Month 3--The End!
CLX--finished it today and jotted down my final thoughts. Pros: --I love the weight work in CLX. The three month program changes up each month to keep things fresh and keep results coming. --The workout length is great. Each workout is between 30-45 minutes. --The program is set up on a 5 day per week schedule (as opposed to 6 for most of the other BB programs I've done). --I love the results I am getting. I definitely feel the drop in body fat and and I can really see a difference in my arms. All three times I went through P90X I noticed amazing strength gains but CLX has given more of the results I am looking for. --Best nutrition plan--this program and Turbo Fire have had nutrition plans that really work for me. I love the food choices and most are not too labor intensive(I hate it when you need about 50 ingredients for one meal). --The program comes with a motivational CD that I have been playing in the car and, though some people might not like it, it has been extremely helpfu...
Currently Stitching
eternal promise 11nov11 , a photo by KnitterinProgress on Flickr. I am going to be working on Eternal Promise(Stewart). It is a retired HAED artist piece, it is one of the first I started, and it drives me crazy because back in the day when I started this--it was my first HAED design--I started it 1 over 1 instead of my currently prefered 2 over 1. I do NOT like 1 over 1 I have decided BUT I need to finish this at some point before I die SO I am suffering through. If anyone has any tips for starting threads 1 over 1 please share. Thanks :)
Stitching Mojo has returned!
I haven't had the urge to stitch in a long time but lately that has changed and my desire to stitch has come back with a vengeance. I am testing out a rotation in preparation for the WIPacolypse in January. I finished the second page of this piece last night. That ocean floor is riddled with confetti but then again most of this piece is--lots of detail=lots of different colors :) Pattern: Heaven and Earth Designs, QS Swimming with Dolphins (Tate) Fabric: 28 count evenweave Threads: 2 over 1, tent Pages complete: 2 In other news, Nanowrimo 2011 is off to a slow start for me. 2600/50000 words complete. Looking forward to some writing time tonight.
It's About That Time. . .
Yeah, that's right, because I don't have enough to do---HA!---I am going to try and get through Nano again. For anyone keeping track this will be my fifth time and, God willing, fourth finish! I was a finisher in 2005, 2006, and 2007, I tried in 2008 but didn't finish(I wasn't feeling it with my story by mid month so I bagged it). 1700 words per day!