Knitter in Progress

I have been working on Blackstone Fantasy Garden as an Olympic warmup. I finished the main design and now I'm just filling in. This will actually be set aside until after the Games. I love how it looks.

I figured I should transition my mind from knitting to stitching if I plan on meeting my Olympic goal of starting/finishing Ink Circles The Bramble and the Rose , so I pulled out Blackstone Fantasy Garden(also by Ink Circles) in order to get my mind and fingers back in the stitching groove. I started this piece quite a while ago and have just pulled it out of the WIP pile. Stats: Fabric: 28 count white evenweave, the exact type I can't remember Floss: I'm changing the colors from the original piece. So far I've used DMC 814(the reddish color) and DMC 803 (the blue). I'll be using DMC Impressions floss for the rest of the piece. Stitched: 2 over 2 I'm hoping to have all the outlining done before the Olympics starts. When I first picked this back up at the beginning of January I only had about 1.5 pages done(of the outlining)--now I only have 2 of the 9 pages left before I start filling in :)

Blackstone Fantasy Garden Not really a lot to update here; I haven't been able to work on it very much. I joined the Christmas Ornament SAL and this was the ornament I chose for this month: Pattern: 2006 Ornament Kit --Ink Circles Stitched: 2 over 2, full cross Fabric: 40 count R&R Reproduction Linen It's been a comedy of errors, let me tell you. First of all, I chose the ornie done on 40 count fabric(that's 40 stitches per inch over 1!?!). I am stitching it over 2 threads, but still, those are some frigging tiny holes. Also, because I apparently can't read directions(I'm blaming that on my anxiousness to get started), I stitched this 2 over 2 when it's supposed to be 1 over 2. I think it looks okay but I made a couple of mistakes(one of which is now a "design feature")and frogging this tiny fabric, stitched with too much floss, is a royal pain in the behind. I'm breathless with anticipation at what tragedies will befall me when I try to fo...