I didn't forget. . .

I'm just a little behind on it.

The giveaway will be next week (hoping for Monday but Tuesday at the latest).

What is holding up progress?

Slow stitching.  I found what I thought would be a quick little pattern to stitch up BUT, I didn't like the first finished product so I made another (which is turning out great!) so that slowed down progress.  I WILL get the last stitches done this weekend (I'm so close to being finished I'm getting antsy about it).

Then if the weather cooperates (so I can get some well light outdoor pics) I can get all the pics taken and then making the post will be super fast.

SO. . .I'm not guilty of forgetting about this (or ignoring it).  I'm just guilty of being over excited about it and talking it up a little too soon.

Sit tight, next week will be FUN.

Wok-a, wok-a, wok-a (coming soon!)

Yesterday was a day off from work (have I mentioned how much I love having to take vacation/personal days because they have added up to the point I have to "use em or lose em"?  yeah, might have mentioned that before once or twice or a million times).

After I went out shopping and scored a pile of embroidery floss for 10 cents a skein.  Yeah, yeah, it was at Wal-mart (boo his!) but I only shop there about once a year and only go in if there's something there I simply can't get somewhere else (I went in looking to score another bathing suit--yeah, I like their Catalina suits--good quality, good price).  And if I happen to fall on some clearance embroidery floss while I'm in there, so be it.

Some of the newly scored embroidery floss went into embroidering the Tattooed Lady doll (remember that spoonflower fabric I bought a while back?).  Turned out NICE, too.  Hopefully I'll have enough of the light blue color to stitch up the Boy doll (it took a whole skein to do the girl and her tattoos are smaller--the boy has this big ole pirate ship on his chest).

Blah blah blah, I'm supposed to mention what I MADE yesterday (the doll isn't finished, just embroidered and cut out--I have to re-thread my machine with white thread to stitch it up) so. . .

COMING SOON.

An ewok.

I whipped up that Wild Olive pattern and. . .well. . .I'm not totally impressed.  Not dissapointed but just not all worked up over it, either.  And while I'm voicing my "meh" I can't help wondering how much LESS I would have liked the finished product if I'd sewn it the way the tutorial describes (stitching on the right side versus stitch and turn).  I did mine as a stitch and turn (so it would have nice neat edges) and it worked just fine (ok, I blew out a few seams when I was stuffing--I don't know my own strength!) and I can't imagine how. . .well. . .crappy it would look done the way the tutorial shows.  The corduroy would totally unravel and. . .yeah, I'm just not in love with the pattern in general (it's cute and all but I probably wouldn't make more--ok, I might if it was as a silly gift for a Star Wars loving friend's cat, but that's about it).

Yeah, I think it's the purr-fect pattern for a cat toy.  Quick and relatively easy.  I think that's where mine will end up.  In my cat-nephew Lowell's toy box.  My sister will sigh and act like she's all put out that her cat is spoiled rotten but I know she loves how Lowell has a bit of a fan club.

Coming Soon: MORE KITTIES

I'm not sure how many kitties will be in the litter. 

One is already completed and I know there will be at least two more.

Soon, very soon.

Coming Soon: Priscilla (the cat with an eyepatch)

Oh, she'll be arriving VERY soon.

I was tempted to show a teaser pic but she's so close to being done that a sneak peek would be a complete spoiler!

I'm definitely in a cat phase right now.  I think I'm going to whip up some little felt kittens (perhaps in altoids tins) once Priscilla is done.

Coming Soon: PUPPIES!!

That title makes me happy.  The only way it could be better is if it was KITTENS.  Real kittens.  Real kittens coming to live at my house for ever and ever and ever.

But I digress.

I'm one puppy away from a litter of five.  And I've alread named three of them (well, they kind of name themselves).

I'm just debating how to construct their wee little collars (to hold their name tags--and if the tags should be paper or embroidered felt--I'm leaning toward felt but. . .)

So YEAH, PUPPIES!!

Coming soon: Corduroy Cat!

Next project:  Corduroy cat with an eye patch.

Status:  Being stuffed, needs finished.