November TUSAL

It's the New Moon and so it's TUSAL time.

This month's TUSAL has oranges and cream from frogging Celtic Autumn.

October TUSAL

I forgot to post my TUSAL jar yesterday.

The green is from where I mixed up 702 and 704 while stitching Ohm. While it's impossible to tell because of the design style I still felt odd about leaving the mistake in, so I went ahead and frogged it.

TUSAL and Small SAL Miss

Yay my TUSAL jar looks nice with all that white and the metallics that can't be seen.


Boo! My biscornu isn't finished. I actually thought there was another Wednesday this month and was congratulating myself on how early I was going to be done until I saw the posts today. Oh well, at least I was on point for 8 months, and I'll have this one done by the end of the week.
I will be honest and admit that I have no clue what the name of this biscornu is, nor do I know who the designer is. I apparently saved the image without noting the name or any information whatsoever and Google Reverse Image Lookup isn't finding anything. If anyone has any information I would greatly appreciate it.

August TUSAL

So much white this month! White Petersburg ate up so much floss and I had to frog a couple of times so those are in there too.

July TUSAL

This month's TUSAL has a tiny bit of red from this month's biscornu. I really need to get cracking on that or I'm not going to have it done in time. But the heat is making me disinclined to do anything other than lie on the ground with a glass of water.

June TUSAL

I missed TUSAL yesterday (but so did Daffycat so I'm forgiving myself for the lapse).

This looks remarkably similar to the last TUSAL, mostly because I haven't stitched very much since then. Just a few metallics added.

Another Two-For-One

Exactly like last month TUSAL and Smalls meet again.

Most of the orts are from Ohm, but the pink and white are from this month's biscornu stitched for
And assembled:
This is half a pattern I printed out and can't remember where I got it from and half my own additions. I was halfway through the stitching when I realized that it wasn't symmetrical. The hearts mirror each other but the triangles do not. I thought about frogging and restitching but didn't feel like it. And I didn't want to keep going since I knew it was wrong (even if you can't tell at first glance). So I just threw on a bunch of buttons and called it a day. Possibly the laziest biscornu I've ever made. This can be my Biscornu of Shame (everyone has one of these right?)

Title	Hearts & Buttons Biscornu
Designer	Modified from an unknown pattern by me
Start date	May 26, 2014
Finish date	May 28, 2014
Total time	6.75 hours
Fabric	25 ct black lugana
Floss	Dinky Dyes Rosella

Twofer

Two things in one post!


The blues and greens from this month's Smalls.




Stitch Sampler I, which was posted yesterday, and Round Bargello Biscornu:
I was halfway through assembly when I realized that I had forgotten my usual flat view.

Properly speaking there isn't an actual pattern for this. I used the stitch shown in the last image here, added Rhodes stitches in the middle, half eyelets along the sides and quarter eyelets in the corners. I actually stitched both sides for this because I was having so much fun. It's the exact same pattern and colour scheme.

Title	Round Bargello Biscornu
Designer	Therapy by Thread
Start date	April 22, 2014
Finish date	April 26, 2014
Total time	9.5 hours
Fabric	28 ct unknown brown fabric
Floss	Waterlily Seaglass, Waterlily Oasis

Second TUSAL Of The Month

Those bits of orange are from this month's biscornu, Morocco. The blue-grey is from finally frogging a long abandoned piece. Now I just need to find something other design to fit the fabric...

First TUSAL of the Month

I missed posting this yesterday and almost forgot today! Thank goodness for everyone on my feed who posted and thus reminded me :)

The yellows and beiges are from Egyptian Sampler which has been my focus piece for the last two months. The little bit of red is from last months biscornu.

Second TUSAL Of The Month

Lots more yellow and blue (not that you can tell) all from Egyptian Sampler for today's

First TUSAL Of The Year

I've decided to participate in TUSAL again because why not? And of course I'm 7 minutes late but shh! it's still January 1st on the west coast.

The past few years I've been sticking all my orts in clear Christmas ornaments but I don't have any in the house and I'm not braving the ridiculous weather. So I dug up this old vase I used in the first year of TUSAL for the time being.


Just a few since it's from the first day of the year.

And the link if anyone wants to know more about TUSAL

August TUSAL

Now with extra red! It's mostly from Maple Leaf. The bright yellow is frogging from Tulip Praise after I decided to switch out the yellow for purple.
That's Something Wicked by La-D-Da in the background.

July TUSAL

This month's TUSAL features a lot of frogging. You can see a tiny bit of the yellow at the ton. There's a lot more yellow and green under it. I'm playing around with different colours on Tulip Praise. This has served to reaffirm my inability to pick colours on my own.
That's The Runekeeper Saga by Dragon Dreams in the background.

June TUSAL

I can't believe that we're already at the 6th new moon of the year.
That's Out For Coffee by sodastitch in the background.

May TUSAL

Just scraping this in with less than an hour left of the day.
It's interesting using a sphere because the threads inside rotate as the ornie rolls around, so what ends up visible doesn't always correlate to what colours I've been stitching. Those oranges are from Adriana, but I finished all the orange bits months ago. And the blue along the bottom is from when I did some marathon frogging, maybe in February?

That's Cirque des Cercles in the background. I'm thinking of starting either Triangles or Carreaux after my next finish...

April TUSAL

It's a bit blue for this month's

That's Bluebell by Nora Corbett presenting this month's orts, which feature a ton of blue frogging. That's from How Does Your Garden Grow (In The Dark)? I grabbed it out, realized that the called for number of strands was too thick, frogged everything, stitched one hour and then switched to Japanese Octagon.

March TUSAL

This month's

is presented by Prairie Schooler's When Witches Go Riding.

Using a sphere is interesting because it tends to roll around (I don't have a base for it) making the ORTs roll around and the newer colours pile over the old ones.

February TUSAL

It's the new moon! It's the

February's TUSAL is presented by the 2009 Christmas Tree by Nora Corbett. Said tree is sitting with a black frame that I plan to turn red (haven't actually read up on how yet).


There's a lot more colour this month courtesy of Namaste.

Edited to add: I'm joining the chorus of people declaring the comment verification too hard (I mean I had Cyrillic letters show up once! How the **** do you type those?). As such I have removed it from my blog and will probably try once to comment if you've got it. For the love of all things stitchery, PLEASE remove the blasted thing.

Leaving Out The Middleman

It's the new moon! It's the

I don't think I've ever shared a picture of what I do with my orts at the end of the year. The one on the left is from 2010 and the right is last year.


This year I'm skipping the vase in the middle and going straight to the ornament. And for a change from last year's Beige Carpet Boredom I'm going to go with Finishes From The Drawers for background.


This month features olives and oranges from Adriana B, blues and greens from Lily and white from when I accidentally made a knotted mess and couldn't be bothered to untangle it.

Oh, and that's Mirabilia's Bluebeard's Princess as this month's FFTD.

Edited to add: I got the clear ornaments from Michaels just after Christmas.