Well, here’s a fun little finish to share! I started this for my mom’s birthday present early in the year and worked on it on and off until now. I’m actually really happy with how it turned out – I’ve found Jiffy kits (as this one is) are sort of touch and go on the quality scale and remarkably, I didn’t even need to ask for more thread for this kit. I think that is a first, actually. Anyway, the kit is from Jiffy, as I mentioned, and is called “Life is Short” for the little saying on the inside, I would guess.

The design is stitched on 14 count white Aida (though it looks more beigey here, and I like it this colour!), using whole stitches, backstitch, french knots, and a running stitch to do the border.

Hopefully the image works – I’m trying to use Gallery to insert the picture automatically and it refuses to align properly; there’s nothing I hate more than an improperly floated image to mess things up!

Edit: Well, THAT didn’t work. I suppose I’ll just have to insert things normally and by hand.

So, here’s an updated WIP of my Alluring Sorceress. Unfortunately, the colours aren’t as vibrant as they are in the actual design, but I’m finally starting to make some progress on it. Yay! I’ve taken a little break from it because of grad school and because I’m working on my RR piece for the Robin’s Nest, but there it is. I’m sorry this is so short an entry, but I need to get back to studying for my final exams tomorrow.

I promise, I have absolutely not forgotten about this blog. I went through a stitching slump until a week or two ago, but I’m back stitching now. Anyway, this post is really just so I can claim my blog over on Technorati. I took pictures of all my WIPs the other day, so be watching for a more in-depth post with those soon!

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Finally, I have made WordPress and Gallery2 integrate into this blog.  So now, when you click on “Stitching Gallery” over on the sidebar there, you’ll see my stitching gallery integrated with the blog.  This is very exciting because it means one less step for me when I want to post my WIP pictures, and so on.  It’s been something I’ve been trying to sort out how to do and once I upgraded my installation of WordPress to the 2.something version, I was also able to upgrade my installation of Gallery2 to 2.1.

For those of you who are interested in this sort of thing, I’m using the WPG2 plugin to integrate everything.  It was actually a very simple install and needed relatively little tweaking and configuring.  For the theme, I’m using one called WordpressEmbedded.  It’s a simple theme and needed some tweaking in the CSS to get it looking how I liked it, but for those of you who are looking for something simple and are comfortable enough digging through a little bit of code, this is the theme for you.

Anyway, there’s my work for the evening.  Soon this blog will be absolutely perfect. Yay!

So I fnally got a little busy and added Gravatars to the site. When you comment on any of my posts, if you have a Gravatar account, use the same e-mail address that you used to sign up for the account, and your pretty icon will be shown. Neat, eh?

As far as stitching goes, I’ve been trying to sit down and work on a bit every day, and I actually signed up to do a round robin, so hopefully I’ll have more pictures to start showing here. Yay!

Oh!Oh! Yay! Someone is reading! *waves at Karin*

Thank you for commenting; you totally made my night AND got me inspired to start taking pictures of my WIPs and stuff to post so that other people can see them, now that I know there is someone, in fact, reading. I’ll make sure to check your blog out in the morning (when I’m more awake and not curled up in bed).

Thank you again. I’m filing this under happy dances.