Sunday, January 31, 2010
Twelfth Part
Got the twelfth part done this past week. I'm only a month behind now. Catching up ever so slowly! These are pretty big parts to stitch, and take quite a while, but I really like the piece.
An Ornamental Finish
I finished this last week, and it counts as my Ornament-of-the-Month for both Cyberstitchers and Friendly Stitchers! Yes, I started it back in October, but I finished it this month, so it counts for this month. I like the way the stitching turned out, but I'm not very drawn to these colors. Perhaps at another time I'll do this again in black, white and gray.
Momosapiens - Carnaval is Here
I've been wanting to get this video up all week, but we have a hard time uploading so much content over rather small bandwidth. It finally worked today! Did you know that Uruguay has the longest Carnaval in the world? It runs a full forty days here, as long as Lent. Anyway... to get on to what this is.
Last Sunday, we went to the Marine House to watch a Carnaval group. We were told it was a group of performers who would be competing for the top in one of the categories. The picture was of the typical Rio de Janeiro thing - dancing girls with huge headdresses wearing barely anything. What we got were the Momosapiens, a parodista group that's all male and fantastic. Imagine, if you will two dozen plus men with regular day jobs who dance and sing as a sideline. Then imagine them dancing at a concrete poolside that they've never danced on before - with a fence six to seven feet from the pool. That's what you see here.
Parodistas are one of five categories of performers who compete in Uruguay. They have a huge following, and are groups that do three things - dance, sing, and pantomine. All of it is supposed to be a comment on modern life.
I hope you like watching these guys as much as I did. I'll try to put up a couple more of their videos in the next week. All were from the said party at the pool.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Faster or the Same?
I don't know that I really am, but it feels like I'm going faster on this side than I was on the other. Perception is everything, they say, so if I feel that way, it means I'm not getting frustrated with myself for going so slowly!
Poled
The Lady's coming along, though I'm back to brown again. I also finished off the bottom of the flagpole. That's definite progress.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Waving Along
Caela Conn Tyler calls the stitch I'm using now a wave stitch. It's just nice and easy to do. I like the way it's looking here, and it doesn't take long to get a whole needleful done.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
And on to the Next One
I finished up See the Stars and went on to my next Marquoir stitchalong this week - the German Group Mystery by Kelly Searles. In this picture, I'd just worked on it one day. I think I'm now rotating through things faster than they're coming out, at least!
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