Recently I’ve been spending a lot of time working on my dragonfly cross stitch. I’m really enjoying the repetitive in and out of making those little x’s. Getting this done before I leave is a priority, and I think it’s going to be possible. I’ve been trying to take a picture each day I work on it so I can see progress. My plan is generally to go a color at a time, though I had to move around a little to reduce the amount of counting needed when starting new shapes. I still have several leaves I need to add, but I’m trying to set things up so that I can end with the colors that have less stitches so I can fly through to the end. It’s definitely getting there! A little part of me hopes that my friend doesn’t want this to give to his mom anymore, since mom’s birthday was the end of August. It’s really gorgeous and I wouldn’t be mad about keeping it. 🤣

I’ve put in a few rows on my Mesotherm socks since I last blogged, but really my “I want to look at a pattern” time has been spent on the cross stitch. I tend to like a more mindless knit that I don’t have to look at which I can work on while reading, listening to work meetings, or waiting for Excel to chug through formulas (sadly there’s way too much that last one for my liking). So, I started another Ripple Bralette. I’ve made one of these before, and two of the DK weight versions. My fingering weight one has never fit, I made the body too short. So I’m looking forward to trying this one again. Even though I know it will take longer than I want to get through, I’m committed to making it long enough!! I’m using some leftovers of random sock yarn that I unearthed when going through my stash, so more colors will be added as we go along. One of the things my friends encouraged me to do when cleaning out yarn was embrace the extra scraps, which I tend not to do because I like things to be consistent. So this will be a good practice of that.