London 2012 {Part 2}

Warning! this is again ALL about the Olympics and not craft related at all! 

This is it, London 2012 is now finished. But just to live it one more time, here are some pictures from Saturday night events at the Olympic Stadium. It is dubbed over here as Super Saturday 2 - and it was definitely one of the most exciting events I have ever attended. I spent more than half of the event standing, cheering, singing. It was unbelievable. The pictures speak for themselves... For those who love the Olympics as much as I did, here are some snaps... 

The Waiting Game

Proud to be British, clearly... 

Women High Jump final

Men 5000m Final 

After the Women 4x400m Relay

That can only mean one thing...

The Men 4x100 m Relay

And Bolt!

 PS: I will try to upload some other pictures on the MiH Facebook page - I have taken quite a few... 
PSS: Craft posts and life in general will now resume as normal.. 

Olympics 2012 progress {cross-stitch}

It is WIP Wednesday over at Freshly Pieced and I must report that nothing more was achieved as far as the Upcycled Quilt is concerned, or anything else. But I have a very good excuse: the Olympics 2012 is taking over my life. Hockey, Water polo, Beach volley, Judo, swimming, you name it I am watching it, it is SO exciting! At least I am making progress with my own challenge, the Olympics 2012 cross-stitch project!  

 

I made the little birds so you can see the colour scheme I have chosen. Someone ask me how I manage to count on the linen fabric - it is quite hard and takes quite a bit of concentration (but so worth the result!). As I mentioned before, the pattern is very (very, very) forgiving. 

Small blogs are also meeting over at Lily's Quilts, so I am linking up there too! Although I have washed some fabric and it is drying, so hopefully more projects are to come. Plus I am still making a baby, does that count as a WIP? 

Olympics 2012 {cross-stitch}

The Olympics are finally here, and in London! This is very exciting - even though for me who is more a Winter Olympics fan. Mr MiH however is a definite Summer Olympics fan - he will even be going to see some athletics finals for his birthday - whilst I will be getting on with my own Olympics challenge - a cross stitch one - in the comfort of my sofa. 

For this project, I needed something portable that I could easily stop and pick up - and that would not make too much noise (Mr MiH likes to hear all the comments). I bought the cross-stitch pattern in France on our last skiing holiday (you can find the full picture and pattern here). I will be using some linen cross-stitch fabric (32 count) - to make that little bit harder. 

I will also make some modifications: I will change the hearts for baubles and change the colour scheme (nearly all of the pattern in black except for the birds that will be cross-stitched in orange and blue with brown beaks). The pattern is an intermediate one but should be quite forgiving (all important when I am focusing on two tasks). I have already started - prep work during the Opening Ceremony, and the first tree started during the first events. 

I have a feeling that with the baby kicking for the first time for his Dad during the Olympics Opening Ceremony, that I am going to be doing much more sport watching in the future - Mr MiH reckons the baby is a future sportsman, purely on the basis of the kicking. Hmmm... But just in case, this is an opportunity to assess whether cross-stitch is a viable option for sport watching.