Well didn't get much stitching done over the weekend, but did some more organising of my DMC threads, placed the missing ones that i've found so far on my wishlist at an online store, along with some beads and kreinik thread that i need to start Cinderella.
This morning/afternoon i started getting the fabric ready, much as i would love to use a hand dyed fabric, and i fully understand why they are priced the way they are, unfortunately finances just wont allow it, i'm going to do all three as a set for my granddaughter. I decided on a 28ct Joblean in Lilac. Spent a few hours getting some grid lines in, but kept counting wrong lol. Was doing 6 on top and 4 underneath as per instructions that came with the easy grid thread, but kept forgetting how many which was on top and which was underneath. Hopefully it will all be worth it, when i come to start stitching.
This evening at my daughter's i did some more on Dreams Come True, and quickly realised why it had become a UFO, lots of colour changes. Now find i'm not liking it quite as much as when i started it in Jan 2011, as it is on aida and i've found i now prefer evenweave lol, but am enjoying it enough to put it into a rotation that i'm starting to get some work done on all those that i started in Jan 2011 and never got out again. Another 'problem' i'm having is that on all my WIP's i've started railroading and have to remember to stop myself on all those old starts, it's almost as hard to remember not to, as it was to remember to on the new starts lol.
Am not putting any pics up today, will do i big photo shoot of all that i've done over the week at the weekend. Use a phone to take the pics, but always have trouble trying to download them to the comp, can take up to an hour, so will just do the once a week photo update.
Thanks to everybody who takes the time to read my ramblings and to those of you who leave comments, i do read them.
Take care and happy stitching till next time x
This morning/afternoon i started getting the fabric ready, much as i would love to use a hand dyed fabric, and i fully understand why they are priced the way they are, unfortunately finances just wont allow it, i'm going to do all three as a set for my granddaughter. I decided on a 28ct Joblean in Lilac. Spent a few hours getting some grid lines in, but kept counting wrong lol. Was doing 6 on top and 4 underneath as per instructions that came with the easy grid thread, but kept forgetting how many which was on top and which was underneath. Hopefully it will all be worth it, when i come to start stitching.
This evening at my daughter's i did some more on Dreams Come True, and quickly realised why it had become a UFO, lots of colour changes. Now find i'm not liking it quite as much as when i started it in Jan 2011, as it is on aida and i've found i now prefer evenweave lol, but am enjoying it enough to put it into a rotation that i'm starting to get some work done on all those that i started in Jan 2011 and never got out again. Another 'problem' i'm having is that on all my WIP's i've started railroading and have to remember to stop myself on all those old starts, it's almost as hard to remember not to, as it was to remember to on the new starts lol.
Am not putting any pics up today, will do i big photo shoot of all that i've done over the week at the weekend. Use a phone to take the pics, but always have trouble trying to download them to the comp, can take up to an hour, so will just do the once a week photo update.
Thanks to everybody who takes the time to read my ramblings and to those of you who leave comments, i do read them.
Take care and happy stitching till next time x
Can't wait to see your Cinderella :) Your mention of easy thread grid has my interest peaked - is it that red stuff and does it really work?
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DeleteYes it is the red stuff, and before this i'd only used it to line up my FS Dawn Of Spring Sampler. Watch this space and i'll let you know how it goes.
Thanks for stopping by and for leaving comments.
oooo hope it helps in the long run and sooo glad you enjoy working on even weave heheheh :) love mouse xxxxx
ReplyDeleteThanks, mouse, i wonder who it was that got me into it lol. I'm hoping it will, just hoping and praying that i've counted it correctly lol. I'm using it for practice for when i start the Chatelaine, Fairy Tale Castle.
DeleteAnd thank you as well for stopping by and leaving comments
Oooh good luck with all these new techniques. Would it be easier to spend a month working on all railroaded projects and then a month working on all non-railroaded projects rather than just swapping back and forth?
ReplyDeletethanks for the reply, sorry for the delay.
DeleteI've since decided that since most of the projects haven't had much work done on them to frog them and start them again on evenweave. I'll feel much happier doing that.
Good luck with your rotation. Sounds like your needle is going to be VERY busy.
ReplyDeleteHi Bea, thanks for the reply and sorry for the delay. The rotation has yet to start lol xxx
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