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Thursday, October 22, 2009
I am very happy with the progress. I've completed 1 1/2 page, not full page though as I've got the background removed. It really feels great to be back on Ourfriendshaedsal every Thursday, posting wips along with other members.
This magazine arrived in my mailbox this morning. There are 3 patterns inside this magazine which I really like a lot. My favourite magazine ONS in Germany doesn't have this in stock and I managed to find this De Fil En Aiguille No. 52 from Violarium . Like I mentioned in my earlier post that I really want to learn how to sew on a sewing machine. I would really love to make these patterns into a bellpull and a cushion cover. Been searching on the net over the last few days looking for tutorials. I found a few but those tutorials are really not easy for someone like me who doesn't know how to sew. That means I need really baby steps to show me.
Monday, October 19, 2009
She's finally restarted :0)) I restarted her on the 10 Oct 09. She is tent on Silkweaver Iris Garden. I love to time myself each time I stitch a block of 10x10. When I was on the old Angel of Spring (see picture below), it took me 45 mins to stitch a 10x10 block without many confetti stitches (1x1) but this new start, it only took me 1 hour to tent nearly 20x20 block (2x1 tent) - where the blue flower is. I am looking very much forward to stitch her eye which took me 4 hours the last time! Tenting is so much faster.
The old Angel of Spring - 14 May 2008 till 03 Sep 2008
I thought I told myself I am not going to be a turbo stitcher or at least only 1 HAED at the moment but still it is so hard to resist nice cross-stitching patterns. After seeing this on Chiloe's blog on this De fil en aiguille, I wrote to my favourite German magazine shop, Kreative-buecher, asking whether Martina whether she still has this in stock. I called her in Germany 2 days later when I didn't get a reply from her. Luckily she still had 1 copy left and I bought it immediately. I have to say, for that amount I paid for, this magazine is really good with lots of lovely flowers to choose from.
The schools had a week of Autumn holiday last week but the kindergartens were not closed. Still I took DD out from the kindergarten last Wednesday to visit her grandmum in Germany. My mother-in-law has a few of these hydrangea plants in her garden and I love how she maintains them. I wish I have 1 in my garden too but I know I can never get such large and beautiful hydrangeas like hers as I am so bad with flowers and plants. I was sure that those hydrangeas were in such rich purple colours just few months ago.
For a long while, I've been wanting to learn how to operate a sewing machine. The last time I touched one was when I was 14 years old. During those days, what we had were those with pedal and a wheel on the right hand side. I was so bad with those sewing machines. I am on the lookout for some sewing machines which are very very friendly to people who doesn't know how to use one. It is so amazing to see computerised ones and also those 1-touch button and it will do the rest for you? I want to learn how to make simple cushion covers, bellpulls and table runners, ornaments, aprons, etc. I had been searching for tutorials but my simple mind still finds those tutorials are so difficult to follow. If anyone of you knows of any very very simple tutorials for simple sewing, please leave me a message. Thank you so much in advance.
Christmas is just round the corner. DD and I have been busying doing some paper Christmas ornaments - Paperklip. Love Gitte Schou Hansen's books as the ornaments are really very lovely and easy to make. I bought some of these magazines from Germany too but they are not as good as the Danish ones. I find the templates in those German magazines too confusing - templates' drawings overlaping on one another.
Friday, October 9, 2009
He is SO finished!! I am so happy. What a relieve!! I really wanted to finish this by today. Well, I did nothing yesterday morning but just stitching on him. I actually finished it this morning but wasn't happy with the God Jul (Merry Christmas) fonts I did and changed to the current one.
What is my next project? Lots of bakings!! I still haven't find a good cookie recipe yet. I've been trying out tons of cookies recipes for the past few weeks but I just find them OKAY, nothing that made me faint over. My mother-in-law bakes really great cookies every Christmas. We are trying to find a day in December as she wants to do some cookies-baking with her grand daughter.
I will still stitch since I get up really early in the morning. So, Angel of Spring will be my next project for that 1 hour-stitching in the morning. It is a restart on a different fabric. Maybe I should make her as my 1/2 year goal on the HAED BB? I hope I can finish her by June next year, or what? It can't be that difficult as I had the background removed, including her wings. 
Thursday, October 1, 2009
I am quite good with those confetti stitches now. In fact, so used to them that I am going at a great speed with this Santa.
I had a great week. Got lots of things done. Tidied up the whole of the basement, the garage and lastly my stitching room. Ever asked yourself why are you stitching? I woke up one day, 2 weeks ago, asking myself this. I put away so many stuff which I wonder why I bought them in the first place and also my taste had changed a lot. I even have duplicate copies of magazines. After sorting them out, I am selling and giving some stitching stuff away. Not that I am never going to stitch anymore but I just want to stitch another HAED and taking it as my own pace. I've been experimenting with baking and cooking a lot these days too and simply don't have the time to stitch. I am also reading during the evenings. The only time left for me to stitch is during that 1 hour or slightly more before the whole family wakes up in the morning.
DD started in the new sports center last week and she loves it there. The trainers are a bit strict but I think that is fine. I also love the fact that they are doing a lot of sommersaults during their sports hours. I just weighed her yesterday and she lost a bit of weight. I guess she had a bit of her parents. DH puts on weight easily and it is not easy for me to put on weight. For her, her weight goes up and down rather easily.
DH is supposed to celebrate his 4oth birthday in a villa but yesterday we heard from one of our friends that the owner had declared himself bankruptcy last month. We ran through the papers and true enough, there was a news on that in the local papers. That means, we won't be able to get the villa for his birthday celebrations. We are now thinking hard what we can do on his birthday. Of course close friends and family members will be invited over for coffee. We thought of staying over in Legoland but it is soon winter and everywhere is closed. Now I can understand why he is always complaining about being born during winter.
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