Monday, August 30, 2010

More Finishes

My ER Robin completed.  Took me about 11 days, stitched on 28 count cashel linen.  Is it that difficult to iron the wrinkles out on linen? I noticed that it is much easier on lugana and jobelan. 



I completed one of the Hello Kitty sometime ago and put in the last few stitches for the 2nd one.  Stitched on 14 count plastic canvas.  I doubt I will stitch on plastic canvas for a while as I broke 4 needles just stitching these 2 and constant cramps in my hands.


Sunday, August 22, 2010

It had been a while since I updated my blog. Things had been getting in our life during this period and I am so glad that it is over and our life is back to normal (at least until now). During this hard time, I am so glad that we got the help of family and friends. I have a special friend whom I want to thank for being there when I nearly lost hope. Thank you so much, Jackie for being there when I was so afraid and lost.

I haven't been stitching until few weeks ago. Here is what I've finished in less than 2 weeks. It is a very fast stitch and also my first real try on linen.



My current WIP which is another fast stitch as well but backstitching those twigs can drive me crazy. I had been on the search for this used chart for a long time. I managed get it but without any leftover floss or even floss numbers. Luckily for a very kind lady, she sent me samples of her floss as she has this used chart + leftover floss and I matched them up to DMC.



It had always been my dream to run an online shop selling crafts. I had an online shop which was set up in 2003 but it didn't go well (probably promoting to the wrong country). After some serious selling on Ebay, I decided to re-open this shop. My husband is an IT man but he is not good with webshops. We have a program called Magento and all we need is someone who knows about Magento to help me with. If you know anyone and will charge a reasonable fee for it, please let me know. I really need the shop running in October. Thank you so much in advance.