Drage Feuer Stitch: 2010 Calender

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Sunday, November 1, 2009

HAED Angel of Spring 28 Oct 09 + STASH!!!

I got her done quite a bit just within 3 weeks. Lots of confetti stitches for the flowers in her hair but that didn't slow me down a bit :0)) I haven't been sleeping well lately, waking up like 3.30am to 4.30am in the morning. So, I really worked a lot on her during the early hours. I was debating whether I should start on her face after finish 2 partial pages (top of her head) and decided to start on the left hand side, at least it will keep me moving faster and looking forward to see her face.

I mentioned in one of my earlier posts that my finished HAED Sleeping Beauty was published in one of the Cross Stitch Collection magazines. Well, I finally received the prizes last week. Since I am not a metallic person, so I held a Giveaway on one of the stitching forums. Looking at the replies posted on that Giveaway thread, I didn't know Madeira floss are not easily available in USA. Congratulations to the winner - Leah from USA! For those who are interested, you can see my picture on Katerina's Fan Gallery.

Beauties arrived in my letterbox yesterday! I was so excited when I saw who it was from - Katerina Koukiotis, one of my favourite artists! This is one of her 2010 Calendars and there are so many beautiful artworks inside this calendar which I simply adore. Eternity is also in this calender. Kat drew this for her HAED fans and we love it. I had been thinking hard about this pattern when HAED charted it. I don't like to stitch men and had been wondering how and where to crop this pattern. I think the problem is solved now as I saw a smaller version of this artwork in the calender and will get HAED to do it in that size :0)) The card attached is really sweet with a personal and extremely touching message from Kat. It is actually from one of her ACEO Prints called Home for the Holidays. I've always love this little girl, though I often wonder why she has such a sad face. I hope she will be charted by HAED during Christmas time. Thank you so much for everything, Kat and for appreciating your fans so much.

I bought a sewing machine finally! I had been wanting to learn how to sew on a machine for a while but was too scared to do it. The last time I touched an old Singer machine was like 22 years ago and I was so bad at it. I stared at it for a long time when I took it home, no clue what and where to start with. Of course, the manual but everything is in German which I am not good at! I brought it with me to my in-laws yesterday and my mother-in-law showed me the very basic, putting the thread. OMG! It was like going through a maze putting the thread. In the end, I told her to leave her spool of thread intact on the machine as no way am I going to remove it and run the thread all over the machine again. I had my first try test-sewing and it is quite fun actually :0)) My husband has invited one of his programmers in Bulgaria to come to Denmark. He and his wife will be staying with us from the 14th Nov for 5 days. His wife is very good with the machine and I had been communicating with her over emails regarding sewing. She will look for some fabrics and wool mix felt for me as well as to teach me how to work on the sewing machine. Bulgaria has a huge fabric industry, so I am pretty sure they have almost everything there.

Antenna???

See what arrives at my 2nd mailbox? These are the stuff which had been sent to my in-laws in Germany during the week. I am still missing a Rico Design book though and I hope to get it soon.

My box of books arrived from Amazon.de. I was really excited as I couldn't wait to read this book and take a look at Kat's artwork in They Bite.

Finally, my bellpull hangers arrived. Yes, I took 2 of the same, just in different sizes. What I like about them is that they have candle holders. I want to use one of them for the birds bellpull which I want to stitch very soon, so that when my Bulgarian friend is here, she can teach me how to sew it into a bellpull.

A friend of mine Chiloe is giving away the last issue published by De Fil En Aiguille. Today is the last day for this Giveway and I hope you still can make it. If you are interested, please enter your name and email on that post. You don't have to know French to stitch the patterns in this magazine. I have this magazine and I don't understand French either but the patterns are not difficult to understand at all.

The kindergarten had a Laterne Laufe (Lantern Walking) on Thursday. The evening started with a horrible weather with lots of rain and wind. However, during the 20 mins walk with the lanterns, there wasn't any rain or wind but started again when all the kids and the parents reached the kindergarten to have some warm drinks and snacks. I couldn't take any pictures as my camera's flashlight is not good enough to be used in the dark :0(

I hope everyone had a great Halloween. It is not a tradition here in Denmark as we have our own which is in February. Still our daughter got lots of treats from her grandmum yesterday, Halloween or not.

I am going to visit my friend's newly-opened shop today. She just opened an Asian shop which is very near to our house. Can't wait to see what she has in her store. After visiting her, we might drop by at the small carnival which is in the next town.