Drage Feuer Stitch: Chinese Silk Floss

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Monday, March 30, 2009

Received 2 Packages Today

Postman is sure early today, especially on a Monday. I received 2 packages in my mailbox. It is a set of Hi-5 DVDs Dance Hits with 3 volumes. DD loves the Australian Hi-5 a lot and she loves to dance to their songs too. So, I got the help of a very nice Australian lady to get them for me as I want the DVDs to be part of her 'egg hunting' during Easter at her grandparents' house. She also enclosed some chocolates in the package. That is so sweet of her. I can't wait to see DD's reaction when she find them during her 'egg hunting' . The last time when she received the Hi-5 CD, she was so excited and was showing her aunt, uncles and grandparents the CD.

This is another package I received today. Chinese 100% silk floss. Quite a disappointment. If you are a HDF fan, don't go for these type of Chinese silk floss. According to a good friend of mine in Oz, she said there are different types of Chinese silk floss and some of them are really good, so I just have to keep on finding the right ones. This small motif was stitched with DMC floss a couple of weeks back. I decided to try out with Chinese silk floss. What is so disappointing is that these Chinese silk floss is not so smooth like HDF silk. I took a picture of 2 different silk. The top one is HDF silk and the bottom one is the Chinese silk floss. If you look at the Chinese silk floss at the bottom, a strand seems seems so fuzzy and also they stick onto my fingers like mad. HDF silk is really smooth and no fuzziness at all. Luckily I only ordered 11 skeins of them to try out. I did a test stitch. It frays so much and even worse when I tried some frogging. I can't see any sheen in them when they frays so much. Not even DMC floss frays that much.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Permin Christmas In Town Update 16 Mar 09

2 dragons Posted by Yvonne at 8:54 AM

Today is the day to post our update on our Permin Christmas in Town. My progress is really slow for this one. I've changed one of the gold floss (282) to RG PTB. It was a surprised that my order for this floss reached me 2 days after I placed my order from Stitchdirect in UK. That was really fast! Claire from Stitchdirect UK also has extremely low shipping fee to EU countries. I should had ordered an extension for my Qsnaps at the same time but I was so frustrated working with that DMC 282 that I couldn't think of anything else but just PTB to replace it. I love PTB floss as they are really easy to work with and I am also using them for my HAED projects.

I haven't been stitching much on my Sleeping Beauty for almost a week now. This Christmas In Town will be put aside for a week now while I will continue to work on her. I am starting on the 7th page now. I am quite comfortable by rotating these 2 projects weekly.

I had a wonderful weekend. We went to my in-laws last Saturday for coffee. I baked DD's favourite Lille Fee muffins to bring along as my mother in law is still not well enough to do certain things. It is a relieve that my mother in law is much better and we still can't get over the shock when she landed in the intensive care weeks ago under all kinds of machines.

Father in law (DH's real father) came yesterday. His girlfriend has a booth at the Antique Exhibition in the next town. We drove there together to the Antique Exhibition. To be honest, it wasn't that fun for me. First of all, I am not so interested in antiques. Secondly, DD loves to jump and hop whenever we are at somewhere. So, we were really keeping an eye on her and making sure that she doesn't break any antiques.

Guess what caught my attention last week? Chinese silk floss. A friend recommended them to me and said they are easy to handle once you get used to them. Another friend told me that if I want them, she can send me all her Chinese Silk Floss and I only have to pay shipping fee for them. She is not so keen on the Chinese silk floss and still prefer HDF silk. Anyway, she is sending me some to try out before I buy them online. Though she bought it from a different shop, she told me that they look almost the same when I gave her the link to a shop. Anyone else here tried these Chinese silk floss? Chinese silk floss will be much cheaper than HDF silk but if I have to curse and swear while using them, I rather stick with HDF silk.

More than a week had gone by and still no signs of my mailbox key. Last Saturday, I had to put my arm into the mailbox to retrieve some packages and letters. I had to as DH was waiting anxiously for the packages sent by his auditor. Thank god my arm didn't got stuck in that small opening!