I am now a H.A.E.D. stitcher!

I started today. Gridded and mounted the weave om the wooden hoop, which I covered with paper tissue to protect the weave.

I made 100 stitches and it is petit!

Spanglers Train of Dreams stitched on 25ct evenweave 1 over 1 full cross (X)



Gridded page one and ten



First 100 stitches

Country companions ~ DMC

Well I simply couldn't help myself! I wasn't supposed to start any new designs before I could start the Train of Dreams. But after reading on the BB I was so inspired to try out a new way of stiching so I simply had to start this little simple piece.

5"x7" aida 14, using 2 strands and I am doing full cross stitches (X). I am using a wooden hoop and I am parking threads. No gridding.

I stiched about a 100 cross stitches. I enjoyed myself alot and I am seriously thinking of simply just start the Train of Dreams with out floor stand and gridding. However I am afraid the wooden hoop will ruin the evenweave so I don't have the gutts to do so. I wish they had q snaps in a store here in Sweden, but no. Everything has to be ordered.

My mystical night butterfly is done!

Finally it is done! It is such a joy when you finally finnish a cross stitch design. It didn't really take a long time to finnish, it was done in 2 to 3 mounths.

There are some flaws but I hope that will change now that I am to mount the weave on a roller frame. I am also going to give gridding and parking a chanse when starting on my heave and earth design. All I need not is the floor stand to arrive and the gridding guide threads! Hurry, hurry!

Mystical butterfly - Lanarte, 2011/05

A day or two, now

Almost done now! And DMC´s frame floor stand is ordered and incomming!

Aid for griding

Today I ordered some "Easy count guidline" to aid in the griding of the fabric I am going to stitch my heaven and earth design on. It seemd ok and I think I have seen some  of the other crafters use it, so it can't be that bad.

I ordered the floor frame stand aswell. I can't wait to get it, but it'll take a few weeks before receiving it by mail.

I should finnish the pre-work on the fabric until then!

Missing skeins...

To my big dissapointment there were a total of five colour skeins missing in the Train of Dreams kit from Colray Crafts. I e-mailed them right away and according to them heaven and earth had changed the floss usage and saying that the patterna they had downloaded didn't include those colours I mentioned missing.

I found that very strange and contacted the creator of the pattern and owner of heaven and earth and asked her if this was true. She replied that it was nothing she was aware of. I e-mailed Colray Crafts the scans of the floss usage charts I had received two days earlier in the kit from Colray Crafts. I have not heard from them today...

Now... I am inlove with another design and I simply have to have this kit, as soon as I can afford it!!!

I Vampiri Pieta ~ Jasmine Becket Griffith

Night Mystical Butterfly ~ Lanarte

The work with this beautiful nightangel is comming on very well. The sun and another wing is all before finnishing.

Then it is going to be time to start thinking of a frame, but I have others on hold for framing so I am not so sure how to prioretize.

However, the important thing is to get done and to start the pre-work on the The Train of Dreams.



Finally!



Finally my two babies arrived! I waited ten days and I swear it felt like forever. But now they are here and I have to hurry with the Mystical Night Butterfly by Lanarte. I could do lika alot of crafters do; to start a new one and work on two at the same time. But I feel like I am cheating if I do not finnish the other before I start the next, which is silly.

Still waiting

I still haven't got the cross stitch kits from Colra Crafts. Ofcourse it saud 7 to 21 days, but you're hoping that the 21 days is for the customers overseas and not european customers! I order them on the 9th of may and it has now passed 7 days. Please, please, please come soon!

I have got a buddy on HEAD who will post my progressions on the HEAD SAL blogg. I received an e-mail from her and she seems really nice and I enjoyed her blogg quite alot =) It is fun to get in contact with others who share the same interest.

Heyas!

Yes Idecided to start yet another blogg. Why? Well, I felt like I wanted to have one in english aswell. It is not a bad idea to write in english to get the training. And if you get a foreign visitor, they just might understand the contents.

So, since I have discovered the great Heaven and earth designs, I want to tribute this blog to these designs of cross stitching, which I am about to start!

Can’t wait to get my new cross stitch kits: ”Train of Dreams” by Spangler and ”Astranaithes” by Nene Thomas.

Spangler’s dragon designs are so wonderful and colorful, so as soon as I get the kit I will begin stitching! I have made a whole wish list at H.A.E.D. so I will buy more charts from them. The only thing working against me is TIME. *sigh*