Floor stand roller frame

I just received an email, or I received it yestersay actually, informing me that my DMC floor stand roller fram is in the mail and on its way! Woohoo! Fianlly! I guess I should be able to pick it up Monday or Tuesday. I can't wait!

Progress

I took some pictures yesterday of my progress on the train. Today have made a bit more, about 400 stitches. It is such an enjoyable design, with lovely colours.

ToF, Spangler ~ june 18th, 2011






Look at the detail!



Train of Dreams, june 18th

I am stitching on the Train of Dreams every day. I am having some time off before starting my summer job, so I wont be making such fast progress after next week. But I guess every gridd of 10x10 is a progress. It is more important to get a nice result, me think.

I ordered a Q-snap from 123stitch.com and I have now switched my wooden hoop with this magnificent q-snap frame. It keeps the tension just right. Unfortunatly I don´t have some kind f stnad for it, so at the moment I am usning some stacked puzzle boxes to put the frame on to be able to work with both hands. This solution also lets me not hold the frame which is quite heavy.

The design of the ToD is so wonderful! I love the colours and every stitch has it''s own purpose, really. Even f it is alot of confetti!

I am at the moment, however, fighting with a nice way to start and end threads. I find it all to be a big mess and time consuming, unfortunatly...

Train of Dreams, june 8th

I can't imagine how fast some of the crafters are, who's stitching the HAED:S. The few stitches I have made in one week is nothing compared to those who stitches a whole page in 7 days. Amazing!

However, here is my progress and I have enjoyed it every stitch along the way =)

June 8th ~ Train of Dreams

I decided to use the wooden hoop and that has worked pretty well so far. I was afraid it was going to leave marks, but it hasn't so I am glad I didn't sit around waiting for my frames to arrive by mail.

I also tried parking and gridding and that has worked wonderful! Makes stitching so much easier and fun.