Our Friends' HAED SAL: Wendy's update on 06/11/2009

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Wendy's update on 06/11/2009

Hi my friends,

Thanks for sharing all your wonderful progresses. I enjoy watching it.
It stays very busy for me lately and I'm really up to some vacation :) Our oldest son Thibo became 9 years old on Wednesday. So he had a birthdayparty with some friends of school. Sunday we will have our family birthdayparty.
Also next Saturday we will have an open house in our store, so this means some work too, to prepare some things. Also we have translated our webshop in English and will be shipping to everywhere. If you would like to see our store you can take a look at In2hobby

I only did about a 600 stitches on my HAED. This is not that much, but it is something :) Now you can see something more about the palace.
The picture isn't really good, it is difficult to take a better picture. Because in real this looks much better.

So here is my update.

Before

After

I would love to wish you all a wonderful weekend with lots of stitching fun.

Hugs,
Wendy

3 comments:

http://ingridsknitting.blogspot.be/ said...: Congratulations on the ninth anniversary of Thibo and enjoy the birthday party. You made it a wonderful progress! Also congratulations on the up date of the webshop!; June 13, 2009 at 10:17 AM
Caroline said...: Happy Birthday to Thibo! 600 stitches is still a lot of stitches - good work! Good luck on your open house, I hope it is a huge success!; June 13, 2009 at 1:50 PM
Cindy F. said...: I wish I could be at your open house!
You have some awesome prizes!!

Beautiful stitchy progress:) and I'm so glad Thibo had a nice birthday and party:); June 15, 2009 at 12:15 PM

Tutorials

How to Carry Threads
This is really easy...it takes a while to get used to though....and your back will look terrible...this you will have to live with...One thing...You will be working your 10 x 10 grids in colums...it makes it easier...
1. Start with a 10 x 10 grid..
2. Find your first symbol...and stitch all of that symbol in your 10 x 10 grid....When finished...
3. Find the same symbol on the 10 x 10 grid below it...take your needle and bring your thread up like you are going to make the first 1/2 of the X ...but don't do it...just unthread your needle and lay the thread down..
4. Go back to the first grid you were working on...and stitch the next symbol the same way....when finished bring your thread down....
5. continue each symbol until your first 10 x 10 grid is finished....
6. start the next 10 x 10 grid ....you should have thread there already for you to pick up and stitch...
Posted by Vickie 3/7/2009

Tent Stitching (Wikipedia)
Tent stitch variants
There are three types of tent stitch, all producing the same appearance on the front of the canvas but each worked in a slightly different way and having particular characteristics, uses, benefits and drawbacks. These variants of tent stitch are known as basketweave, continental and half cross tent stitches:
Basketweave tent stitch - The basketweave form of tent stitch is worked in diagonal rows up and down the canvas. The yarn on the back of the canvas has a typical basketweave appearance, with alternating horizontal and vertical stitches. Basketweave is the best stitch to use for covering large areas of canvas as it does not distort the canvas as the other two forms of tent stitch do.
Continental tent stitch - Continental stitch is worked horizontally or vertically across the canvas. On the back of the work, the stitches appear diagonally across two threads. This method uses more yarn than half cross stitch tent stitch but is more hardwearing.
Half cross tent stitch - Half cross stitch is worked horizontally or vertically across the canvas. On the back of the work, the stitch appears vertical or horizontal, not diagonal, and crosses only one thread. This method uses less yarn than other stitches but is not very durable as coverage on the back of the canvas is a little thin.