Our Friends' HAED SAL: June Winner!!!

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

June Winner!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO BEATRICE!!! You have won our Lanarte June prize!! If you will email Wendy @ info@in2hobby.be she will get that out to you very soon:) It's a beautiful design and we hope you enjoy stitching it!

Happy July 1st everyone!!! In the States, we're getting ready for barbeques (cook-outs) and hoping for fireworks for our July 4th celebration. It's been so dry, we may not get fireworks.
OK....seriously....enough with the scorpions!!! This one is at my back door right this minute! The dark ones are poisonous and I'm always afraid my dog is going to get stung again! The last one left her paralyzed for hours!! Sorry, they just freak me out!!

If anyone would like to join Kirsi (Finland)
in her adorable postcard exchange....go here: postcard exchange blog.
If you haven't seen the one she sent me, see my blog Cindy too. I've joined,,,even though I hate finishing,,,,going to give it a try!

Gotta run...the dog tried to crawl under the fence to chase the baby deer, finally got her inside and now she's just thrown up all over the rug.....HA!! Is it too early for a calgon bath (9:50 a.m.:)

I'll be posting the July Giveaway in the next few days! REMEMBER....if you don't post stitchy progress at least once in July, you are not eligible for the drawing! AND YES, you must be a member.

Have a great weekend everyone!! Your work is no less than amazing!!

(((HUGS)))!!!

Cindy F.

11 comments:

Louanne said...: EEEWWWWW!!! Scorpions!! WOW! Glad they don't enjoy the climate where I live, yuck! Congrats to Beatrice!; July 1, 2009 at 8:41 AM
Sabine S. said...: Congrats Beatrice!!!!! Hope you enjoy your beautiful prize!

Cindy- Scorpions! Yikes! We have coral snakes, rattlers, cottonmouths, and water moccasins a plenty, but haven't yet seen a scorpion! Homer and I got skunked Monday night though!
Sabine; July 1, 2009 at 8:49 AM
Caroline said...: Horrible, horrible horrible.... I'll take the nesting swallows pooping all over my porch any day.....
Congrats to Beatrice!; July 1, 2009 at 8:57 AM
Yvonne said...: Congratuatiosn Beatrice!

eewwwww, scorpions! They freak me out too.; July 1, 2009 at 9:29 AM
Joke said...: Congrats Beatrice and happy stitching! Ugh, Cindy what a dangerous life you live, scorpions!
Be brave girl and take care of your dog :); July 1, 2009 at 10:03 AM
Beck said...: Congratulations, Beatrice!!!; July 1, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Cindy F. said...: Sabine!! Oh my gosh! You got skunked!!!! That's horrible! Our dog has been sprayed 3 or 4 times in the past year and I know how hard it is to lose that smell!! I've heard they will attack and have razor sharp teeth...if provoked! I guess if the stink doesn't work! Hope you got that smell of you:); July 1, 2009 at 1:49 PM
Mimosa said...: Congratuatiosn Beatrice!; July 1, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Suzie said...: Congratulations Beatrice!! That is a lovely prize, and I hope that it gives you many hours of stitching enjoyment!

When my blog page opened, for some reason, the photo of the scorpion was in the middle of my screen. .I thought that I had stumbled into a strange blog! lol Oh, ick,ick, ick!!!

Cindy, any time you are ready to move to Michigan, just let me know. There are some homes for sale, right in my neighborhood! Just think of the fun we'll have!; July 1, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Wendy said...: Congrats Beatrice!!!

Those scorpions are really scary!!; July 2, 2009 at 7:37 AM
Beatrice said...: Oh thank you so much I can't wait to see this in person.
What a gorgeous gift.
I'm sending you the snail mail address right away.
Yippee!!!!!; July 4, 2009 at 7:07 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.