Our Friends' HAED SAL: Bubbles

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Faery Tales and Bubbles

It has been such a long time since I have posted to this blog, sorry. I am also sorry for the horrible photos. Faery Tales is getting so big, as I have stitched all over the place, I am having trouble laying it flat to take the wip pictures.

Here is a close up of Bubbles, I did take a picture of the whole lot, but it was so blurry that I decided not to show it.

You are all doing some amazing stitching and I enjoy keeping up with all of the wips on this blog.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Maxine's Bubbles Update

I did join in with last weeks SAL and I did manage a little bit more than the previous week but still not much!

I did the stitching across the top of the page on the right :) My DD Jen on the other hand is getting on with her's really well...after pic is the first one cos bloggers playing up and I can't swap the pics round!!!!

Thanks for looking :) Great work everyone :)

Maxine (So Much Stash - Sew Little Time my blog)

Sunday, May 31, 2009

Maxine's Bubbles Update

Well I did join in with the SAL on Thursday but I just couldn't get in to it so I only got a few stitches done.

You can see all I did was the dark stitches that are scattered about :( On the other hand my DD Jennifer got quite a bit done so here's her before pic...

Here's her after pic...

Thanks for looking :)

Maxine (So Much Stash - Sew Little Time my blog)

Monday, May 18, 2009

Maxine's Bubbles Update

Hi everyone :) I'm finally here with my SAL update...I got Bubbles out for a change

I managed to get done all the blue you can see highlighted on the chart...it wasn't too bad to stitch because it's background there isn't much confetti. I don't know what I'll be stitching on for the rest of the week or which HAED I'll be stitching on for this weeks SAL so we'll have to wait and see what takes my fancy lol

I can't possibly comment on every post so I want to take this opportunity to tell you all how fabulous you are and thank you for inspiring me to keep going when it sometimes gets difficult (((hugs)))

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

My First Post

Well this is my first post on this blog, thanks to Cindy and Wendy for setting it up. Isn't it great to see so many wonderful designs?

I have currently four HAED wips, two which I have worked on recently, and two, not so recently but I refuse to call them UFO's as I fully intend to finish them one day.

The two that I am working on at the moment are Faery Tales and Land of Enchantment. I don't
have any wip pictures of Land of Enchantment, but I can share a couple of Faery Tales.

I am enjoying working on this so much that nothing else is getting much attention. When I ordered this I got the large size graph, and it has 60 pages. So far I have completed 9.

The two designs that haven't been stitched on for some time are:

Bubbles, and

Gypsy Rose.

Seeing their finished pictures makes me want to get them out to stitch on them, not entirely a bad thing!!!

Anyway, must go and read some blogs, I do read this one when ever it comes up on my bloglines, which is often with how many posts get put on it, and I just love seeing all the wonderful progress that everyone is making, keep it up ladies, we will all have finishes one day.

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.