Hot day's doings

For some reason when it has been hot summer days I have spent three days on the project sofa. Our IKEA Klippan sofa needed new cover so I had to do something about it. It is not so difficult as it sounds.

Because of the busy sofa project I had not yet time to read the latest issue of Novita magazine which arrived yesterday. I like about the magazine. The year subscription cost 29€ and it includes 4 magazines. 4 is good amount I think. Not too many but enough for each season. Novita manifactures yarns so it is easy when you have same trade mark instructions and yarns. :)

I also visited the local yarn shop despite of the heat weave. We were seeking hair for a new hobby horse. The girl spent a day on a floor with me. I guided her to drawn patterns by herself. She designed it, made the patterns, cut them out from the fabric and now she waits to be able to start the sewing. She was with me at the fabric shop when seeking the fabric for the sofa. She found a fabric and got inspired and told she wants to make a hobby horse of it. I promised to teach her how to. :) Yes, I found something for myself too -woollen sock yarn by Novita.

To be honest I must tell you I got a phone call from my sister in the middle of the sofa project sewing marathon. She wondered what on earth I was doing. She suspected me using a banknote counter! No wonder I feel my new sewing machine acts differently than the old dead one named Poor-Iiris who was born in Sweden. This Helga is born in Taiwan I think. And now I finally know -thanks to my sister- why Helga is not like Poor-Iiris even tough she also is a member of Husqvarna family. They must set in the engine of a banknote counter instead of sewing machine engine!

By to way, talking about sewing machines, I prefer the simplest models. I have simple sewing machine by Husqvarna Viking and simple 3-4 thread seaming machine by Brother. They are very enough for my needs even I sew everything from winter overalls to lace napkins. My seaming machine is about 12 years old and sewing machine about 5 or 6 years old. I have used many different trademark sewing and seaming machines -like Singer, Eva and Bernina. There's no huge difference between them nowadays. If you want advice which one to buy I recommend you to check out for which one you can easiest get equipment, adds, extras and spare parts nearby where you are living. That easies a lot your life.

Polar bear baby

I just finished the third polar bear cross stitch design of my own. The materials I was waiting for it arrived and I had to finish it as soon as possible. It still is unframed and unfortunately the picture I added at Stitching site doesn't show the glitter the work has.

Today I finally got the phone call from the frame shop. The new delivery from the frame manufacturer had arrived but the planned frame was wrong shade. I had to go to see it. It was blue like planned but it was far too pastel blue. The framer had found another option for my work of swimming polar bear. It's grey-white shade and has some kind of seed bead looking decoration running around its edges. It looked great so I accepted it. I said there's no hurry in framing the work which means I'll get it at the end of August. They have the season because of weddings etc. going on. I can wait. :)

New free charts

I uploaded new picture for Free charts site. It's a page with my own designs for small projects made by loose end threads. There's no shade codes so you can use the shades you already have. You can use these designs in cards etc. For example I have made a pen case decorated by "crayon" design.

New projects

I just finished new designing project. It's name is First Kiss. It is a picture of a girl who gives a warm kiss to a pony. Now I need only to stitch it. It has 33300 cross stitches... Not huge, but big enough to take some time.

At the moment I am in the middle of smaller designing project of a man with his dog. Its stitched size is just 82x82 so it's a piece of cake compaired to First Kiss.

Now I am stitching a picture of another polar bear but I ran out of materials so I need to get some more to be able to finish it. It seems that meanwhile waiting for the beads and threads I am designing new projects. I have few ones waiting for to get finished and perhaps some new ideas too.

The picture of the swimming polar bear is still at the frame shop. We are waiting the new delivery to arrive to see if the frame planned is perfect. Still no call from the framer but I told her there's no hurry. She is good at her job and I am sure she'll find the perfect frame.