Madeira Lana -tutorial

Here is 14ct Aida, velcro and my own design LittlePolarBear stitched by Madeira Lana yarn. Madeira Lana is an interesting case. It consists of 50% wool and 50% acryl. You can use it in the normal way -of course...

...but if you want some frizz & fluffy in your life: brush it by velcro!

BUT there is A LITTLE WARNING. You need to do these Lana stitches at first, brush the fluffy effect out and only after that do all the other stitches to avoid spoil you total entire stitching.

OhMyPolarBears

Now we have met six PolarBears. They all are there wondering will they survive despite the climate change. Will they stay white or at the end turn back to brown like their ancestors? At the end my own design OnTrack is all about the purity of nature and legends. It all is about the northern sagas and how we all should cherish the northern nature. We all know the ice is melting. We also should care what the melting causes.

Under the PolarBears we still need their pawprints. And one more line of animals is waiting to be stitched up. What will they be?

Blanket OnTrack

Today I crocheted a bit more BlanketNo4. As you can see it is going to be "mirror styled" to the both sides of the central stripe.

Also some stitching was included. See how well Her eyes match to the shade of the fabric!

I started a row of polar bears for my own design OnTrack.

CandyKnit

 Do you still remember that I had Date With Eva? What we did? This is what we did...

It is my own design. It is PolarBearScarf.

There is different kind of PolarBear at each end.

It is a CandyKnit. My version for the competition which is organized by Pirkka, Fazer and Novita. Three Finnish companies from different sectors. All the works will be seen at Suomen kädentaidot -expo (Finland's arts and crafts) in Tampere on 14. - 16.11.2014 where everyone can vote their favourite design.

I used Novita Wool yarn (100% wool, 50g = 135m) for the mint green base back ground and white polar bear embroideries. Novita Säde yarn (58% acryl, 28% polyester, 7% mohair and 7% polyamide, 50g = 205m) I used white decoration crocheting (the edges and the flower styled snow flakes). For the French Knot eyes I used blue Novita's 7 veljestä yarn (75% wool and 25% polyamide, 150g = 300m).

I was inspired by this bag of sweets. It includes many different kind of candies and is suitalble also for people like me -with coeliac disease.

I love this candy bag.

I love polar bears.

I love these polar bear candies...

...because of the taste,

shade and wrap.

My very own CandyKnit!

PolarBearNo12 (free chart)

I just added new free chart. It is a small picture from the Advent Calendar "Letter to Santa". Have a nice stitching. :)

Lost and found

Yes, today we made some photos. I included updated framed pictures of that sad polar bear baby.

This is also my own design.  The work includes metallic threads and glitter in the fabric. There's also blue and golden glass seed beads. It's a lonely and sad polar bear baby who has got apart from the mother. Now there's three polar bears in the collection. We'll see will the family get more members. :)

I also sorted out my finished framed cross stitch pictures. It's result was that some got up to the walls and some had to go storaged. I also realized that I have lost one chart. Meaning both the paper and electric version. It is a disaster because it is my own design and none has a copy of it!  Outs! And it is impossible to track the chart from the finished project because it includes many shades which are too close to each others. Poor me. It is about reideers, fells, northern lights and traditional living around there.

Later on I found the chart! It was at the end in a totally wrong place! Yeppee!!!

My top secrect project is going on well and I am now used back to normal Aida 14 count. Tomorrow I'll stitch it more.

YES!

Yes, my polar bears are back home. I just got them delivered to my front door by a friend! They look great! I try to make the photos of them tomorrow. I am so so happy!

Today I started to stitch my top secret project. It is funny that Aida 14 count feels so tiny after Aida 11 count. :)

Finally finished!

WOW! I finally managed to finish the picture of my own design swimming polar bear. Next project is already in my mind. I will keep on working with the polar bear theme. This time it will be much smaller and about a lonely baby polar bear. Can't wait to start!

The work includes lot of metallic in the fabric and the thread. Unfortunately the glitter can not be seen in this picture. In the work there's two similar shades with basic stranded cotton and the metallic thread side by side. I must confess I had to wait for months over the darkest season to get my sun back to be able to stitch proper and make the difference between the threads, fabric and shades. It was challenging even to me and asked a lot of patience because at the most difficult part I stitched only 20 cross stitch in an hour!

It's finally here

I have an honour to tell you my own design polar bear has finally arrived. See it tamed and finished. It really was a huge job to do. I learnt I should not mess around with such a great animal.