Stitching Conversion Charts

Look what I have made for you!  Few charts to ease your stitching! Notice that all the rates are just general advice. It all depends on also the manufacturers and the designs. But here's where to start if you are confused. I add these also on Stitching site and keep them there on the top. So later on you can easily just seek these at there.

 

 

Aida and Evenweave conversion chart

(The chart is general and rates depend on manufacturers)

Aida	Squares / 10cm	Evenweave	Threads / 10cm
6 Count	24	12 Count	47
8 Count	31	16 Count	63
10 Count	40	20 Count	79
11 Count	44	22 Count	87
14 Count	54	28 Count	110
16 Count	63	32 Count	126
18 Count	70	36 Count	142
20 Count	79	40 Count	157
22 Count	87	44 Count	173 © TaijaS

Thread and needle proportion chart

(The chart is indicative)

Aida	Evenweave	Tapestry needle	Strand
6 Count	12 Count	18	6 - 5
8 Count	16 Count	18	5 - 4
10 Count	20 Count	20 - 22	4 - 3
11 Count	22 Count	22	4 - 3
14 Count	28 Count	24	2
16 Count	32 Count	24 - 26	2 - 1
18 Count	36 Count	26	2 - 1
20 Count	40 Count	28	1
22 Count	44 Count	28	1 © TaijaS

Sun and light

 

Today is Spring Solstice. Tomorrow the light stays longer than the darkness. And yesterday was Solar Eclipse. It was pretty weird to see the sharp shadows to fade away on the frozen snow in MyGarden.

Despite of these solar happenings my seeds have started to grow. Just a week ago I planted them! From the green leaves of my hyacinth you can see faded shadows the Solar Eclipse caused.

The spring causes the buzz in BunnyBarn. Lulu has made a nest. No, no, no. She just thinks she is expecting kits. But she really is not. They all are very lively and fussy. The SpringNesting calls them and that's why we need to make sure no more accidents happen.

I myself have been more relaxed than the bunnies. GrannyDog had her second acupuncture at the vet. She is much better so I have had some time to rest and read. At the moment I am reading Richard C. Morais' The Hundred-foot journey. I usually hate "food books" and "cook books". But in this book the food nor cooking is the point neither main subject. It is like cooking itself. Every mom knows it. It is written like making a meal. You need to decide what you need or want to cook. Which ingredients you need. Then you need to go through your kitchen and garden to see what you already have. The ones you don't; you need to put on your shopping list. Then you need to arrange your journey to the shops and spend far too much time to seek what you need. Then you carry it all home, put in the fridge, leave on the table and you really need a pause then because there's a laundry to do. Finally it's time for cooking. You take everything you need and start the process. Everything happens meanwhile the dinner is ready. Then you perhaps need to gobble it up because the youngest is screaming and all the mess is left for you in the kitchen when you come back to see is there anything left for you... And later you notice when veryone are already sleeping that your love one has left the last piece of chocolatie pie just for you. It has note "MOLDY" on it to make sure kids don't dare to touch it. This book really is not up to cooking or eating neither gluttony, it is just a delicious story of life.

This is my very old delicious treasure box which I inherit from my DearGrandMother over 30 years ago. It is an OldCandyBox.

This sweet ChocolateBox goes far away because it is EasterTime. With a very old friend of mine we have always had a habbit to send each others Easter Greetings like this.

This time I didn't use EasterStamps. See how the FigureSkaterStamps glow and shine. VerySpecialFinnishStamps.

With LittleLady we had EasterCardFactory today. This year it was up to stickers and glue drops.

Folded

Here we go today. I folded the BlanketNo4 for the pic. Over the halfway!

It is spring!

It is officially spring! Despite there is snow all around my garden the spring is here. This is how my early spring looks. I took this pic yesterday when I heard the first swans to arrive. They are too early but from this picture you can see the spring is early too. Soon I can pull out my bike from the snow without showel! :) I do bike on the wintertime too and usually my bike is not burried in the snow. But this time one snow storm did its job and I was too lazy to dig my bike out.

Spring preparations mean seed, seeds and seeds. Yesterday I planted flowers and hope some of them will be blossoming on the last day of May this year for the celebration.

I went into my green house to get the pots. It was a bit spooky because the spiders started to wake up when I moved the pots. Usually they are afraid of me and vanish when I step in. Now they were so sleepy that they had no any kind of brain function to stay away from me. I really had to call a knight to help me out.

At Centtilä there was excellent offers with seeds. And I got my first ever Stevia plant as "thank you gift" of buying at least 5 bags of seeds. So now I have started interesting travel with this new friend and see will it survive with me or not.

This week I have not had much time for any kind of crafting. Poor Granny has been sick and has needed a lot of physiotherapy. She doesn't need to suffer but she has right to be on sick leave. She is over 15 years now but still vet sees no reason to put her down. She is in very good shape but obviously that's why she hurt herself in garden by some accident. (She runs around and rolls over a lot.)

We are really in love with our new vet. She wanted to try out acupuncture and it really helps. Granny goes again for the acupuncture despite she is so much better by now. Now it is easier for me to do the physiotherapy (massage, stretching and active movement exercises) sessions with her when the acupuncture helps to release the muscle spasms, reduces the pain (with the pain killers) etc.

She was on the sick leave last time on the last summer when she had Idiopathic Vestibular Disease. Since the recovery she has been allowed the stairways and normal home decoration. This sick leave will be much sorther than the last one but still we need 1-2 weeks to get it all sorted out.

HalfWay

Here we are, 

at the halfway 

with the BlanketNo4

Tuulen Polku

(Path of the Wind)

And for sure She knows that is not allowed.

Not at all!

Still she finds her way on it

where ever when ever

I forget to collect it all away.