Nuka is Back

Since WinterWonderland you have not heard about Nuka. It is because she has been very extremely sick. In February she was attacked -without any reason- by another dog and bitten -very badly- to her throat. We had few step backs because of the injuries. She was taken care of at home -immediately after the surgery- because we don't have animal hospitals. It took several visits to vets, consulting them and all our skills to rehabilitate Nuka in both physical and mental way. If she had turn out aggressive -as the victim dogs often do- I must have put her down because the world doesn't need any more aggressive dogs. I would have managed with her but I am not always with her. That's why I don't handle with aggressive dogs and don't accept or feel pity for them. I am not alone with my dog in this world.

I am happy to tell, Nuka is back, even better than she used to be. While being sick she learnt a lot. It was a hard job but definitely worth of it. This summer she has been helping to teach Go to swim and enjoy about the water.

LittleGo is not so sure about the fun of water but slowly he is changing his mind. He started his lessons already on the last summer but because of his size and fur he gets wet & cold very easily in our arctic summer. It is not fair to keep anyone in the water when feeling cold; so with Go we do slow progress. When you look at  Nuka, you can see her fur acts differently when wet. She is mix bred arctic dog when Go is FineFrenchDog.

Remember to be respectful and sophisticated when teaching a dog to swim. I have blogged how to.

SilkRibbonEmbroidery

Believe or not but this is MyFirstEver SilkRibbonEmbroidery! I had a kit as a gift. It is designed by Crafty Ribbons. I think the print on the fabric is pretty enough to be used without any embroidery.

According to the instructions I used stem stitches for the stems. Stem stitch actually is one of MyFavourite embroidery stitches.

For the next step I needed MyStitch Dictionary. The leaves should have been embroidered by long stitches but I considered them not the best possible outfit for them. I found two alternatives; thorn stitch or...

...attached fly. I chose this one and made the right decision. As you can see I've been naughty and written on the book...

You can see how well attached fly stitches work with the leaves. As the original plan, I used long straight stitches and French knots for the stamens.

At this point the project still looked so great that I wondered if should I use the silk ribbon embroidery at all.

But I did. I still am not sure am I pleased with my silk ribbon embroidery skills or not. I just have to remind MySelf about the fact that this is MyFirstEver try at silk ribbon embroidery.

ChestTable

I promised to show you MyChestTable. Here it is. The whole story goes like this: Once upon a time there was a princess who wanted to have a chest in her living room. A chest to be used as a table. A chest into which she cloud put in all her important things so that no one else could see them. To find a good chest was difficult because the princess had no incomes from her kingdom. To find it was difficult despite she didn't seek the treasure, just the chest.

The princess was very determined because her prince had promised to fix what ever chest if she finds any. That's why the princess went to a recycling center where they recycle all king of vehicles. She knew they recycle also old military equipment. She knew they put items for sale in old boxes. She wanted one of those boxes.

They told her they need all the boxes and have none for sale. The princess could not give up. She offered her last 50€ for a big dirty wooden chest. The salesman could not refuse when he saw the money. So, they made a deal. The salesman emptied the chest and the princess could have the chest if she could carry it away by her own little hands, without any help.

Anyone who has met a real princess knows that they all can do a bit magic. The princess backed off her car as close the ware house door as she dares, rolled the chest to the car and rolled it up into her car.

At home, in a very small castle, the prince was very proud of his princess and filled his promise. At the very happy end the princess had her wooden ChestTable with four wheels under it so that she never needs to carry or roll it around again!

Mandalas

DearA sent Me a gift. It was Mandala Tote Bag Crochet Kit designed by WoollyChic. I have crochet a lot before but never a kit! So, it was quite exciting see it and realize it included it all. I just had to sit down and do it.

I love the fact that it all was in a fabric back which I can re-use when doing shopping. I  like about the idea that the bag has actually crochet design print. It is fun and reminds you to buy some more wool to do it again!

The kit had quite much wool to crochet. If you are a beginner and mess around, you don't need to worry at all. Just start it all over again. When I finished the 1st mandala there was a lot of wool left.

So, I decided to crochet another mandala. It turn out as pretty as the 1st one. After finishing the second one I wondered if there was still enough wool left for the 3rd one...

And there was! But that definitely was all. No more mandalas from this kit. Now I had three mandalas. I wondered what I should do with them...

Ta-dah!!! I made a table cloth for MyChestTable. And right now I realized -after going through all the blog post- that I have never ever introduced you MyChestTable despite it is on the background of several pics in this blog!!! I must show you the pics... I have them all...

BlanketNo6 (rose)

Do you remember my own design BlanketNo6? Now I've I crocheted similar but rose. They are like twins but the shade difference makes them look different.

Also for this blanket I used Schachenmayr's  KidLight yarn (38% nylon, 32% polyacryl and 30% mohair) (100g = 600m).