I was worried about running out of thread for the Quaker sampler, in fact I was in the process of looking for a source of Anchor thread 161 as it was getting more obvious that the floss that I had was not enough to finish it.
Then this morning, whilst sorting through a small bag of embroidery threads ( about half a dozen full skeins in total) found in my late mothers sewing box I found this.
I guess someone's telling me that I need to finish this piece!
Speak soon xx
I managed to get two pairs of the long armed fingerless mitts out of my Shetland 160gm skein with 3gm to spare !! I must admit that I did think that I would run out so popped a lifeline in the 3rd one just incase I needed to have a contrasting stripe where the fingers started.
I'm now working on the third pair, shorter this time. but I did knit a hat from the mixed left over fibre skeins :-)
The new embroidery flosses have been sort of sorted. I've grabbed the colours that I need for my project but one seems to be missing. Given that there are so many, I've probably miss-sorted it but if not I'll see if there's a close match as this is really an experimental project.
Stitching wise? nothing this week, again buried in paperwork and trying to get some sense of order in here.
Update, missing floss found ! some stitching done in the last couple of days so at least I have something to show.
Quaker sampler is coming on nicely now although I think I may run out of thread. The mystery cross stitch has been started. I know what it is but I'm not ready to show the hoped for result incase its a big failure.
18 stitch to the inch, a lot of stitches but not much to show.
Sorry this post is late, normal service will be resumed shortly ( hopefully)
Speak soon x
Hi,
Another strange week feeling out of sync with the world. Along with the sampler shown here last week I have inherited a set of 1930's tarot cards and a very useful laptop which I will drop into our nearest computer shop to have completely wiped and checked over before I set it up as my dedicated craft machine.
So much for my no spend attempt, in a moment of madness I ordered the cxc version of the complete dmc range plus cross stitch fabric... I'm putting it down to stress shopping !!
I do have a couple of projects in mind and as they are experiments involving 60 or so colours I couldn't really afford to do them in DMC, more about that later.
I've not really been able to settle down to anything crafty this week so I've just been working on my Quaker sampler in the few snatched minutes early in the morning before starting soring out various family paperwork etc.
Suddenly I've had an order for hats and handspun! I've not sold any in the last 12 monthly due to the various lockdown sand lack of tourists in general at the croft shop that I usually supply with a skeins during the year. To be honest I've not been spinning or knitting much lately, preferring to stitch at the moment however I may structure my day for the next few weeks to include both hobbies.
And I've cast on some fingerless mitts, large enough for male hands this time. Simple rib knit with short thumbs which are knitted complete with the body of them. I don't like the look of mitts with just a slit for the thumb and equally dislike knitting thumbs in so I'm trying this option.
Incase you are wondering, I keep back any skeins with knots in and also spin four ply weight for my own knitting.
Ooh and we are having a snowy day, snow forecast all days o I'm staying inside nice and dry :-)
Hi
Over the next few weeks my attention will be needed elsewhere so unfortunately my posts will probably be short and sweet. I'm hoping to still put something up each Monday but suspect that may be a little erratic at times.
OK, down to business.
Today I'm sharing 3 samplers with you, two have recently come into my possession and another is currently being worked on.
The first has been in my family for several years, I remember it being in a frame at home and once things are a little more sorted here I will be looking to get it reframed properly.
I don't know whether this is a family member or whether it was simply bought as an interesting item.
This one is a lot more recent, 1995, stitched during my first era of cross stitch addiction !
As much as I'm enjoying stitching these designs, I have an aching to design my own so that may be a project for the future.
That's about all for now, thanks for reading, speak soon and take care x
