Sunday, August 21, 2011

And this is my first happy dancing...:)

Dear Blogger Friends!
I am here again. I didnt wrote here for a while, the reason is that in July I was on holiday by relatives, and couldnt use internet, and August is such a busy mont for me, I am working day and night,,,
But I dint give up stitching, I am working on many projects right now:)
I have finished my Teddy bear love sign project in July, so here is  it....:(drumrolls please...:))


Well it just needs the finishing to become a beautiful cushion. I already bought a dark red material:)) and my mom got a sewing machine for her birthday,I cant wait to try it. (Anyway I never used a sewing machine before, so it sounds like a big adventure:)))

I also started some new projects. For example I am stitching the wolves picture right now, which I won from Virpi's giveaway. I really enjoy it,I have only done about 500 stiches from the approximately 20000 ones, so I will show you my progress next time , when it will be worth to see:)

I am also stiching some surprise for my friends little daughter , Johanna, I will show you the picture when it will be ready:) I was having a lot of trouble with the material, because the part you can stitch is not big enough,,,so I was searching for many-many charts till I found a suitable one.
I also bought a DMC chartbook with babies characters, it is super awesome, the caracters are really sweet on it:)

During my holiday I found a shop, where I can buy foreign cross stitching magazines:) I was really happy, cause I thought those are not awailable in my country...They are quite expensive in here, but I couldnt resist to buy one:D:D
At last I chose an issue of Cross stich crazy, I loved the Margaret Sherry charts in it, Margaret Sherry is one of my favourite designer:D But somehow it seemed to me that there are to  many talking and advertising in that magazine, maybe I could have beared more charts in it:)))
Which do you think is the best cross stiching mag? I need some advice :D

I am still focusing on Teddy bears:) I found a cool chartbook of Zweigart with great charts of Teddybears, I am gonna make towels with Initial letters for my family members as a Christmas present:)))))

Hmm, I still love flowers, unfortunately my birthday hibiscus didnt survive my holiday, it faded totally away, when I came home,,,:(
but I am having beautiful orchids right now, and I got some new little monsters too:)

Aren't they beautiful?:D:D
Well we are having still great summer weather, I am melting at my workplace, so I really look forward to go to an open-air swimming pool next week, after work:)
Have a nice summer, and happy stitching:)

17 comments:

  1. Hooray for your happy dance! //^_^// Your stitching pojects sound awesome, I can't wait to see some progress on them!

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  2. Congratulations on your Happy Cance. Good for you.

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  3. Your teddy bears look so cute! congrats :)

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  4. Hello, thank you for visiting my blog, you have some nice things aswell.

    What magazines do you prefer? I have found some here aswell, mostly UK ones, and I love them, I pay around 10 € a magazine here. What do you have to pay for it?

    Love, Babs

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  5. Your love bears are cute. Since you like Margaret Sherry, did you see the freebie I had posted on my blog week before last?

    Thanks for stopping by my blog :)

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  6. Hello there! You asked how I put the cross stitch on my t-shirt.. I used soluble canvas, which is kind of cloth that melts in water. So you put it on the piece of clothing, do your cross stitch, and then it dissapears! http://www.dmc.com/majic/pageServer/1t010002cv/en_GB/soluble-canvas.html?nid=4;1368
    You can use waste canvas instead too.
    http://crossstitch.about.com/od/wastecanva1/p/wastecanvas.htm

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  7. Awww how cute. I love your Teddy Bear love sign. Gorgeous finish - well done! xo

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  8. Congrats on finnishing the teddy bear love- it looks really cute:) I have many favorite cross stitch magazines. Word of cross- stitching has many different kinds of charts from big projects to cards. I also like the american mag "stoney creek" they don't have so much advertiments on it. I hope you enjoy the summer. I'ts getting cooler here in north-Finland
    Take care
    http://pumpuliinapistelee.blogspot.com
    Niina

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  9. Your finish is lovely and I'm doing a Happy Dance for you :o) Hopefully life slows down for you and you can get back to stitching soon!

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  10. I understand, my salary isn't that big either. I'm in love with a UK magazine, called Cross Stitch Collection. I took a subscription on it, which saves me quite some money. For the rest I look into a lot of magazines, and only buy it when there is something I'm really going to stitch.

    Love, Babs

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  11. verry nics i love your work with the bears ;)

    Mvg Sarah

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  12. Can you please email me? My email is in my profile. You won my giveaway and I don't have your contact information :o)

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  13. Bom dia, tudo bem?
    Andei um pouco sumida mais estou de volta. Estava com saudade, passei para deixar um beijinho. òtima semana.

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  14. Oi Judit, tudo bem?
    Quando vc tiver um tempinho passa lá no meu blog deixei um recado para as amigas, ótima tarde.bjs

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  15. Thank you so much for your last comment, it's such a kind thing to say! I hope you find some time to rest and stitch soon! :D

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  16. Hi! About the abbreviations, it took me a lon time to figure them out too. So WIP means Work In Progress; PIF means Pay It Forward and it's about something like a blog game - you sign up in someone's blog to recieve a gift from him/her and in exchange you're posting the game in your place and you're giving presents to the first 5 people who comment. TUSAL means Totally Useless Stitch-A-Long. It's a blog game too, hosted by Daffycat http://itsdaffycat.blogspot.com/ In this game you don't trow away any left over threads you have from your crafting, but instead you put them in a jar and everymonth we take a picture of the jar and post it. And RAK means Random Act of Kindness, it's when you're making a present for someone without him knowing, or without a special reason. I can't remember anymore stitching abbreviations that I know of, but if there's something else or I didn't explain it well, please ask :) Oh, TBR is also something I found out blogging and I use, it means To Be Read and it's about all the books that are waiting to be read lol :D Have a nice rest after that long shift

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  17. Oh now I rembered SAL - Stitch-a-Long (because it was like part of TUSAL ) it reffers to every project that is stitched by several people at the same time. And IHSW is International Hermit and Stitch Weekend - every 3rd of the month if I remember correctly, hosted by Joyce http://joysze.blogspot.com/p/international-hermit-and-stitch-weekend.html
    I'm probably still missing something!

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