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Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 12:47 pm
by rcperryls
wendywombat wrote:
Mabel Figworthy wrote:
poppy wrote:Cross stitch and riding sound like a good combination to me
Cross stitch and riding sound like a very dangerous combination to me :shock: !
Well that does depend where you put your pin cushion or scissors! :lol: :wink:
@rotfl: @rotfl:

Carole
:lol:

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 11:56 am
by Mabel Figworthy
I need a hot chocolate while I'm editing/updating (and practising) my "Talk About Embroidery", which I am to present to the Leicester Embroiderers' Guild on Saturday.
Last time I gave this talk I forgot the charger for my laptop, and had to do the first half without illustrations until DH had rushed over with the charger :shock: - I'll double-check this time!

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 2:44 pm
by rcperryls
Have all the chocolate you need. Do you a reminder from us on Friday that you need to check that your charger is with any other supplies/equipment you are taking?

Carole
:dance:

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 4:05 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
Thanks Carole, but that is one thing I'm in no danger of forgetting ever again :-) ! (I'll probably forget something else though...)

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 4:46 pm
by Podolyanka
I need an icy cold bottle of mineral water, I think.

It is all about my long suffering guelder rose. Little wonder I could not stitch it on one breath- I turned the fabric upside down or what do you call it when the width is the length and vice versa?

I am glad I realised it after having stitched 2 hundred or 3 hundred stitches, not half the work. Imagine what a job it will be to unpick on 14 count Aida with a pearl thread? I am not even angry with myself as I was so overtired when I was starting this project that somehow am not surprised too much about having turned it all wrong. I am surprised I managed to cut a correct size fabric.

Funny how we have the sixth feeling- I was stitching so slowly, as if my subconscience knew it was in vain.

I think 5 hours of pure stitching at the least were wasted. As Ukrainians say, all the work has gone under the cat's tail, or as the English saying goes, to the dogs.

Am I supposed to cry or to laugh?

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 7:51 pm
by poppy
Mabel, hot chocolate is very good for getting the brain into gear, in my opinion :D . Also, I would write a list and leave it around until Friday and add to it, as you think of what to take. Good luck with the talk. I wish I could be there to listen to it. :D

Oh Podolyanka :hug:
I have done that once too. It is easily done, especially when super tired. It is a lot of stitches to undo. I would undo a bit every day and do something else rewarding in between.
We won't do that again in a hurry...!

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:56 am
by Serinde
Definitely hot choc for Mabel (plus whatever trimmings); all available here, as you know. You can sit back and dream about skating on the frozen canals (as apparently some of your fellows are doing). Sounds good to me, too, so I might join you.

Oh help and bother, Podolyanka! We've all done it. Why oh why don't we listen to our intuition in these cases??

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:17 am
by Nicola Main
Here's another for a hot chocolate! Nothing like it, warms the cockles as they say! Good luck with your talk Mabel I'm sure it'll be fantastic! Oh Podolyanka I feel for you! I went one stitch out in the new one I'm doing and had to frog about 50 stitches. If it was mine I would have left it as it wouldn't really have been noticeable but as it's going to be one used for the front cover of the kits it has to be perfect! :x:

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 5:05 pm
by Mabel Figworthy
Ouch Podolyanka :-( Hope the unpicking goes as smoothly as possible, and no more work gets lost under the cat's tail. What a nice saying, by the way - much of my work gets under the cat's tail, but that's because Lexi sits on it given half a chance :-D

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:17 pm
by Podolyanka
Thank you all for your kind words which really helped me to look at the problem as a small adventure. Today I have unpicked it all and now the fabric is ready for a restart.

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 1:38 am
by Squirrel
It is so easy to do Lyudmilla and I have almost done it once or twice. Good to know that the upicking (frogging) has been done ok now put a mark on it so you know which is the right way up. :)

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 8:41 am
by Podolyanka
Sally, thank you for your support. I have stitched more since today's 7am than I had done within that week before frogging. And I have learnt the lesson, so will remember which side is the right one even without marking.

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:37 am
by wendywombat
I used to put a "T" at the top of the fabric...even then I got it wrong one time!! :tizzy: :doh:

I've even miss counted and had only 4 Aida squares left at the bottom of a large design! :shock: :tantrum:

Pleased that you have managed to correct your little error! :wink:

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 8:25 am
by laura-rose
Just wandered in to look around. Is this a cafe/coffee bar/pub establisements where forum members go to boost thier spirits? Looks inviting whatever it is & has a relaxing, friendly ambience. I take it there is wonderful food as well as drinks of all types. Do you stitch 'n' natter in here or just natter?

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 9:36 am
by Mabel Figworthy
We do whatever we feel like, Laura :-) - time stretches into infinity here, so you can get all the stitching done that you want, and the view is personalised, so whether you like lakes, mountains, sheep in a meadow or a sky-scraper city-scape, it's there outside your window. All the food and drink is non-allergenic and zero-calorie. And the company is the best!

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 10:04 am
by Nicola Main
I'm currently stitching in a large, light conservatory with big windows overlooking woods and fields with bird feeders outside the visitors of which keep distracting me from my work! (P.S. In my head this is where I am, in reality I'm stitching in a very underlit study room which has no windows at all!) :doh:

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 11:57 am
by Mabel Figworthy
Definitely a conservatory for me as well, Nicola - mine overlooks either the sea, or a garden sloping down to a stream (must have water in the view!) Lots of light, and one of the windows open to admit birdsong :-)

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 4:10 pm
by laura-rose
Just my sort of surroundings to stitch in too, esp. with one window open to hear birdsong. How wonderful. I've heard before about this sort out thing, when one can travel anywhere in your mind. Think that was to be somewhere other than a bad place in life. Not suitable for undoing stitches though like the Ukrainian lady had do to get fabric round right way. I would have been so annoyed with myself but glad she could think it just had to be done very carefully & kept calm. Well done :applesauce: :applesauce:

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2018 7:00 pm
by Serinde
And if you look out over there... over left down at the shoreline, you’ll see our treehouse. :D

Re: 2018 Stash & Grab

Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2018 10:14 am
by wendywombat
If you look carefully you'll see Puffin Burrows up to the left in that bank just waiting for the birds to return from their winter out at sea! :dance: