It's not really my influence, he's got a new girlfriend (lovely girl) who stitches and he wants to do something for her! I hope she doenst read this, if so she'll just have to pretend she doesn't know....
He managed to text me on a morning I wasn't well so it was midday before I realised that he'd chosen a Dimensions complicated rooster to do!! I knew that it would just put him off as it was riddled with fractionals and you know what Dimmesions are like. So he managed to cancel the order (Sewandso being brilliant), and I looked through about 200 mags to find hen and rooster charts. He chose this one:
I'm not sure if it's not too complex, but at least it's little starts and finishes. I'll get him to photocopy and enlarge it. Then I bought him some aida as I didn't have ANY 14 count white/antique white at all! Sewandso again. And I've gridded it for him. And I've kitted the rest up, the floss is on bobbins and I've put in the box some 24 needles, a nice pair of embriodery scissors, a needle minder that says never never give up (!) and a scissor fob with a cute frog button on it.
And then I have put two lengths of floss for each symbol on a card for him, with all the symbols and numbers.
And THEN I made covers for the 12" q snaps I'm lending him, so he has somewhere to put the excess aida and to keep it clean. It was my first try at covers and as I'm not that well at, I couldn't quite figure out how to make it one, so I did four little ones!
And I have also found several cover kits or mouseloft kits so he can practise on one of them before. And obviously I'm going to teach him! Think I've covered everything???
Niki xxx
how cool that is! i hope you will keep us updated on his progress! I think his girlfriend is very lucky to have found him. 
