Angels secret WIP

[Angel]

Thank you. It's actually really easy stitching with two hands when I don't have to hold the frame, although I do stitch a lot slower at the moment. I'd like to be able to stitch really fast with it, I do see the potential for it, but it's not happening yet

I curl up at home so I think I'll leave my frame here because at work I sit properly on a chair.

[Mabel Figworthy]

He's coming along really well! I can see the attraction of "speed stitching" (especially when the final Christmas cards haven't been done yet and it's December 22nd ) but on the other hand I rather enjoy my leaisurely approach -- I think I might use two-handed stitching if I had a deadline looming, but not otherwise. Do you find it more comfortable than one-handed stitching?

[Angel]

Well I rarely use my left hand which means it's incredibly weak. So stitching with it is a lot more effort and so a lot more tiring, but stitching with it is building up it's strength too, so although it's not really comfortable at the moment, it is helping me in more ways than just speed. It's also helping me start to use my left hand more and once I am able to use my left hand more I can save money by not getting a manicure because I'll be able to paint my nails on both hands myself instead of getting someone else to do it.

[sammy_v]

U are making great progress hun.

[Angel]

Oooh and now I've cut the material down to size and secured the stitching to the frame properly....I'm stitching faster than I was one handedly, except when starting/finishing a thread, but the rest of the time I'm faster now it's all secured properly in the right sized frame *looks happy*

AND no more needles in my mouth!

[Busy_B]

I'm glad to hear that the new frame is working out so well for you, Angel! I figured 2 handed stitching had to be easier, but I don't sit in the best position for 2-handed . Please keep us updated if you find that you are getting faster with your stitching. Helping strengthen your left hand/arm, huh? Medical benefit of stitching?

[Rose]

So glad that the frame is working out for you and Somebunny is really coming on great. So cute.

[Angel]

I still need to get a few thread colours for him though.

Yeah, there's a medical benefit to stitching with two hands for me. Not sure that it'd be there for everyone, but it's certainly there for me.

[agi]

I am glad to hear you like it, Angel.

As for strengthening your left (or weaker) hand, macrame is a very good exercise. I learnt it at the age of 13 in a camp, and I used to do it quite a lot. You have to use both your hands equally. At some point my left hand was almost as good as the right one. (I think I may do some, now that I remembered it.)

[Dawn]

Another one I seem to have missed sorry I love the somebunny designs. You've made brilliant progress so far

[Mabel Figworthy]

Doesn't stitching have great benefits ? Strengthen hands, strengthens the budget (no need for the professional manicure), strengthens the mind ("I am resolved to finish this WIP!"), strengthens cleverness ("How do I explain this new stash to DH?") ... there's no need to it!

Glad it's helping you in several different ways, Angel -- and you'll end up with a lovely Bunny to boot!

[Angel]

*swears a lot* A made a mistake! One of the stitches on the line up his left side isn't meant to be there so potentially everything above there is wrong!

[Jess03]

Darn that ! Sorry to hear that he visited

[Mabel Figworthy]

Oh Angel, what a nuisance! Any way in which you can work round it, like you did with the cream jug?

[Angel]

I don't know yet, I'm not going to frog it out until I have no other choice.

[Angel]

So todays progress, still not frogged it out yet. But I'm thinking I can possibly get away with the shirt, but the head is still uncertain, I know that's too high.


Oh and look, no needle in my mouth. Guess where it is! Go on. Guess. On the magnet built into the frame see:


Is you proud?

[agi]

Good progress, Angel, and I hope you can beat that nasty
Congrats on not eating the needles.

[Jess03]

I'm sure it'll be fine if its only an extra stitch?

And yes, very proud! Imagine swallowing and choking on a needle!!!! *shudders*

[Raven]

There isn't health and safety. Like my dad watched as a guy parked his cherry picker on a hill up a 9" curb so it was at a daft angel, get in, no safety harness and just go up...Well over here a cherry pickers arm won't extend until it's leveled off because the arm can't do angels and may break. Plus a harness has to be worn at all times.

A guy needed to drill into a beam while on a cherry picker, but instead of lowering the arm, going under the beam, raising the arm and drilling away from him, he reached over, chest against the beam and drilled towards himself!

There was more, but things like that. No health and safety. It's shocking.

We have health and safety, its called OSHA. There are laws that require the wearing of protective gear and the safe operation of heavy equipment. However, when you go out in the country to privately owned farms, you will find people doing things their way and not always following the rules. Like the example you gave here.

The thing is, in any large group of people, you'll find ones that do whatever they want regardless of the laws, common sense, or personal safety, and you'll find people who do everything by the exact letter of the law, and then people that fall somewhere in between those two sides. Human beings tend to be diverse and sadly common sense is not always that "common"..LOL

Come visit America Angel (Florida) and I promise, I won't let you die!

Raven

[Angel]

Thank you agi.

I think you missed the point Raven. America health and safety standards are far below ours. Maybe what my dad saw was the exception but I did also later say that the standards America sets are far below par with European standards.

And considering the fact that red lights don't always mean stop in America I will die. I'll see traffic has red, cross a road and get run over. Or I'll go in a tunnel and die. I'm pretty sure America doesn't close off tunnels when tankers go through, and American driving makes my parents fear for their lives it's only a matter of time till someone crashes into a tanker in a tunnel. And American tunnels aren't built with escape plans. And with my luck I'll be in the tunnel that dies.

And doesn't florida have insane weather?