BIG DAY

Tomorrow is going to be a big day for me. I have been waiting for this moment for the past one or so year. Things have become unbearable and I had to make the move. I will tell you all about it tomorrow............

LOVE GROWS

....is my latest finish. A design by Michelle M. Lash of Brittercup Designs fom Just Cross Stitch Magazine issue June 2005.

It was stitched on 32ct evenweave over 2 with 1 strand. It look a bit bare but I like it anyway.

I am now stitching the alphabet sampler and hope to finish that before the year ends.

BUZZ RR UPDATE

I am nearly finished with the RR. Only has the backstitching to be done. I have been bad. Thankfully Nik is busy these days; I am buying a little bit more time. I had to blame it on my health. I had fever recently and shortly after that gone away; I had an allergy attack. I was not sure what cause the rashes but the most suspicious food item I had was "udang galah". It was last week and I thought it had gone for good but sadly it came back last night and I couldn't sleep because of the itch. Lack of sleep coupled with sore throat, rashes and flu, I just had to call for sick leave. I went to work in the morning, went to fetch my children from school and then slept all afternoon after a dose of panadol. I am still feeling unwell even after my maid gave me a good back massage.

TATTERS MEET 16.09.2006

That was the first ever meet organised by MY_ShuttlesandNeedles (MYSN). It was great fun. We all learnt different tehcniques with our generous teacher; Faizon. Thank you teacher! I was supposed to try my hands on tatting with beads. Had all the beads ready threaded at the shuttle and the ball but did not bring along the pattern. Did not ever print it; a misunderstanding on the instructions given by Faizon. I learnt split ring and split chain instead and hopefully I can come up with something soon. I am planning to join the 25 motifs challenge and I better be fast. Faizon has tatted 8 so far and I am yet to start any.

BLOG FACELIFT

I spent 3 hours just to have this facelift but it's all worth it. I learn something new everytime I change the blog template. I hope you'll like it!

PINK EXCHANGE

I am going to give this away to my partner in an exchange. I hope she will not find out until she receives it. I don't think she reads my blog, that's why I dare to post the picture here. I am supposed to stitch something in pink and I was running out of time. The mailing date was 15th August. Then I remembered this pink hardanger flower. It is just appropriate for the exchange even though it is larger than the required size. I hope she'd like it!

TATTING LAGIK..........

Here is my progress on tatting with 2 shuttles :


  



I think there is a typo on the instruction for the exercise on ring 4 (right one in the photo). The instruction reads 4+4-4-4 that resulted in the ones I tatted above. But when I look at the picture of Teacher Faizon's tatted pattern it looks like 4-4+4-4 i.e the joining is at picot no 2. I will try again tonight and see whether I am right.

Anyway, I had a good lesson on tatting yesterday. In all excitement of tatting, we forgot to buy Teacher Faizon a drink! Malunya! Well, I will have to make up for that the next time I see her. Hopefully this coming Wednesday, if she's free.

Teacher & I were having a hard time squeezing into the packed commuter train on the way back home. It was like a riding on a bus mini with the KTM staff shouting "masuk - masuk, masuk dalam lagi, belakang masih kosong!". Ha..ha...I wish I had driven there.

Earlier before I went to the class at KL sentral, I went to Ikea and bought myself a corner table for half the price. Ikea was having a sale. I reorganise my stitching room and hopefully I will utilise the room more often.

MORE TATTING UPDATES

  


From left to right : Conifers, inner rings/chains of bookmark homework, bookmark

I finished the conifers in a few hours spread over 2 days. It was a fun project as it was my first tatting using thread from the ball.

I started on the bookmark home work on Thursday, finished the inner part last night but had wrongly cut the threads ends. See that the chain/ring unravel. I gave up.

In frustration, I started my own project using a chart from a site referred by Teacher Faizon. Everything went well but some stitches were not flipped correctly at the tail portion. I could not tidy up the stitches - it looks ugly! Anyway since I as too far gone so I decided to finish up the bookmark but managed to make another mistake in the last ring!

Now, I better get back to my XS starting tonight. My WIPs are screaming at me!

TATTING UPDATE

Here is my completed homework :



  


I am beginning to like tatting. My XS is still my 1st love though. Will post more update soon!

TATTING ANYONE???

I just can't resist this craft when I join Azie for her tatting class with Faizon. I had to try it just to test my fingers. I was so happy that I manage to flip and flap. I wanted to go to Yee the next day and invited teacher Faizon as well as Jo to come along. See what I bought for my tatting and if you see at the side there is my test tatted piece:


  


But I have to slow down as I have an RR commitment with Wendy & Nik. I finished Wendy's :