Weekend: a new stitcher and exchange gifts
Mood:
bright
My trip to The Hague and Delft was great. I really enjoyed spending time with my stitching friends. We had a lot of fun discussing the business, our stitching plans, new designs and everything else that came up. The weather on Saturday was beautiful, very sunny. We had a BBQ in the evening and could sit outside till 8:30pm. Quite unusual for the Netherlands at this time of the year.
In the train I didn’t get to stitch as much as I planned. A little girl came over and asked me what I was doing. So I explained cross stitch to her and she then showed me a pillow she had made at school out of a jeans. It was cute but needed some embellishments. As I didn’t have any buttons or charms with me, I offered to stitch her initial. It turned out that I didn’t have a nice alphabet with me, so I told her I’d stitch her name. Turns out her name is Anna-Marie. So, in about 20 minutes I stitched like crazy and got it all done just before she had to change trains. She really liked her name tag and who knows, she migt become a stitcher one day.
I managed to get both my exchange gifts stitched and do part of the finishing for one. All I have to do now is stitch the initials and the year. I will use next weekend to do the finishing. It’s a bit close to the deadline, but at least then I can pull out the sewing machine and leave it on the table.
Tomorrow I will cut my fabric for Mouline Rouge and I may even be tempted to put in the first stitches on Wednesday. I think this will be a lot of fun to work on, though I’m still rather impressed by it’s size (364 x 364 stitches).
Posted by dehandwerkboetiek
at 4:38 PM MEST