Pre IHSW

Hi everyone, been a few days since last time I posted, but i'm still busy stitching, and end up getting too distracted by it. Lately been working out on Little Miss Deelish and Sweet Treats Trixie stopped last night and today i'm picking up No words needed again... I treated myself to a elbesee rotating frame (no budget for a millenium or quantum frames) i had ordered the clip on frame but got the sewing one (thought i was going to hate it - as i hate stitching) and i actually did ok wasn't as bad as i thought, the downfall is that i can't have other projects rotating on the frame which will limit my options - that might actually be a good thing.

I'm now trying solutions for the side tension... Trying the lace technique I saw, but still not 100% happy... So a shout to those using rotating frames, how do you keep the fabric tension to be drum tight?

As for the IHSW, this is how my projects were looking before Friday when the IHSW officially started for me. 

weekly update

Hi eveeyone,

As I'm happilly stitching i noticed that the 3 day rotation wasn't really cutting it for me, as when i was finally in the "moment" with the wip it was time again to put it down, so i'm changing it to a weekly rotation, still aiming to achieve both goals and really trying to reach the "hard mode" ones... So far so good as you can see feom the pics below, i'm now back on stirching No Words Needed and I believe i should have another page finish either tonight if i work for it, or dedinitely tomorrow. I went over all my posts and was able to calculate hoe many days of stitching i've done so far on it as well, so can add and tag that info (curious to see how many stitching days it will take me to finish my projects) 

Now onto the best part:

HAED - No Words Needed 

Stitched on 28ct white evenweave 2x1 tent stitch

HAED - Little Miss Deelish and Sweet Treats Trixie 

Stitched on 28ct magic count evenweave

2x1 tent stitch

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May report and June goals

Hi everyone,

I'm really happy that i've come back to the stitching world.

Now I see what i was missing all this time... Really happy that i happened to read about rhe pattern keeper app to get my mojo all jumping and calling...

It's been two weeks since i returned with a fury, am now stitcking to two cross-stitch projects and one knitting project (not working that much on this later), I'm decided to finish my projects so working this way and as i finish one it will be replaced by another... So far works well as my daughter wants me to stitch only on her project, and so we compromised to 3 days on each of the Two. I want to finish No Words Needed this time, and I started a new project choosen by the little miss, and the name of the projext fits well with her Little Miss Deelish and Sweet Treats Trixie (of course it had to have a unicorn).

Looking to this month success what did I achieve? On No Words Needed i was able to complete one more page (13) and start a second (14).

From this:

To this:

On Little Miss Deelish and Sweet Treats Trixie 

It was a start (as i have ir on my rods, I'll be working from top to bottom - not necessarily by page) - and because the background pink is 99000 stitches i'm alternating between stitching one lenght of one colour and one lenght of the background pink until it all gets done. Now waiting anxiously for the threads i have coming to arrive, so i can keep doing the stars and might change to work in rows, maybe).

Anyway, this is the before:

 

And after 10.000+ stitches in it already

Onto my goals for June. 

I'm stircking to try a minimum of 700 stitches a day (so far has been higher rhan this apart from 1 day) and with that I hope as a easy goal to complete one more page on No Words Needed, and hard goal get 2 pages completed.

On Little Miss Deelish and Sweet Treats Trixie to reach 10% done as minimum goal and 15% as the hard level goal...

Now let June roll and see what we can achieve... 

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