tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5534963613398293182024-02-02T00:13:46.916-08:00Tiggy Cross StitchingA blog in order to share my stitching hobby with everybodyDizzyTiggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545730755092366509noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553496361339829318.post-85376862253742331962013-01-14T05:53:00.001-08:002013-01-14T05:53:26.307-08:00Majestic Mustang's and 2013 HAED BB SAL<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey again</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So I have been stitching since my last actual stitching post - alot actually and the good news is that my shoulder is improving all the time. I'm sure it's due to being exercised with the stitching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Throughout all of December my focus piece has been my GeckoRouge model stitch. I'm still loving stitching these guy's, but moved onto the background a little bit for a different pace.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As of 28.12.2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The background came together quickly and this is how they are are currently looking </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Now that January has finally arrived the long awaited for first page of the HAED Bulletin Board SAL has arrived so I have switch over to that piece for a while</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So January 4th bought with it the first page of the SAL and yikes I knew it would be confetti heaven - I just had no idea about how much of a confetti heaven it would be! LOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But that's the way it works - they wouldn't want to make it too easy for us ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Progress day 1 04.01.2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Adding in some greenery 05.01.2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">How it look's to date 12.01.2013</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've already goofed and had to re stitch a couple of time's on this piece (ops) but that my own fault for not counting properly lol</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So I will be concentrating my time between these 2 pieces at the moment. I have time frame's in mind for how to work them so that I can complete them to deadline. Thats the plan anyway!</span></div>
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DizzyTiggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545730755092366509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553496361339829318.post-71571464310709139602013-01-14T05:05:00.002-08:002013-01-14T05:05:42.457-08:00Happy 2013<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hi everybody, welcome to my first post of 2013!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well my Christmas was lovely, and new year was, well it was new year - nothing particularly special for me. I watched the firework's from London (which I admit were amazing!) and had a glass of wine to see in the new year but that was about it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But with the new year I've made myself some realistic stitching goals for the year which I am determined I'm going to complete.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So here's my list</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1: Majestic Mustang's - Gecko Rouge Model Stitch</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">2: QS Mystic Garden - HAED Bulletin Board SAL</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3: Mini The Black - HAED</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">4: Golden Boy - Shinysun's SAL piece</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">5: At least starting the kit from Heritage Craft's - Severn Lifeboat<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"> </span>- a kit my brother bought for me to do for him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All of this is actually realistic to a degree . . . we will see how it pan's out </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Much love's to you all for the next year!! </span>DizzyTiggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545730755092366509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553496361339829318.post-74664707401716940052012-12-23T12:58:00.002-08:002012-12-23T12:58:16.115-08:00HAED Bulletin Board SAL<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey guys.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Since its Christmas Eve tomorrow and I'm going to be doing my normal "op's I've left it late running around" thing, thought that I would update my blog this evening lol.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So other then my Gecko Rouge Model Stitch this year I will also be working on this year's Heaven and Earth Design's Bulletin Board SAL piece. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These smaller pieces are specially for member's of the HAED Bulletin Board only and aren't available to buy in general. They are however cropped down from the full size charts :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We got a choice of 6 pieces to choose from, and the pages of the chart are sent out throughout the year - creating a full years SAL piece (yeyy!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The piece I have selected is QS Mystic Garden by Ciro Marchetti.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a crop from the full piece, Peacock Garden (which you can view and purchase here: <a href="http://heavenandearthdesigns.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=160_242&products_id=9413">Peacock Garden by Ciro Marchetti</a>). When this came out I was drawn to the tigers immediately, but didn't fancy tackling the full piece. You can't imagine my delight at finding out this was one of the SAL pieces! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After having a quick rummage though my stash, I was thrilled to find a piece of 25ct Magic Guide which will fit my final design on perfectly (will be 5.5inchx5.5inch approx).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To complete my delight the wonderful Donna at Cross Stitch Heaven decided to offer us HAED Stitcher's thread packs for our selected pieces, so I ordered that to save myself time at this rush time of year</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So that's me all ready to start. I can't do anything now until January 4th as this is when the first page is released but I'm so looking forward to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many Thanks to Michele and Bob at HAED for these fabulous designs, and for Rachel from the HAED Bulletin Board for organizing it all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Its going to be a fantastic stitching year in 2013!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">May I wish everybody have a fantastic Christmas - enjoy yourself's and I hope you all have an amazing time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Much love to you all xxx</span>DizzyTiggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545730755092366509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553496361339829318.post-65294054594508789242012-12-18T10:11:00.001-08:002012-12-18T10:11:09.595-08:00Happy Birthday Thea!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Happy birthday to my friend Thea!!!</span>DizzyTiggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545730755092366509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553496361339829318.post-45765583136390086282012-12-17T08:15:00.002-08:002012-12-17T08:15:38.544-08:00Gecko Rouge's Majestic Mustang 42!!!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hey everybody!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Little slow on the updating blog, but I injured my shoulder and it's taken a while to recover enough for me to hold my hoop and frame's. Thankfully it's improving loads in the last week or so I'm hoping that, once Christmas is out of the way I will be able to jump back into my stitching again (I don't get much of a Christmas break with the job that I do).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anyway I'm thrilled to say that a couple of day's after my last post I could stop stalking the postman!! My Gecko Rouge kit had arrived, all in a lovely red envelope :D</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Enclosed was a wonderful chart, 14count adia, all the threads needed and a needle to get going - everything needed to start!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> 14 count Adia, thread cards and needle(s)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">All my threads post putting onto thread card LOL</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The chart itself is a clear print and is on good quailty paper. I have the standard size chart but the chart can also come in a large print to make it even easier. You can even choose between a black and white chart or a colour chart :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is also a choice of stitching on white or black fabric, but I have choosen white. A recent addition to the choices is 25count evenweave.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So of course I have a new kit - so I had to start!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This stitched up very quickly and before I knew it I was starting to see shapes and I was starting to wind myself up thinking I coud see a head . . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I started seeing shapes so much I mentioned it to Gecko Rouge's owner. She very very kindly sent me a colour copy of the chart, which confirmed that I wasn't see thing's much to my delight!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This stitch uses alot of different shades and colour's in it that you may look at and think is wrong, such as an olive green in the muzzle of the mustang. However, as always it's good to remember that this add's depth to the piece and when you look at it from a distance, it blend's together perfectly. This is exactly what's been happening as the piece has built up..</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mustangs as of 17 December 2012</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So stitching on and I have reached this stage in my stitching of this piece. As I say having a shoulder injury has prevented alot of work from going on, but I'm dying to get back to them and I'm really enjoying stitching them and seeing them come to life!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Check out the Gecko Rouge website at www.etsy.com/shop/geckorouge for the full range of chart available. Its also worth remembering that many of the design's also come as jigsaw puzzles too :-D</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Also if your on facebook we have started the GeckoRouge Stitching group - a friendly place for sharing WIP's, conversation and questions that you may have!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Come find us and were see you there!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">See you soon!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Much love</span>DizzyTiggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545730755092366509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553496361339829318.post-63285742472617029622012-11-04T13:45:00.001-08:002012-11-04T13:45:42.274-08:00"Magic" and some News!<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hello everybody</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Yes I've not posted for a while. Honest truth is that after I finished QS Dragonflies I lost all desire to stitch anything at all :(</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To try and make my stitching bug jealous I started up a bit of latch hook work - and it worked.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My stitching bug has returned in full and he's ready to get me stitching!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is how far I got with my latch hook</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I've only got the green to finish and probably won't take me more then a couple of hours to finish off.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm not going to abandon this new craft - I really like latch hooking and I intend to continue. In fact I've organised a Big Cat Hook Along lol</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But as I say my stitching bug is back in full force! It hasn't returned for Mini The Black, but for my paralympic start Mini Pumpkin Cat Magic (Otherwise known as Magic) by Melissa Dawn.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is how he will look when he's finished.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is where I am on him at the moment and I'm really enjoying him :)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For now - loves ya!!</span>DizzyTiggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545730755092366509noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553496361339829318.post-9107654304401658592012-08-18T04:41:00.003-07:002012-08-18T04:41:50.639-07:00QS Dragonflies Complete<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">!</span></span><br />
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<br /><span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I certainly didnt make things easy on myself. They are stitched on 28ct Brittany evenweave, using DMC colour variation threads. The hand dye is called "Dark Goddess" and came from Sparklies.</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana;">And I absolutly loved it once I got over the the difficulties of the stitching not quite working!!</span><br />
<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana;">In the end I found that stitching 2 over 1 in tent stitch seems to suit both the threads and the fabric so thats what I stuck to and I LOVED the results in the end!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana;">All I need to do now is to frame them. Ive got the frame sorted, which I love, but I dont like the mount. So once Ive got a new mount I'll frame them properly but this how they look in the frame I've choosen.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana;">Now im back to working on Mini The Black, so Ill post a progress on him soon </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Although Ive not been posting much I have been stitching. But Mini The Black has been put away for a while in favour of some colour!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I got bored so I organised a SAL using a HAED chart called QS Dragonflies by Ching-Chou Kuik.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Now I can't tell you too much about how im stitching this as one of the rule's of the SAL is that we keep what we are up to a secret ;)</span><br />
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<br /><span style="color: white;">I can tell you that I've made things difficult for myself, and im actually up to my 5th start. However it is now looking lovely and I have completed 1 of the 2 dragonflies and have started on the other. Im now enjoying the project which is good because I was close to giving up!!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">So this is what I've been doing recently and im hoping to finish in time to put it into the rewards programme </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">See you all soon x</span>DizzyTiggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545730755092366509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553496361339829318.post-85682833688214431922012-06-10T16:51:00.001-07:002012-06-10T16:51:36.038-07:00Mini The Black<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hi!!<br /><br />So seems im not great at updating my blog - ops sorry for that.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia;">It's been a really stressful couple of months for me - I changed jobs, had my car have a major breakdown (which I need for the new job!!) so needed to get that repaired, but im also having troubles outside of work - but I won't go into those one's here.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So anyway's most of my stitching has been abandoned because Mini The Black has an amazing pull on me. Now I know I said that I was aiming for Mum's birthday but I think we all knew - never gonna happen ;) So now he's a christmas gift lol</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">You see, as his name suggest's, this stitch contains a large amount of black. So I got it into my head to stitch ALL off the black stitching first (told you it was strange).</span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia;">So Im actually very proud of the way he's looking at the moment - he's seemed to pull together more over the past 48 hours (I have been on holiday from work this past week which has allowed extended stitching time) and you can actually tell it's a horse now!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Georgia;">Anyway 1 last photo to show you the progress as a whole - this was taken before the one above - hense the big difference!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Mini The Black has had such a calling to me that I just had to start him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I'm stitching him for my Mum for her birthday (that is the excuse I used to justify starting him!!), however her birthday is April the 29th so I have my work cut out for me - I'm not entirely convinced I can get him finished in time . . . </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">. . . only time will tell and I not going to fret about getting it done. I know Mum will love it if its ready in time or not lol</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Love you all!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">. . . Im so excited!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">My thread pack and fabric have arrived at last for Echo's Of Autumn. This is my christmas present from my parents, but didnt order until last month.</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">This is a real big deal for me as Echo's is the first large Heaven and Earth Design chart which attracted my attention, was the first HAED chart I bought, and is the chart which started the HAED obsession and i love her still!!</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">I get my thread pack's for my HAED from the wonderful Donna Lamb from Cross Stitch Heaven (link at page bottom) and once again she has supassed herself :D</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">My favorite website for charts (Heaven and Earth Designs) have had a 35% off sale on. But today the owner decided to include the mini's in with the sale . . .</span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">And I had to buy Mini Autumn Cat Magic and Mini Phantom of the Masquerade by Melissa Dawn, to go with Mini Pumpkin Cat Magic, which i already have. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">My plan has always been to stitch her cute kittens as mini's so how could i possibly ignore the 35% off. It helped that I actually get paid tomorrow and still have some petrol money saved from this month . . . </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;">Loves you all!!</span>DizzyTiggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545730755092366509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-553496361339829318.post-10304271823668414922012-02-15T14:21:00.001-08:002012-02-20T16:52:14.765-08:00Hello and welcome<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hello everybody and welcome to my blog!! Ive created this (eventually!!) so that I can share with you my cross stitching projects, and their complete stories, from all the prep work, to the stitching to the, hopefully, completed stitching!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I've been a stitcher since the age of 14. The only reason I ever started was because I took Textiles as my D&T choice for my GCSE's, and I needed to add on some detailing to a bag I had made.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The teacher (Miss Garner) suggested maybe using a bit of cross stitching, showed me how to do it and that was it - love at first stitch!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">And I've honestly been stitching ever since!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Now Im 27 and the project's I stitch have come a long long way from that first little stitch. I have a stash which is completly out of control (and I dont care!) and with so many wonderful design's to choose from Im sure that it will only continue to grow!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Anyway I hope you enjoy what you see and read!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Love's to you all xx</span>DizzyTiggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01545730755092366509noreply@blogger.com1