Cuadros 38 Saturday, Jun 30 2007

Seems I was wrong thinking that there are no new Artime Cuadros issues; at least they put this one also in the “News” section of the site. (but is it something new indeed?, what if the site was last updated god knows when?)

I’ve never bought from this site and I didn’t knew this is the actual publisher’s site. (Not the designer’s site though).

Can’t say I see something that captures me in this issue, but after all this is only the cover and they don’t show all the rest of the designs inside. The more unpleasant thing is the shipping cost, 11 euro and something for one magazine and then another 4 euro and something if there are two magazines, which makes 9 euro (magazines cost) plus 15 euro shipping. (not mentioning my local customs taxes). Ugly, isn’t it. But in contrast to TW books these cannot be ordered from the States. But I value this magazine so much that I am willing to pay even such shipping costs.

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Maybe.

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Any case whatever is done will be done after a month or so.

Btw, the meeting took place, but my camera died shamelessly. I *hope* it did not do so forever, as now it is taking photos again after I changed the batteries. (the previous ones were also brand new though). So other girls will upload their photos and then I will also post them here.

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Vitosha Friday, Jun 29 2007

I decided for now to also post here photos unrelated to craft. So enjoy, a short one day trip to mountain Vitosha that is located just outside the city. My batteries died in the middle of taking pics, so I managed to take only few. But that’s no issue, the next trip will compensate this.

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Monday, Jun 25 2007

Not dead yet, but drinking huge amounts of water, melting under 35C and working on CM. The last holds enough reason to keep silent and not blog. CM progress is a slow thing, especially when there are totally endless carpet areas to stitch. But it is B’s influence, she nagged for so long that I must “focus on it”, that I finally did. (You just can’t oppose a Scorpio).However I seem to have found out a way to speed up the process, or at least reduce the amount of squeezing and folding the fabric in my hand. I will work all the lower pages from left to right and then turn the project upside down and work the upper pages as if they were lower. Will see.
Another meeting is planned somewhere for this or the next weekend. Also I might, maybe, perhaps, be teaching one lady to work TW designs. The thought really warms me; although I did not became a Dark Master (neither I really wanted) I might become a Craft master (understand: acting teacher in the subject). Much more worth it!…And I thought I have nothing new to blog about. Heh. 

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Thursday, Jun 7 2007

Today’s SBQ was suggested by Ish (http://ishsuth. wordpress. com/) and is:

What has been your most challenging project and why?

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Happy Stitching!

Renйe

Let me think…if anything has a hardanger in it, consider that I’ll run away terrified, but none of my projects had any by now, so the challenging standard will have to be measured differently.

/checks her “Finished projects” gallery

This boy was tough. It was my first project done with DMC (the good ol’ times when DMC was luxury where I live); and although the threads issue was solved, I did it on Aida 18. It was a torture, this design had a lot of tiny detail. But no other type of fabric in shops…, I mean no other “western” product than this, this was rare as well. There were times indeed. So I battled my way with all the details, and also there was gold blending filament. “Gold” meant gold metallic thread, so stiff that I could barely pull it through the fabric. And then people started to say “what is this?” as they’ve never seen such kind of embroidery (cross stitch was used for quite different type of designs). The reaction this Dragon was provoking was mostly that of bewilderment, but I knew well which is which and was amused at the differences in POVs and cultural trends/development levels.  

I’ve not suspected that this times will be over so soon, actually. People love to follow examples, and although me alone was not enough to make most people change their POV about cross stitched designs, myself plus two other ladies, plus a year and something of openly showing our preferences and doing great stuff, were influential enough.

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And another addition to the Wall Saturday, Jun 2 2007

Rose Tree framed

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