Tuesday, December 11, 2012

After 3 years of blogging, I finally won something...

It seems no matter what giveaway I enter, I never win anything.  Ok, I take that back.  I won a PIF like 2 years ago but never actually received the PIF.  I won and then that particular blogger dropped off the face of the earth.  Kinda disappointing.

However, this time, I actually won something.  You'll recall a few posts back, I posted about Mel's giveaway at Epic Stitching.  Well, I won it.  An HAED.  I've never stitched an HAED.  So, I went shopping yesterday.  I was originally after one of the House Mouse designs but my husband didn't like them and his opinion does count because if I'm going to work this hard on a piece, I will want to hang it on the wall and we jointly decorate the house.  So, I decided on this piece instead:


It's more appropriate to our decor anyway.  The only issue is I don't think I have any fabric that big.  Not a big deal because with graduate school looming, I don't see much stitching in the near future.

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  1. Oh wow! Congrats! What size fabric does it need? Looks like a big project..maybe stitch one strand a day with school LOL

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    1. It says it's 16x20 on 25 count. I'm thinking Jobelin or Lugana. An appropriate sized piece is about $12 on 123stitch and abc stitch. Can't afford it now but by the time I'm ready to stitch it, it shouldn't be hard to get fabric.

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  2. It looks beautiful, congratulations!

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  3. Congratulations! What a beautiful design you chose. I would suggest finding a colored fabric or hand-dying it yourself so you don't have to stitch all the background!

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    1. I don't trust myself to hand dye it. I wonder if Picture This Plus does anything in 25 or 28 count. Otherwise, I might do the background in half crosses and the main part of the cross in full. I have awhile to think about it since I can't afford the fabric for it right now anyway.

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