I'm Glad That's Over

Finally my night shifts are done! What started as being 7 nights I found out on the first night that it would be 8, then on what I thought we be my second to last night I found out that there would be another night for finishing small bits and cleaning. I cant describe how happy I was once they were over and done with. I had taken a few small kits with me to start if I ran out of things to do (which didn't happen), a few days in I got absolutely drenched going to work and all my kits got wet in my bag, so I had to laminate all of the designs so they didn't get damaged even more. Thankfully only some of the fabric was marked which I'm hoping will come out. I never actually had chance to start any of the kits I was just too busy doing other things.

I started writing this post straight after I finished my night shifts and its taking me a month to get round to finishing it and posting! As you can imagine this time of year in the world of retail is mental and its only going to get worse the closer we get to Christmas.

I decided I was going to start the kit that i bought from York only to find that I had to work out which symbols went with with colours myself and that was too much work for me to do at half 10 at night so i decided to start a kit that my sister had bought me for Christmas a few years before.

I've never had to stitch black on top of black before and boy was it hard, I must have only done about 30 odd stitches before I gave up. I really need to invest in a daylight lamp to make it easier for me when I'm stitching at night.

I've not really done much stitching on my Pokémon, to be fair I've not really done much at all other than work. I did try my hand at baking, lets just say if it was from scratch it didn't work out too well. with it being my day off today i thought i'd have a good tidy round and finally finish this post. After my night shifts i was here with my stitching.

I have done bits every now and then but I definitely did the most last night after talking to a couple of work mates over the past few days about my stitching and showing them pictures of the stuff that I've done. I'm currently stitching everyones favourite electric mouse Pikachu, its so much easier to stitch blocks of colour rather than only doing a few stitches here and there and having to change colour all the time.

That's all for now I'll try not to leave it so long between posts this time I know I've probably said that a lot but I am easily distracted. I do always keep up to date with other peoples projects on the Cross Stitch community on Google plus.

Happy Stitching Everyone!

Pokemon October Update

I had an absolutely brilliant time in York, went to an outlet village and didn't buy a single thing for myself it was either for the house or Xmas pressies (Yes I know I still have a few months yet). Spent a few days walking round a few museums some better than others one even had some cross stitch samplers from the 1800's.

One of the best thing about those days was when I was walking between museums I managed to find a little craft shop called The Viking Loom. In the window they had a selection of completed kits in frames, which was when I decided I wanted to get myself a kit that links in with my break away. So I went inside in was ever so small, I felt disheartened that I wouldn't find a kit I liked. I went through a little hallway which led to another room and then another, it was like an Aladdin's cave of wonders. I spoke to a very helpful assistant that showed me the kits from the window and other customer favourites, if I'd had a bit more spare money then I would have treated myself to a few more kits but instead I just stuck with the one. 

I do however need to get myself a new frame for it, so that's going to be the next thing that I'm going to buy for my stash as well as a daylight bulb to see if helps any more when I'm stitching at night.

Well back to the Pokémon, I've been stitching for an hour or so in the evening and I've finished two of the colours on page 7 you can already see a few new Pokémon taking shape and even have their eyes in already. This page actually seems bigger than the last, I haven't checked I think its because there's not much too it yet.

I definitely think I need more storage for my stash as the boxes I'm using at the mo are starting to over flow, I may have to find out where my mum bought these ones from so I can see if I can get anymore because I do like the tatty teddy bear on them and they're nice and colourful as well. After seeing a post about stitching on black aida I'm tempted to find something that is stitched on dark fabric to add even more kits to my stash. 

My night shifts start next week(They got pushed back a week)so stitching will definitely be put on hold but I'm still going to aim to do some. If things carry on as they have been with my blog I imagine I'll be posting again in about 2 weeks.