Haftowany Secret Pal - info

Zgłoszenia powoli napływają i z kraju i z zagranicy. Blog międzynarodowy już prawie gotowy, lada chwila pojawią się pierwsze wpisy.
Z ilości wejść na mojego bloga widzę, że zainteresowanie zabawą jest spore, jak w praktyce wygląda taka zabawa w trakcie można zobaczyć na tych stronach:
Haftowany w wersji angielskiej Hooked on Exchanging
Polski robótkowy - druty i szydełko - Robótkowy Secret Pal
Organizowany przez Izę Secret Pal jest pierwszą typowo wyszywaną wymianką w Polsce, więc zapraszam osoby do obejrzenia zdjęć na powyższych stronach, dla zorientowania się czego można się spodziewać i poczytania wpisów.
W kwestionariuszu na stronie Izy ostatnie pytanie to Czy zgadzasz się na wysyłkę zagranicę - dla rozwiania wszelkich wątpliwości - kwestionariusze zostana podzielona na dwie grupy - jest prawdopodobne, że osoba zgadzająca się na taką wysyłkę będzie miała partnera w Polsce natomiast jeśli ktoś zaznaczył, że się nie zgadza na pewno nie zostanie mu przypisany partner z zagranicy.
Co do ceny przesyłki międzynarodowej - oto aktualny cennik poczty polskiej - wątpię aby taka przesyłka miała ważyć więcej niż kilogram czyli maksymalna cena pakietu poleconego to ok25 - 30 złotych przy wysyłce zagranicznej poleconej zwykłej(cały świat) a 35 priorytetowej (Europa).
Zarówno ja jak i Iza chetnie odpowiemy na wszelkie pytania natury technicznej, w razie wątpliwości wystarczy zostawnie komentarza.

Small stitching update

A very small one as I didn't have time to stitch anything neither on Saturday nor on Monday.

My mandala is growing pretty fast, after I finish part 2 I'll have to put it away so it doesn't tempt me and start completing my October goeals - it's already half of the month and I haven't completed any of them yet. I really like the colors and it's already very shiny (lots of Treasure Braid) and it was very hard to decide which picute to post here but I decided on this one:



I've also picked up Spanish Mystery Sampler again - this one is stitching up much slower, I need to have really good light for it - it's on 28ct quaker 1x1 - which wouldn't be bad at all if it wasn't black. This is my first time stitching on black fabric and I guess it would be easier if I chose evenweave to get used to dark fabric. The progress doesn't look to bad - I did more last week than in 3 months time ;)



I'm completely hooked on the Secret Pal idea at the moment - doing some translations and setting up a blog for the international group. I'll post a link here as soon as it's ready. I would like to thank the people who decided to participate (only a few so far but I'm hoping the number will grow).

Anyone up for Secret Pal exchange?

There's a Secret Pal exchange organized in Poland as it's the very first stitching exchange organized in Poland (there were knitting secret pals before but this is the first stitching one) and as I've been ask by the lady who is organizing it to tell spread the news here I am spreading.


This is a very small exchange, the maximum value of the package is about 20 US dollars and it is supposed to contain
1.something connected with stitching (for example: piece of fabric, some floss, a chart, needles),
2.something that accompanies us while stitching (chocolate, candy, coffee, tea)
3, something connected with your place of residence (a postcard, brochure, small trinket)
The package may contain something hand made

To participate you must fill out an entry questionnaire (if someone who finds out about it via my blog decides to participate I'll translate it as I have translated the rules) and send it by 10th of November. Then the pairs will be drawn and you will receive an email with the questionnaire filled out by the person for whom you should prepare the package. It should reach the recipient by 6th of January.

If you are willing to participate please contact me via email (basia at seventhheaven.pl) and I'll send you a translated version of the questionaire and answer any questions you might have.

Important links:
Official website
Some of the participants blogs:
Zakręcone XXX
JAgnieszka
Tam gdzie spadają anioły
I have been thinking about participating in an exchange for some time and I wouldn't let such an opportunity pass so I already signed up and I'm encouraging you to do the same :)


Czas na wpis dwujęzyczny nadszedł dużo szybciej niż sie spodziewałam. Będzie bardzo krótko, zasad streszczać tym razem nie trzeba :)
Na jednym z blogów, które czytam - Zakręcone XXX - znalazłam informację o tym, że w Polsce organizowany jest Secret Pal. Od razu wysłałam zgłoszenie - od jakiegoś czasu zastanawiałam się nad wzięciem udziału w jakiejś wymianie i takiej okazji na pewno nie odpuszczę :) Nie mogę się już doczekać zabawy i cieszy mnie, że przy okazji poznam nowe blogi krzyżykowe.

Clap your hand for Nadia!!!

This was almost a year ago and it sunk so deep into my memory that I still remember it very well. It came as an answer to a question asked on a BB - what does HAED mean.
The answer was: HAED means having the gumption to tackle an beautiful project from Heaven and Earth Designs, using every bit of patience to see it through to the end and experiencing
IMMENSE SATISFACTION and PRIDE as you place the last stitch in your exquisitely detailed project.

This is the truest thing I ever heard about HAE desings and as I'm very far from finishing any of my current HAEDs I want to share a finish by my dear stitching friend Nadia:



She has finished her TT N this week and as I already know the happiness and pride that accompanies completion of a HAED project I'm glad to share hers now here :)

MMM1 - rhodes done, eyelets still waiting

My Mini Mystery Mandala is growing - I've managed to do all the rhodes stitchres and today I'll be learning how to do the eyelets. As there is over 30 of them I'll take breaks and stitch a bit on the SMS. I'm also very close now to finishing page 1 on my TT, I think it should be done after the weekend so then I'll take it home and take a pic of it.

Here's how my mandala looks now:



Today is my day off and I finally managed to put all my DMC floss in order - well, semi order ;)
I'll have to get some floss for the Ocean Mandala, I'm missing some blues. What surprised me is that there's a lot of colors of which I have over 5 skeins and there's still about 100 colors that I'm missing. I'll have to take care of that next month - for this one my stitching budget it already used up. I ordered Jobelan for the Ocean Mandala, needles (I tend to loose them incredibly fast), Nymo for MMM1 - this is a list of the stuff I really needed. On the other hand I also ordered things I didn't need at the moment and it's all because of the lovely pics of Laura J. Perin designs I found on Carolina's blog. I fell in love with the colors of these designs and when I checked out Laure's website I just knew I have to give it a try. So I got the canvas and small bar frames and I'm planning to do one of Laura's freebies soon. If it turns out well I'll order some designs from the Impressionists collection.

Progress

I should have posted this much earlier but I couldn't find the cable for my camera. Anyway, here's my progress on GFG:




I managed to finish page 1. I'm very close to finishing page 2 now, I would have done it for sure if I hadn't stitched on pages 3,8 and 9. It's really hard for me to focus on filling these small gaps so after filling one or two I move to other pages where I have bigger areas of color.


On Wednesday I finally started my Chatelaine MMM1. I'm way behind as most people already finished MMM2 and the group for MMM3 started on Oct 2nd.
I love how it's stitching up and I'm very glad that I ordered the complete kit as it turned out that I love stitching with NPI silks. They're so soft and shiny :)))
I will move to part 2 after doing all stitching on part one as I have to order Nymo thread to attach the beads.

Here it is:






I'm stitching on a fabric I got on ebay - it was supposed to be 32 count but now after I measured my stitching at 35x35 and put it into stitch calculator it turned out that it's something between 33 and 34 count. I don't really mind but I was planning to stitch MMM3 and MM4 and I have enough fabric for just one more.

Unfortunately this is my uni weekend which means that I won't get much done - my goal is to finish part one by Monday

October goals

As planning always helps motivation here's a list of my October goals:

- finish page 2 on GFG
- finish page 1 on TT
- at least 2000 stitches on QS MB
- at least 2000 stitches on the Stocking
- finish stitching on part 1 and 2 of MMM1
- finish part one and at least start part 4 of SMS
- start new HAED - Ocean
- stitch a Halloween ornament

Check back in a month to see if I was able to do it ;)