Progress on VoHRH

I was hoping to have this square (#6) finished before posting a progress photo of Village of Hawk Run Hollow, but I didn't get much stitching time in this weekend as things were a bit hectic. Hopefully I'll have it finished up soon.


So, as I don't have much stitching progress to share, I found another of these annoying questionnaire thingys to do instead. ;-)

1. How do you hold your fabric? I love my Q-Snaps and Lowery Workstand.

2. Floss licker? Urm... yeah. : ) The wee bit I've licked is never normally used anyway, because by the time I get to the end of it, it's cut off. Yeah, I know... TMI.

3. How do you thread your needle? Trim the end and/or lick it ;) and it normally manages to go through.

4. What needle do you like best? My favourite (that I've tried) are Piecemakers 28.

5. Are you a needle loser? Not anymore. A few years ago I lost a needle, spent about an hour looking for it everywhere that you could imagine (and I never did find it), and I was a nervous wreck that Snoops would find it. I vowed to be very careful in future about stuff like that, and I haven't lost any since then that I know of.

6. What fabric do you prefer to stitch on? Always Linen. It depends on the project, but always 32ct through to 40ct. Belfast, Edinburgh and Newcastle bases are my favourites. I do enjoy using the R&R linen for Blackbird Designs projects: though R&R isn't something I'd normally pick myself for other projects, as it's a bit on the stiff side.

7. Bobbins or floss bags? Floss bags for just about everything. I've never really liked bobbins. I even have a full set of DMC in floss bags. I took a couple of photos to give you a better idea of how I store my "master" DMC set:

I have 7 separate lots of DMC on the rings above (e.g., Ring 1 has DMC Blanc-372; Ring 2 has DMC 400-699, etc.. ), and they're all put into the basket you see. Using the floss bags are also good because you can obviously fit multiple skeins of each colour in each bag. I haven't come up with a better solution for storing my DMC so far (if I want to keep them as they are and not on bobbins, and storing up to about 8-9 of each colour in each bag if I want to). The basket takes up very little space in my craft room too. I've been doing this for about 6 or 7 years.

8. Are you a scissors collector? Not really, but I do have a few of most of the most popular scissors on the market (e.g., Dovo, Gingher, Dinky Dyes, Kelmscott... ) SO I guess I probably do have a wee collection, but I don't consciously collect them.

9. Do you do your own framing, and if so, do you lace or pin? My framer does everything. I've tried lacing and framing myself and it's come out fairly OK, but it's not something I enjoy and I don't feel confident enough in my abilities to do it right.

10. Are you a floss floozy? Oh yeah!

11. Silk? Love. Those I use most are probably Vikki Clayton and NPIs, but I also love AVAS, Gloriana and most of the others. The new(ish) Belle Soie has also become a favourite recently.

12. Railroader? More often than not.

13. Are you a pattern or designer snob? I've never really thought about it, but I probably am.

14. Do you get antsy when you give someone a stitched gift? Not usually. I'm selective about who I give stitched gifts to, and I'm fortunate that I have a bunch of people (friends, cousins, my mum and grandmother... asides from my grandmother and one cousin-in-law, all non-stitchers) that genuinely love stitched gifts. Mirabilia designs always seem to be a hit for non-stitchers for some reason!

15. Have you reached S.A.B.L.E.? Probably many times over.

16. Do you wash your projects? I try very hard to keep my projects clean so that I don't have to. The only projects I've washed in the past are those that were stitched entirely with DMC, and even then it's been very seldom that I've had to.


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