Wednesday 25 August 2010

a halloween experiment...

Since I spent the weekend suffering with migrane attacks, and was told on monday by the doctor they are most likely being caused by stress, I decided to take a break from stitching water games this week.
Sunday evening was spent dying some sparkly white aida I had lying around a lovely shade of purple; the lighter one in the top-left was the result of a minute 'dip' in the dye, the other 3 were taken out after about 15 minutes. They came out a bit lighter after being machine washed to remove all the excess dye.
Today my headaches were much better, I only had one and that was this morning so this afternoon I decided to stitch something small onto one of the darker pieces of aida. Supprisingly I also managed to finish it today as well! I love this design a lot and I think I am going to finish it as a small cushion that I can display every halloween.
Now that I am feeling better I think I shall continue with Water Games this week but I'll see how I feel tomorrow before making my mind up completely.
Have a lovely week everyone and see you Sunday!
x Fiona x
P.S Mel, Water Games is a kit by DMC I bought from my local stitchy shop 3 years ago, reference code is BL467/70 hope that helps :)

4 comments:

Jen said...

I've been having migraines too and I know that they are a result of thinking about going back to work after the long school holidays so I know how you feel. Love the black hat finish where did you get the chart for that one? Hope you are get over the headaches soon.

Mel said...
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Mel said...

I suffer from chronic migraines so glad you are feeling better.

I LOVE the fabric came out beautiful. Your finished product is so cute.

Thank you for the info looking forward to being able to find is now. heheh

Blu said...

Cute finish. The purple colour is awesome!