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...that's Stash Enhancement eXperience for the non-crafters. :-> The sewing shop in the village has decided to have a serious clearance sale of the cross-stitch kits that have been hanging around unsold for a few years. Some of the kits in question were ones that I had been refraining from buying on the grounds that I didn't have a floor stand, and then refraining from buying on the grounds that I had now bought a floor stand but that "Tallulah in Silver" was going to be occupying it for the next couple of years. However, when I see kits reduced to a fiver each, I am perfectly happy to increase the stash to several years' worth. Of course, this also means that I now need a couple of new sets of stretcher bars so that I can swap pieces in and out, not least to give me the occasional break from doing blackwork in silver lurex on black evenweave without it all being really tiny pieces.
Not that I object to really tiny pieces. I also bought a couple of Mouseloft kits, one of which has already been completed and will be heading off as a get well card. I'll probably do the other one on the train if I visit anyone over Easter -- they make nice train kits, as they'll fit on even a tray table if I can't get a table seat.
Speaking of "Tallulah in Silver", it is a slow stitch as expected, but I have a large enough section done now to be able to see how the blackwork comes up in the three metallic threads used for outlining and texture. The crystal and silver beads will be left until after all the threadwork is done, but even so it shimmers with light on the worked section.
Not that I object to really tiny pieces. I also bought a couple of Mouseloft kits, one of which has already been completed and will be heading off as a get well card. I'll probably do the other one on the train if I visit anyone over Easter -- they make nice train kits, as they'll fit on even a tray table if I can't get a table seat.
Speaking of "Tallulah in Silver", it is a slow stitch as expected, but I have a large enough section done now to be able to see how the blackwork comes up in the three metallic threads used for outlining and texture. The crystal and silver beads will be left until after all the threadwork is done, but even so it shimmers with light on the worked section.