A Plan
I always have a plan. Sometimes I have more than one.
I have been known to do a lot of the counted cross stitch stitching and sewing machine stitching. I find quiet comfort in it. Nothing goes to hell around me while I do stitching. Work first and then play and more play.
Hundreds of hours of contentment with very little financial resources needed. Right after 2021, I had tried my hand at cross stitching. I had ordered a kit. I worked diligently on it. The kicker was that of the six stranded embroidery floss, this design was worked with only one of the six strands. Is it any wonder I found it on the bottom of my thread stash last week? I brought it out for an airing. I have since found quite a bit of joy in tackling it again. During the evenings sitting in my cherry red chair in my bedroom porch with the 5x magnification lamp to my right. Do I need the magnification lamp 100% of the time, no. The fabric is 20 stitches to the inch and as there is quite a bit of floss demanding room to be made into a “x” and help is a good thing.
I was lamenting yesterday about a machine embroidery design. This forenoon I found it. Yup, all 2″ x 2″ of it. I preferred it being 5″ x 5″. I downloaded the 2 x 2 onto a flash drive. On the Dell laptop, I opened the Bernina Tool Box software. I downloaded the 2 x 2. I kept increasing the size until it was 5 x 5 and loaded that on the flash drive. I stitched out a sample to see how fragmentated the stitches were. Pretty sparse. With the flash drive loaded into the sewing machine, I increased the density by 140%. Not a bad result at all. I could have chanced increasing more, but . . . stitching that design on one of my quilt blocks, I went with what would stitch out smoothly.
I have had a good day but I can’t help but hear the wind gusts driving the windchimes crazy.
With that I will take my leave. ♥