Cross-stitching - Part One

Since I'm very very bored at work now, I shall blog a little.

Anyway, that's not the main topic abt my this blog entry. The main topic is my new HOBBY!! I picked up cross-stitching!!! It's been more than 6 weeks now, and I'm not bored of it YET~ so YES~! I think this hobby is going to stay... I did a few "projects" which are ALL still kinda faulty, coz I haven't really get the hang of it. BUT I swear that I will stitch until I do ONE PREFECT one with absolutely no flaws and no mistakes at all~ Let's start with the first one...

It was nearly our 10th month anniversary together at that time (which was in early June). So I'm kinda looking for a gift to buy for Eddie. After walking around the whole of Jurong Point with absolutely no idea what to get for Eddie at all, I thot of my TPB fren, Violet. She's the kind of girl who will make something for her bf during special occasions and so I thot, why not I make something too...

I walked into the knitting shop in Jurong Point to see what the shop all about. Afterall, the shop have been there for so long and I've yet to walk in before. And to see whether I can pick up some materials if I wanna make something for Eddie. Then I saw the cross-stitch kits on display. And so, I picked one - Precious Moment tissue pack cross-stitch kit.

It's quite tough to do that one~ Being a beginner and having no prior experience at all to cross-stitching. I was very excited when I open the pack, but was kinda demoralised when I see what was inside. The shop assistant told me there will be "instructions" inside and it's quite easy to do. But what I saw was a piece of white cloth, a needle, a piece of paper telling me various kinda stitches, the threads and a chart.

It's the first time I see a cross-stitch chart. Needless to say, I dun know how read the chart. The instructions which I expected to see, aren't really instructions since I dunno how to interpret it. Haha~ It's really quite bad... Afterall, I was having quite high expectations of the instructions to guide me. I din know how many strands of threads I'm supposed to use. Basically, I din know how to begin!! LoL~!

After struggling for the first few days, stitching diligently every day after work, I managed to get the design out even though it looks very awful~ Because of the fact that I din know that the top stitches have to be in the same direction, my whole design look kinda crap~ BUT Eddie told me, it looks fine~ hahahaa.... so nvm la, I still go on to complete the whole "project". After abt 10 days, I managed to finish it but becoz I dun have enough thread of the same color to complete the fringe, I used a different color.

So conclusion, first project failed miserably even though I completed it... I will upload the pic of the finished product, WHEN I got the time~ ;P