My first HAED, first scroll frame, and some new yarn!

I am so excited. I bought my first HAED and really, really, really want to get started on it. I can't yet, as I need to get the 89 colors and that is beyond my means right this moment. That is ok though, as I haven't made any progress on my current cross stitch project. I have been waiting on that one until I get a scroll frame. The hoop I was using was leaving too much of a ring in the linen, even though I took the hoop off pretty quickly.

For an hour or so after I bought my HAED I was almost in tears. I only bought the pdf version, as I didn't have the money to get the chart shipped to me. Heck, the only reason I got the chart in the first place is that they are having a sale + I am a new customer so I got a five dollar gift certificate for creating an account. I ended up only paying 1.75 for the chart! I was soooo happy. Like ecstatically happy! Then the pdf that I downloaded was messed up and wouldn't open. Crash! My mood plummeted and ended up somewhere past down in the dumps. I emailed the company, not expecting any response for several days. The download link is only usable the one time. Or one time for a two week period or something like that.

I got a lot of responses from my cross stitch friends saying that some of them had problems before with their pdf and that the problems were always resolved quickly and easily. They were so right! She got back to me in almost no time (maybe an hour after I thought to email her, if that long) and had the pdf chart attached to the email. Wow! I thought maybe the answer would be that I had to repurchase it or that I would have to wait a couple of weeks and try to download it again. I was so wonderfully surprised. I will definitely buy from them again, when I have the money. They have the most beautiful designs there. I just want to win the lottery and buy them all!

Anyway, now I just have to get together the floss. I found a wonderful lady on listia that had 38 of the colors I need and is sending them to me for just five dollars. That is going to help a lot. I have been looking all over listia and ebay and all kinds of sites, trying to find the cheapest way to get the floss I need. I am going to look today at Michaels and maybe it wont cost as much as I had figured. I still need fifty-one colors and at sixty-nine cents a piece,which is the average price I saw on most sites,  I will have to wait a while before I will have them all. A couple months at most, so that is not a problem. I will just work my butt off on the current project once I get my scroll frame and see how much I get done before I start my new one.

Oh, I almost forgot to tell you which design I ended up buying! How silly of me. I was too busy whining again about how poor poor me is so poor LOL. Sorry about that. It is the Emerald Dragon.  It can be seen here on the Heaven and Earth Design website:   http://heavenandearthdesigns.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=419_87_207&products_id=7005  Beautiful, isn't it!

Oh and today is the day I get my scroll frame! I am so excited. We are going this afternoon to Michaels to buy it and some yarn I have been wanting. My man is so generous! I can't wait to try it out and see how I like it. I have heard mixed reviews on scroll frames. And on hoops and Q-snaps and so on. I have several sizes of hoops and I will save those for my smaller projects that I plan to do while I am working on the several pages of the dragon. I know I will get burned out if I don't switch it up and I am supposed to be doing this as a relaxing hobby, not as a gotta get it done as quickly and perfectly as possible challenge.

I don't know which yarn exactly I am getting today. I really want some more cotton yarn for more washcloths and maybe a placemat KAL that is going on in one of my groups. I also want to learn to knit socks, so I will be looking into some sock yarn while I am there. I might run by Big Lots while I am in Evansville and look for some of their dollar skeins for a couple of new scarf patterns I want to try out. It is going to be a great day.

To top it all off.... wait for it.... drum roll please..... NO KIDS! My son is staying at his grandparents this weekend so he can visit with them and his dad and maybe one of his other sisters, and my daughter is getting dropped off at my aunt's house on the way to Michaels. So that means quality alone time with my man. Of course that usually involves a trip to Hardees

So, as you can see, I am having a good morning and plan on having a great rest of my day. I am going to work some more on my double knit hat while waiting for it to be time to go to Michaels. I started on decreasing last night. I am glad I got some cable needles in yesterday's mail! I didn't know how to decrease in double knitting and looked it up last night and it involves cable needles and I was like YAY I just got some in today's mail. Woo hoo! It is the little things in life that make me so happy!

So I am hoping to have the hat done tonight. I am going to start on my Crowing Glory scarf again either tonight or tomorrow. I plan to have pictures up on my next post of both the hat, the scroll frame, and maybe my new yarn. Until then my tangled tanglers....

                                              Happy Crafting!