Saturday, January 30, 2016

DUCJFC 2016 - January 30 - Land of the Dinosaurs

Today I'm working on something entirely different for me. I've been subscribing to the digital edition of WOXS on Google Play. I prefer the Just CrossStitch digital editions since you download them as a .pdf and can print them at your leisure. With Google Play Newsstand I have to use a digital device to view the chart. 

I spent some time trying to make it work on my phone, but the chart was so small I couldn't enlarge it to work well. Later, DH showed me it was on "condensed" and once he had put it on "normal" I could have used it. However, phones are still kind of teeny and not a lot of fun to stitch with for me. 

I ended up using a small (and cheap!) Nexus tablet and that worked pretty well for my start:



It's hard to tell what you're looking at, and I can't really show you a photo of the finished project, but the bright red/orange is the outline around a triceratops crest. The blue is sky. This is a fairly large project, almost fully stitched 9x12. If you subscribe to WOXS, it's from October 2015, page 79/80.

I'm using 32 count Jobelan in Summer sky, even though it looks grey in that photo, and stitching 2 over 2 with the recommended DMC threads. I hope I get a chance to get back to this one. It's very bright and full of fun little dinosaurs. DD is really into dinosaurs right now, so I hope I can finish it up within the next year or so. 

Plus a little more on Lucy:

Just the backstitch to go now!

Happy Stitching!

Tiffstitch

12 comments:

  1. Love the colors in your new start Tiffany.

    Linda

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  2. Lovely new start !! Lucy is growing very well:)
    I use my iPad on iPad stand to see charts while stitching. I don't subscribe to digital editions, I purchase issues which I find interesting. Now I have lots of back issues that my iPad is running out of memory. I hope I can store few on iCloud. I think you can print from your tablet. I have once printed pages on my wireless printer. There is no other way to print unless to take screenshots etc, lot of manual task.

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  3. I saw your dinosaur chart in WOCS - it's really fun! I have often thought about subscribing to digital magazines as I very rarely use the cover kits that come with the paper version. But even though I mainly read on a kindle, there's something about a paper magazine I just can't give up!

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  4. Great stitching for the day. I'll have to go and look up the dinosaur chart. Loving the colours so far! :)

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  5. Great start, looking forward to watching it turn into a dinosaur! Also loving your Peanuts characters:)

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    1. Thank you! The dinosaur might be a bit. There are so many more WIPs now!

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  6. Nice bright colours in your new start.

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  7. Nice bright new start. Lucy is looking good as well.

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  8. New start looks bright & colourful!!

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  9. I keep telling my family that dinosaurs aren't just for boys! I always liked them too!

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  10. Sounds cute. It will be like a mystery reveal for me haha. Great job on your cute little Lucy!

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