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Self-finishing eBook Reader Cover from Lee -Product Review

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint


In April and May you saw my posts about the insert for an ebook cover I was making. I talked about modifying the design so it would fit, picking threads, and one of the stitches I used. But you haven’t gotten a chance to see the finished product or learn what I thought about it.

You can see the finished result here. and, after having used it for a couple of weeks, I have to say that I love it.

First off, I think it is the easiest LNA product to finish I’ve done. The margins are huge because the needlepoint is small in relation to the cover and not on a pocket. So it got finished unbelievably quickly.

Although the cover isn’t padded, so it has an elegant smooth finish, the inside is covered with something soft and is nicely padded. Much more than the Kindle cover I bought from Amazon.

There is also a nice little pocket for a business card or other ID.

The reader is held in place by four elastic straps, that are in the corners. You stretch these and slip in the reader. It took me a couple of tries to fit it in, but now my reader is in there securely.

I only have one tiny complaint, the elastic is a little thick for my 3G Kindle so some important button on the left of the keyboard and the on-off switch are partially covered. But not completely, so it’s still usable.

It’s a great product and I highly recommend it for yourself or others.

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A Small Rant about Needlepoint Kits

by NutsAboutNeedlepoint

in Nuts About Needlepoint

Originally posted 2009-07-17 07:20:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

I don’t often buy needlepoint kits, but when I do I buy them because I like the picture of the project on the cover and I want to stitch it. That one. Right now. Not needing to add one thing.

That’s the point of a kit isn’t it? Grab and go?

So imagine my surprise when I bought a kit recently, from Chameleon Designs, really loving the piece and found that the kit was not complete. It had the main thread, canvas, instructions and a needle. But the second thread, which is used for overstitching as an accent was glaring in its absence.

And in the instructions, this step was fobbed off with a comment that overstitching or beads could be added.

Nothing about the thread to use, nothing about where or how to do the overstitching (I guess we could look at the picture, but they didn’t even bother to say that), nothing about where to put the beads which can barely be seen in the corner of a second one of the piece seen at the top of the picture of the project that caused me to buy the kit in the first place.

There was space to add this information and the thread should have been included in the kit,. Or if it wouldn’t be included the main picture should have been of the project without the overstitching and the other ones should have been less prominent and labeled as variations.

To their, very slight credit, they do say inside the gold thread isn’t included, (so they noticed?). But you only find this out after you have bought the kit and opened it, so you can’t return it since it isn’t even in a resealable bag, if you had a shop that would take it back.

Then I sat down to read the instructions for the project that I had. The picture on the cover shows a squAre made up of 25 Scotch Stitches, arranged in an alternating pattern, that;s just fine. BUT the chart shows 30 Scotch Stitches, still alternating. But the instructions tell you to alter the direction of the stitch every second stitch which does not give you the results which were charted or pictured.

Now I am left with an expensive kit (it was imported and cost over $16 for a project which, when stitched will have almost no relation to the project I thought I was buying. If I didn’t have thread in my stash, I’d have to go buy some and if I followed the written directions I’d have something I never could get to look like the picture.

This is irresponsible and not fair to the stitcher. It does our industry no good if this is how professionals choose to package their work.

Now they have me deciding never to buy a product of theirs, returning the other products of theirs I have bought, blogging about it, and being in a bad mood about something which I bought to make me happy. Good job there! Great way to get people excited about needlepoint!

Could we have some honesty here?

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