Hello and welcome back to another instalment of “posts Eustacia should have written much earlier” (pretty much all non-book and some tea posts at this time, to be honest). But, I wanted to write this post and I will! During my time in France, I had the opportunity to buy (and then try) two different types of crafts.
Primark Embroidery Kit
Let’s start with the more successful craft – embroidery! I was pretty interested in trying this because I took an embroidery class a long time ago and wanted to practice. Although it’s been quite some time, I thought that it went pretty well.
The kit comes with a small booklet illustrating the various stitches needed and a picture that tells you which stitch should go where. I found it easy to follow, but then again, I already ‘know’ the stitches so all I needed was a small refresher.
For me, the most annoying part were the flowers with the french knot. It’s not very clear whether you should do the satin stitch first, but that’s what I did. I wanted to do a satin stitch across the whole circle and then put the french knots on top, but that looked pretty awful so I ended up trying to do the satin stitches between the french knots. It doesn’t look too terrible, but it’s not something that I want to try again.
Overall, though, I found this to be pretty easy to follow and I like how it turned out!
Primark Easter Cookies
Since there was one successful craft, I suppose it had to be balanced by something spectacularly unsuccessful. These cookies fell so far short of my expectations that I’m glad my original plans to bake them with friends did not materialise.
The first disappointment: these yielded a very small number of cookies. Okay, it was a cheap kit, I can understand that. The second, bigger disappointment: these cookies tasted awful. I’m not sure how to describe it but the cookie itself tasted artificial. It’s a bit of an indescribable taste, but if a cookie tastes bad fresh out of the oven, then it’s not going to get better.
On the bright side, I guess I now have cookie cutters that I can use for the future.
In conclusion: buy the non-food crafts, you’ll probably have a better time.
Sorry to hear the cookies were a disappointment. They don’t look so bad in the picture, but taste is everything when it comes to food. Hope you at least had fun baking them.
Yes, taste is definitely the most important thing! And the good thing is that I have more cookie cutters now haha
can you fix it so that I don’t get comments update; thank you. It is annoying.
Hi Ainee, I think that is the setting on your end (whether you choose to get updates). I don’t know/think I can fix it on my end. Thanks!
This is lovely design and love your embroidery. I find french knot easier and they always look great.
Thank you! Yes, the French knot is really nice though for bigger flowers, I like the embroidery rose – so simple but beautiful!
Where to purchase this kit? I hope it is not too expensive; most embroidery kits cost too much for me to buy.
Hi, I got this at Primark! It was about 8 euros, if I remember correctly – not very expensive, IMO!
Thank you!
I didn’t even know Primark had crafts! Definitely disappointing about the cookies but I might try some non-food based ones in the future!
The embroidery is definitely worth a shot!
I’ve taught myself a few basic embroidery stitches and once embroidered myself a pouch! It’s, um, not exactly the tidiest looking embroidery, but there is a discernible shape in there, so I’ll call it a success! Your embroidery looks so neat, though! I can never get the stitches all the same size!
Sorry to hear about the cookies, though! The kit looks fun and so do the colors. Too bad the taste was off! And it IS small! I could finish those off by myself for one snack, lol.
Thank you!! I may need to embroidery over some stains soon so I’m hoping this was the practice I needeD!
Now I’m wondering why it has never before occurred to me that I could embroidery over stains. Genius!