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Here is how to find out what IKEA Products have been recalled in your Country and Why

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IKEA, the Swedish giant generally has a very good safety record. However, there have been instances where it has been forced to recall products due to manufacturing defects or insufficient labelling.

IKEA was most famously in the news in 2016 for having to recall its MALM and other chest drawers after 4 children died due to these drawers not being anchored to the wall and tipping over. IKEA put a call out to customers so they could get a refund or replacement or get a free anchoring kit.

Other than that, there have been over 50 recalls of IKEA products in the last 10 years in the US alone. It’s earliest recall in the US was for the SNUTTIG soft toys which were recalled for the possibility of the seams opening up and exposing small children to plastic beads.

There have been recalls of products across a variety of product lines. The RUND glasses and mugs were recalled in 2011, the SULTAN HEIDAL spring mattress was recalled in 2010, SMILA wall lamps in 2013 due to strangulation hazards, and even Chocolate!

Funnily enough, products that are recalled in one market are sometimes not recalled in others. The most famous example was the MALM drawers, which were recalled in almost all markets except for Australia.

Of course, product recalls are not just restricted to IKEA. Other companies of similar size have had their own problems keeping up with safety of their wares and having to do nationwide recalls.

To find out all the products that have been recalled by IKEA in your country and why, go to these country specific pages on the IKEA website:

IKEA Product recalls in the USA.

IKEA Product recalls in the UK.

IKEA Product recalls in Australia.

IKEA Products recalls in Canada.

If you would like to add to this list, please let us know by leaving a comment.

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Cross country means that you’re working one color at a time, moving around the chart (or the section of the chart you’re working on) until you’re done with that color. Parking means you’re working in a smaller section and doing all the colors in that area, “parking” the threads by leaving them attached to the canvas but out of the way while you finish each section. 

Royal Rows is a specific way of parking named by Alison Royal, which is explored in detail on a post on Stitching Daily. 

The idea is that you’re working one “tower” of stitches at a time (she uses a section of 10 stitches across by 20 down, but you can do whatever makes sense to you). You work all the stitches of a color at a time, starting at the top left and working your way down. When you’re done with a color you can park it where needed in the section below your current tower (known as the dungeon) or in the “east tower,” which is the section to the right. 

There’s also a specific way of dealing with thread ends when you’re done with a color. This is a super simplified version (head to the blog post at Stitching Daily to get all the details) but the basic idea is that you’re working from left to right and top to bottom across the work, parking the threads in the next section when you’re done with them and systematically choosing which color to work with next. 

The whole idea of parking is kind of overwhelming to me though I will admit that it makes a lot of sense. I guess I need to try it on a smallish big project and see how it goes. Do you use the parking method of cross stitch? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo via Stitching Daily]